Funniest director?

Quite often when you see a Cassavetes interview he’s often with his usual collaborators and friends, in other words, people he’s familiar with and you get a sense of a man holding court and enjoying himself and so there is a degree of humour but I also get a strong sense of a very serious, intense and deeply committed artist. It's also quite revealing hearing other people talk about their experience working with him. I remember listening to Peter Falk declaring he'd never work with him again when he first started collaborating due to the unorthodox methods Cassavetes employed, only to completely change his mind at the end of the process when he realised what a transformative experience it had been because of his relentless search for a deeper truth from his actors. And there's definitely humour in his films, (Gina Rowland doing a triple back flip into a swimming pool in Love Streams - now that's a laugh out loud moment!) but you would expect some humour given he's shining a spot light on the intensity of lives and relationships, but for me, more often than not, it is uncomfortable laugh and I personally don't go to a Cassavetes film expecting to laugh and I've never really come away from one thinking that was funny - intense and emotionally charged yes, but funny – 'fraid not.