Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in…

There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling.

— Tallulah Bankhead

Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.

— Gad Elmaleh

I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

— Vicki Lawrence

Succession,' in my mind, is the first successful British comedy in America, and the way that you get Americans to like British comedy is…

— Cord Jefferson

The alumni of Second City from John Belushi to Martin Short have changed my entire life and brought a new kind of comedy to…

— Bernie Brillstein

When people, especially from France, would ask me to talk about or so they could write about New York Jewish humor, I'd say I…

— Gene Wilder

[ Zero Mostel] would tell anyone anything, not to be impolite, but he'd show that he wasn't at all afraid of however much money…

— Gene Wilder

I met Mel [Brooks] backstage in Anne's [Bancroft] dressing room. He was wearing one of those pea coats, pea jackets that were made famous…

— Gene Wilder

I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of…

— Gene Wilder

And Mel [Brooks] - you have to understand this important point - he had done "The Producers" for $50,000 over two years, and he…

— Gene Wilder

I was miscast in that production [of Mother Courage and Her Children] ... but it was with Anne Bancroft, whose boyfriend at the time…

— Gene Wilder

With Mel [Brooks], only one time and that was later on during "Young Frankenstein" - never with Zero [Mostel] and never with Mel except…

— Gene Wilder

What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.

— Gene Wilder

I really loved working on comedy. Most of my roles have been very dramatic and involved lots of emotional work and crying on cue.…

— Chloe Noelle

I am absolutely at ease working in a comedy.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh