The Minister Of Transport Issued This Appeal

There's No Gap Between The Writer And The Performer, Which Is What I Think Makes [monty] Python Unique. Five Or Six People Who Write Python And Five Or Six Who Act It. That's What Makes It Unique.

I Like The Idea Of Being Out There Regularly With An Audience And With A Funny Gang Of People. That's What I Grew Up With - Doing Television, Doing Shows Every Week.

I Got Used To Dealing With Groups Of Boys And Getting On With Life In Unpleasant Circumstances And Being Smart And Funny And Subversive At The Expense Of Authority.

You Initially Become Funny As A Kid Because You're Looking For Attention And Love. Psychologists Think That's All To Do With Mother Abandonment. I Think John Cleese Has His Depressions, And Terry Gilliam's The Same. All Of Us Together Make One Completely Insane Person.

My Father, Who Was A Sergeant In The Raf During The Second World War, Was Killed In A Hitchhiking Accident While Returning Home On Compassionate Leave. As A Result, My Mother Had To Get Work, As A Nurse, And At Seven The Raf Put Me Into A Boarding School And Ex-orphanage Called The Royal Wolverhampton School.