Host Ben Mankiewicz hangs out with his friend, 97-year-old legend Mel Brooks (The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) in this often hilarious and sometimes poignant episode. Mel reminisces about Gene Wilder, David Lynch, his wife Anne Bancroft, and best friend Carl Reiner. He also recounts a tremendously funny dinner with Alfred Hitchcock. Mel Brooks has spent a lifetime watching and making movies so you don’t want to miss his answers to our Super 8 questionnaire.  

Films Mentioned:

Blazing Saddles*

Young Frankenstein

The Producers

High Anxiety

Psycho

Vertigo

The Elephant Man 

Eraserhead*

Frankenstein (1931) 

Casablanca*

Swing Time

Top Hat

Broadway Melody of 1940 

Ninotchka

The Gods Must Be Crazy 

It Happened One Night 

Spaceballs*

Random Harvest 

Alexander’s Ragtime Band 

*Available on Max as of 2/13 (Availability of titles subject to change)
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