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EXTRA! Mel Brooks

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December 11, 2019 12:00 am

EXTRA! Mel Brooks

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December 11, 2019 12:00 am

Ben Mankiewicz's extended interview with Mel Brooks about his reputation has a comedy legend, and the love of his life, Anne Bancroft, who died in 2005. 


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Let's partner for all of it. Learn more@edwardjones.com hi, I'm Jane Pauley and this is our Sunday morning podcast featuring a memorable story from our most recent conversation that offers insights beyond the broadcast rolled over losing all our contributor Ben Mankiewicz of Turner classic catches up with a true comic legend, the wind only Mel Brooks. Believe it or not. Mel Brooks has been making us laugh for more than 70 years. First is a comedy writer for Sid Caesar show of shows and then with his many films including such classics as blazing saddles, Young Frankenstein, and of course the producers and Mankiewicz visited Mel Brooks recently at his Santa Monica home.

It's clear at age 93. Brooks is still sharp and funny as ever knew forever. I knew the company, he was my saying it was me because people would look out my crib like I was only a few months old and they would laugh and I said that's it that's it.

That's what I want, when did you know that you were funny that you could make people well in school. I guess you know my neck still hurts from being taken by the neck to the principal's office. Eugene: I thought I would not actually about every time I would do my impression of boars, saying this word. One particular word that was it.

Go glasses a teacher that what he was on the floor screaming in the both of us will be done and the word was my impression of boars, the monster saying this word onto pasta and just all be puffed out and that was it and Eugene would be on the floor and that that was that was that I knew and it was so great the rest of class were left laughing but they knew they were. I don't even know why it's funny but it's undeniably fun to pasta. I was the performer I only want performance on the show shows in the nine years I wrote wrote sharp show starts at Caesar. I only perform that was not even me. It was my Sid Wanted Me to Do a Filing for Money Backs up in the Dark Will Be Steps on the Stale and I Do That He Wanted Okay so I Was Cut before the Soundman Points to Me.

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I Met Gene Wilder She Gave Me. She Said He's Different. I Said What's Different so Different about You and She Said He Pauses What Is at Me. She Said He Pauses before He Talks. And It's Those Pauses That Make Him Different Gene Always Waited and Made Sense of What the Other Actor Told Him That's His Pause and Then He Talked and She Said That She Said I Got A Lot Of My Pauses from Jane. This Is Intelligence Matters with Former Acting Dir. of the CIA. Michael Morel Bridge Colby Is Cofounder and Principal of the Marathon Initiative Project Focused on Developing Strategies to Prepare the United States for an Era of Sustained Great Power Competition States Put on My to Something We Can Usually Figure It out What People Are Saying and What We Can Know Analytically and Empirically As Our Strategic Situation or Situations Not Being Matched up with Follow. Intelligence Matters Were Ever You Get Your Podcasts