Here’s a great appearance by Mel Brooks on Jimmy Kimmel done a few years ago (ten maybe?)to promote the HBO special of his one man show at the Geffen Theater in Westwood. This is a man who knows how to work an audience and is fearlessly, ferociously engaging. I interviewed
Here’s Mel Brooks, age 91, on an English chat show telling the story of showing Alfred Hitchcock the finished version of ‘High Anxiety’. I love Mel’s reaction to dopey Russell Brand–his face clearly reads: ‘who is this prick and what am I doing sharing a show with him?’
Here’s a short but delightful clip of the great Mel talking about working with the great Orson on ‘History Of The World Part 1’. I love Welles answer to Mel’s question as to what he was going to spend his salary on but I don’t believe it for a second;