If you were a kid in the 1950s, and you got nightmares from a story in a horror comic book, you have Al Feldstein to blame. If you were a kid in the '60s or '70s, giggling at 'MAD's prankster wit, you have Feldstein to thank.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.
Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.
Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.
I was in high school when Will Ferrell was first on 'Saturday Night Live', and I remember thinking, 'Man, that guy is the funniest guy ever.'
Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.
Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the '80s - that I had Robert Wagner's pompadour. I said, 'What are you talking about? You mean the guy from 'Hart to Hart?'
The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.
It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.