Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

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.

Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

The English contribution to world cuisine: the chip.

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.

I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.