His first movie was actually about depression-era European Jews trying to make or sell furniture–it’s been a while… They guy’s got chops, is what I’m saying.

It reminds me a little bit of Lewis Black. He spent a year writing a screenplay and got like a hundred bucks for it; realizing he made more doing stand up in one night, he abandoned script writing and did comedy instead.

Please don’t die, Mel. We need you and your comedy and Spaceballs.

Proof, that laughter truly is the best medicine