I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.

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

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

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

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want to kiss a strange man's fingers anyway.

Never do things for money. It's always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best.