Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?

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

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.

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 next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off.

Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year since leaving Cambridge. The first show sold out in 43 seconds and we ended up performing ten in total. We had no idea there would be such demand.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!