I Think Comedy's Often The Little And

I Think The Special Thing About Python Is That It's A Writers' Commune. The Writers Are In Charge. The Writers Decide What The Material Is.

There's No Gap Between The Writer And The Performer, Which Is What I Think Makes [monty] Python Unique. Five Or Six People Who Write Python And Five Or Six Who Act It. That's What Makes It Unique.

You Could Write A Joke In The Pub At Lunchtime And Watch It Performed On Television That Evening.

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.

To Me, The Musical Is Best When It's A Musical Comedy. So If You Have A Very, Very Funny Show, And Very Good, Funny Songs, That's What The Musical Does Best.