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Where to start with Mel Brooks’ high-quality low comedy
Mel Brooks’ reputation rests on a fragile precipice. He built a career pioneering, popularizing, and perfecting two forms of comedy—lowbrow vulgarity and genre parodies—that have since taken up residence at the bottom of the esteem barrel.
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Love those movies!
I've always enjoyed his supporting characters, they always end up with the best lines, like Inspector Kemp in Young Frankenstein: "A riot is an ungly thing... undt, I tink, that it is chust about time ve had vun."
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"BLÜCHER!" -horses neighing and Marty Feldman's smug ass grin-
:D
Sweet Mystery of Life :)
"And that's the Ethiopian shim-sham" :)
how could that writer not like Dead and Loving it? it was hilarious.