By the time I was five I knew I was that one.' He still is. So, for every ten Jews beating their breast, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters.
'Look at Jewish history: Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. 'Humor is just another defense against the universe,' Mel Brooks once said. He simply will not take himself seriously, and he has kept the world laughing for decades. (Writer, director, composer, actor and producer born Jin Brooklyn, New York)
