The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.