Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
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Mel Brooks
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About Mel Brooks
Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, comedian, film director, songwriter and playwright. With a career spanning nine decades, he is known for a variety of successful farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of the few people to win the EGOT. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016 and a BAFTA Fellowship in …
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Mel BrooksI was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefor…
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefor…
I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.