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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 writing staff of the show of shows, "the sid cedar show." >> you talk about it as a training ground. is that how you see it? >> comedy university, it rea...

Name a cartoon, they trade in it. name a light night talk show, they trade in it. why? because it's common reference. like we all know the thing they're parodying. >> parody is very much taking something that we recognize, a song that everybody knows, a movie that everybody knows. it's a very grand tradition of taking known forms and skewing them just enough to make a comment about them. >> in your show of shows in the 1950s, they were parody dg things that people knew like the famous kissing scene in "from here to eternity." everybody in america had seen that movie. it was something that ever...