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

You get interviewed when you're out promoting something.

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

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

When I was 23 I started writing for I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and was paid three guineas for every minute's airtime.

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

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