. I've enjoyed Mel Brooks since the first episode of Get Smart. There have however been time that he goes too far. An example of that was "The 2030-year-old man in the year 2000. I remember thinking as I listening to it, that he went way too far with his cursing. There was time today that the same thought came my mind. This started to be very promising. However, none of the skits grow.. The ideas that created these parodies were very clever, but too often that is where it ended. .
It is an unusual comic or comedy that I enjoy when the comedian relies upon shocking his or her audience, I always found that Robin Williams was funnier on Mork and Mindy than he was on stage. I had a similar reaction to Eddie Murphy, who was much better on SNL than he was on stage.
This was not true all comics. Redd Foxx, Lenny Bruce and Moms Mabley used cursing to shock their audience and it worked. George Carlin was the natural successor as a social commentator to Mort Sahl and because of the era that he became that social commentator it fit like a glove. Bill Maher is arguably to Carlin what Carlin was to Sahl. Chris Rock has somehow made it work.
The best of all of this genre of comics was of course, Richard Pryor. Pryor was also the man mostly responsible for script on " Blazing Saddles."
After having been disappointed with the 2030-year-old man, I shyed away from Mel Brooks. Although Ienjoyed this appearances on "Mad About You," and laughed as hard as I did when I first saw " Young Frankenstein". Good parodies often find an absurdity and stretch it, as far as it is still funny. Past that point it becomes silly.
As he aged and took his place gracefully as the well-respected sage of comedy, his humor got better again and he also showed a warmth that was obviously so sincere that it impossible not to smile from just hearing his name.
I cautiously anticipated this series . At one point I was disappointed until I caught on to what he doing. He was doing the perfect parody of Larry David in "Curb Your Enthusiasm". The parody would not have been successful without the language of the show. As I watched more carefully I realized that he wasvbrippiantlyswitching from one parody to another Every skit would be a parody of a comic that I had no doubt that that he has a great deal of respect for. .But, there were a few times that I thought the language was unnecessary and not funny.
Vulgar language in a comedy is a method to get a cheap laugh. Mel Brooks does not need to resort to looking for a cheap laugh.
It wasn't the worst that he has done, but it was far from the best
All that I can say is "Thank you, Mel Brooks."
It is an unusual comic or comedy that I enjoy when the comedian relies upon shocking his or her audience, I always found that Robin Williams was funnier on Mork and Mindy than he was on stage. I had a similar reaction to Eddie Murphy, who was much better on SNL than he was on stage.
This was not true all comics. Redd Foxx, Lenny Bruce and Moms Mabley used cursing to shock their audience and it worked. George Carlin was the natural successor as a social commentator to Mort Sahl and because of the era that he became that social commentator it fit like a glove. Bill Maher is arguably to Carlin what Carlin was to Sahl. Chris Rock has somehow made it work.
The best of all of this genre of comics was of course, Richard Pryor. Pryor was also the man mostly responsible for script on " Blazing Saddles."
After having been disappointed with the 2030-year-old man, I shyed away from Mel Brooks. Although Ienjoyed this appearances on "Mad About You," and laughed as hard as I did when I first saw " Young Frankenstein". Good parodies often find an absurdity and stretch it, as far as it is still funny. Past that point it becomes silly.
As he aged and took his place gracefully as the well-respected sage of comedy, his humor got better again and he also showed a warmth that was obviously so sincere that it impossible not to smile from just hearing his name.
I cautiously anticipated this series . At one point I was disappointed until I caught on to what he doing. He was doing the perfect parody of Larry David in "Curb Your Enthusiasm". The parody would not have been successful without the language of the show. As I watched more carefully I realized that he wasvbrippiantlyswitching from one parody to another Every skit would be a parody of a comic that I had no doubt that that he has a great deal of respect for. .But, there were a few times that I thought the language was unnecessary and not funny.
Vulgar language in a comedy is a method to get a cheap laugh. Mel Brooks does not need to resort to looking for a cheap laugh.
It wasn't the worst that he has done, but it was far from the best
All that I can say is "Thank you, Mel Brooks."