You're all reminding me of others I liked as well. The question with some of them becomes "are they only a comedian," and if they act all of the time in funny movies, is that the same as being a comedian? Offstage, not in the cinema, are some of these people also funny? I haven't seen interviews with all of them, so I'm just asking.

I've seen Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters in interviews - they can't turn it off. But what about Peter Sellers? I don't remember if I ever saw interviews, if he was the same when he wasn't performing in a film?

One of the guys I remember hearing years ago on talk shows interviews who was incredibly funny was Douglas Adams, but he was a funny writer, not a comedian, in the strictest sense. (Hitchhiker's Guide)

Of course I wouldn't say people can be only one thing, but we get our humor from any different sources, so parsing it out some is interesting.

SRS