I've shown people Richard Pryor who've never seen him, and most of them don't like him.
The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.
I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.
Estelle Getty used the language of a truck driver, or a sailor. Bea Arthur didn't wear shoes. Bea Arthur was a comic genius. Her timing was extraordinary.
Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.
Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.
The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.
Terry Gilliam is one of the greatest brains I ever met.
I think of Mike Myers as the Buster Keaton of today. I think he's brought us something so special.
Peter Sellers is my great comedy hero.
Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.
My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.
I wanted to be the female Jim Carrey.
Nick Offerman is my hero. He just cracks me up. He's so funny, but he's a true actor, too - he's bringing so much when he's onscreen.
Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.
Robin Williams, another person I didn't know. He is genuinely hilarious.
I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career
I had great affection for Dana Carvey, and I think we all thought, "Dana's the guy. There's the comic genius."
I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!
Tommy Tiernan is an Irish comic who I believe is one of the finest in the world.
Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
I make people laugh for a living. I believe I can say objectively that what I do I do as well as anybody. Just say I'm one of the best broken field runners that ever lived. For 35 years I was a cult hero, an underground funny.
If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from
