Even If I Screw Up In My

London Audiences Are Tricky, Too. They Don't Laugh As Much As The Northern Audiences Because, And I Hate To Say This, They Are A Bit Cleverer Normally, And They Are Picking Up On All The Little Details And Listening More Carefully.

I'm A Huge Fan Of Jack Lemmon, He Was Someone Who Managed To Tread That Line Between Comedy And Tragedy And Sometimes Give Very Big Performances, But They Were Never Over-demonstrative And They Were Never Not Based On A Kind Of Real Truthful Human Being.

I Am Not A Politician Going Around Bragging About Family Values Or Putting Myself On Some Ridiculous Virtuous Pedestal. I Write Comedy. And I Am An Actor. I Am Not Going To Solve The Nation's Problems. I Don't Actually Spend My Life In The Way The Tabloids Like To Think I Do. I Actually Spend 95 Percent Of It Writing Comedy. Sober. Well, Nearly Sober Anyway.

I Enjoy Comedy But It Can Become Wearisome.

If You're Driving Your Car And Someone Winds The Window Down And Gives You The Finger And Calls You An Asshole, Instead Of Giving Him The Finger Back And Calling Him An Asshole Back, You Just Pull A Funny Face, And He Doesn't Know How To React To That, Because You're Using Different Rules.