I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].
I like doing live things and plays. You can perfect the laugh or extend the laugh, you can get them on a roll. Versus improv, which I hate. Put it all together. They're more vignettes. Improv makes me slightly anxious because I feel for them.
I hate movies. They're so boring. So tedious.
I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
You get interviewed when you're out promoting something.
One of the reasons we moved to L.A. in the first place [was] so that it was no big deal that I was in show business. We decided if we move[d] to L.A., then everyone in one way or another was involved in it.
Don't want to turn into mini-me.
I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.
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.
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 got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.
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.
Even if you've written something for print, I think it's good to try [it] out on someone because it changes. You can think it's hilarious and they can tell you it's not.
I interviewed Matt [Stone] and Trey [Parker], actually, and I got to ask them questions. I love them deeply because they appeared dressed as J-Lo and someone else [who had worn the same scandalous dresses the year before at the Oscars]. They confessed they were on acid.
I don't like animation. I hate animation, actually.
Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want to kiss a strange man's fingers anyway.
I'm not really a celebrity; I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.
I try to not to be a celebrity as much as possible.
I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?
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.
Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.
The idea that we evolved with these thoughts is actually very fascinating - to me.
I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.
There's animals like us existing and thinking and giving interviews on Australian television.
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