Who is Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a creator of broad farces and parodies widely considered to be among the best film comedies ever made. He began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows (1950–1954) alongside Woody Allen, Neil Simon and Larry Gelbart. With Carl Reiner, he created the comic character The 2000 Year Old Man. He wrote, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series Get Smart (1965–1970).

In middle age, Brooks became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s, with many of his films being among the top 10 moneymakers of the year they were released. His best-known films include The Producers ...
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Mel Brooks Poems

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Mel Brooks Quotes

• I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
• Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
• If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
• Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
• Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

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Comments about Mel Brooks

• Yeoldegeeene: at least it's mildly made up by the fact it was distributed / funded by mel brooks (it doesn't but it's a good little vignette aside)
• Funkyparadise: on diva funk : mel brooks - to be or not to be
• Jimrosenz: moses ten commandments – mel brooks
• Sirbiggsalot: they finnaly releasing the mac miller madlib project....with that and mel brooks hotw the series coming out..23 bout to be a good year
• Roskolawrence: every mel brooks movie you can enjoy

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