
#329 - Mel Brooks: A Funny Guy
The Important Cinema Club
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The Unfuniness of Comedy
"I was also impressed with how he got Bella Lugosi's speech pattern so close," the actor says. "It's hard to stay on the zeitgeist." Mel Brooks, like you said, started directing stuff like in his 40s and for a few years, his sense of humor coincided with theZeitgeist. And it's hard to do that forever.
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