All about Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business

by Mel Brooks

Carl: Sir, sir, I read somewhere that you lived in Boston during the American Revolution. Did you know Paul Revere? Mel: An anti-Semite bastard! Carl: You didn’t like Paul Revere? Mel: I hated Paul Revere. Carl: No, no, no. He was a hero! How could you call him an anti-Semite? Mel: He had fear that we were going to go in the neighborhood and move in. “They’re coming, they’re coming. The Yiddish are coming!” All night he was yelling! Carl: Were you living in that neighborhood at that time? Mel: I was there. I heard him yelling. Carl: No, he was yelling, “The British are coming.” Mel: Oy, my god. Carl: You were wrong! Mel: Ooh, I’m going to have to send his wife a note. Carl: You’ve maligned the man for all these years! Mel: I didn’t know. And I didn’t go to his funeral. Oh my god. Carl: Two hundred years you have maligned the man… Mel: I’m glad we spoke. I’d better ask you about some more of these people.