I Have A Very Strong Visual Memory

Satire Is An Art Best Practiced Behind The Back Of The Intended Target. I Think Inviting Politicians On A Satirical Show Becomes A Very Big Trap. Because One Of Two Things Happen: Either You Have To Kind Of Unsharpen Your Fangs Because You Can't Be Quite As Cruel To People To Their Face As You Are Behind Their Backs... Or You Don't Defang, And Those Guests Get The Word And They Stop Coming.

Because I Don't Do Stand-up, Radio Has Always Been My Equivalent, A Place To Stay In Connection With The Public And Force Myself To Write Every Week And Come Up With New Characters. Plus It's A Medium That – Having Grown Up With It And Putting Myself To Sleep With A Radio Under My Pillow [as A Kid] – I Love. No Matter What Picture You Want To Create In The Listener's Mind, A Few Minutes Of Work Gets It Done.

Anybody Who Says That Having The Public Recognize Them And Relate To The Work They Do Is Irritating Should Get Into Another Line Of Work. You're In This Business For People To Know What You Do And Like It.

I Think The British Learn Their History Through The Prism Of This Gallery Of Grotesques Known As The Royals.

A Movie Script More Than Anything Else Is A Plan Of Action For The Crew. Everybody In The Crew Looks At The Script To See What They're Going To Do. It Has To Contain Where You Are, And How Many People Are There, And What They Do, And What Time Of Day It Is, And What Time Of Year It Is.