“Let the secrets out!”: Mel Brooks opens up to V.F. about the best years of his life, competing with Woody Allen, and his new memoir.
: Obviously, it was a very good suggestion, because it came to pass. But during the pandemic, my son Max said, ‘You’re stuck in the house. Just write the stories you told me when I was growing up, you’ll have a big fat book.’Yes, I did. It was good; it was interesting. He has wonderful recall about his childhood. Seven or eight years old, he had opinions.. That seems like a good description of your kind of comedy.
I enjoyed reading about your apprenticeship in the Catskills. Was that your comedy college? What lessons did you learn there? You write lovingly about the Ritz Brothers. Their movies were rarely shown on television or played in revival houses, so I basically learned about them from you when you talked about them in interviews. Were you aware Harry and Jimmy Ritz’s last screen appearance was in something calledI didn’t know that. [laughs] Harry Ritz was so thrilling. The way he walked, the inflections when he talked, the wacko expressions. Jerry Lewis got a lot of stuff from Harry Ritz.
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