Everybody Wants To Laugh - You Know

I've Done Everything I've Wanted To Do. I Have Three Children, I Have Grandchildren, I Have Books, I Did Movies, I've Directed Movies, I've Done Almost Everything I've Wanted To Do.

I Was A Teletype Operator In The Army, So That's Where I Learned To Type. One Day, I Went Downstairs To See If I Could Still Type - I Hadn't Done It For Four Or Five Years After The War. So I Typed Out A Page And I Showed It To My Wife And She Said, "where Did You Get This?" I Said I Wrote It. "you Wrote This?" It Was Something Very Funny. I Went And Wrote Another Page, Another Couple Of Pages, And By The Time I Was Finished I Had 13 Little Short Stories, Humorous Short Stories.

A Fellow Who Has A Funny Bone Can Learn To Hone His Skills, But I Don't Think You Can Develop A Funny Bone - You Either Have It Or You Don't. And By The Way - When You Get It, We Don't Know It.

Writing Is The Basis Of All, Because Creating Something That Didn't Even Exist Before Is Like Taking An Empty Canvass. It Is A Wonderful Thing To Make Something Out Of Nothing. You've Got An Empty Page, You've Got An Idea, And Then You Start Typing And That Is The Most Thrilling Thing Of All. And Then If It Becomes A Movie Or Something Else That's A Plus, But The Original Writing Of It Is What's Very Exciting.

People Have A Comic Bent Or An Angularity To Their Thinking, And Those Are The People Who Make Jokes. And It's Usually People Who Were In An Environment, When They Were Young, Where Jokes Were At A Premium, Or At Least Considered Important To A Life. My Parents Always Listened To The Comedy Radio Shows, We Went To The Comedy Movies, And My Parents Appreciated Comedy. So Kids Listen And Follow What Their Parents Like.