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.
Features
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
Mel Brooks Biographical Timeline
Mel Brooks Biography