Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

I have the problems of I must confess old age.