My Personal Problem Is That

Monty Python Crowd; Half Of Them Came From Cambridge, And Half Of Them Came From Oxford. But, There Seems To Be This Jewel, This Sort Of Two Headed Tradition Of Doing Comedy, Of Doing Sketches, And That Kind Of Thing.

For Telling A Good And Incisive Religious Joke, You Should Be Praised. For Telling A Bad One, You Should Be Ridiculed And Reviled. The Idea That You Could Be Prosecuted For The Telling Of Either Is Quite Fantastic.

In Tv, And In Particular In Commercials, You Don't Really Need To Explain Very Much At All - You Just Say He's A Spy And He's A Little Bit Theatrical And Overblown And Smug And He's Not Very Good At His Job.

When You Play A Serious Role, As Far As I'm Concerned, I Feel I'm Using Exactly The Same Skills, Whatever They Are, To Play The Role As You Do With Something More Obviously Comic. It's Slightly Different Muscles, But The Same Skill Set.

I Mean I Can Do It When I'm Very Relaxed, And With Good Friends, Then I Think I Can Be Amusing.