Playboy Interview: Mel Brooks

October, 1966

Playboy Interview: Mel BrooksOur interviewer this month is satirist Larry siegel. A regular contributor to Playboy for the past eight years, he has written prolifically for "That Was the Week That Was" and other TV shows, and is co-author of the smash hit revue "The Mad Show." He is also a congenital liar. For whatever it's worth, he writes of his subject:"Our paths first crossed many years ago on the Lower East Side of New York. I ran into him in an apartment on Hester...