i said, "you've never heard of me, i'm mel brooks."ord! i've got your record, it is great." i saw her backstage and we talked and i never stopped seeing her and talking to her for the next 45 years. every day was bliss. i've heard that you are married to the most beautiful woman in the world, is this true, mr brooks? no, i'm married to anne bancroft. applause. ladies and gentlemen, my beautiful wife. they sing. # sweet georgie brown! you've got to remember that at that stage, you weren't earning much money. no, i was broke then. she was paying for most of it. yeah, the show was off the air and when i met her, i told her, "you don't want to be serious with me because i'm broke. i'm eating hot dogs for dinner. i have no money. you don't want to know me." she said, "i'll take a chance. i'll take a chance." they sing. applause. you have a couple more... there is no more, i don't care. we have got to do... you are finished. we have got to do 0bama. we're not to make him president again! he served two terms. i want to read what he said about

mel brooks was fearless — he broke every rule.ed in writing his autobiography and, after some persuasion, let me in to talk about it. alan, you flew on an aeroplane all the way from london. idid. to see me here in southern california. yes, and this pandemic, which, when max introduced you, 16 million people were watching that, so you are a bit of a hero. well, also, max, what are you going to do? you can't go to your lunches, you can't go to your office, you can't do your onstage stand—up with a lot of people. you're stuck. you're stuck with yourself in the living room, on the sofa, what are you going to do? i said, i don't know what i'm going to do, frankly. he said, no, you are going to write your memoir! and you did what you were told. idid. and you called it all about me. it is all about me. and it is a good title. it starts in brooklyn. i remember asking you about brooklyn and whether there were anyjews in brooklyn. and i said, "nothing butjews in brooklyn!" was there something special about being jewish in brooklyn at the ti

i found millbrook -- mel brook's adaptation of the producers.y love it and i thought that is very theatrical as a movie, it must have been a good show. it was amazingly successful. i always thought this would be a fantastic musical toring a french aience. i met up with the directors of state entertainment in paris. they make all of the big musicals like the lion king and a mama mia. they asked me. they said what would be your dream of a musical? i said it is the producers. we have been trying to put it up for 10 years now. we started auditioning. >> some of the humor is new york , how did you know yoshi a -- how did you negotiate that for new york's? france? >> some of it is very broad, jewish new yorker, we had to find ways to bring it to a french audience. either to switch the groups and talking about things that we do not have an equivalent to hear. >> you got to discuss that with mel brooks? >> i was lucky enough to have him on the phone. i was pretty stressed about that because i was sure he could be pretty intimidating. in the end, he was

. >> mel brooks is 95 and a national treasure.scar and tony winner spent the pandemic writing "all about me", my remarkable life in show business. comedy nerds know his classic movies "the producers," "blazing saddles", and "young frankenstein." he writes about gene wilder and about his marriage to anne bancroft. i hope i get to play accordion again for you soon. >> you're watching "world news now." >> our thanks to barry mitchell there. i was asking, did you finish or reading any books? >> i'm in to fiction when i do read. i feel like we read so much news you have to escape a little. comedy's a good idea. >> i've been on a world war ii kick for the last two years. >> two years? >> yeah, right now i'm reading "a bridge too far". those are excellent, excellent suggestions from our own barry mitchell. and coming up, barry will be back with our friday polka. up, (light music) - look, i got to say something. i said it before and i'll say it again. if i thought a reverse mortgage was just some kind of trick to take your home, i wouldn'

and wrapping up our look at the los angeles times bestselling nonfiction books is comedian mel brooks memoir all about me. and that's this week's publishing news in the latest nonfiction books. thanks for joining us on the about books program and podcast. a reminder that this is available as a podcast at c-span now which is c-span's app or wherever you get your podcast. rofessor paul lockhart. welcome everyone. my name is crystal lake and i'm a professor here in the department of english language and literatures at wright state. it's my pleasure to introduce professor paul lockhart to you today. but before i tell you a little bit more about paul, i want to thank both professor, alpena sharma and the department of

and wrapping up our look at the los angeles times bestselling nonfiction books is comedian mel brooks memoir all about me. and that's this week's publishing news in the latest nonfiction books. thanks for joining us on the about books program and podcast. a reminder that this is available as a podcast at c-span now which is c-span's app or wherever you get your podcast. with penn state professor rachel sheldon. all right. so up to this point in the course, we've been talking a lot about the degree to which the constitution did not simply take the form of a written legal document right but rather as a set of ideas about the structure and function of american governance. and among these key ideas was a reliance

