Mel Brooks Takes the Michael Michael Billington ('is that the fish market?') asks
Mel Brooks about comedy ('being poor helped me become a people's comedy writer'); acting ('fear is the thing that keeps us rolling along singing a song'); and about films, flatulence,
Hitler, taste, Alfred Hitchcock and the meaning of life. ('Don't you ever stop asking questions Michael, what are you, some kind of question machine?') Producer RICHARD DUNN Editor ROSEMARY HART