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

We destroy icons - that's what we do.

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

We learnt a lot because we got in with real choreographers who tell you what they need from a song, because a song has to advance the story. Then real directors like Mike Nichols tell you where you can have 'B themes' and 'C themes', and we go oh yes, B themes and C themes! So we were taught in the finest school amongst the finest people. And also by the school of experience.

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

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

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.