COMEDY TONIGHT: MEL BROOKS AT THE AERO

Mel Brooks will be appearing at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica tonight — and I am intending to go.
  
Last year Turner Classic Movies (TCM) aired “The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks” (a re-staged revived for this episode edition of the Dick Cavett Show directed by Robert Trachtenberg). I was lucky enough to be in the audience.  My favorite moment occurred when Dick Cavett flubbed a joke, and Mel Brooks said (this is from memory, not an exact quote) “You want funny, you come to me.” Brooks self-confidence in his own comic skills was intoxicating — you could just imagine how in a room of funny people he was not intimidated — he would hit the ball back harder — which explains the genius of “The 2000 year old man” and the chutzpah-like blind spot of Agent 86 in “Get Smart.”

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