What made Melvin, the youngest of the Kaminsky kids, so darn funny? Later people said—he himself said—it was Brooklyn, the Depression, being Jewish and growing up in the shadow of Hitler. But there was also something about birth order and the family genes that contributed to "the strange amalgam, the marvelous pastiche that is me."
-Patrick McGilligan, Funny Man: Mel Brooks
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