Mel Brooks Understands Funny on a Deep, Numerical Level

“One day, Mel and I had a debate over lunch about whether the year 1931 sounded funnier than 1934. He said, ‘Know your funny numbers!’� —Roger Bart, who will appear in the Broadway adaptation of Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein [PopMatters]

“He said he was in New Zealand and he asked if would we mind if he directed his own scene … We could live with Peter Jackson doing his own scene.� —Entourage creator Doug Ellin on Peter Jackson’s recent acting and directing cameo on the show [TV Week]

“As chivalric as it might sound, and as tooting-my-own-horn as it might sound, a woman coming onto a set for one day and having to take her clothes off and simulate coitus with me or anybody is a difficult situation.� —David Duchovny on the simulated coitus in Californication [AP]

“If I’m going to get some advice, wouldn’t I want it from Solomon? That man had a thousand wives. I mean, I want to talk to the guy who had a thousand women!�—Prince on why he consults the Bible regularly [NYDN]

“I would sooner, in exactly what I’m wearing, walk on the surface of the moon.� —Charlie Sheen on ex-wife Denise Richards’s request that he donate his sperm to her so she can have a third child [The Insider]