Neil Innes Quotes

And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.

We weren’t going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious.

We weren’t by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.

We then took a shortened version of what we’d been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.

Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn’t ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn’t know what he was going to do.