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June 2. 8, 1. 92. Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U. S. Medium. Stand- up, film, television, theatre. Alma mater. Brooklyn College. Years active. 19. Genres. Observational comedy, farce, black comedy, musical comedy, sketch comedy, surreal humor, satire. Subject(s)Jewish culture, American politics, current events, pop culture, self- deprecation, human behavior.

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Rank. Corporal. Unit. Engineer Combat Battalion, 7. Infantry Division[1]Battles/wars. Battle of the Bulge[1]Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky[2]; June 2.

American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows. He became well known as part of the comedy duo with Carl Reiner in the comedy skit The 2. Year Old Man. He also created, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series Get Smart, which ran from 1. In middle age, Brooks became one of the most successful film directors of the 1.

His best- known films include The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World, Part I, Spaceballs and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.[3] A musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers, ran on Broadway, from 2. In 2. 00. 1, having previously won an Emmy, a Grammy and an Oscar, he joined a small list of EGOT winners with his Tony Award for The Producers. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2. Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2. AFI Life Achievement Award in June 2. British Film Institute Fellowship in March 2. National Medal of Arts in September 2.

BAFTA Fellowship in February 2. Three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the top 1. Blazing Saddles at number 6, The Producers at number 1. Young Frankenstein at number 1.

Brooks was married to Oscar and Tony- winning actress, Anne Bancroft, from 1. Early life and education[edit]Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 2. Brooklyn, New York City, to Max and Kate (née Brookman) Kaminsky,[5][6] and grew up in Williamsburg. His father's family were German Jewsfrom Danzig (present- day Gdańsk, Poland); his mother's family were Jews from Kiev, in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire (present- day Ukraine).[7][8] He had three older brothers: Irving, Lenny, and Bernie.[9] Brooks' father died of kidney disease at 3. Brooks was 2 years old.[1.

He has said of his father's death, "There's an outrage there. I may be angry at God, or at the world, for that. And I'm sure a lot of my comedy is based on anger and hostility. Growing up in Williamsburg, I learned to clothe it in comedy to spare myself problems—like a punch in the face."[9][1. Watch Pari E Dispari Online. Brooks was a small, sickly boy who often was bullied and teased by his classmates.[1. He grew up in tenement housing.

At age 9, Brooks went to a Broadway show with his uncle Joe—a taxi driver who would drive the Broadway doormen back to Brooklyn for free and was given the tickets in gratitude—and saw Anything Goes with William Gaxton, Ethel Merman and Victor Moore at the Alvin Theater. After the show, he told his uncle that he was not going to work in the Garment District like everyone else but was absolutely going into show business.[1. He was taught by Buddy Rich (who had also grown up in Williamsburg) how to play the drums and started earning money at it when he was 1. After attending Abraham Lincoln High School for a year, Brooks graduated from Eastern District High School[1.

Brooklyn College as a psychology major before being drafted into the army.[1. He attended the Army Specialized Training Program[1. Virginia Military Institute[1. Watch About A Boy Torent Free more.

VMI cadet), and served in the United States Army as a corporal in the 1. Engineer Combat Battalion, 7.

Infantry Division, defusing land mines during World War II.[1. Early career and Your Show of Shows[edit]After the war, Brooks started working in various Borscht Belt resorts and nightclubs in the Catskill Mountains as a drummer and pianist. Around this time, he changed his professional name to "Mel Brooks"[1.

Brookman) after being confused with the Borscht Belt trumpet player Max Kaminsky.[1. After a regular comic at one of the nightclubs was too sick to perform one night, Brooks started working as a stand- up comic, telling jokes and doing movie- star impressions. He also began acting in summer stock in Red Bank, New Jersey, and did some radio work.[1. He eventually worked his way up to the comically aggressive job of Tummler (master entertainer) at Grossinger's, one of the Borscht Belt's most famous resorts.[1. Brooks found more rewarding work behind the scenes, becoming a comedy writer for television. In 1. 94. 9 his friend Sid Caesar hired Brooks to write jokes for the NBC series The Admiral Broadway Revue, paying him $5. In 1. 95. 0 Caesar created the revolutionary variety comedy series Your Show of Shows and hired Brooks as a writer along with Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, Danny Simon, and head writer Mel Tolkin.[1.

The show was an immediate hit and has been influential to all variety and sketch- comedy TV shows since. Reiner, as creator of The Dick Van Dyke Show, based Morey Amsterdam's character Buddy Sorell on Brooks. Likewise, the 1. 98. My Favorite Year is loosely based on Brooks's experiences as a writer on the show and an encounter with aging Hollywood actor Errol Flynn.

Neil Simon's 1. 99. Laughter on the 2. Floor is also loosely based on the production of the show, and the character Ira Stone is based on Brooks. Your Show of Shows ended in 1. Imogene Coca left to host her own show. Caesar then created Caesar's Hour with most of the same cast and writers (including Brooks and adding Larry Gelbart).

Caesar's Hour ran from 1. The 2. 00. 0 Year Old Man and Get Smart[edit]Brooks and co- writer Reiner had become fast friends and began to casually improvise comedy routines when they were not working. Reiner would play the straight man interviewer who would set Brooks up as anything from a Tibetan monk to an astronaut. As Reiner explained, "In the evening, we'd go to a party and I'd pick a character for him to play. I never told him what it was going to be."[1. On one of these occasions, Reiner's suggestion was a 2.

Jesus Christ (who "came in the store but never bought anything"), had been married several hundred times, and had "over forty- two thousand children, and not one comes to visit me." At first Brooks and Reiner would only perform the routine for friends, but by the late 1. New York City. Kenneth Tynan saw the comedy duo perform at a party in 1. Brooks "was the most original comic improvisor I had ever seen."[1.

In 1. 96. 0, Brooks moved from New York to Hollywood. He and Reiner began performing the "2. Year Old Man" act on the Steve Allen Show. Their performances led to the release of the comedy album 2.

Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks that sold over a million copies in 1. They eventually expanded their routine with two more albums in 1. TV special, and a reunion album in 1. At one point, when Brooks had financial and career struggles, the record sales from the 2.

Year Old Man were his chief source of income.[2. The New Guy Full Movie In English. Brooks adapted the 2. Year Old Man character to create the 2. Year Old Brewmaster for Ballantine Beer in the 1. Interviewed by Dick Cavett in a series of ads, the Brewmaster (in a German accent, as opposed to the 2. Year Old Man's Yiddish accent) said he was inside the original Trojan horse and "could've used a six- pack of fresh air.

In 1. 96. 2, Brooks wrote the Broadway musical All American. Brooks wrote the play with lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse.

The show starred Ray Bolger as a southern science professor at a large university who uses the principles of engineering on the college's football team and the team begins to win games.