I'm not careful with my money at all these days. I buy people a lot of dinners!
People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.
If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I always tip more than people expect.
People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.
I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?
Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
The lovely thing for us is, because it is digital, it can still look really fresh and new. Some people don't know that we're just old farts.
It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly.
Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.
A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it - like invent islands and make their own flags, and their own laws. I think that'd be kind of fun.
They have to get their own personal best. It's called my personal best. ... There was one or two things everybody wanted, and we sort of agreed to let some people have them.
It was extraordinary. I mean, for us it was just an amazement that people were watching it in Dallas of all places and were loving it.