They're A Typical Hollywood Audience. All The

Subversion Is What I Do.

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.

I Live In A Spanish-style Hillside Home In Los Angeles, California. I Paid $900,000 In 1995. It's Perhaps Worth About $3m Now. Thankfully, I Paid Off My Mortgage Before The Crash Because I Could See It Coming. I Worried That I Would Be Caught Having To Pay Off A Very High Mortgage For A House I Couldn't Sell.

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.

I Don't Necessarily Know Much About Comedy, I Don't Spend A Lot Of Time Watching It. Mainly Because All My Life For About 50 Years I've Had Comedy.