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Mel Brooks
Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, comedian, film director, songwriter and playwright. With a career spanning nine decades, he is known for a variety of successful farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of the few people to win the EGOT. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a Bri…
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Born 28 June 1926 · Q104266
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2026· 19 entries
“Not many Americans have been offered this prestigious award... and for good reason.”
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“They can be anything and anywhere ... if there”
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“has to do with love more than anything else. I mean when that black guy rides into that Old Western town and even a little old lady says”
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“I was sick of looking at all those nice sensible situation comedies. They were such distortions of life... I wanted to do a crazy, unreal comic-strip kind of thing about something besides a family. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”
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“It was all knocks on Marvel at the 'Spaceballs: The New Ones' Panel at Comic-Con”
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“Spaceballs: The New One: The Teaser Poster. In theaters April 2027.”
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“Very exciting! Judd & Michael did a great job.”
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Public attention spiked: 18,545 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3× the usual 6,118, with 7 article edits. Editors noted: Rescuing orphaned refs ("The 41st Academy Awards" from rev 1362101190)
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“Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!”
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Public attention spiked: 110,041 Wikipedia readers in one day, 18× the usual 6,118, with 50 article edits. Coverage that week: “Still blazing after all these years: Mel Brooks at 100” (The Guardian).
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The Guardian: Still blazing after all these years: Mel Brooks at 100
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“comedycenter.org/mel-brooks-a...”
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“www.instagram.com/reel/DXLg-WT...”
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“Congratulations to the whole team at THE PRODUCERS in London for their FOUR Olivier Awards nominations! Best Revival of a Musical, Andy Nyman and Marc Antolin both for Best Actor in a musical, and Trevor Ashley for Best Actor in a supporting role in a musical. I’m so thrilled for all of you!”
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“Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! Premieres tonight on HBO”
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“If you're looking for a little laughter and joy amidst all the horror, our new 2-part documentary #MelBrooks: The 99 Year Old Man! premieres on HBO and HBO Max January 22nd.”
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To celebrate his centenary, it moved Blazing Saddles to first place
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To celebrate Brooks's centenary, it moved Blazing Saddles to first place, displacing Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959)
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2025· 6 entries
The Guardian: Young Frankenstein review – Mel Brooks’s Transylvanian tomfoolery will have you in stitches
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“SPACEBALLS THE TABLE READ! It’s hard to believe we’re making another Spaceballs. It’s harder to believe Mel Brooks picked us to write it. So grateful to be working with this amazing cast and crew. This is beyond my wildest dreams. It probably goes without saying, but MAY THE SCHWARTZ BE WITH YOU!”
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The Guardian: Mel Brooks turns 99: the comedy icon’s best films – ranked!
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The Guardian: Mel Brooks to reprise role in Spaceballs sequel
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The Guardian: The Producers review – zingy Mel Brooks comedy goes big and broad
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The Guardian: ‘I said there was no reason to make it a musical!’ Mel Brooks on The Producers’ West End transfer
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2024· 4 entries
The Guardian: Young Frankenstein review – Mel Brooks monster comedy is wonderfully alive as ever
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Awarded Academy Honorary Award (2024).
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The Guardian: ‘Remember who our ancestors intended you to be’: Angela Bassett and Mel Brooks awarded honorary Oscars at Governors awards
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Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick presented Brooks with an Honorary Oscar
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2023· 4 entries
The Guardian: Angela Bassett and Mel Brooks to receive honorary Oscars
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Awarded Peabody Awards (2023).
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“She had good taste in everything—except husbands.”
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That "Once you are married to Anne Bancroft, others don't seem to be appealing"
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2021· 6 entries
The Guardian: Mel Brooks on losing the loves of his life: ‘People know how good Carl Reiner was, but not how great’
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The Guardian: All About Me! by Mel Brooks review – constant corpsing
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“t tell December 7, 2021 12:20 PM ET Mel Brooks says his only regret as a comedian is the jokes he didn”
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“s documentary Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! (2026). The American Film Institute included Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein and The Producers on its AFI”
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Brooks told NPR's Terry Gross: "I love being a Jew, I love Jewish humor
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Released album “Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein (Original London Cast Recording)”.
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2018· 2 entries
Discussed his wartime experiences in the documentary GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II
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Brooks received the Polish Gold Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture
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2014· 11 entries
Published video “Hollywood Palace TV - Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner”.
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Published video “Original Mad Man STEVE FRANKFURT on Y&R and Mel Brooks”.
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Published video “Mel's Picks - March 2014”.
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Published video “The 2000 Year Old Man - 1967”.
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Published video “Blazing Saddles 40th - Part Four”.
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Published video “Blazing Saddles 40th - Part Three”.
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Published video “Blazing Saddles 40th Anniversary - Part Two”.
