It's really good—he's led quite an interesting life, & of course he's a great storyteller.

To be fair, if every artist who acted awfully was treated like he deserved, we'd have far fewer artists to discuss here.

Yeah, I caught that too—in fact, maybe he mentioned hanging with Moon more than once during recent intros? And I also noticed, like anyone else with ears, that they were sparking when she was his guest. Anyways, on another recent podcast he suggested he was in a relationship, so I already assumed it was with her. …

You do understand that this would mean living in Kaiser, Missouri, though, right?

YES, this—with so much unresolved!
Now that he's locked into Star Wars, I might do the same if JJ Abrams dies.

Just added that, myself.

I cried a little when MCA died. Not sure I can think of anyone now who might have that effect. There are plenty who I'll miss, & who'll bum me out, but I'm not sure I'd actually cry. It'd have to be someone younger like that, someone gone too soon, as well as someone I feel more of a connection to, or at least an…

For he has neither wit, nor worth, nor words,
action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech
to stir men's blood.

Another story Brooks tells Conan in the clip above, though he mentions dangling over Michigan Ave., so I assume it's also a Chicago story.

That's the story Mel Brooks tells Conan in the clip above.

Fun Fact: Early pagans thought early Christians actually WERE cannibals, misunderstanding the Eucharist. (To be fair, early Christians could be pretty insular, which didn't help.)

Oh, wait—he does mention that "Secretly serving a human is a relatively common tactic for revenge, from the Greeks and Shakespeare….", so I guess there's your Atreus right there, if obliquely. Thyestes had slept with Atreus' wife Aerope, hence the revenge. Tantalus, though, was just trying to prove he was smarter…

I was thinking the same thing about not mentioning Tantalus killing his own son Pelops & serving him to the gods, or Atreus killing his brother Thyestes' sons & serving them to him, but then I noted that this piece focuses on using cannibalism for humor and/or satire, rather than tragedy or horror.

SAY TEN HAIL MARYS, TAKE COMMUNION AND LISTEN TO SLAYER, BITCH.

Only nine of these? Seems like there oughta be way more, doesn't it?

Also, his name is Peter. O'Toole.

He'd almost have to be. If he were vile, he couldn't play vile in a way people would respond positively to. My mom used to say that about Carroll O'Connor—only a fundamentally nice guy could play Archie Bunker without making us turn of the TV in disgust.

Did you?

There's a fart joke in Plautus' Aulularia, & in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis, the Emperor Claudius' last words are "Vae me, puto concacavi me!" (roughly, "Oh no—I think I shat myself!"), whereupon Claudius is launched heavenward by the force of his own flatulence. Yes, the fart joke is a fine old tradition.

Please never use the verb "suck" & the term "scatology" in the same sentence ever again.