I'm Not A Believer, I Call Myself

Improvisation Is Just Writing In Front Of An Audience.

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.

I Was A Teletype Operator In The Army, So That's Where I Learned To Type. One Day, I Went Downstairs To See If I Could Still Type - I Hadn't Done It For Four Or Five Years After The War. So I Typed Out A Page And I Showed It To My Wife And She Said, "where Did You Get This?" I Said I Wrote It. "you Wrote This?" It Was Something Very Funny. I Went And Wrote Another Page, Another Couple Of Pages, And By The Time I Was Finished I Had 13 Little Short Stories, Humorous Short Stories.

You'd Only Write What You Know And What You Know Is What You Do And The People You Know. So You'd Write About Them Or The People You Have Met Casually. It's Part Of Your Life.

The Absolute Truth Is The Thing That Makes People Laugh.