But he also puts the case that comedy is king. At 95, with hits from The Producers through to Robin Hood: Men in Tights ensuring his place in the Hollywood pantheon, he qualifies for the accolade "the king of comedy". The crazy thing is, having zipped through the preceding 450 pages, you may well come to subscribe to Brooks’s (brazenly partisan) philosophy. Comedy gets us through bad times, yes, but as a consequence does it really have "the most to say about the human condition"? Is this seemingly trivial pursuit – employing wit and silliness to elicit a gut response so elementary it can be mistaken for infantility – more insightful about who we are than a grand tragedy? You can survive when things are bad when you have a sense of humour."Īs final analyses go, it seems remarkably simple, almost banal. Because if you can laugh, you can get by. "Even though it seems foolish and silly and crazy, comedy has the most to say about the human condition. "Comedy is a weird but very beautiful thing," he writes. At the end of his convivial and chirpily amusing memoir, Mel Brooks nails his colours to the mast.
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