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.

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

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.

I've seen the Pokémon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz

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.

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