Mel Brooks
Question 1: What was the very first film Mel Brooks wrote, directed and starred in that kicked off his legendary movie career in 1967?
Question 2: In what hilarious 1974 Brooks comedy did he parody the entire Western genre with a script supposedly...
Question 1: What was the very first film Mel Brooks wrote, directed and starred in that kicked off his legendary movie career in 1967?
Question 2: In what hilarious 1974 Brooks comedy did he parody the entire Western genre with a script supposedly penned by "Barf Maverick"?
Question 3: What is the name of the iconic Broadway musical that Mel Brooks adapted from his 1968 film, winning a record 12 Tony Awards?
Question 4: In Mel Brooks' 1987 cult classic Spaceballs, who did John Candy voice as an unforgettable parody character?
Question 5: Before making it big in Hollywood, young Melvin Kaminsky got his start writing for which pioneering early television comedy series?
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Caliogus Shark Media. Hello, comedy
connoisseurs, This is Journey Joe Mitchell coming
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at you with a gut busting edition
of five daily trivia questions celebrating the legendary
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mel Brooks on his ninety eighth birthday. The Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and
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Tony Award winner has kept us in
stitches for over six decades with his incredibly
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sharp, satirical wit and creative comedic
genius. From immortal film classics to smash
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Broadway hits, Brooks's influence looms large
over the entertainment world. So let's put
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on our best rambling accents and see
how much you know about this true master
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of humor. Question one? What
was the very first film mel Brooks wrote,
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directed, and starred in that kicked
off his legendary movie career in nineteen
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sixty seven? Question two? In
what hilarious nineteen seventy four Brooks comedy did
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he parody the entire Western genre with
a script supposedly penned by barf MAPV.
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Question three, what is the name
of the iconic Broadway musical that mel Brooks
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adapted from his nineteen sixty eight film, winning a record twelve Tony Awards.
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Question four in mel brooks nineteen eighty
seven cult classic space Balls, who did
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John Candy voice as an unforgettable parody
character? Question five? Before making it
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big in Hollywood, Young Melvin Kaminski
got his start writing for which pioneering early
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television comedy series Pause to contemplate those
side splitting queries, and I'll return with
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the punchlines after a quick laughter break, and we're back, my friends.
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Let's run through those knee slapping answers
celebrating the one and only mel Brooks.
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Question one asked what nineteen sixty seven
film marked brooks directorial debut. Answer Brooks's
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very first film as writer, slash
director, slash actor was the outrageously Hilarius
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The Producers about a scheme to make
money on a purposefully offensive Broadway flop.
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Question two asked which classic parody did
Brooks use the pseudonym Barf Maverick for?
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Answer, Blazing Saddles fun Fact to
poke fun at pretentious Western writers. Brooks
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used the pen name Barf Maverick when
writing his iconic satire of the wild West
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genre. Question three asked what was
the name of brooks hit Broadway remake Answer
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The Producers with twelve Tony Wins.
The Producers became the most awarded show in
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Broadway history when it debuted in two
thousand and one, cementing Brooks as a
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musical comedy legend. Question four asked
who did John Candy voice as a parody
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in Spaceball's answer Barf the Mog parodying
Chewbacca Star Wars fun Fact. Candy's beloved
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performance as the furry, foul mouthed
Barf brilliantly satirized Chewbacca and the iconic Star
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Wars sci fi franchise. Question five
asked what early TV comedy series did Brooks
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write for? First? Answer your
show of Shows with Sid Caesar fun Fact.
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Before films, Brooks got his start
alongside greats like Mel Blanc, Neil
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Simon, and Carl Reiner as a
writer on Sid Caesar's groundbreaking nineteen fifties sketch
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series. There you have it,
an irreverent look at a true comedy trailblazer.
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Thanks for joining me and celebrating the
one and only Mel Brooks. May
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his uniquely zany brand of satire and
silliness continue to inspire laughs for generations to
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come. This has been journey Joe
Mitchell for five daily trivia questions.
