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Mel Brooks: On Love, Life and Punchlines

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

CHAPTER

You're the Jester.

Every time i wrote a picture, the first thing i i'd make a big sign in the writer's room. Andind the sign was, irst we laugh. They were my props. I wouldn't let them go. Youno bultshet youve got to hold your stomach and laugh, or else it really isn't funny. So what do you do whin you're writing alone? Do you actually laugh at it? Or are you missing the embridery that ound of you lips? A good quik idid against other people? I don't knowi doi try it out right away. Anne was very good t i got a laugh out of anne.

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