I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

Other people, you know, put a latex rubber on, you know, to become sexually excited. There's so much I don't understand.

I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.