Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.

If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration.

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

With someone like Barack Obama, I think the whole America, the whole world will coalesce. Every election is about change, and change takes a long time because there are big issues that can't be changed overnight. But the one thing that will change dramatically is how we're viewed around the world. Once Obama is in there, the world will view Americans in an entirely different light. And that, to me, is a good thing.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.