One night, Reiner happened to catch a news show entitled We The People Speak , a weekly program that dramatized current events with a team of actors and was hosted by Dan Seymour. Reiner thought this premise would make for a great skit on Your Show of Shows , but Caesar vetoed the idea. Nevertheless, some good still came of it. A twisted tale about a dead poet who has been reanimated as a cockroach, the musical flopped and only ran for 59 performances—although an animated movie version came out 14 years later which you can watch part of above.
Though it garnered mixed reviews, it was modestly more successful and even earned two Tony nominations. By comparison, The Producers won 12 Tonys, setting a record that has yet to be broken though Hamilton came close with its 11 wins. By the late s, Brooks had established himself as one of the top comedy directors in Hollywood, with genre parodies as his bread and butter.
After lampooning westerns in Blazing Saddles , horror movies in Young Frankenstein , and Buster Keaton -esque cinema in Silent Movie , he chose the great Alfred Hitchcock as his next target. Her husband wanted to produce the picture, but knew that if his name showed up on the promotional materials, people would assume it was some kind of zany farce.
We watch movies and comment on the world every night. And his neck is bent a little, so he looks down all the time," Brooks told GQ in May about Reiner. Ask me about floors! I love him. Brooks is one of only a handful of people to have won Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards.
He also received a Emmy for his variety show writing and, decades later, won three additional statues over three consecutive years for his role as Uncle Phil on the sitcom Mad About You. The new millennium has seen Brooks continue to enjoy success with the Broadway musical version of The Producers , which earned a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards and ran for six years, inspiring a film as well.
He was also behind the musical version of Young Frankenstein. Additional projects for Brooks include voicing the vampire Vlad in Hotel Transylvania 2 as well as being an interviewee in The Last Laugh, a documentary that looks at the ethical implications of using humor in connection to the Holocaust. As a writer, director, actor and musician, he pioneered the art of musical comedy. Actors and Comedians. Business Icons. Medal of Honor Recipients. Medal of Freedom Recipients. Musicians and Singers.
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