All about Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business

by Mel Brooks

I was satirizing specific genres, but I was also paying tribute to them at the same time.

When he put the big, beautiful medal around my neck he said, “to Mel Brooks, for a lifetime of making the world laugh.”

landed. I still think that the best thing in the world is saying something funny, and then having an audience explode with laughter. I will never grow tired of that. It’s magical.

You can survive when things are bad if you have a sense of humor.