An attitude will give you heft.

Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid Caesar, me, and Mel Brooks.

When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.