ACH (1508) Mischa Popoff – How Mel Brooks Is To Comedy What Albert Einstein Was To Physics
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In today’s show originally broadcast on May 5 2021, Andy is joined by Mischa Popoff, for a show entitled, “How Mel Brooks Is To Comedy What Albert Einstein Was To Physics.”
We discussed: the background to Mel Brooks 1981 movie “History Of The World – Part 1”; the 8 minute sketch in the movie entitled “The Spanish Inquisition” that we played extracts of during the show; how the Spanish Inquisition and the Black Plague became intertwined; the Nuremburg Trials; the background of the Grand Inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada; ; and many other topics.
