Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.

Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were listening to the Goons, I was studying, which enabled me to go to Cambridge University.

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.