1984: Film director Mel Brooks responds to accusations of 'bad taste'
Legendary comic Mel Brooks confessed to Terry Wogan in 1984 that it was "justified" that he was known for his "exquisitely bad taste".
Brooks, who was responsible for such boundary-pushing comedies as Blazing Saddles, The Producers and Young Frankenstein, then mischievously went on to take control of the interview, giving Wogan a masterclass on how he should be directing the camera shots.
Asked by Wogan where his humour springs from, Brooks said it was "hard to coalesce the vapour of humour" but that he thought people of Irish and Jewish descent had the same sense of humour because "they feel deprived and because of their deprivation they overcompensate by being extremely witty".
Clip taken from Wogan, originally broadcast 18 February 1984.