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

I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.

To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.

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

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

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

You could feel the place going crazy because we hadn't been on stage together for maybe 35 years and the audience could just feel us in the darkness come on and they went nuts. It made the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck and we sang Sit on My Face, which I thought was wonderfully appropriate for George's memorial, and then we bowed and we showed our bare asses.