I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].

People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.

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

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

You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.

Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.

When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money.