![]() In doing so, I realized that a) I’d only seen half his movies, and b) I didn’t actually know all that much about him. With the Mel Brooks Cinematic Universe (MBCU) expanding for perhaps the last time, I revisited Brooks’s bouncy 2021 memoir, All About Me!. I am usually a fan of dumb puns, and there’s no shortage of them in Brooks’s new Hulu show, History of the World: Part II, the long-awaited-but- never-planned sequel to his 1981 film, History of the World: Part I. I’m not usually a fan of musicals, but I also adored the Rockettes-inspired sequence in Men in Tights, and all the dumb puns (“’Ey Blinken!” “Did you say ‘Abe Lincoln’?”). In Spaceballs, Black Stormtroopers combing the desert with an afro pick (“Man, we ain’t found shit!”) destroyed me, as did the hilariously violent space diner dance number, though I hadn’t yet seen Alien. One of the first R-rated movies I ever saw was Blazing Saddles-the relentless flatulence of the beans-around-the-campfire scene reduced me to tears. ![]() Mel Brooks has been making me laugh my whole damn life. ![]()
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