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The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 April 2026 source ↗
I’ve dodged a couple of bullets in dodgy war zones, but I suspect the closest I’ve come to death was a reckless, drunken brush with a waltzer at a student funfair. It nearly chopped me in half.
Probably on a Los Angeles freeway.
Rolling a quad bike.
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
I couldn’t care less.
Now that I’m at this end of my career, I’m gobsmacked that I’ve managed to cling on for as long as I have.
I called Elizabeth McGovern Elizabeth Montgomery throughout a show. But, bless her, she didn’t say anything.
When I was growing up, my mother would accuse me of showing off. That’s the most shaming, humbling, horrible thing. What was I doing? Showing off!
Back in the day, when comedy was crueller, my monologues were full of terrible jokes about people, and you can’t apologise because then you’re asking people to forgive you. Your punishment is to walk around knowing you said these horrible things.
Our wedding weekend in Ireland.
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