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  1. Dec 7, 2021 · Mel Brooks (shown here in 1984) calls comedy his "delicious refuge" from the world: "I hide in humor and comedy. I love it." Larry Ellis/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption

  2. Mar 11, 2023 · Mel Brooks is a sophisticated guy. He collected fancy French wines and did a tasting on Johnny Carson’s show. He drops references to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls.” He was married for 40 ...

  3. Mel Brooks Movies Ranked. Blazing Saddles celebrates its 50th anniversary! Mel Brooks career as a director started in the late 1960s, after he and Carl Reiner worked up the live comedy circuit with their famous and malleable 2000-year-old man routine. Brooks directorial debut was as audacious as it gets: a musical comedy about Adolf Hitler.

  4. Nov 23, 2022 · Mel Brooks says his only regret as a comedian is the jokes he didn't tell Brooks wrote countless edgy jokes over the years, but he doesn't regret any of them. He calls comedy his "delicious refuge ...

  5. www.imdb.com › name › nm0000316Mel Brooks - IMDb

    Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. He served in WWII, and afterwards got a job playing the drums at nightclubs in the Catskills. Brooks eventually started a comedy act and also worked in radio and as Master Entertainer at Grossinger's Resort before going to television.

  6. Jun 28, 2023 · As Mel Brooks turns 97 on Wednesday, the Hollywood legend tells PEOPLE that 'it is so nice to be recognized by my peers in The Academy' with an honorary Oscar more than half a century after he ...

  7. www.csfd.cz › tvurce › 366-mel-brooksMel Brooks | ČSFD.cz

    Biografie (1) Mel Brooks se narodil 28. června 1926 v Brooklynu (rodným jménem Melvin Kaminsky) jako nejmladší ze čtyř synů soudního úředníka židovsko-polského původu a textilní dělnice. Od dětství vynikal ve hře na bicí nástroje a klavír.