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Mel Brooks: On Love, Life and Punchlines

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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The Ondy Thing

I was in the fencing team. My brother, my oldest brother, irving, was captain of the fencing team at brooklyn college. He taught me how to do thrust parry and he talht as if i were one of the three musketeers. And so a, in ta way, google taught me that, you know, comedy can be important as well as silly. It has to do there's an engine underneath. The engine underneath blazing saddle is racial prejudice. Without them cursing the black sheriff and having to fight his way,. to gain their respect, it wouldn't work.

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