When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.

I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.

I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.