by Is the world ready for Mel Brooks to join the Twitter conversation?
Ready or not, here comes @MelBrooks later today in an event coordinated for Comedy Central’s first-ever online #ComedyFest — that starts today and continues through May 3, 2013 — with the 2,000(minus 1,914)-year-old comedian in conversation with Carl Reiner and moderated by Judd Apatow.
If you think you’ve already just seen Brooks and Apatow in conversation, that’s likely because you just saw or heard that happen as part of a separate “Town Hall” recording for SiriusXM. In fact, that debuted over the weekend.
See him compare his younger self with Quentin Tarantino back when Brooks released Blazing Saddles:
Here Brooks extolls the virtues of singing with his wife, Anne Bancroft, in 1983’s To Be Or Not To Be.
1974 was a big year for Brooks also, with him writing and directing BOTH Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. 2013 is shaping up to be big, too.
It’s all part of a resurgence in Mel Brooks comedy — something something don’t call it a comeback is the cliche you’re searching for here — designed to both enlighten the next young generation of comedy nerds as well as to celebrate an entertainment icon while he’s still around to enjoy it and share his knowledge with us.
In the past year, Brooks has sat down for extended retrospectives and interviews with:
- HBO, “Mel Brooks Strikes Back!”
- A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume
- Nerdist with Chris Hardwick
- WTF with Marc Maron
- SiriusXM Town Hall with Judd Apatow and select fans (SiriusXM On Demand)
In the coming month, in addition to today’s Comedy Central #ComedyFest on Twitter with Apatow and Reiner, Brooks also is the subject of a new PBS documentary in its American Masters series (“Mel Brooks: Make A Noise,” premiering May 20, 2013).
Twitter and Skype?! Are you ready for this, Mr. Brooks? Is the world ready for more of you?
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