When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.

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 think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.

Yes it's her husband. She hasn't got over it. Died thirty years ago.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.