Mel Brooks weaponizes chaos for 55 minutes and Anne Bancroft is somehow still married to him.
Mel Brooks delivers an enjoyable hour of comic diversion with his lovely actress-wife Anne Bancroft, writer comedian Ronny Graham and British Shakespearean actor Jonathan Pryce. Brooks Spontaneous humor, social commentaries and zany sketches leave the audience rolling in the aisles and will leave you wanting more of Mel!
Acting
Brooks and Bancroft's real-life banter is funnier than scripted.
Writing
Graham's sharp sketches balance Brooks' controlled demolition.
Direction
MacMillan keeps the train wreck gloriously on track.
Director
Alasdair Macmillan
Mel Brooks
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Anne Bancroft
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Ronny Graham
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Suzanne Danielle
Self (uncredited)
Bob Geldof
Self (uncredited)
Alan Howard
Self (uncredited)
Gloria Hunniford
Self (uncredited)
Olivia Hussey
Self (uncredited)
Gordon Jackson
Self (uncredited)
Lionel Jeffries
Self (uncredited)
Bonnie Langford
Self (uncredited)
Limahl
Self (uncredited)
Helen Mirren
Self (uncredited)
Patrick Mower
Self (uncredited)
Liam Neeson
Self (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Brooks' post-'History of the World' peak, this captures him before the 1987 'Spaceballs' resurgence made him a nostalgia act.
Ronny Graham co-wrote 'To Be or Not to Be' (1983) with Brooks—this special is essentially their unused material and inside jokes.
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