I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
From Ben Elton
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.
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