“Who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.”

People saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them

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

They feel they have to look after their image.

You’re entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

We only have one agenda, which is to make ’em laugh their pants off.

Because we all fail – and I’m ready, I’ll take up carpentry.

I’m waiting for the time when I fail

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

Performers like Tommy Cooper

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

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.

Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.

But there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

Most modern comedy is crap.

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship

I’m in awe of how grounded Ms. Tyson is and how her performances can be different but the same.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

But a newspaper can always print a retraction.