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My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

My father is sort of the jokester. My dad is still the funniest guy in our family.

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.

My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher.

My dad was the funniest guy I ever knew.

Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.