Monty Python Speaks

Somebody once said you only really start to age when you look back

But when Connie and I sat down to write Fawlty Towers, we didn’t start saying, “Well, what do we do that would be different from Python?”

David Attenborough, a man I much admire, said to me after the first series of Python, the best advice I ever had: “Use shock sparingly.”

In the end I used to get really pissed off at Graham, because it was becoming like Dorian Gray, and there was a portrait somewhere, but the portrait was a living person.