John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.
For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.
In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

