GROSS: Mel Brooks, welcome back to FRESH AIR. UNIDENTIFIED ACTORS: (As characters, singing) We're marching to a faster pace. MICHAEL DAVIS: (As Lead Tenor Stormtrooper, singing) Springtime for Hitler and Germany. Where, oh, where was he? Where could that man be? We looked around, and then we found the man for you and me. Needed a new leader to restore its former glory.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTORS: (As characters, singing) Germany was having trouble. The title song is a big production number featuring singing and dancing Nazis. They stage a musical called "Springtime For Hitler," which is in such bad taste it's bound to be the flop their scheme requires. Let's start with his most hilarious and intentionally tasteless song, "Springtime For Hitler." It's from "The Producers," which is about two theater producers who figure out a scheme to make more money from a flop than they could make from a hit. We recorded the interview last week, and one of the things we talked about is what his life is like now at age 95. I love his work, and I love talking to him, and I'm grateful his memoir provided another opportunity to have him on our show. To top it off, he was a Kennedy Center honoree, received a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute and a National Medal of Arts, presented by President Obama.
His latest project is his new memoir, "All About Me!"īrooks is one of the few EGOTs, meaning he's received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. His film "The Producers" was adapted into a Broadway musical mega-hit that won a record-breaking 12 Tonys, including best musical. My guest, Mel Brooks, wrote and directed such hilarious film comedies as "Blazing Saddles," a spoof of Westerns "High Anxiety," his comic homage to Alfred Hitchcock "Young Frankenstein," his version of a classic horror film and "History Of The World, Part I," his sendup of Hollywood spectacles.
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