I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain.

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

I hate movies. They're so boring. So tedious.

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

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.

I try to not to be a celebrity as much as possible.