I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

Gene Wilder says he had Feldman in mind when he wrote the part. He would not swear on the Bible choosing to affirm. Mileham and Feldman used the same knife on their lobsters; Mileham claimed he got Marty Feldmanllfish poisoning the next day and theorised that this could also have contributed to Feldman's death.

He starred in several British television comedy series including At Last the 1948 Show and Marty the latter of which won two BAFTA awards. Martin Alan "Marty" Feldman (8 July 1934 – 2 December 1982) was an English comedy writer comedian and actor easily identified by his misaligned eyes.