Mel Brooks’ History Of The World, Part I Performance Was A Tribute To Another Titan Of Comedy

Mel Brooks was born in 1926, prior to the advent of talkies and television. He grew up worshiping the vaudevillian likes of Groucho Marx, Al Jolson, and George Jessel. Given the anarchic, anything-for-a-laugh quality of his best movies (“The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein”), you’d think … Read entire story.

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