Digital producer and cohost is here and brings in all of the feedback throughout all of our programs, so on two of our shows we had maxs son and had a good time and sent him home with one marching order. Convince your father to appear on our show and we will buy your books and promote on social media and tout world war z and get mel next to us or in the studio and that is what happened and he max for two months kept to his word and gently pushing mel brooks and finally over dinner one day mel broke down and sent us an iphone video. Typical mel brooks style. Fine, ill do it. That is great and never shown it to anyone, check this out. Al jazeera, ill do it. There you go. What more do you need . Produced by mel brooks. Directed, written and produced by mel brooks and has his name over it. Our show with mel brooks has to go down as one of our favorites, he is a legend obviously and never minds being controversial and he tackles racial prejudice and other issues and done that long before it was the norm. What you are about to watch is extended of our conversation with mel that never aired on television. In the past 60 years mel brooks has done his share to shake things up on the Silver Screen from space balls and robin hood in tights and breaking barriers as a director and writer and puts a spin on historical and religious events like the french revolution and the last supper. Does everyone want soup, this may be our last supper. Its my first order. One question and i will let you go, are you altogether or is it separate checks . Go away humor is known for testing boundaries of what is politically correct to expose real bias through satire, 1974 film Blazing Saddles caught heat from studio executives for scenes and racial satire made it a cult classic and who can forget the Frontier Town of 1874. With an emmy, grammy and oscar and tony under his belt he is in a league of his own, welcome to the street, mel. Pleasure to be here. We know you dont grant a lot of interviews and we are honored to have you. We were talking in the intro about the risks you have taken in your career. And they have brought enormous success but its probably been a little bit of vulnerable territory for you. Im wondering if you were just pushing the envelope for the sake of pushing the envelope or were you really trying to break down barriers and create a place where things like race could be addressed using satire . Well, you know, humor is a great big broad sword and you could cut down a lot of bad guys and bad starts especially racial prejudice which has been a big enemy, ugly enemy of mine and i have used humor, i mean, to attack. You cant bring hitler down by getting on a soap box and trying to out or rate him. He is a great rather but if you make fun of his mustache you can get lucky. At the end of history of the world there was jews in space and now we see mr. Brooks on twitter and there are jews in cyberspace and i have two questions for you and my question for mr. Brooks has he tried writing comedy on twitter, is it hard for him to write jokes in 140 characters . Its a good question and youre right. Its impossible. You know the only way there is no way you can get lucky but its too restrictive. 140 characters is not enough, its like eating with chop sticks, it cant be done. Well, riner does it your best friend with 60,000 followers and he out teats you 501, you have some catching up to do. All right, you know, i never thought, you know, i never thought that tweeting was that important because the tweets that i have read basically have been i just had breakfast and just went to the toilet. I mean, you know. They werent that exciting. Speaking about twitter, shocked please ask mr. Brooks who he follows on twitter and mr. Brooks i will ask you shamelessly can you follow lisa and i after todays show . I will. I will. I promise you, for three or four twitters and after that i will probably drift away. [laughter] we actually had a great video comment from matthew, he is a budding comedian. My name is matt and living in new york city and my question for you is this i have been a huge fan for almost my entire life. I think i saw space balls when i was 7 or 8 and have been an enormous fan since and want to do what you did. I love your work. What is your advice for someone who is just Getting Started . Im new, im green, im naive and im, putty in your hands. Cut down on diary. Dont eat a lot of dairy. Dont eat a lot of cheese. And the second thing i have is if you can get a copy of ten from your show of shows watch it everyday for a month religiously and you will see structure, punch lines and ultimately a brush stroke of genius. Not only in the performances but from the contributions of writers like neil simon and woody allen and mel brooks and woody was not on show of shows but neil was and i was and mel token was and mike stewart and there is a lot of good writing on that. And you might learn how to construct a sketch. You know, mel, its obviously about a lot more than hard work. Youve taken some hard knocks along the way and bouncing back is tough. How do you insulate yourself from you know the bad reviews and the failures along the way . You know, you cant insulate yourself on the bad reviews. You truly suffer them. They there is no getting away with it. You get a bad review, i remember i did the producers, my first movie and there was the New York Times review on adler said this stinks. Vile and cruel were two words they used, were they not . So i mean and there is no circumventing and you cant get around it. You have to suffer it and have the guts and the where with all to do another one and take your chances once again. Lets talk about the producers for a second tugh because how in the world did you get that made . I mean we are talking about, you know, springtime for hitler is the theme of the play that they are producing. How did you do that . How did you pull that off . The name of the movie was springtime for hitler and lavine who distributed the movie said i nt get the jews to put it on the marquis. You got to get me another title. So i thought of something very simple and ironic like the producers. So, you know, the only i went everywhere before i got to levine and got to joe levine and i got to universal and somebody ahead of universal said, you know, the plot is good but if you just replaced hitler with mousallini we