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" Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that. "
English
How
Like
" At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'. "
America
You
Speech
" 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. "
Kind
Be Kind
Think
" I do pool exercises, like weightlifting but underwater. I walk, I swim... I'm pretty fit for an old bloke. "
Old
Swim
Pool
" If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives? "
Artists
How
Paid
" I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this. "
Good
Life
Health
" I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system. "
Health
Government
Roads
" 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. "
Television
Doing
Funny
" I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens. "
Bounce
Audience
Different
" I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing. "
Baseball
Love
Doing
" I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man. "
Love
Family
Home
" I love stage work. The thing about plays is that they're perfectible. With film, you shoot that take and maybe another. During 'Spamalot,' I rewrote Act II three times. "
Work
Three
You
" I'm drawn to things that aren't particularly popular at the time. I don't know why. "
Know
Why
Time
" I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot's done so well. You can never predict what's going to be a hit. "
More
Never
You
" I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me. "
Try
Me
Hope
" I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is. "
Think
Charge
Decide
" It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still. "
Funny
Comedy
People
" It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly. "
Fun
Create
Take
" I've always found bad films more enjoyable than good ones. "
Found
Always
Than
" I was thrilled to win a Tony in 2005 for 'Spamalot'. "
Win
Thrilled
Tony
" I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy. "
Hat
Boy
Drop
" 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? "
Help
I Can
My Own
" John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it. "
Anything
Up
Shut Up
" Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have. "
Life Is A
Try
Comedy
" Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it. "
Enjoy
Happiness
Life
" My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly. "
Education
Tough
School
" Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead. "
Now
Age
Irony
" No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad. "
Day
Me
My Life
" People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying. "
Lying
More
Much
" 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. "
Survival
Funny
People
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