What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.

All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.

Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.

It was pretty clear that I was a funny guy, just as a guy.

For one thing, you need a lot of self-confidence to be on the top of your field. There are times probably where I appear to be over-confident or arrogant. It's really in the eye of the beholder.

I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.