Gene Wilder

And then when I met him, there was a closeness because I loved that kind of humor, his kind of humor.

It wasn't any part of my life in my humor, but I just appreciated it.

There was an affinity there somewhere.

And in so many ways, we're not at all alike, and in some ways, we're very much alike.

When people, especially from France, would ask me to talk about, so they could write about New York Jewish humor...

I'd say, I don't know anything about New York Jewish humor.

I know who Zero Mostel was, and I know Mel Brooks, but that's about all I could tell you about New York Jewish humor.

And 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 New York Jewish humor.

My humor was quite different.

Mine was Sherlock Holmes' smarter brother and the world's greatest lover and haunted honeymoon, the woman in red, see no evil, hear no evil, but his was much broader and I think much funnier, too.

I'd like you to meet my assistants, Inga and Igor.

This is my financier, Elizabeth.

Finance.

But I... What?

Igor, would you give me a hand with the bags?

Certainly.

Well, let me ask you about another movie you were in, and that is Young Frankenstein, or Frankenstein.

Frankenstein, yeah.

Directed by Mel Brooks.

How did you get to work with him?