Posted on 06/28/2021 7:12:11 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Ask Americans—well, Jews, well, most Jews, well, some Jews—over the age of 60 who is the funniest man on Earth? The answer is “Mel Brooks.” Brooks is the last great Hollywood Jew and when he goes—kinahora not for another 25 years—something will die with him. He might be the last great American Jew, period, some cross between a Kishinev shochet and a Williamsburg ganif, with that voice so full of wryness that the mere anticipation of what it might next utter brings a smile to our lips and comfort to our hearts.
It started in Europe, where the American-born Brooks followed his brothers into the army and ended up serving in the final advance on Germany in 1945. Mel says it was the war that really connected him to a deeper sense of his Jewish identity. In Patrick McGilligan’s exhaustive biography, Funny Man, he says, “I knew what Hitler was doing to Jews, so I really did feel this was a proper and just war.” He even tells a story of being called a “dirty Jew” by a fellow GI during training and reflexively lunging at him, proud of being “a tough Jew from Brooklyn.” By the end of his tour, he was entertaining troops with what would become his signature impression: Adolf Hitler with a comb for a tiny mustache and manic German gibberish.
Upon returning to New York, and every day hence, he has carried the torch of Jewish indignation, and pride. Publicly. This torch has created gifts for the millions, Jew and gentile, but especially a subset of us Jews for whom the jokes are not only funny but deeply personal and somehow cleansing—an unabashed embrace of being one of us.
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You didn’t think ‘Silent Movie’ or ‘Robin Hood - Men in Tights’ were funny?
Who else has that kind of list of comedy classics?
Notice how many quotes and memes appear on the prestigious and highly respected “Free Republic” website. That is an honor above Oscars and Emmys.
And in the photo of him for the article, at age 95 he doesn’t look a day over 80.
Or Spaceballs?
I’d take President Screwb over Sloe Xio.
Mel is a really smart guy, with a deep indignation for the bad stuff that made Hitler the monster he was.
At his age, I would not expect Mel to change, and I think he’s been a Liberal Democrat his whole life. But I do wonder what he thinks when he looks at the current state of American society. This is not at all the country he defended in WWII. Does he see?
Funniest Jew? The answer HAS to be Groucho Marx. I think to a generation, Jerry Seinfeld is the funniest Jew although I was never a big fan.
And he had one of the most beautiful women and best actresses in Hollywood, for wife. Even when Anne Bancroft was an old lady, she was stunning onscreen.
I guess it depends upon your definition of funny. There are in my opinion far funnier old-school standup comics. Far more amusing than anything Brooks composed on film.
To Be or Not to Be was underrated.
“Do NOT open this door!”
Buddy Hackett
Never liked him or his movies much. His humor’s a bit too corny for me. I do love Monty Python though.
This is where is gets good because about that "History of the World Part II"...
>>> History of the World, Part II was a fake sequel to 1981's History of the World, Part I.
Plot
The film would've been a continuation of the first one that would include segments such as Hitler on Ice, a Viking funeral and "Jews in Space".
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https://cancelled-movies.fandom.com/wiki/History_of_the_World,_Part_II
No need to make the movie, life *is* the movie.
40 years later, Jews in Space...
Why else would the lil' helicopter be named InJewnuity?
It's all the fault of those "Can-Do" People...
PS... I hope no one ever wants me to sit through either one of those movies ever again.
Larry David was the one that brought the funny to the Seinfeld show, not so much Jerry.
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