I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.
I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.
I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.
I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.
You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.
It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.
A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.
We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.
Most modern comedy is crap.
On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.
People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.
Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.