John Cleese Once Told Me He'd Do

Life Doesn't Make Any Sense, And We All Pretend It Does. Comedy's Job Is To Point Out That It Doesn't Make Sense, And That It Doesn't Make Much Difference Anyway.

I'm Not Really A Celebrity; I'm Just Vestigially Left Over From Doing Stuff From Before.

I Got Locked Into A Tradition [at Cambridge] Of Doing Comedy.

When We Graduated [ From Cambridge], We Were Grabbed Right Into Television. I Was Grabbed Straight Into The Practice Of Writing Comedy. It Was All Writing And Performing. You Wrote Something In Order For You To Perform It.

Nobody Gets Irony Anymore, As We Are Now Living In The Post-ironic Age. Once George Bush Gets A Library, Our Irony Is Dead.