Gene Wilder

Well, they were wrong then, weren't they?

I was writing every day, and then Mel would come to the house and read what I'd written, and then he'd say, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, okay, but...

We need a villain or we need whatever it was.

And we'd talk a little bit and then he'd go away and I would write all the next day.

And he'd come and look at it.

And then one day when he read the pages I'd written about Dr. Frankenstein and the creature sing and dance to Putin on the Ritz.

He said, are you crazy?

This is frivolous.

You're just being frivolous.

Well, my temperature rose, and after 20 minutes or so of arguing, my color went from red to, I think, blue or purple.

I started screaming.

And then all of a sudden he said, okay, it's in.

And I said, well, why did you put me through this?

And he said, I wasn't sure if it was right.

And I thought, if you didn't argue for it, then it was wrong.

And if you did, it was right.

So you convinced me.

I mean, you as Dr. Frankenstein are presenting in a theater your creation, you know, the Frankenstein monster played by Peter Boyle.

And you're both in top hat and tails.

You introduce him.