At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want to kiss a strange man's fingers anyway.

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

Bear in mind the simple rule, X squared to the power of two minus five over the seven point eight three times nineteen is approximately equal to the cube root of MCC squared divided by X minus a quarter of a third percent. Keep that in mind, and you can't go very far wrong.

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

I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.