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 listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!

No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.

At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.