Gene Wilder
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It also sounds like this is a classic.
He just said, when you lift her off the wagon like that, look at the knockers and say, what knockers?
Well, I thought it was very funny at the time.
But that wasn't written.
That was just improvised.
It wasn't improvised.
He just said, say what, knockers.
Now, I'm thinking you and Mel Brooks, you're both Jewish, but you're from very different parts of the United States and probably had different experiences growing up because he's very East Coast, very New York, very Borscht Belt.
And you grew up, was it Milwaukee?
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Yeah, so, I mean, didn't have the Borscht Belt.
Probably didn't know vaudeville as well as he did.
No, and don't say as well.
I didn't know it at all.
I'd read about a few things, but that's all.