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Mel Brooks

Luke (J.B. Smoove) and Judas (Nick Kroll) kvetch that the Last Supper was more of a “Last Snack.” (Photo/Tyler Golden-Hulu)
Posted inTV

‘History of the World, Part II’ is a Mel Brooks comedy without much Mel Brooks

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward March 2, 2023March 2, 2023

The work of “History of the World, Part I” was famously left unfinished — that was part of the joke. The sequel teased before the credits, much like the fumbled third […]

(Photo/Forward-Emma McIntyre-Getty)
Posted inBooks

Mel Brooks’ memoir is 500 pages on his favorite subject — himself

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward November 30, 2021
Paul "Sexiest Man Alive" Rudd in "Ghostbusters: Afterlife"
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Paul Rudd is sexy; Batsheva Haart is separated; Carole King is crowned; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 22, 2021
Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides in "Dune."
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Timothée Chalamet goes to space; Zoë Kravitz goes to Gotham; The Jews go to the ‘Jewish Nobels’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 27, 2021
Carl Reiner at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, Calif., Aug. 3, 2017. (Photo/JTA-John Wolfsohn-Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Carl Reiner, comedy legend and consummate old Jew telling jokes, dies at 98

by JTA June 30, 2020
Mel Brooks and son Max Brooks made a comedic PSA about social distancing and posted it on Max's Twitter. (SCREENSHOT/TWITTER)
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Jewish stars make coronavirus videos at home … for better and for worse

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 1, 2020
Mel Brooks’ trademark Borscht Belt style came out of his childhood in the Jewish tenements of Brooklyn. (Courtesy HBO)
Posted inSeniors

Mel Brooks tones down the silly in HBO reminiscence

Curt Schleier by Curt Schleier and JTA December 19, 2019December 18, 2019
Mel Brooks plays Melephant Brooks (not pictured) in the fourth Toy Story movie.
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Melephant Brooks, Carl Reineroceros and the other Jews of ‘Toy Story 4’

by Nate Bloom June 24, 2019
Jerry Lewis
Posted inColumns

RIP Jerry Lewis; Mel Brooks gets animated; ‘Youk’ scores again

by Nate Bloom August 28, 2017March 23, 2018

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