He never fails to make me laugh. I can't get enough of him. He's a treasure.

Mel Brooks always provides evidence for my my theory that while not all brilliant people are funny, all truly funny people are brilliant.

I love this man more than I can ever express. There’s no one like him. He is just amazing, talented, funny and so lovable. One of a kind

I had Mel in my car back in....hummm....1986? He was the Exec.Producer on 'The Fly' ( Jeff Goldblum... There is/was a place on the Gardener Expressway, going in and out, of Toronto. After I picked Mel up, at the airport, we cruised into town. Mel is in the back of the Town car....we hit 'The Humber Hump'! He asks..."what was that?" I said 'The Humber Hump'" Mel asks "do we go past this, again, on the way to the studio?" I said "yes". He asked me to warn him, when we got close, to "The Humber Hump'. As we head back out of town, to the studio, I say "Mel, 30 seconds to 'The Humber Hump'. I hear him unfasten his seat belt. Mel said "Faster Al, faster!" We hit 'The Hump' at 100 kms.......he bounced around, in the back seat, like a kid! And, laughed his head off. We kept that up for the week that he was in town. What a putz! I love him!

The world is brighter and funnier thanks to Mel.

Mel Brooks is my personal God. The first film I saw as a child was Blazing Saddles. The laughter in my heart I owe to this single man.

I saw blazing saddles in Oregon in 77 and laughed so hard that I embarrassed my cousin. A few years later I was working in a studio in Hollywood and walking down a long hallway on my way to lunch. From a distance I could see Mr Brooks standing outside of the stage where they were dubbing High Anxiety. So I kept walking, looking straight ahead. When I got closer I looked at him and he looked at me with a big smile. I smiled back and nodded my head. He did the same. It was like a handshake without the hands. I'm I glad to have that memory.

some of the best comedies of all time were done by this man... the producers, blazing saddles and young frankenstein are some of the best

I dread the thought what the world would be like without Mel Brooks. The man sweats humor!

The history of the world needs comedy. And comedy needs Mel Brooks

I sing ‘High Anxiety’ to my husband whenever I want him to laugh and roll his eyes at me.

High Anxiety is one of my favorite movies of all time.

Mel Brooks my favorite comedy to this day is Blazing Saddles especially Harvey Kormen's speech right before they get ready to sack Rock Ridge. He is still around and the world is better for it. Great interview.

Rex Reed is actually being really polite and respectful. On some of these old Cavett shows, the other guest has a huge ego and feels compelled to interject and try to steal the limelight. Rex is content to watch Mel and Dick do their thing. Class act by Rex.

Mel Brooks...thank you for all the laughter!!!

Mel Brooks didn’t just make funny movies, he’s always been naturally funny off-the-cuff. He’s got a comedian’s mind.

Mel Brooks is a complete comedy genius ! 😀

Brilliant man!

Read these comments...Mel brings out the love in absolutely everybody.

Truly one of the most funniest and wittiest men ever. I doubt that he could not pass up telling a joke or say something funny in a normal conversation.

The genius between masterpieces.

How about the gentleman's dignity and kindness, the class and style and the generosity of this fine and funny man?

Mel is a treasure still at 98 !!

7:43 Mel Brooks: "4 commercials in a station break, that's dreadful, I mean really that's terrible" Everyone: Cheers Me: *Cries in 2022*

And this interview was before BLAZING SADDLES AND YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.

Love Mel Brooks. He looks like a cross between Paul Simon and Richard Dreyfuss.

My very favorite actor, comedian, & more

This man was 44 years old. During this interview. In 1970. Now he’s 95. I wish I can have the same longevity that Mel Brooks has have had. But I won’t have the money to live. Or have family/friends at a similar age.

Blazing Saddles is the funniest film ever made !!!! 😀

Richard Alva Cavett (/ˈkævɪt/; born November 19, 1936) is an American television personality and former talk show host. He appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States for five decades, from the 1960s through the 2000s.

"There was nothing to do--Tito had the car all weekend." ROFL

"I think we should explain that to Iowa"... LOL.

I would have loved to seen Mel Brooks perform with Robin Williams...non stop laughter..

I saw "Blazing Saddles" for the first time in 1974 at a cinema theatre in Newcastle, Australia. I was one of only two people in the theatre for the screening at the time. The movie was hilarious but the only reason for the auditorium being empty-bar-two people was the reputation of the theatre owners, Theo and Margaret Goumas in the Newcastle region as NOT being nice people. The theatre was called the "Lyrique",originally it was the "Lyric" when in its heyday in the 1920s-to-1940s or so. It stood unused until about 1972 when reopened by the Goumases. Had "Blazing Saddles" been shown at The Strand, The Kensington, The Roma, The Royal, or the then-new Tower Cinema Complex(three in one), the auditoria would've been packed. Several of the theatres named are gone nowthough there's talk of reopening he Tower Cinemas.

He smoked and he is still with us!

Melvin James Kaminsky (Nueva York; 28 de junio de 1926), más conocido como Mel Brooks, es un guionista, actor, director y productor de cine estadounidense, especializado en el género de comedia.

