Spamalot

When we created 'Goodness Gracious Me,' it was quoting 'Python' and Woody Allen lines that really bonded the writers, and the 'Spamalot' material is so utterly, wonderfully surreal that it hasn't...

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.

During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.

Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for 'Spamalot' and seeing all these much younger, much fitter people, who I was going...

Casting me as King Arthur was quite bold of 'Spamalot''s producers, although it has been historically proved Arthur was Asian, and that Sunday trading started with Asians in 11th-century Britain.

I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot''s done so well. You can never predict what's going to be a hit.

I was thrilled to win a Tony in 2005 for 'Spamalot'.

I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,' which means I got there at 8 A.M. and told people how much the tickets were for...