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

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.

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.

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.

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.