Mel Brooks shows mastery of truly disarming
A no-brainer, he said of choosing the smash Broadway hit. I saw it in New York the week before it opened on Broadway, and I killed myself laughing. I just thought it was hysterically funny.
True to the Mel Brooks fashion of I-shouldn't-be-laughing-at-this humor, The Producers lovingly pokes fun at just about everyone.
For those who are uneasy finding humor in Hitler, Brooks, a Jew who served in the Army during WWII at only 17, saw the results of Hitler. His thought:
If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win, he said in an interview with U.S. News and World Report. That's what they do so well. They seduce people. But if you ridicule them, bring them down with laughter, they can't win. You show how crazy they are.
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