Nick Kroll tells us about where he is in his climb toward adulthood, aligning his priorities, ’Big Mouth,’ and his favorite Mel Brooks films ...

I had just finished watching his latest stand-up act, “Mel Brooks Live at the Geffen,” a 60-minute romp through his life and work filmed in Westwood last April that will air on HBO Jan. 31.

“Here I am. I’m Melvin Brooks. I’ve come to stop the show.” So begins “Mel Brooks Live at the Geffen,” a new one-man HBO comedy special from the madcap mind behind classic films such ...

Born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926, Brooks began his career as a stand-up before he segued to writing, and found success with TV’s “Your Show of Shows” and “Get Smart,” which he co ...

Mel Brooks is a former stand-up comic who, together with Woody Allen and Bill Cosby, set the stage in the 1960s for the entire postburlesque, TV generation of comedians. Allen was personal and ...

After the war, and more conventional stand-up routines, Brooks joined the legendary writing team on Sid Caesar's early TV shows. He and comedian Carl Reiner concocted brooks' classic character ...

“Mel Brooks will do anything for a laugh,” Roger Ebert once wrote. “Anything. He has no shame.” This was not an attack. It was praise. Ebert described seeing his directorial debut, The ...

Here we look back at Mel Brooks movies and shows and include behind-the-scenes facts from Brooks’ tell-all 2022 memoir, All About Me: My Remarkable Life in Show Business. 1. Get Smart (1965) ...