Posted on 06/28/2016 7:27:31 AM PDT by Borges
The man who played the 2,000 Year-Old Man has gotten one year closer: comedy legend Mel Brooks is 90 today.
Born Melvin James Kaminsky in Brooklyn, NY, Brooks started as a writer on Your Show of Shows. Brooks and another comedy icon, Carl Reiner first met in 1950. They delighted audiences and inspired a generation of comedians like Jerry Seinfeld and others with the improvised sketch about a really old man who has seen it all, as well as other now-famous bits.
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Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
The 30th anniversary DVD of "Blazing Saddles" is unedited:
https://www.amazon.com/Blazing-Saddles-30th-Anniversary-Special/dp/B0001Z4OXS/
It also includes interviews with the surviving cast at that time (2004) and commentary by Mel Brooks.
Poor Carl Reiner. His son is the “Meathead” to this very day.
Brooks wrote the book of the 1962 Broadway musical ‘All-American’ with songs by composer Charles Strouse and lyricist Lee Adams. All three are still alive.
With all the Brooks gold out there I seem to remember one of his lines from Robin Hood, Men In Tights: “Come on boys, you just gotta nip the tip! The ladies love it.”
I still wish he’d done a parody of “The Matrix”. So much potential there.
According to Mel’s commentary track for Blazing Saddles, Richard Pryor wrote that Mongo line.
They hit Buddy! Come on, girls!
http://www.brookslyn.com/print/PlayboyOct1966/PlayboyOct1966.php
Me too, Mongo. Me too.
they are my people. i love them. pull
It’s good to be the king
Happy 94th!
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