If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I always tip more than people expect.

I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.

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

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

My wife, Tania, is very big on dogs, so I'm always paying out to animal charities.

The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

One of the reasons we moved to L.A. in the first place [was] so that it was no big deal that I was in show business. We decided if we move[d] to L.A., then everyone in one way or another was involved in it.