I love his work, and I love talking to him, and I'm grateful his memoir provided another opportunity to have him on our show. To top it off, he was a Kennedy Center honoree, received a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute and a National Medal of Arts, presented by President Obama. His latest project is his new memoir, "All About Me!"īrooks is one of the few EGOTs, meaning he's received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. His film "The Producers" was adapted into a Broadway musical mega-hit that won a record-breaking 12 Tonys, including best musical. My guest, Mel Brooks, wrote and directed such hilarious film comedies as "Blazing Saddles," a spoof of Westerns "High Anxiety," his comic homage to Alfred Hitchcock "Young Frankenstein," his version of a classic horror film and "History Of The World, Part I," his sendup of Hollywood spectacles.
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