I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.

I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

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.

Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.

I hate movies. They're so boring. So tedious.

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.