I'm not really a celebrity; I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.

I don't necessarily know much about comedy, I don't spend a lot of time watching it. Mainly because all my life for about 50 years I've had comedy.

Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.

I interviewed Matt [Stone] and Trey [Parker], actually, and I got to ask them questions. I love them deeply because they appeared dressed as J-Lo and someone else [who had worn the same scandalous dresses the year before at the Oscars]. They confessed they were on acid.

There's animals like us existing and thinking and giving interviews on Australian television.

When I was 23 I started writing for I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and was paid three guineas for every minute's airtime.

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.