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 think he's the most intelligent man I've ever met. Honesty, simplicity and truth are the secret to his comedy.

We're all over 60. I'm sorry to say this, but comedy is really a young man's game. It's sort of about what you had to say when you were fresh and young. And I'm perfectly happy to get drunk with the rest of them.

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

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.