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

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.

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

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.

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.

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