I like doing live things and plays. You can perfect the laugh or extend the laugh, you can get them on a roll. Versus improv, which I hate. Put it all together. They're more vignettes. Improv makes me slightly anxious because I feel for them.

Monty Python only became valuable when it was sold to Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in America. They didn't pay much either, but the series has been shown repeatedly, which led to lucrative tapes, CDs and DVDs.

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.

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

I don't invest in the stock market, but I have pension funds - some in America and the UK.

The idea that we evolved with these thoughts is actually very fascinating - to me.