Mel brooks
Mazal tov to Mel Brooks: The 100-year-old man
Brooks, best known for directing irreverent films that became comedy classics, including The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and Spaceballs, was born in Brooklyn on June 28, 1926.
Jewish proprietor of Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel dies at 98
From Lorenz Hart to Mel Brooks: Two Jewish lives now available on Israeli screens
Judd Apatow grew up idolizing Mel Brooks. Now he’s telling Brooks’ story in an HBO documentary
Springtime for Trump amid coronavirus
Is such mockery of someone with a potential life-threatening illness morally acceptable?
Protecting the elderly from coronavirus is a family affair for Mel Brooks
Max Brooks’ book, "World War Z," was recently in the headlines because many noticed parallels between how Israel handles the zombie invasion in the movie version and how it is dealing with the virus.
Springtime for Taika Cohen and ‘Jojo Rabbit’
Not only is it all right to ridicule Nazis, but making fun of them can have a positive impact.
Mel Brooks's biography is detailed but pedestrian
The making of The Producers is one of the most interesting parts of Funny Man, Patrick McGilligan’s highly detailed but disappointingly pedestrian new biography of Brooks.
EPOS at 10 celebrates movies about art
Alan Yentob’s Mel Brooks: Unwrapped is a portrait of the beloved comic filmmaker (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) at 92.
No laughing matter
Jeremy Dauber takes a ‘serious’ look at the long, colorful history of Jewish humor.
Mel Brooks slams today's 'stupidly politically correct' culture
"I personally would never touch gas chambers or the death of children or Jews at the hands of the Nazis," he said. "Everything else is okay."
