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

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.

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

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

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

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