Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
“The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.”
“I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I started.”