I love Python, Spinal Tap, The Commitments.

I was forutnate enough to grow up in a house where both my parents had a wonderful sense of humour. My father had the early Cosby albums, Noah, Chickenheart, Hofstra etc. and the Smothers Brothers. I heard these when I was about ten.

I will always remeber the first time I saw the Marx brothers. I was twelve and recovering from a Hernia operation. I was laughing so hard and hurting so much that I was crying, but I couldn't turn it off. I grew to love the Marxes.

Peter Sellars was a comic genius in my mind. I never got the Stooges.