Mel Brooks and The Source Family

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2013

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Jesse talks to Mel Brooks about his unparalleled career — from writing for Sid Caesar on television in the 1950s to working with Gene Wilder on The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein in the 60s and 70s. Then later, Jesse talks to the directors of a documentary that follows the transformation of a man from WWII flying ace into Father Yod - the leader of a 1970s commune in the Hollywood Hills. Plus hear some of the psychedelic music that Father Yod made with his followers: the Source Family.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Holly from Massachusetts.
0:02.0	I'm James from Salt Lake City.
0:03.6	I'm Jason R. Wallace from America's Georgia,
0:06.4	and these United States.
0:07.9	Bulls eye with Jesse Thorn is produced independently
0:10.3	and supported by listeners like you and me.
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0:18.8	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:20.1	It's sometime in the 1950s, and Mel Brooks
0:23.6	is in a Chicago hotel room.
0:25.7	He's working late into the night with his boss at the time.
0:28.9	The television star, Sid Caesar.
0:31.8	As Mel tells it, Sid's been drinking vodka
0:34.6	and smoking cigars for hours while they do punch up
0:37.7	on their script.
0:39.2	Then Mel makes a mistake.
0:42.0	He says he needs to get some air.
0:44.2	There was a window there, you know, in a hotel.
0:46.6	Probably we shot for 30 years.
0:48.6	He just yanked it open, you know, easily.
0:51.0	One grabbed the two handles.
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