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

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.

Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.

Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?