Its not easy being a man you know. I had to get dressed today… and there are other pressures. |
Jokes in sitcoms only work when they're not conspicuous and they reveal character. |
Money can't buy you love, but it can get you some really good chocolate ginger biscuits. |
One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing. |
Over the years The Stand have been great about giving me stage time if I need to run new material. The audience is always a great mix of attentive and loud and lively: you get that good listening quality that any good comedy club should have. |
People walk past me in the street and look at me, but because they think I work in their office and they can't remember my name. |
Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20. |
The careers teacher told me I had a clear choice: if I didn't end up going to university I'd end up robbing post offices. |
The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty. |
The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms. |
The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job. |
There was a time when I thought if I see Victoria Beckham's face any more I'm going t forget my 11 times tables because my brain is going to dislodge old information to accommodate the new. |
We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy. |
Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time. |
You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic. |