Mel Brooks has been amusing people for almost a century. He reckons the laughs started almost as soon as he could burble. “I ...

Miramax shelved Brooks’s version, and two years later, released Les Visiteurs to American art-house theaters with subtitles instead of Brooks’s track. Still, he got paid $500,000 for his efforts.

Everybody thinks Mel Brooks is funny. Not everybody thinks Mel Brooks is a good guy to work with — or be with. That's the gist of "Funny Man," a new Brooks biography by Patrick McGilligan. McGilligan, ...

Mel Brooks’ memoir begins with a promise. In a preface, the 95-year-old actor-writer-director vows to make an intimate confession to his reader — one not to be shared with anyone.

Mel Brooks Biography Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and songwriter.

How Old Is Mel Brooks Now? Mel is currently 98 years old and doing well! The EGOT winner has kept most of the details about his health away from the public eye, but he’s actively landed roles ...

In 1963, Mel Brooks and director/animator Ernest Pintoff came up with the animated short film The Critic, a satire of arty, esoteric cinema. Brooks supplied running commentary as the baffled ...

He’s not the 2,000-year-old man yet.But Mel Brooks turns 93 in June. And like the kvetching character he created with old pal Carl Reiner in 1961, he’s showing no signs of slowing down.

Mel Brooks By Patrick McGilligan There’s a revealing moment early in “Funny Man,” Patrick McGilligan ’s comprehensive biography of Mel Brooks, the relentless, redoubtable comedian and ...

Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles, released half a century ago, is still widely considered one of the funniest movies of all The ...

Everybody thinks Mel Brooks is funny. Not everybody thinks Mel Brooks is a good guy to work with — or be with. That's the gist of "Funny Man," a new Brooks biography by Patrick McGilligan.