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Mel Brooks's Biography

Melvin "Mel" Kaminsky (born June 28, 1926), better known by his stage name Mel Brooks, is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks is a member of the short list of entertainers with the distinction of having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony award. Three of his films (Blazing Saddles, The Producers and Young Frankenstein) ranked in the Top 20 on the American Film Institute's list of the Top 100 comedy films of all-time.

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  • Mel Brooks' '2000 Year Old Man' is remastered.

    Fresno : TX : USA | about 17 hours ago

    They're not asking questions about the 83-year-old director's classic comedy movies such as "Blazing Saddles," "The Producers" and "Young Frankenstein." What's caught their attention is a comedy ...

  • 'Young Frankenstein' in Chicago: Puttin' on the low comedy

    Chicago : IL : USA | 17 days ago

    30-$95 at 800-775-2000 and www.broadwayinchicago.com . Roger Bart and Shuler Hensley are Dr. Frederick Frankenstein and The Monster. Cory English is Igor, Beth Curry is Elizabeth, Joanna Glushak is ...

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  • News Source: San Francisco Chronicle | about 17 hours ago
    The 2,000 Year Old Man" is one of those acts that have influenced a whole generation of comedians, whether they know it or not...The style might have been rooted in the Catskills, but the targets were contemporary, and so was the giddy improvisation.
  • News Source: The Fresno Bee | about 17 hours ago
    They're not asking questions about the 83-year-old director's classic comedy movies such as "Blazing Saddles," "The Producers" and "Young Frankenstein." What's caught their attention is a comedy routine Brooks and Carl Reiner have performed for 50
  • News Source: Daily Mail | 2 days ago
    Easing his pain-racked body on to the bed in his luxurious apartment overlooking the Manhattan skyline, a lonely old man placed a silver, snub-nose revolver to his head and pulled the trigger. No one knew that Evan Chandler had brought his life to

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  • Blog Source: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com | 2 days ago
    In this week's Critics' Picks, A. O. Scott discusses Mel Brooks's controversial 1974 spoof “Blazing Saddles,” which looks at what happens when a black man (played by Cleavon Little) becomes the sheriff of a small town. ...
  • Blog Source: jalopnik.com | 2 days ago
    One of our favorite comedy bits, and one that ironically rarely seems to age, is the Mel Brooks-Carl Reiner "2000-year old man" shtick. Essentially, it's an interviewer talking to the oldest man alive played by Mel Brooks. ...
  • Blog Source: www.horrorsociety.com | 2 days ago
    As for Young Frankenstein, The Musical, itself, while it is definitely not the intricate comedy classic that Mel Brooks' 1974 film is, it does offer the same plot and true joy of a different sort. The jokes do rely heavily on obnoxious ...

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