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

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

Don't want to turn into mini-me.

Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.

Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.