Marty Feldman Came Up With ‘the Funniest Retort in the Movie’
For all the jokes he and Gene Wilder came up with, he wrote that the “funniest retort in the movie” came from actor Marty Feldman, who played the humpbacked Igor.
When Dr. Frankenstein (Wilder), offers, “I don’t mean to embarrass you, but I’m a rather brilliant surgeon, perhaps I could help you with that hump,” Feldman ad-libbed, “What hump?”