Funny man : Mel Brooks
McGilligan, Patrick2020
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Oscar, Emmy, Tony, and Grammy award-winner Mel Brooks was behind (and sometimes in front the camera too) of some of the most influential comedy hits of our time, including 'The 2,000 Year Old Man', 'Get Smart', 'The Producers', 'Blazing Saddles', and 'Young Frankenstein'. But before this actor, writer, director, comedian, and composer entertained the world, his first audience was his family. The fourth and last child of Max and Kitty Kaminsky, Mel Brooks was born on his family's kitchen table in Brooklyn, New York, in 1926, and was not quite three-years-old when his father died of tuberculosis. Growing up in a household too poor to own a radio, Mel was short and homely, a mischievous child whose birth role was to make the family laugh. His lifelong crusade to transform himself into a brand name of popular humor is at the centre of master biographer Patrick McGilligan's 'Funny Man'.
Main title:
Funny man : Mel Brooks / Patrick McGilligan.
Author:
McGilligan, Patrick, author
Imprint:
New York : Harper Perennial, 2020.
Collation:
656 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.
ISBN:
9780062560957 (pbk)
Dewey class:
791.430232092920.BROO
LC class:
PN1998.3
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2663528