Humpty Dance

Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.

Mel Brooks

According to Wikipedia’s article about the song “The Humpty Dance ,” the song was nominated for Best Rap Video at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards and lost to “U Can’t Touch This” by MC Hammer. And, according to Events History timeline of 1990 , 34 years ago at time of this tidbit, Liechtenstein become a member of the United Nations on September 18th, 1990. I’m pretty sure the word Liechtenstein isn’t in the song “The Humpty Dance”, though it sounds like it could be.

About the author

Mel Brooks , (Kaminsky; born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 19 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy Award in 2024.