what we gave them was witt, intelligence, class and, you know, we got it from billy wilder and dorothy parker got it from a whole generation of, you know, stuff that seems silly but was brillia brilliantly corrected like duck soup like the marx brothers and we learned and hoped what we have put together will be absorbed and maybe brought forward by other company writers but today you don't. >> mel, we have about 45 seconds left, if there was one thing you could bring back from previous generations from comedy and in part to those up and comers now, what would it be? >> you know, i would bring back the ritz brothers, nobody heard of them and knew who they were but made 20 movies with 20th century fox and get a chance and google it and watch the movies they are his hysterical and i said why are you so funny? he said because we make fun, the jews in small towns like there used to make fun of unfortunates. you know, hunch back, cripples and, you know, it's terrible but they are funny. that is what we do. that is what we do. >> no one is as funny as you, mr. brooks, thank you so much for joining u

think of that work as, you know, quotes and chunks, things like, you know, someone who tweets dorothy parker quotes, that sort of thing. but for the most part, it really has to be genuine and from the author. >> i think that makes a lot of sense. i'm, you know, by far not a social media or online guru, but every expert i talk to and listen to, i mean, it's all about a conversation. taryn was saying earlier, you talk about your kid. i mean, i think if you pound the book down people's throats, they know that you're sort of -- oh, they turn it off. if they hear this person's shelling their book again as opposed to you want to read my book because it's part of life, it's part of the conversation. >> i think that's kind of hard, gene, though because not every author is a great personality, you know? some authors are just vibrant and witty and funny, and others are not, you know? they've put everything into their book, or maybe their book is about something completely different. so, you know, as taryn was saying, you can't force it. you can't force any author to do the social media stuff. but i th

and it's a reminder dorothy parker said when she her fears that once you heard she says that what you hear is the two people collaborated to write a book it always made her sound early to say hearing it three people collaborating to make a baby i just don't i don't i don't know what the third person does similar if you got to eat her and see don't know what that's limited by the rules of mathematics like. you know critically group occurrences are not sure what the rule of government. does you don't it's like needing three people to make it eight what's you don't need the government currency is a mechanism for humans to communicate information to each other crisis in prices or little packets of information about scarcity value and i don't know what you mean that other. bible doesn't everything look great i mean just mention how everything looks horrible in europe and everything must be so fabulous in the u.s. it's just nobody feels that how fabulous it is maybe part of it is because a lot of that was inventory build up of but clearly some indicators are looking better the other number

think of that work as, you know, quotes and chunks, things like, you know, someone who tweets dorothy parker quotes, that sort of thing. but for the most part, it really has to be genuine and from the author. >> i think that makes a lot of sense. i'm, you know, by far not a social media or online guru, but every expert i talk to and listen to, i mean, it's all about a conversation. taryn was saying earlier, you talk about your kid. i mean, i think if you pound the book down people's throats, they know that you're sort of -- oh, they turn it off. if they hear this person's shelling their book again as opposed to you want to read my book because it's part of life, it's part of the conversation. >> i think that's kind of hard, gene, though because not every author is a great personality, you know? some authors are just vibrant and witty and funny, and others are not, you know? they've put everything into their book, or maybe their book is about something completely different. so, you know, as taryn was saying, you can't force it. you can't force any author to do the social media stuff. but i th

there are twitter feeds i can think of that work and things like someone had to be dorothy parker closed that sort of thing but for the most part one has to be genuine from the author. >> it makes a lot of sense. i am by far not a social media or on line guru but every expert i listen to say you talk about your kid and i think if you pound the book down peoples throats they know and they turn off. here's this person selling a book again as opposed to you want to read my book because it's part of life them part of the conversation. >> i think that's kind of hard gene though because not every author is a great personality. some authors are vibrant and witty and funny and others are not. they put everything into their book or maybe their book is about something different. as taryn was saying you can't force it. you can't force any author to do the social media stuff but as an author a person has to be open to at least trying something that will help because we need all the help we can get. >> i agree with that and i think is an author you have to know your audience. twitter friends of young

there are twitter feeds that i can think of that work with quotes and chunks, someone who tweets dorothy parker quotes but for the most part it has to be generally to the author. >> that makes a lot of sense and i am not a social media or on line guru but every expert i talked to and listen to retell the conversation. you talk about your kid. if you pound the book down peoples throats they will say no. they will turn off. here's a person sharing their book again as opposed to you want to read my book as part of the conversation. >> not every author is a great personality. some authors are just vibrant and witty and funny and others are not. they put everything into their book. maybe their book is about something completely different so as taryn was saying you can't force it. you can't force any author to do the social media stuff. i think as an author a person has to be open to at least trying something that will help because we need all the help we can get. >> i agree with that as an author you have to know your audience. twitter trends younger in facebook trends older. if your audience is on