I've Always Found Bad Films More Enjoyable

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.

A Lot Has Been Said About Politics; Some Of It Complimentary, But Most Of It Accurate

I Like The Idea Of Being Out There Regularly With An Audience And With A Funny Gang Of People. That's What I Grew Up With - Doing Television, Doing Shows Every Week.

Don't Want To Turn Into Mini-me.

So It Became In My Mind A Nine-carol Service; An Oratorio And Orchestral Concert All In One, But With Narration. That's Something I've Learned About, Because It's The Story That Keeps You In There. I Wrote A Libretto And I Gave It To John Du Prez. We Normally Don't Work In This Fashion But I Said Off You Go, And He Went Off For About Three Months. He Brought Me Back This Demo Which Blew My Mind.