[laughter] [cheering] >> great timing from her, stars are tweeting, this one from mel brooks saying bads, no more betty white, too bad we couldn't get another ten years of her, warm, gracious personality, she was one of a kind and dolly parton taking to twitter saying that he will live forever not only in this world but the world here after, i will always love her as we all will. she died just before the celebration started from her 100th birthday, people magazine had already gone to print with white on the cover for january celebrating her upcoming milestone and while a lot of people saw her popularity in later years in her come back, she said she never saw it that way, she been working steadily for 63 years so she has the humor. julie. julie: thank you so much. she was so loved. william: boulder county sheriff's office holding a news conference on the colorado wildfire, at least seven people entered in the wildfire erupting around louisville and superior 20 miles northwest of denver. went up to 105 miles an hour spread the fire to neighborhoods forcing families to evacuate with almost

. >> mel brooks, why did you make "blazing saddles"?zing saddles" is a classic western spoofing westerns and it's one of the most subversive comedies that come out in the '70s. it's a movie that mel brooks cowrites with richard pryor about a black sheriff coming to this town and the town people not wanting him to be there. >> i love "blazing saddles" because it is such a revolutionary film. it deals with race with a sense of humor and candor. >> richard pryor was supposed to play the sheriff. but warner brothers wouldn't insure him, because he was an exuberant experimental in chemicals. and mel walked off the movie. i can't make it without richie. i can't do it. and it was richard pryor who said, no, you have to make this movie. and you have to cast this guy. look how dard hik his skin is. he would terrify those people. >> i would like you to meet the new sheriff. >> i would be delighted. wow. >> i've got to talk to you, come here. can't you see that that man is a ni -- wrong person, forgive me. >> the story was the strand to hang the p

mel brooks is running there and he's been out on the campaign trail regularly, telling alabama voters we need to look beyond the 202 it election and he has not lost trump's dormant. the former president isn't necessarily happy with that message but he hasn't withdrawn his endorsement and he hasn't gone out there and issued a statement critical of brooks. so there are instances where trump is willing to bend a little bit to allow these c candidates some flexibility and to tailor their message in such a way that will help them in a p primary and you mentioned georgia, casey. that's one castate where i spok with a lot of advisers who said they really feel confident that walker can run a successful campaign against warnock but they don't want trump to go to georgia to campaign for walker and focus exclusively on 20 20. that did not work in those r runoff elections last january, and they're really hoping that he doesn't do that again. >> thank you very much for being with us and sharing your reporting. we really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> coming up next, new york city's new mayor eric

congressman mel brooks put on a bulletproof fest in a hunting happened january 6th, and told the crowd that day, that today is the day that american patriot start taking down names and kicking ass. he set on line that day, as the pro trump mob streamed toward the capitol he said quote, fight for america's republic is on. bam. the fight for america's republic is on, he said that as the crowd stream toward the u.s. capital, when they actually started breaking into the building, congressman moe brooks preet, adores locked, capitol complex breached. chamber doors locked. speaker weaves. a former staffer to republican house leader kevin mccarthy, told jake tapper in an interview at cnn last, week that congressman moe brics was laughing and cheering on the mob, from inside the house. as they broken and start rampaging through the halls and offices of congress. congressman brooks's office has denied that account. reporter michael kranish today at the washington post says, the january six investigation is now weighing whether they will seek testimony from congressman brooks, as well as perry a

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there's that there's that great mel brooks line. what's the opposite of comedy germany? and he was not a he a particularly. money, man. he tried to be funny on occasion and it was a disaster. and but nonetheless this book fortunately does have lots of jokes in it owing to the fact that of course the 18th century was an absolute high point of of reputee and and wit and parliamentary debating points and so on. i know many of you have heard this joke, but it's my favorite jacob the late 18th century. so i'm going to tell it anyhow, which was when the earl of sandwich the first thought of the admiralty told. john wilkes the radical journalist that he was either going to die of the pox or on the gallows and john wilkes replied. well that depends your lordship and whether or not i embrace your lordship's principles or your mistress. georgia third was a very courageous man. he had a during the invasion attempts in by the french and spanish in 1779 where he behaved superbly during the appalling gordon riots of the 1780 when he when 400 people were killed in a week in london, it

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also, we don't contactually now -- if you move to congress, how direct was paul gosar and mel brooks these guys, how closely would they working with the alexander type asks the oath keepers and the on the ground troops that had premeditated action to violence, these domestic terrorism groups. and then there is mccarthy telling the narrative and letting the chips fall -- i don't know that we should have the expectations that will change the political calculus around this. i think a lot of people saw this and decided they are okay with it. and that's a problem in our country. and that the january 6th shouldn't worry about that. they should try to get as much as they can get out and uncover as much as left uncovered. >> what is interesting when we talk about how fearful mccarthy was with his president -- and that video of them being rushed out -- i traveled with the president for five years and never was rushed like that by super service. to republicans -- they didn't go back to their offices. they were in hiding. they were in hiding as well. the white house was never locked down. i wor

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