Mel Brooks
He loves history, ridiculous behaviour and big tits. Brooks began his comedy career as a stand-up and comedy writer in the late 1940's and became well known in the late 1950's and early 1960's, when he teamed up with entertainer Carl Reiner and created the comedy skit, The 2000 Year Old Man. In 1965, he co-created and wrote the hit comedy series Get Smart. Brooks won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers, which he also directed. As well as producing and guest starring in various TV series and films in the 1970's and 1980's, Brooks also directed, co-wrote and acted in hit comedies including Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World Part I and Spaceballs. He has received three Tony Awards for his film turned musical The Producers, three Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards and a Saturn Award as well as his 1968 Oscar.
Memorable quotes / jokes
History of the World: Part I -
Comicus (Brooks) : Have you heard of this new sect, the Christians? They are a laugh riot! First of all, they are so poor..... (waits for helper in the audience)
Swiftus (Comicus' Helper) : How poor are they?
Comicus : Thank you! They are so poor, that they only have one God!
Crowd : (Laughs)
Comicus : But we Romans are rich. We've got a lot of Gods. We've got a God for everything. The only thing we don't have a God for is premature ejaculation...but I hear that's coming quickly.
Blazing Saddles -
Hedley Lamarr : As attorney-general, I can assure you that a suitable sheriff will be found to restore the peace in Rock Ridge. Meeting adjourned (hits the Governor's gavel). Oh, I am sorry, sir, I didn't mean to overstep my bounds. You say that.
Governor Le Petomane (Brooks) : What?
Lamarr : Meeting is adjourned.
Governor : It is?
Lamarr : No, you say that Governor.
Governor : What?
Lamarr : Meeting is adjourned.
Governor : It is?
Lamarr : (Sighing in frustration, he gives the Governor a paddleball) Here play around with this for a while.
Governor : Oh, thank you Heddy.
Lamarr : No, it's Hedley!
Governor : It is?
