When I watch comedy I love to see that pleasure in the performer's eye and that sense of cheek - and even those moments when you can see someone is trying not to laugh.

It's so infectious to watch people having fun.

When you're surrounded by brilliant people it really is just easy to do your job.

I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.

Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.

There's a reason people love watching blooper reels of actors falling about laughing.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

I think we all have a similar philosophy about comedy and comic performance which is that it's at its best when you can see the pleasure the performer has, when you can see a glimmer in the eye.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

And the answer is yes. I have loved you. I always have, and I always will.

You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

I think my audience is smart. If there's a way to be entertained and get things out - real things, not stupid moral crap - that's the best.

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

Their forward got a lucky squeeze from the defender.

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep my soul.

I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.