Wow, I like Dick Cavett the best! Better than Johnny Carson I mean.

What a MAN!!! I totally adore him and as an ex Yugoslavian - I am in stitches. :)))

@19:20 Great impression of Frank Sinatra. Who woulda thunk that Brooks could do Sinatra? 😃

I wonder if Andy Kaufman ever saw this and was inspired by Mel Brooks literally doing 1000 faces . I remember the bit Andy did singing 100 bottles of beer until he actually got to 100 only to start again and see how many audience members would stick it out. Thinking it was classic Andy Kaufman is maybe a bit of Mel Brooks.

I used to live Mel Brooks ALOT, so funny, the funniest, until I saw Sid Caesar. Never goin back, Sid is, was and will always be #1.

did Cavett invent the host chair that's 6" higher than the guest? Letterman was big into that too.

A treasure to us all, bless you Mel Brooks

a goddamn genius! i love this man

Anne Bancroft would never have had a dull moment in her life whenever she was with this man.

Mel was 44 here !!

He's so open and accommodating.

PURE COMIC GENIUS !

Anyone who thinks they know even a little about movies of that era should recognize the other guest as famed critic and reviewer Rex Reed.

I wasn't quite born yet when this show was taped, yet I yearn for those days. American network television had some semblance of culture and class then.

I think they had Yugoslavian sound crew, you could see the microphones.

19:50 -- Wow, he's doing his own "Rocket Man," complete with smoking the cigarette! He did it before Shatner, even!

The Producers was retitled Springtime For Hitler during the 1970s on the Australian tv channel. I remember watching the movie at a friend's place because we didn't have a tv set at my home. I loved his movie Spaceballs.

Of course I love Mel Brooks and he makes a prophetic comment.. Mel Brooks complains about there being 4 commercials on a station break... Today they regularly have 13 or 14 commercials and we pay for the cable! No wonder people are leaving cable TV in droves! (next time, count 'em.)

GREAT ALL 3 THESE GUYS STILL ROCKING AND ROLLING!

Brooks is thee, legend!😂🙌☘

m.c. short for mental case hehehehe! Love Mel

Brilliant!

Mel Brooks makes Dick Cavett giggle like no one else I've ever seen! It's actually rather sweet. "Spectacularly Gentle" I believe is how Mel describes Dick!! Love it!!

The band was a bit too good for his America The Beautiful by Sinatra...really good. A little rehearsal goes a long way..

I am assuming that the Yugoslavia movie was The 12 Chairs? That was one of my favorite movies!

Legend

Tuff. Times its gone now.Funny Days l miss them.

A truly great comedian who's still alive at +90 years old

Damn genius. Real shit.

Rex Reed was so handsome.

I wish the current crop of late-night show hosts would watch and appreciate the interview talents of Cavett, Carson, WFB, Jr., Paar, Marx; then retire.

funnier man than I thought. Groucho was the funny man till the 60s. Mel was the funny man of the 70s

Mel Brooks. Wow!

The best president the US never had. He is a genius.

"4 commercials in a station break... That's terrible." Yes. Yes it is.

He may not be a handsome man but he makes up for it in charisma, intelligence and wit

,,,, very, very good !!!!!!

Mel is 95 this year.

8:51 best part

Spaceballs my favorite 🤣

In 1970 if you were one year over forty you looked like a 65 year old man in 2019.

thank god for the cavett.

What a riot!

20 minutes commercials in 12$ movie theater inferior to original 3 cents and 5 cents theaters...

OMG, Rex Reed! Now he really looks young.

I would love Dick Cavett and Mel Brooks to reprise this interview, so Mel could ask him why he made him work so hard.

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Fantastic Mel Brooks and amazing Jewish festival with loads of laughs and remember the Movie Space Ball's.

Mel Brooks has made me laugh more than any other entertainment person. Monty Python is a close second.

Genius

Do you have the Dick Cavett Show from 1970 with Sam Peckinpah and Stella Stevens as guests? They were interviewed about The Ballad of Cable Hogue.

"Ah, it's beer."

Good & bad. Loved the Sinatra thing. Never thought the 2000 Year-Old-Man was funny.

That was painful. They forced him to do bits the whole time. He was so done with it by the end. It's really a shame they didn't have a real talk, he would have been much funnier

"Four commercials in a station break. That's dreadful." Now, people watch the Super Bowl especially for the commercials!

er ist so toll!

I like the way The Jews poke fun from horrendous tragedies. I think many others could benefit from this way.

Very funny man, but was he ever young?

Talk shows today are a legit embarrassment compared to shows like Cavett

Frank Angela’s 1st film. It’s great to hear about great actor’s in their early days of acting.

9:44 Starts talking about filming in Yugoslavia 🇷🇸.

Dick was great with the right interview subject, but he might be the only interviewer that could make Mel Brooks boring.

They brought him on with "Springtime for Hitler !"

My girlfriend at the time shared a love of young Frankenstein. In a phone conversation with her I was ripping into Mel as a anti semite, hypocritical and a bad actor. Some confusion as I meant Mel Gibson, not the brilliant Mel Brooks. He had a Monty Python aspect to him.