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

Well we were lucky because we started in Canada where everybody has a sense of humour! We flirted a little while with Josh Groban. He was personally interested in it. He said oh I'd love to do something different, and I said well it's pretty different! But in the end the dates didn't work out.

Many years ago I also bought a house in Provence for about 70,000 francs. It had no electricity or running water, and no road leading to the house, but gradually we made improvements. It's my escape and I love it.

There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people who write Python and five or six who act it. That's what makes it unique.

The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

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

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