They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.

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

I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain.

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

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

I like doing live things and plays. You can perfect the laugh or extend the laugh, you can get them on a roll. Versus improv, which I hate. Put it all together. They're more vignettes. Improv makes me slightly anxious because I feel for them.

We learnt a lot because we got in with real choreographers who tell you what they need from a song, because a song has to advance the story. Then real directors like Mike Nichols tell you where you can have 'B themes' and 'C themes', and we go oh yes, B themes and C themes! So we were taught in the finest school amongst the finest people. And also by the school of experience.