"HERE'S YOUR PAPER!"
"That kid gets no tip!"
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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Yes! And the remakes too!
"HERE'S YOUR PAPER!"
"That kid gets no tip!"
“Are we talking about number one or cocky-doody?”
Mel’s Son, Max, is pretty funny, too.
Look up some of his college speaking tours about zombie poxyclipses.
Carl Reiner on the end months before he passed.Have no idea who the chick is.
By far High Anxiety is the funniest. Hitchcock loved it!
He got no respect. No respect at all (straightens tie).
The funniest Muslim?
My vote goes to the unnamed guy who shouted, “Allahu akbar!” and dropped a mortar rocket nose cap first into a mortar tube.
The YouTube video can be watched repeatedly without losing any of the tremendous explosion of jocularity.
From back when people had a sense of humor.
If you can find the bbc tele program “Old Jews telling jokes”
it is worth watching
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Jews_Telling_Jokes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017j7vs
... agree, and Allan Sherman is a close second
Wait! I was serious! School Vouchers! School Vouchers!
“Blucher!”
* sound of horses whinnying *
I just wanted to put Sam
Out There. Sam was all
“Sex,Drugs and Rock Roll.”
.
Mel was “Comicus ,Stand up
Philosopher who coalesced
the Vapors of human experience into a viable and meaningful Comprehension “
.
History of the World quote.
Mels’ a FLAMING LIBTARD
but he is a top 5.
There is so much in-your-face Jewish humor in “The Producers” as well against the Nazis, portrayed here in a ridicule mode as a crazy bunch of bastards, truths disguised via humor, that most of the new generations of my fellow Jews will miss all of it, esp. at Brandeis Un. and Yeshiva Law School.
A few liberal Jewish fools will even say that he “promoted fascism” but what do they know about history? NOTHING. That is why Brooks movies, including “The History of the World”, “The Producers”, “The Frisco kid”, and esp. “Blazing Saddles”, will be missed re all his open and hidden “yiddishakite” meanings and stories.
Brooks used many very talented Jewish comedians in his movies - Harvey Korman, Madelaine Kahn, Terri Gar, Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel, Cloris Leachman (forgot her real name) and the greatly underrated Kenneth Mars - to add a style of humor that was really from the Golden Age of Vaudeville. He also used Peter Boyle (Irish),a fine actor and other established comedians because they blended in so well with his Jewish slapsticht humor, a little United Nations of comedians if you will.
Brooks was not afraid of shattering “sacred cows”. In fact, he slaughtered them in a way only he could do, yet if another Mel Brooks came along today, he would be “woked”, “shamed”, slandered and smeared as a racist, pro-fascism, anti-black psychopath. My how the world has turned, for the worse, esp. in humor.
Thank God for Mel. He made hundreds of millions of people laugh, not at each other, but with each other. That is the purpose of good humor, and he did it so well.
Thanks for the memories, Mel. My grandchildren love you too!
One of the all time greats, for sure.
I watched “Spaceballs,” and “Men in Tights” with my son; perfect father-son bonding material and respectful yet light-hearted introduction to the facts of— well, you know— that stuff about, um...
Anyway, always remember: “Use the Schwartz!”
That’s who I thought of when I saw the headline!
That was a great rendition of “Springtime for Hitler” - the guy who played Hitler was absolutely funny.
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