freud 101...

"My father who prided himself in the fact that no one could make him laugh ( which any Freudian will tell you was the reason that I have been hell-bent on trying to make the whole world laugh) succumbed to only one mans talents: Bert Lahr.

Bert was physically very much like my father and when I watched him on the stage and screen I bothe loved and feared him at the same time---(father transference, if I've ever seen it).

Neil Simon

The New Yorker,May 3, 2010