Gene Wilder
đ€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I think I must have innately grown up with, you know, my mother and father from Vaudeville and stuff and lots of jokes around the house.
But I had been working on Sonny and Cher Show as a dancer and also in these horrible comedy sketches.
And I sort of had learned comic timing then.
Also, I was an incredible fan of Mel Brooks, the 2,000-year-old man.
I had listened to those records hundreds of times before.
as a kid and memorized them and did them over and over again.
So I sort of knew his rhythm.
But he is one of God's gifts to this planet.
Mel Brooks is just the funniest man in the world.
What did he call you, a shiksa goddess?
Shiksa goddess, my long-waisted shiksa goddess.
And then he called Peter Boyle and I, come here, treif.
I don't know what it means exactly.
And then at one pointâ Not kosher.
I said, well, Mel, you're so wonderful.
I wish I was Jewish.
You are Jewish by injection.