can get away with it, he is italian and they like him a little better. I said you dont get it, you know. We have our community has questions and here is the first from mary what actors of this generation would you like to direct, mr. Brooks . Well, you know, i would like i tell you, id like to work with people like three women, tina faye and pohler and silverman and i would love to do a movie with them. I like there is a lot of great talent out there. I would use everybody in hangover and maybe not hangover two but just like that. Here is kylie, do you have a favorite film or scene from all of your films . Oh, that is a good question. Its very, very hard, very hard to answer. Id say my favorite scene is gene wilder having a hystericai hysterical attack and you will jump on me and try to make sense out of this craziness. There is a great back story to that, mel, will you tell it, the sugar and the coffee . Oh, yeah, it was 5 00 at night and i said i want to do the crazy scene, gene and he said im out of steam, mel. Ive given everything i could today because we had a very brief shooting schedule and these actors were working eight hours, ten hours a day and it was a lot to ask. And he said im out of it. I said what gives you energy . He said i dont know. A chocolate bar. So i sent somebody out to get chocolate bars and i said with nuts . He said no, no, no, no almonds and plain and i made him eat two of them and a cup of black coffee and i said drink this. He said i dont like it, i like tea and i made him eat two chocolate bars and a big, hot cup of coffee and then i said action. And he was insane. I think he gave me too much. The ultimate hysterical scene. This might be the last question i get to ask him but i was talking to your son max about generation of comedy giants and talked about it before but i want to bring it full circle, show of show who was the writing squad, you and larry who did match and carroll and stine who did fiddler on the roof and how is that, i dont think people can connect the dots . That is a very good question. I think what we gave them was witt, intelligence, class and, you know, we got it from billy wilder and dorothy parker. We got it from a whole generation of, you know, stuff that seems silly but was brillia brilliantly corrected like duck soup like the Marx Brothers and we learned and hoped what we have put together will be absorbed and maybe brought forward by other company writers but today you dont. Mel, we have about 45 seconds left, if there was one thing you could bring back from previous generations from comedy and in part to those up and comers now, what would it be . You know, i would bring back the ritz brothers, nobody heard of them and knew who they were but made 20 movies with 20th century fox and get a chance and google it and watch the movies they are his hysterical and i said why are you so funny . He said because we make fun, the jews in small towns like there used to make fun of unfortunates. You know, hunch back, cripples and, you know, its terrible but they are funny. That is what we do. That is what we do. No one is as funny as you, mr. Brooks, thank you so much for joining us tonight. This is a pleasant i wish you were paid more but forget it. The comedy troops in 1941 discuss how they are changing stereotypes and giving a voice to an under represented community and trail blazing humor makes notes and takes them all the way to the senate floor. Could i interest you in some hand crafted dolls made in the highlands of mexico . Welcome back, so as you sat down with the native American Comedy troup the 1941s and had surprising things to say. Who knew grown men who take off their shirts could have power and intelligence and advocacy through the goofiness, 1491 are self critical about the community and stereotypes they face as native americans and the media and asking about sovereignty and on this clip and never shown this before talking about how goofy guys who are immedia comedians get to the senate floor to advocate for people and their rights. 1491 are from the woods of minnesota and the gracie plains of oklahoma, part critique and satire and plain silly and bring Indian Country to the world and poke fun after stereotypes and tackle taboo topics and how others see them and are critical of their own communities and how does perception of native americans different today and the role of comedy in social trains, here are the 1491 and bobby from the dakota tribe and he is also a writer and we have a graphic artist and from the stage tribes and last but not least dallas gold tooth of the gold tribes, almost the entire gang is here and thanks for doing the stream. Ryan you first and you are mainstream and influential and your videos viral, how are you using comedy to talk about important issues effecting native americans like tribal sovereignty . We want to use it to get you naked to watch and that is our goal. It may happen and i can take off my shirt and dance around but you are much sexier. Bobby is there and will get the buck just like that. No, but i will do it maybe. Depending on how good you guys are on the segment, i may end the segment with that without my shirt. In all seriousness you guys have reached some Real National platform, ryan in particular, you were actually giving testimony to the Senate Community on affairs and to use your video in particular talk about how we are kind of not really giving proper respect to the native American Communities and talk to us, are you using your comedy here to really be able to comment on these really important issues affecting your communities . Well, the jeronomo video, when that happened when the call sign came out and the news got out, a lot of people got mad about it and i thought it was miss directed energy and dallas said earlier the goal of that video was to take what most people are everyday in the community that do outstanding things and a lot of times they dont have the recognition that a lot of the people like jeronomo and sitting bull and crazy horse and people known on a communitywide basis and they are the heros now. And when that video got in to the senate there that was for the u. N. Declaration on the rights of people for how do we implement those laws and rights and actually push them into legislation so they actually make a fundamental impact on peoples lives. One of the things that i