Posts Tagged ‘Mel Brooks’


In 1968, Mel Brooks won an Academy Award for best original screenplay for what might be the funniest comedy ever made, The Producers. Its most stunning moments came in the opening number of the faux-Broadway musical “Springtime for Hitler”; unfortunately, if you change a very few of the words in its lyrics the song is all too relevant today. (Check out the first stanza and substitute “USA” for the first word, and you’ll see what I mean.)

The lyrics from the spoken word / tap dance interlude seem even more relevant:

Don’t be stupid
Be a smarty
Come and join
The Grand Old Party

(as I’m sure many of Trump’s above-pictured “fine people” have done)