You get interviewed when you're out promoting something.

I'm not careful with my money at all these days. I buy people a lot of dinners!

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.

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

I don't like animation. I hate animation, actually.

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.

We destroy icons - that's what we do.