Mel Brooks Fears Donald Trump Bubble

[joeybee12]

Donald Trump is too important to fail in his presidential bid, as far as Mel Brooks is concerned.

If the Trump popularity were to burst, it would be devastating to the late night comics, Brooks warns.

"If Donald Trump quit the race it would be the collapse of comedy," Brooks told USA TODAY, not afraid to throw around alarmist terms. "Trump means a great deal to comedy. You gotta keep him in right to the end."

Brooks, who stars as a grandpa vampire in Hotel Transylvania 2, believes that late night comics especially have built up a strong dependence on mining Trump for his raw comedy material.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2015/09/26/mel-brooks-donald-trump-bubble/72880018/

[daleanime]

1. Even without tRump....

there is plenty to laugh at on the republican stage.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. A tragedy, to be sure

but I remain optimistic, reassured that whoever emerges on top of the repug dung heap will provide sufficient comedy gold for every late-night host to mine.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. My favorite Mel Brooks quote:

"Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance."

[mucifer]

4. I haven't read "The Diary of Anne Frank" for a long time

Or it might have been in the book "All But My Life" written by a young holocaust survivor Gerta Weissman Klein. But, whichever account it was I do remember the young Jewish writer giving accounts of her uncle doing hitler impressions and how funny everyone in the family thought it was pre war.

Very haunting.