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There’s a new documentary that just dropped on HBO Max. Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! It’s about, well, Mel Brooks! And yes, he turned 99 this past June.
Mel Brooks has been creating some of the funniest, most enduring comedies since the Truman Administration. Your Show of Shows, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and The Producers, to name a few.
Brooks joined us on Bullseye back in 2013. He was the subject of a PBS American Masters documentary at the time. He chatted with us about fighting in World War II, the genius of Gene Wilder, and that time Sid Caesar dangled Brooks out the window of a Chicago hotel room.
A version of this conversation originally ran in May of 2013
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- Mel Brooks
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