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

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

Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?

When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy. It was all writing and performing. You wrote something in order for you to perform it.

I'm not really a celebrity; I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.

I used to collect Persian rugs and real estate - you should be able to walk on and live in your money. I had to give up the rugs because I'm allergic to mould.

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.