An interactive presentation on Hollywood Movies and The Jewish Experience.

IT'S GOOD TO BE MEL BROOKS

 As a comic, writer, actor and director, Mel Brooks embodies the essence of Jewish comedy. His beginnings as a Borscht Belt comic in the Forties, a writer on television’s seminal Your Show of Shows in the Fifties and the co-creator of TV’s Get Smart and improvisational 2000 Year Old Man recordings in the Sixties served as the ultimate warm-up for a motion picture career that includes such landmark films as The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein and others that he wrote, directed and starred in. It didn’t come as a surprise that he later launched a Tony-winning Broadway career at the age of 76. As Mel has said, “It’s good to be the king!”—and it’s even better to celebrate King Mel's life and career.