Among my favorite things on the web are Kliph Nesteroff's interviews of veteran comedians and comedy writers. He just posted Part One of an interview with Steve Rossi and before that, he had a great chat with writer Bill Persky. Matter of fact, while you're over there, check out any of his conversations with funny people.
Quite a few people have written to ask me to compile my own "Top 100 Comedy Movies" list but I'm not going to do that. I was faulting the voters in that other list for not knowing anything produced before 1974 or thereabouts…but I'd be just as deficient in that I'm not familiar with a lot of the comedy films of the last ten or fifteen years. I don't know if Will Ferrell has made any movies that are deserving of being on such a list. I just know that there's something wrong with a list that purports to name the best of all time and doesn't include Woody Allen, the Marx Brothers, Stan and Ollie, Keaton, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Producers, anything by Blake Edwards or Billy Wilder, etc.