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We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.

Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

Most modern comedy is crap.

It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous.

I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.

I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.

I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.

From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.

Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.

It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

Corruption never has been compulsory.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport.

People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away.

Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.