Mel brooks
Judd Apatow grew up idolizing Mel Brooks. Now he’s telling Brooks’ story in an HBO documentary
Mel Brooks: The 99-Year-Old Man!, a two-part HBO documentary debuting this week, is a career-spanning portrait of one of American comedy’s most influential figures.
This week in Jewish history: Happy birthday to Mel Brooks, Franz Kafka
Combing the desert: 'Spaceballs' and the Hamas tunnel quagmire - analysis
Irwin Gerson’s ‘Generation Making It’ - opinion
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."
