# I spent the evening with Mel Brooks last night **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 12, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spent-the-evening-with-mel-brooks-last-night/757211 "2016-06-12T19:33:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spent-the-evening-with-mel-brooks-last-night/757211/21 "2016-06-13T08:08:38Z")
What a wonderful evening that must have been and what a great anniversary gift! Coincidentally Mel Brooks is doing a voice-over for the upcoming animated movie _Blazing Samurai_, 2017, and has a couple of films in the pipeline, _Pizzaman_ and _Spaceballs: The Search For More Money_. Love that last title. Classic Mel Brooks! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spent-the-evening-with-mel-brooks-last-night/757211/22 "2016-06-13T11:21:46Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Blazing Saddles will never be forgotten. šŸ˜ƒ > [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > No, it will be suppressed. > [@jz78817](#): > > How so? itā€™s in the National Film Registry. Itā€™s a fart joke. About suppressing farts. Maybe later we can have one about suppressing the urge to explain jokesā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![jonesj2205](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jonesj2205](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonesj2205)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spent-the-evening-with-mel-brooks-last-night/757211/23 "2016-06-13T11:42:55Z")
My wife and I attended a similar evening a few months back. As you said the manā€™s energy is amazing, but it was also so much fun to watch Blazing Saddles in a theater full of fans. There really wasnā€™t a joke that wasnā€™t anticipated and appreciated. Even more since you were sharing it. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spent-the-evening-with-mel-brooks-last-night/757211/24 "2016-06-13T13:38:14Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > ā€¦It brought home to me just how much is lost when watching such great flicks in isolationā€¦ I couldnā€™t agree more. I always try to go watch classic films when they show them at the theater. A few years back I went to an outdoor showing of a film Iā€™ve seen a hundred times, Caddyshack, and found myself laughing out loud at jokes I could recite in my sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spent-the-evening-with-mel-brooks-last-night/757211/25 "2016-06-13T14:32:09Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Itā€™s a fart joke. > > About suppressing farts. > > Maybe later we can have one about suppressing the urge to explain jokesā€¦ And if he had posted that the movie would be oppressed, it would be a Monty Python joke. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spent-the-evening-with-mel-brooks-last-night/757211/26 "2016-06-13T14:50:31Z")
Lucky you. I just did a search and found that heā€™s doing a show at Radio City Music Hall on September 1. NY is close enough to me that I may go see it. Itā€™s billed as ā€œMel Brooks: Back In The Saddle Again!ā€ which sounds like itā€™s probably the same show you saw. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spent-the-evening-with-mel-brooks-last-night/757211/27 "2016-06-13T15:08:30Z")
If I live to be 90 or anything remotely close I hope I keep my wits like he has. Did he tell any stories about _To Be Or Not To Be_? Or about Howard Morris? One of my favorite stories Iā€™ve ever heard him tell on interview shows is being applauded by Nazi soldiers when he serenaded them with ā€œToo-too-Tootsieā€ across the lines one night. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spent-the-evening-with-mel-brooks-last-night/757211/28 "2016-06-13T15:47:46Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Itā€™s a fart joke. > > About suppressing farts. > > Maybe later we can have one about suppressing the urge to explain jokesā€¦ Maybe posters are confusing it with Brooksā€™ earlier work, from the silent (but deadly) era. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spent-the-evening-with-mel-brooks-last-night/757211/29 "2016-06-13T15:53:14Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Did he tell any stories about _To Be Or Not To Be_? Or about Howard Morris? > > One of my favorite stories Iā€™ve ever heard him tell on interview shows is being applauded by Nazi soldiers when he serenaded them with ā€œToo-too-Tootsieā€ across the lines one night. Nope, nothing about that stuff. Nor his WW II experiences. He only had about 75 minutes, after all . . . ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spent-the-evening-with-mel-brooks-last-night/757211/30 "2016-06-13T16:47:14Z")
If you get the chance, see _Mel Brooks Live At The Geffen_, which was a recorded version of his monologuing about his life and answering questions from the audience. He did it in 2015 and I saw it on Netflix, but itā€™s not there now. Maybe itā€™ll be back. Hope for the bestā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spent-the-evening-with-mel-brooks-last-night/757211/31 "2016-06-13T16:58:06Z")
Correction: checking around for it, I found it was on HBO. I must have seen it during a Free Preview weekend. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spent-the-evening-with-mel-brooks-last-night/757211/32 "2016-06-13T18:58:17Z")
In the late 70s when I was a teen, my mom and step-dad were members of a cinema society in Los Angeles and as part of that they got to preview films. They were going to see the world premier of High Anxiety but my step-dad couldnā€™t make it so I got to go. Brooks was set to speak and take questions at the end but it was a school night so my mom made it a point to tell me that we could stay for a little bit of the talk but then we would have to go. A couple of people left the theater early and Brooks mercilessly savaged them as they were walking out. We stayed until the end. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spent-the-evening-with-mel-brooks-last-night/757211/33 "2016-06-13T19:07:53Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Itā€™s a fart joke. > > About suppressing farts. > > Maybe later we can have one about suppressing the urge to explain jokesā€¦ Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast, I would catch it. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spent-the-evening-with-mel-brooks-last-night/757211/34 "2016-06-13T19:12:18Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast, I would catch it. Your people donā€™t have metaphors, do they? šŸ˜ƒ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spent-the-evening-with-mel-brooks-last-night/757211.md?page=1)