He’s had me laughing for decades …

… Mel Brooks: The Funniest Man in Showbiz - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

What set Brooks on his life path was seeing Ethel Merman on Broadway in Anything Goes when he was 9 years old. “Way up there at the top of the second balcony,” he writes, “I figured that I was as close to heaven as I would ever get.” On the way home, he announced, “I am not going to go to work in the Garment Center like everyone else in our neighborhood…. I am going into show business and nothing will stop me!”