Izzard's interview is a slightly fraught affair as the two titanic comedians compete to out-funny each other.
Is banter – classless, bruising banter – simply the sound of men being funny at each other?
But the strange twists our lives took can never diminish the spectacular quality of those thousands of nights spent in the kitchen of our 6th floor walk-up, being as funny for each other as any two people have ever been.
My father's side of the family loved telling funny stories - not jokes - but funny stories about each other.
For example, Kristen [Wiig] and Maya [Rudolph] -- they're just so funny together, because they do funny voices to each other, and kind of have a conversation where they'll start to sing, and then they'll do imitations, and they're just making each other laugh the whole time.
We make up funny names for each other: Sqeedlydoo, Looty, Boober.
These brothers are dead-end clowns who play dead-on funny games with each other.
Strange encounters: Richard O'Brien meeting Likely Lad Rodney Bewes – just two more pros, mutually respectfully funny, bouncing off each other.
Allowed to roam the compound, he fell into casual conversation with some, helped others with the cooking; sometimes, after meals, the militants would sit in a circle and make funny faces at each other.
Where anyone else might go to the pub, Disney animators stay in the office all hours, sketching funny pictures of each other on whiteboards and living from one sugar rush to the next.
They thought they were funny, they made each other laugh and they thought: "This is better than working".
