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

I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore, I wanted us not to try to follow Spamalot immediately, but to do something different. This is perfect because it uses all the same skills, like story telling and lyric writing and music writing, but it's presenting it in a different form. And of course it gives me and John a nice chance to perform and show off which is also fun.

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.

Don't want to turn into mini-me.

John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.

I live in a Spanish-style hillside home in Los Angeles, California. I paid $900,000 in 1995. It's perhaps worth about $3m now. Thankfully, I paid off my mortgage before the crash because I could see it coming. I worried that I would be caught having to pay off a very high mortgage for a house I couldn't sell.