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The documentary reaches behind her composed façade to the insecurities that plagued her and seemed to make her especially comfortable collaborating with giants of the Jewish comedy world.
Josh Grisetti, professor of theatre and dance at Cal State Fullerton, plays a comedy writer in the Amazon Prime series, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel."
>> yes, it's adolf hitler in a home movie. >> looks like mel brooks. >> in terms of parody and satire, there really is mel brooks and then there's everybody else. when i was a kid, vhs tapes were invented so we had "the godfather" and then we had every mel brooks movie and he was the funniest. >> i would like to get back to your television days because, i mean, you were in television for something like 20 years writing with sid caesar. >> it was very good to be part of "the sid caesar show". >> you talk about it as a training ground. is that how you see it? >> comedy university, it really was....
Home movie. >> looks like mel brooks. >> in terms of parody and satire, there really is mel brooks and then there's everybody else. when i was a kid, vhs tapes were invented so we had "the mel broo moviend he was the funniest. >> i would like to get back to your televion days because, i mean, you were in television for something like 20 years writing with sid caesar. >> it was very good to be part of "the sid caesar show". >> you talk about it as a training ground. is that how you see it? >> comedy university, it really was. >> mel brooks was one of the highest paid comedy writers in the histo...
It's adolf hitler in a home movie. [ laughter ] >> something like mel brooks. >> in terms of parody and satire, there's mel brooks. and then, there's everybody else. >> vhs was invented. we had "the godfather" and every mel brooks' movie. >> i want to go back to your television days. you were in television for 20 years. >> it was very good to be a writer for the show of shows, the sid caesar show. >> you look at it as a training ground for your work. >> comedy university, it was. >> mel brooks was a writer on the show of shows. by the time of "the producers" he was one of the most acclaimed pe...