DEATH TO A SALESMAN

DEATH OF A SALESMAN (1951)
dir:Laszlo Benedek

DEATH TO A SALESMAN
Trump #2, March 1957
w: Mel Brooks
a: Bill Elder

Okay, so sort of a cheat here, as the play has been adapted into film almost a dozen times, and this sketch has common ground in title only, but when else will we ever have the opportunity to use a Mel Brooks script with a Bill Elder illustration?

From before Mel Brooks was a director or worked in front of the camera, when he was just a comedy writer, most notably for Sid Caesar. For those who don't want to read all this text, here is where the sketch first appeared, with Paul Lynde, in a movie/play called New Faces of 1952.

DEATH OF A SALES MANAGER
Wild #5, August 1954
w: Stan Lee
a: Morris Weiss

The play is about Willy Loman returning home from a long business trip, complaining his children Biff, a potential star athlete, and Happy never amounted to anything. His own failure to live the American dream as he sees it and life with his family and co-workers is told in flashbacks. Here was another loose version.