I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit hard-edged, isn't it?' And I'd say, 'Let's just try it and see how the audience reacts. If they don't like it, let's cut it out.' And the audience roared with laughter, so I learned you could do this harder humor and people loved it.

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.

Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone's having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.

When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.