Mel Brooks is here to find the insane and the bizarre in the commonplace.
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise premieres nationally Monday, May 20 on PBS (check local listings)
Features
Mel Brooks’ comedy is a resistance against the mundane
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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
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Clip | Mel Brooks’ Debut
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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
- [Interview] You said that your 'job is spotting 'the insane or the bizarre in the commonplace.'
- Did I say that?
- [Interviewer] Yes. - That's very good.
Very good. I'm proud of that.
I don't remember saying it, but I'm glad I said it.
'Spotting the insane and the bizarre in the commonplace.'
I'd give myself a pat on the back for that.
