Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

We honor a group of young people who were essential in bringing down a reviled dictatorship.

My plat de resistance is potato salad with garlic and olive oil which we press from the olives from my trees in the grounds of my home near St Remy de Provence. I have four hectares and take the olives down to the local community press at Maussane les Alpilles. I don't produce big quantities; it is just for the family and friends.

But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.