"I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad."

"I once walked to school in my underpants and a soggy shoe because my shoe flew off into the river when I tried kickin…"

"Luckily, I was spared bullying, although one kid at school, Dobson, always used to tease me about my surname. He’d sa…"

"[Ade Edmondson]’s a good and loyal friend. I adore him. It’s like a marriage. We chose each other in ’75 and we’ve be…"

"I can be gloriously stupid, but if it helps to divert peoples attentions from the grimness of life, I’m happy."

"I feel proud to have turned that down. I wish I could remember what it was. Let’s say Hamlet. Yeah, I turned down Ham…"

"Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn’t be here!"

"When I was a little boy, at Rashwood County Primary School near Droitwich in Worcestershire, all the little girls and…"

"[A]ll those tributes to him were right, he was a constantly creative comic mind and one of the best people to come ou…"

"On stage you can group 200 people together and scare them or embarrass them or whatever. You can't do that on TV. You…"