Mel Brooks
KNOWN FOR
The Producers (Broadway), Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein (Film), Get Smart (TV)
AMERICAN MASTERS FILM
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise (May 2013)Directed by Robert Trachtenberg
Written Features
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mel Brooks’ comedy is a resistance against the mundane
Written as part of the American Masters Digital Archive project, this essay draws on original...
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Spaceballs: The Art of the Trope (or, making the cliché absurd)
What came first: the Mel Brooks movie or the cliché?The classic Hollywood Sci-Fi spaceship always...
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Young Frankenstein: The Art of the Homage
For Mel Brooks the spoofing is in the details.The classic Hollywood Horror film is always...
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Blazing Saddles: The Art of the Stereotype
Mel Brooks never met a stereotype he couldn’t upend.The classic Hollywood cowboy is always white....
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mel Brooks Biographical Timeline
The life and times of Mel Brooks: The 2000 Year Old Man.
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mel Brooks Biography
Mel Brooks, director, producer, writer and actor, is in an elite group as one of...
Video Features
Tracey Ullman on Mel Brooks' intrinsically American comedy
Tracey Ullman discusses the joys of working with Mel Brooks.
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Bernadette Peters Talks about Mel Brooks
Bernadette Peters talks about meeting Mel Brooks.
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
American Master Mel Brooks on Friend and Mentor Sid Caesar
Mel Brooks talks about Caesar’s genius for comedy in this film excerpt.
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mel Brooks: The Difference Between Comedy & Tragedy Is...
The logic here is, as long as it isn't happening to Mel Brooks, it's funny.
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mel Brooks: Mel Brooks' Debut
Mel Brooks ad-libbed his first stage appearance. The crowd loved it. The director did not.
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mel Brooks: Do You Want To Know How 'The Critic' Came About?
Mel Brooks remembers his Oscar winning short, "The Critic".
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mel Brooks: The Insane & The Bizarre
Mel Brooks is here to find the insane and the bizarre in the commonplace.
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mel Brooks: Melon Balls Mean Money
Mel Brooks remembers growing up poor and exotic fruit cocktails.
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mel Brooks: Walking out on Hitler
Not everybody gets Mel Brooks. Don't worry, he'll take it personally.
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Carl Reiner’s Buttons
The literal buttons on Carl Reiner's jacket.
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Premieres May 20, 2013 on PBS (check local listings)
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mel Brooks: Rhinestones, Not Diamonds
Mel Brooks remembers his hard working mother.
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mel Brooks: The 2000 Year Old Man Revisited
Carl Reiner remembers how the 2000 Year Old Man all got started.
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Filmmaker Interview: Robert Trachtenberg, ‘Mel Brooks: Make A Noise’ writer, director, producer and editor
Writer, director, producer and editor Robert Trachtenberg talks Mel Brooks: Make A Noise with AMERICAN...
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