Mel Brooks features in two Joseph Heller (of Catch-22 fame) books: No laughing matter and From Coney Island to here. It is amazing to read about how Mario Puzo

Mel Brooks features in two Joseph Heller (of Catch-22 fame) books: No laughing matter and From Coney Island to here. It is amazing to read about how Mario Puzo (of The Godfather), Mel Brooks, Joseph Heller, Speed Vogel spent their evenings together, playing cards, eating dinner, watching TV and just ‘shooting some shit’ as friend do. The passages in the book reminded me of impressionist painters gathered in a Parisian cafe talking about where to get cheap turpentine (as depicted in the book ‘Lust for life’). Worth a read! There is also an article where two old friends (Brooks and Heller) meet again:https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1979/03/11/mel-brooks-meets-joseph-heller/1f2e9a54-724f-4bf7-b000-460d1d778d18/?utm_term=.e18d582009f7 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1... Also, in one of the brilliant episodes of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, he pays a visit to Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner (with Chinese Take-out food) — I highly recommend watching that to get a glimpse of sharp incisive wit in full action at age 90! Edit: this link is better http://articles.latimes.com/1998/feb/27/news/ls-23428 http://articles.latimes.com/1998/feb/27/news/ls-23428