The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

There's nothing good on the television; let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.

Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough.

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

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.