Mel Brooks: ‘Hitler was bad to every Jew in the world, but he was good to me’

Mel Brooks has been amusing people for almost a century. He reckons the laughs started almost as soon as he could burble. “I think I was entertaining even as a little baby. I knew I was funny, because I’d see these faces staring down at the crib and bursting into laughter. I must have been funny-looking, and that’s good for comedy, a funny face.” H...