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Published video “Blazing Saddles 40th Anniversary”.
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Published video “Mel Brooks & Jiminy Glick”.
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Published video “Mel talks Hitchcock”.
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Brooks was honored in a handprint and footprint ceremony at TCL Chinese Theatre
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded AFI Life Achievement Award (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Brooks and Carl Reiner joined Jerry Seinfeld on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
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2010· 2 entries
Brooks credited Bancroft as "the guiding force" behind his involvement in developing The Producers and Young Frankenstein for the musical theater, saying of his first meeting with her: "From that day, until her death
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Brooks confirmed a Blazing Saddles musical was in development, saying that it could be finished within a year; however, no creative team or plan has been announced
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2009· 3 entries
Released album “The 2000 Year Old Man - The Complete History”.
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Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2009).
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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 and a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “The Producers”.
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Young Frankenstein: Original Broadway Cast Recording”.
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Released album “Young Frankenstein - The New Mel Brooks Musical”.
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2005· 2 entries
Released album “The Producers: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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Awarded Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical (2005).
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (2003).
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Music Film (2002).
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For Best Musical Show Album for the cast album of The Producers and for Best Long Form Music Video for the DVD Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
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2001· 7 entries
Awarded Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical (2001).
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Original Score for The Producers (2001).
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for The Producers (2001).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album (2001).
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Awarded Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical (2001).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Music Film (2001).
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Awarded Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics (2001).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for Mad About You (1999).
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1998· 4 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album (1998).
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Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame (1998).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for Mad About You (1998).
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“s archy and mehitabel. Brooks wrote the book of All American, with lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse. It starred Ray Bolger as a science professor at a Southern university who applies engineering principles to the football team. It was directed by Joshua Logan, who script-doctored the second act and added a gay subtext. It debuted on Broadway in 1962, where it ran for 80 performances. Brooks conceived the animated short The Critic (1963), a spoof of Norman McLaren”
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1997· 3 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for Mad About You (1997).
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Released album “The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000”.
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1998 and 1999 for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his role of Uncle Phil on Mad About You
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1996· 1 entry
Began his role as Uncle Phil on Mad About You
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1989· 1 entry
Brooks (with co-executive producer Alan Spencer) returned to television with the sitcom The Nutt House, featuring Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman
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1987· 1 entry
Brooks directed the science fiction spoof Spaceballs, starring DeLuise, Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, Joan Rivers and Brooks
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1986· 1 entry
“When it comes to gore, extreme whatever, don”
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “To Be or Not to Be: Original Dialogue and Music from the Motion Picture”.
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “Mel Brooks' History of the World Part I”.
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Brooks joked that the only genres that he had not spoofed were historical epics and Biblical spectacles
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1980· 1 entry
Siskel and Ebert named Brooks and Woody Allen "America's two funniest filmmakers"
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Saturn Award for Best Director for Young Frankenstein (1976).
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation for Young Frankenstein (1975).
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Awarded Nebula Award for Best Script for Young Frankenstein (1975).
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1973· 2 entries
Released album “2000 and Thirteen”.
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It was reported that Brooks and Reiner first performed the routine at Norman Lear's Fire Island home in the 1950s
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1972· 1 entry
Met agent David Begelman, who helped him set up a deal with Warner Bros
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1969· 2 entries
Awarded Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers (1969).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay for The Producers (1969).
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1968· 1 entry
Released album “The Producers: The Original Soundtrack Recording”.
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series (1967).
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1964· 1 entry
And they remained together for 41 years until her death in 2005
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1962· 1 entry
Released album “Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival”.
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1961· 4 entries
Released album “2000 and One Years with Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks”.
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After his return to New York, he found that Baum had begun suing him for legal separation
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And 1962, a revival in 1973, a 1975 animated TV special and a reunion album in 1998
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And were married on August 5, 1964, at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau
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1960· 2 entries
Released album “2000 Years With…”.
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To escape his situation, Brooks moved in with a friend, in Los Angeles
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1959· 1 entry
And called Brooks "the most original comic improvisor I had ever seen"
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1954· 1 entry
When Imogene Coca left to host her own show
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1952· 1 entry
Brooks wrote for the revue New Faces of 1952
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1950· 1 entry
Caesar created the variety show Your Show of Shows and hired Brooks as a writer along with Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, Danny Simon and head writer Mel Tolkin
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1949· 1 entry
Caesar hired Brooks to write jokes for the DuMont/NBC series The Admiral Broadway Revue, paying him, off-the-books, $50 a week
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1944· 1 entry
Brooks was drafted into the US Army
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1926· 3 entries
Born 1926-06-28.
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At 515 Powell Street in Brownsville, Brooklyn to Katie (née Brookman) and Max Kaminsky
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“I stole the name from Ulysses. I don”
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