'Monty Python' was never on TV in the U.K. when I was a kid.
My mother is British; she's from Shrewsbury. She turned me onto 'Monty Python' very early.
Carla Lane's 'Butterflies' seemed to be on in our house at all times when I was a kid, as did 'The Good Life.' But it was 'Fawlty Towers that made me really sit up for the first time. Basil's incandescent rage made me howl.
British comedy fans go crazy.
With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun.
I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy.
I love British voicing and British humour in general. I'm a huge Ricky Gervais fan.
Outside of London especially, I can't go anywhere without people buying me a drink. There are quite a lot of people who know me from The Vicar Of Dibley and are big Dibley fans, but they don't have things to shout at me from that show.
I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.
I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.
I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up.
I'm a huge, huge fan of almost everything British. I love 'The Office' - I was a faithful follower of that show before the American version.
In British sitcoms, you can get five minutes of nothing before the story starts.
There's something amazing about 'Fawlty Towers' and 'The Office' only being two series. I think, when you really nail it, you don't need to do more than two or three.
Little Britain… ever since it first came on… I come here a lot, we have a lot of friends here, my wife used to work with a lot of Brits, so we were always keyed into the hot shows when they first came out. So, I fell in love with Little Britain.
