Writers Tend To Suffer From Back Problems

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.

Elvis Saved My Life When I Was 13 Or 14. He Saved All Our Lives.

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.

When, In 1966, I Progressed To The Frost Report, I Was Paid Ten Guineas A Minute. I Was Guaranteed Three Minutes A Week, So This Was Good Money.