Contemporary comedy has got to concern itself with the psychological. And that doesn't read on the screen the way physical comedy does.
Gag-writer, stand-up comedian, film director, writer of fiction, Woody Allen can be perplexing as well as funny.
Milton Berle ,Marshall Brickman , Mel Brooks , Sid Caesar , Allen's ex-wife Louise Lasser , Carl Reiner , Gene Wilder , the poet and critic John Hollander , film critic Pauline Kael , humorist S. J. Perelman and Woody Allen himself talk about his influences and his preoccupations, Presented by Charles Marowitz Producer LOUISE PURSLOW