The actor-comedian posted an update on Instagram Tuesday morning, along with a smiling photo from a hospital bed.

The good news is, these costs are going down in around half the areas surveyed last year ... creatives, wardrobe, wigs, makeup, sound, theatre front of house staff and many other teams of people ...

Costs can be more than half that in cities further north. According to children's charity Coram, the average annual cost of a part-time (25-hour) nursery place for a child under two in Britain ...