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

You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.

My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning home on compassionate leave. As a result, my mother had to get work, as a nurse, and at seven the RAF put me into a boarding school and ex-orphanage called the Royal Wolverhampton School.

No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.

We never have that thought! The whole object is to bite off more than you can chew. John [Du Prez] always says, Eric thinks of something completely insane and insists we go in that direction. It's the correct way to look at things and the correct place to start, I think.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

My wife, Tania, is very big on dogs, so I'm always paying out to animal charities.