The group worked together in a chaotic manner: ideas were thrown back and forth, developed, thrown out, put back, and completely rewritten. In such a situation it would be impossible to define precisely what each writer contributed, but there is some agreement that Brooks specialized in the various interview routines used in the show. (He and Carl Reiner later developed the comic interview form for a series of records in which Brooks played a 2000-year-old man.) Brooks also undoubtedly contributed to the brilliant movie parodies on the program, and, like other writers on the show who turned to screenwriting, he has written a number of movie parodies for the screen. Indeed, the parody has become the dominant form for Brooks's films to date.
While writing for television, Brooks developed some sketches with Ronny Graham for the Broadway revue New Faces of 1952. The same year he married Florence Baum, a dancer. The marriage ended in divorce in 1959, and in August 1964 Brooks married Anna Maria Italiano (actress Anne Bancroft). New Faces of 1952 was so successful that it was filmed as New Faces in 1954, and, although Brooks was not directly involved with the film, he was given his first screen credit as a writer.
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