Mel Brooks: The 100 Year Old Man

July 24–September 10

This year, legendary comedian Mel Brooks — recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013 — turns a whopping 100 years old, and we are celebrating with a selection of his uproarious satires and spoofs. Brooks’ influential career has spanned more than 70 years and multiple mediums. He has written for television, including for Sid Caesar on YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS and CAESAR’S HOUR — where his co-writers included Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, Neil Simon and Woody Allen — and on GET SMART, which Brooks created with Buck Henry. He has acted on stage and screen, as well as directed and produced films (both his own work and that of strikingly different filmmakers, such as David Lynch’s THE ELEPHANT MAN). With the enormous success of the 2001 Broadway adaptation of his film THE PRODUCERS, Brooks won three Tonys® to go with his previous awards for his work in television, film and comedy, joining an elite company of artists who have earned the top award in each of four different entertainment arts — the “EGOT” (Emmy®, Grammy®, Oscar® and Tony®).