The logic here is, as long as something tragic isn’t happening to Mel Brooks, it’s funny.
Features
Mel Brooks’ comedy is a resistance against the mundane
Clip | Bernadette Peters on Mel Brooks: “…he’ll get away with things because they were truly funny.”
Clip | Comic Legend Sid Caesar Discovers that Beethoven and Mozart are Dead!
Spaceballs: The Art of the Trope (or, making the cliché absurd)
Young Frankenstein: The Art of the Homage
Blazing Saddles: The Art of the Stereotype
Clip | Mel Brooks’ Debut
Clip | Do You Want To Know How ‘The Critic’ Came About?
Clip | The Insane & The Bizarre
Clip | Melon Balls Mean Money
Clip | Walking out on Hitler
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Clip | Rhinestones, Not Diamonds
Clip | The 2000 Year Old Man Revisited
Mel Brooks Biographical Timeline
Mel Brooks Biography
TRANSCRIPT
- The difference between comedy and tragedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die, to me it could be comedy.
Didn't happen to me.
Why do I care?
Who gives a shit?
But tragedy is if I'll cut my finger, a paper cut.
I'll look at it for hours.
What I think I'm trying to illustrate is the innate, incredible selfishness, the love for ourselves and every human being.
We like other people, we do, but if we look in a mirror or we think about ourselves, it's a deep love.
I'm head over heels in love with myself.
I gotta tell you that.
Every night before I go to bed I try to kiss myself.
It's hard.
I'm gonna stop and do it for a minute. (smacks) The best. (smacks) Who could be better?
No one, you're so cute.
You're adorable, I love you.
