John Niven

When I went into the computer shop to change my last laptop, the 19-year-old kid behind the counter looked at my six-year-old model and described it as 'vintage.' 'Vintage?' I wanted to scream. 'Son, I've got shirts older than you! I own underpants that have seen more of the world!

Scottish Author

Sylvester McCoy

There's still a part of me that believes what was great about 'Doctor Who' in the early days was that you had a superhero who didn't wear his underpants on the outside of his trousers, who used his brain rather than his brawn.

Scottish Actor

Pierce Brosnan

I went and met with Tim Burton for the role of Batman. But I just couldn't really take it seriously; any man who wears his underpants outside his pants just cannot be taken seriously.

Irish Actor

Shaun Ryder

My mam collects everything to do with everything we've ever done. I don't remember us doing Happy Mondays underpants but my old girl reckons she's got a pair.

Patch Adams

We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

American Author

Bruce Forsyth

It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place.

English Entertainer

Richard Quest

Buy one pair of knickers or underpants from Marks & Spencer. Then you'll truly be like a Brit!

English Journalist

Gisele Bundchen

I am a huge fan of big cotton underpants; they're comfortable. I wear them every day.

Brazilian Model

Underpants designed for men and women differ in shape and style, catering to different body structures.

Gender Variations

'Underpants' is a common word in children's language, often used in family settings.

Childhood Reference

Talking about underpants in public can be seen as inappropriate in many cultures.

Cultural Sensitivity

 The fact that the laughter works, it gets him from a painful, embarrassing, difficult situation, into a funny situation, into what we're actually enjoying there, and I think that's a really interesting use, and it's actually happening all the time. For example, I can remember something like this happening at my father's funeral. We weren't jumping around on the ice in our underpants.

Why we laugh PIPE Sophie...

 there's a perch that the female has to land on and seeing the male i think there's a shot of it turning up he had a little piece of i think it might have been old underpants if i had to be honest like a tiny bit of cloth and he was polishing her perch and i don't think it's even