We need more funny people right now, not fewer.

His greatest tallent may have been as a chef.

"We've just learned that Dom DeLuise -- who starred in such classics as 'The Cannonball Run' and 'Blazing Saddles' and was the voice of Pizza the Hutt in "Spaceballs" -- died last night in a Los Angeles hospital. We're told he passed away peacefully in his sleep at around 6 PM. He was 75. Story developing..."