touched on during that testimony was some of the parts of the violence against women act that had not there were points of contention that held up the act for about two years and most of that had to do with jurisdictional issues involving the right of a tribe to arrest nontribal members or nonnatives on who commit crimes within their jurisdictional boundaries. And you know its no different than i live in oklahoma. If i go to missouri and break the law, im with the laws of missouri and shouldnt be different if anyone comes over here to our jurisdiction that we control. We should have the rights to protect ourselves, protect our women, protect our children, protect our property just as everyone else is afforded in the rest of the country. Not extra rights and straight up human rights. Bobby you guys started off with a bunch of guys making videos to make each other laugh and ryan is giving testimony in front of the senate, did you ever think this would happen . I really didnt. I had no idea. When we made our first video, we were all standing there and some ladies running shorts and we i looked right at ryan and he looked at me and he said i think this is about to blowup. Are you ready to be indian famous . I thought he was just joking and then here two million views later on that thing, its crazy. Not just indian famous, you are worldwide famous now. Im on al jazeera. They are tweeting in and excited about 1491. The issues native americans face can be Serious Business which is why humor is imperative for us and we have questions about there is a lot of controversy about native american mascots and we have a person who says question for your interview what do you think of native mascots, we have jacqueline who says will you do another video and the third question and i will throw them together here he says what is the best humorous way to push back against mascot if you are ally and not native yourself . I want to throw these together and what do you think of mascots and how can people push back on things you might find offensive in that area . I think that the mascot issue is a larger issue that we always talk about. First off its guys that help this that need money. But mostly the mascot issue represents the overall perception of what people think of native americans and how natives think of native americans and because of that its really detrimental to us trying to humanize themselves in the mainstream because there is always something to point out. If somebody says look the natives dont seem to really care that much about this issue, they dont care we are calling them this, we are not going to care when you call them Something Else and not care if you do Something Else to us. Its just a symptom of something that is really, really going on underneath, something bad underneath all of it. Dallas, you seem to be owning it. You are saying mascot for money and is humor one of the best ways to boobie trap this and move the conversation forward . I think it is. A great example is the john stewart, or the colbert report, crazy and nut jobs. I think that we play with it and have fun with it as a part of critiquing it as well. I think that you can go at it with the same old hammer but i think we decide to use a different tool and its just as effective and probably even more. Yeah and speaking about effectiveness they responded with more questions of 1491 worth asking. Spencer says what do you guys think of sovereign nation status and its a shame for the government to absorb responsibility. Do you want to take this one . No. [laughter] appreciate the honesty. What was the question again . What do you think of sovereign nation status . Sovereign nation status is essential to our communitys growth. We are sovereign people. Just i mean they put us on reservations and essentially forced the system of governance on us and they call it sovereign nations but then they need to allow those nations to makeup their own laws and enforce their own laws like ryan was saying. State laws especially. Stick around for the rest of our interview next when they share their thoughts on hollywood depictions on natives. Welcome back, we continue with the interview with native American Comedy troup, the 1941, take a listen. Do you have faith in hollywood carving out a space for native american icons or do you think social media is the future . Bring back kevin costner, bring him back, i miss kevin. Do you know what i think there is hope and folks out there doing great stuff and native americans involved in the space and a lot of hope in what we are doing and going around and circumventing the usual paths and not the average circle in doing that. And just try Something Different with Digital Media and youtube. Its a chance for a lot of people to, you know, have a total control over their voices, over their stories. I mean you think of how many years our story of native people, any Minority Community out there has been controlled by other people. Other people outside your community have dictated what is important for the world to hear. And now we have an opportunity to take that away, saying, no, we will decide what the world is going to hear, we will decide what is important to us and i think that is the power of the internet, the power of social media. And im looking forward to seeing where it goes for a native and indian countries specifically. Ryan, we have 45 seconds and i know you want to jump in, go for it. Get you naked . We will see after the show. After the show. Now you have 35 seconds. I got 35 seconds. All right. I want to say that the main thing we want to do is take up band width and take up band width on your computer and space on the internet and we hope that other young people, other professionals, writer, graphic designers and film makers to start throwing all their content online and when those knuckle headed hollywood producers want to start making stupid films they have to reconcile it against all content that actually people in the community have generated themselves. All right, that is a fantastic one. You drop the mic on a fantastic note and i want to thank the guests, 1491 and ryan red corn and dallas gold tooth. That will do it for us and we will see you online on al jazeera. Com on ajam stream and we are always here and use hash tag stream. See you next time. 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