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April 30th, 2013

 
Mel Brooks: Film Excerpt: The Difference Between Comedy & Tragedy Is…
The logic here is, as long as it isn't happening to Mel Brooks, it's funny.
April 29th, 2013

 
Mel Brooks: #ComedyFest Live: Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner with Judd Apatow
Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner in conversation with director and writer Judd Apatow, marking the day on which the 2000 Year Old Man joins Twitter.
April 20th, 2013

 
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Sister Rosetta Live! 1964: ‘Didn’t it Rain’
The scene is England in 1964. You hear the band playing when Sister Rosetta Tharpe pulls up on a horse drawn carriage to a make-shift stage at an abandoned railroad station. It's a rainy day and Sister Rosetta is in her Sunday overcoat. You can almost hear a train whistle blowing when she belts out "Didn't it Rain" accompanied by a full-blooded, swaggering electric guitar sound.
April 16th, 2013

 
Mel Brooks: Film Excerpt: Mel Brooks’ Debut
"I'm fifteen! I never did this before! I'm not an actor!" That's a Mel Brooks ad-lib from his first stage appearance. The crowd loved it. The director did not.
April 16th, 2013

 
Mel Brooks: Film Outtake: Do You Want To Know How ‘The Critic’ Came About?
In 1963, Mel Brooks and director/animator Ernest Pintoff came up with the animated short film The Critic, a satire of arty, esoteric cinema. Brooks supplied running commentary as the baffled moviegoer trying to make sense of the obscure visuals. The short film won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
April 9th, 2013

 
Mel Brooks: Film Excerpt: Mel Brooks, a Bullhorn & Some German Soldiers
Even while fighting in WWII, Mel Brooks went for the laugh.
April 8th, 2013

 
Mel Brooks: Film Excerpt: The Insane & The Bizarre
Mel Brooks is here to find the insane and the bizarre in the commonplace.
April 7th, 2013

 
Mel Brooks: Film Outtake: Melon Balls Mean Money
Mel Brooks remembers growing up poor and exotic fruit cocktails.
April 6th, 2013

 
Mel Brooks: Film Outtake: Walking out on Hitler
Not everybody gets Mel Brooks. Don't worry though, he'll take it personally. Susan Stroman, director for the Broadway run of Brooks' The Producers, remembers a WWII vet who walked out when Hitler showed up in the musical.
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