The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, who, even more than Mel Brooks, made of the jolly, beanie wearing fat man a side-kick and a legend.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.

Lucky are the children who know there is a jolly fat man in a red suit who pilots a flying sleigh. We should envy them. And we should envy the people who are so certain Martians will land in their back yard that they keep a loaded Polaroid camera by the back door.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.