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

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.

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

I don't invest in the stock market, but I have pension funds - some in America and the UK.

You get interviewed when you're out promoting something.

Elvis saved my life when I was 13 or 14. He saved all our lives.

I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?