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

If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.

I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't 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 got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.

When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money.