When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.

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

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

I've always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself.

The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.

I can never do better than 'Fawlty Towers,' whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.

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.