According to Mel Brooks, he’s always been funny. He remembers ribbing camp counselors when he was six years old, earning himself a slap, but more importantly, earning chuckles from fellow campers. He also recalls regularly reducing his best friend to fits of hysterics by singing “Puttin’ on the Ritz” as Boris Karloff and during the summers raking in laughs doing impressions for guests at the Borscht Belt resorts.
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