Doc Rivers

You're one for one there.

Dan, the line is where we feel alive, though.

I watched the Mel Brooks documentary of my dad yesterday.

Judd Apatow makes good documentaries.

I assume that that's excellent.

It's excellent.

It's excellent because Mel Brooks has an uncommon amount of archival footage.

Throughout history, going back to him working with Sid Caesar.

And it reminded me a lot of, for different reasons, but in that way, of the Motown documentary.

I don't know if you ever saw that one, Hitsville.

It's incredible.

It's on Paramount Plus, I think.

But what made it so great was it had archival footage of everything, including the Jackson 5 documentary.

audition they had that in in in the hitsville documentary but the mel brooks one was was incredible and they talk a lot about

him walking the line uh in terms of comedy in terms of being kind of subversive particularly with blazing saddles they you know they asked whether it could be made today it's like i don't even think it could be made back then it's just because mel brooks was a genius and mel brooks had a writer's room that had obviously richard pryor in there and richard pryor was the one that was pushing for some of the language because he said mel people don't know and you need to you have the opportunity to let

mainstream America know, hey, yeah, people are saying the N-word left and right.

Like, these kind of racist things that are being said in the movie for fun and for laughs are also kind of a reflection of what society is.

And so, Dan, I think you'd really enjoy it.

It's an incredible two-part documentary, and I had a lot of fun, and my dad was a huge Mel Brooks fan.

Sid Caesar told him, I got you a job.