I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

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.

I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.

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?"