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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, and the stage. Now he shares his story for the first time in “a wonderful addition to a seminal career” (San Francisco Chronicle), “infused with nostalgia and his signature hilarity” (Parade). All About Me! PDF

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEW YORK POST • “Laugh-out-loud hilarious and always fascinating, from the great Mel Brooks. What else do you expect from the man who knew Jesus and dated Joan of Arc?”—Billy Crystal

For anyone who loves American comedy, the long wait is over. Here are the never-before-told, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and remembrances from a master storyteller, filmmaker, and creator of all things funny.

All About Me! charts Mel Brooks’s meteoric rise from a Depression-era kid in Brooklyn to the recipient of the National Medal of Arts. Whether serving in the United States Army in World War II, or during his burgeoning career as a teenage comedian in the Catskills, Mel was always mining his experiences for material, always looking for the perfect joke. His iconic career began with Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows, where he was part of the greatest writers’ room in history, which included Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, and Larry Gelbart. After co-creating both the mega-hit 2000 Year Old Man comedy albums and the classic television series Get Smart, Brooks’s stellar film career took off. He would go on to write, direct, and star in The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, and Spaceballs, as well as produce groundbreaking and eclectic films, including The Elephant Man, The Fly, and My Favorite Year. Brooks then went on to conquer Broadway with his record-breaking, Tony-winning musical, The Producers.

All About Me! offers fans insight into the inspiration behind the ideas for his outstanding collection of boundary-breaking work, and offers details about the many close friendships and collaborations Brooks had, including those with Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Gene Wilder, Madeleine Kahn, Alfred Hitchcock, and the great love of his life, Anne Bancroft.

Filled with tales of struggle, achievement, and camaraderie (and dozens of photographs), readers will gain a more personal and deeper understanding of the incredible body of work behind one of the most accomplished and beloved entertainers in history.

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Mel Brooks, director, producer, writer, and actor, is an EGOT—one of the few entertainers in an elite group to earn all four major entertainment prizes: the Emmy, the Grammy, the Oscar, and the Tony. His career began in television writing for Your Show of Shows, after which he helped create the TV series Get Smart. He and Carl Reiner wrote and performed the 2000 Year Old Man Grammy-winning comedy albums. Brooks won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for his first feature film, The Producers. Many hit comedy films followed including The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, History of the World Part I, To Be or Not to Be, Spaceballs, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. His film company, Brooksfilms Limited, produced critically acclaimed films such as The Elephant Man, Frances, My Favorite Year and 84 Charing Cross Road. In 2009 Mel Brooks was a Kennedy Center Honoree, recognized for a lifetime of extraordinary contributions to American culture. In 2013 he was the forty-first recipient of the AFI’s Life Achievement Award. In 2016 Mr. Brooks was presented with the National Medal of Arts by President Obama.

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ballantine Books (November 30, 2021)
  Language ‏ : ‎ English
  Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
  International Standard Book Number-10 ‏ : ‎ 059315911X
  International Standard Book Number-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593159118
  Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.8 pounds
  Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.35 x 1.44 x 9.54 inches
  Best Sellers Rank: #4,156 in Books

Reviews From Customers

Patrick Conner
It’s Good (Great, actually) to Read The King!
December 1, 2021

I loved this book from the first page. Right from the get go, where Mel recounts his happy childhood in Brooklyn, I felt like I did as a child at my grandparents house, when my grandpa would tell stories of his own upbringing during The Great Depression. It was like I was back in that kitchen and those stories were being told to me alone.
Mel manages to maintain that warm tone of storytelling straight to the reader throughout his youth, service in World War II and long career as a writer, actor, director and producer. The stories are frequently sprinkled with tangential stories and non-sequiturs that convey his manic energy and stream of consciousness that is so much a part of his movies and shows that fans are familiar with, as well as contributing to that personal storytelling feel, as if he is conveying things that just pop into his head that relate to what he was talking about.
Another thing to love about this book is that it will give you a greater appreciation of the impact Mel has made on the entertainment industry as a whole. Sports analysts frequently cite ‘coaching trees’ when talking about the impact a well-regarded coach or manager has had on subsequent generations of coaches. Mel Brooks has an entire forest in entertainment, writers, actors, songwriters, composers, directors, producers, the whole schmear. As an example, when looking for a director for the Brooksfilms-produced “The Elephant Man,” Mel was instrumental in hiring a largely unknown David Lynch, who at the time was only known for the brilliant, but weird and disturbing, “Eraserhead.” If Lynch had not had Mel in his corner and gotten “The Elephant Man,” we likely would never have had “Dune,” “Mulholland Drive,” “Blue Velvet,” or “Twin Peaks” (not to mention all the works that Lynch himself inspired). The roots of Mel’s entertainment trees spread throughout the industry.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It is truly Good to be the King, but even better to witness his greatness.
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Bob W
I didn’t laugh out loud
December 6, 2021

I thoroughly enjoy Brook’s films. This book is mostly a review of how they got made. A laugh riot it isn’t. The most interesting part was the beginning several chapters that chronicle his early life and influences. The rest is a recounting of the efforts involved in securing the financial backing to make the films and hiring the actors and technical people he needed. Unfortunately, the repeated effusive terms used to describe these folks became off-putting and tiresome. Everyone he worked with was either marvelous or beautiful or fantastic or wonderful or exceptional, extremely talented or brilliant. It doesn’t seem real. Surely, he had some problems along the way, about which there is very little. This is a good effort to shore up his legacy and will be enjoyed by his aficionados.
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Rory Coker
An interesting account greatly harmed by absurdly excessive self-congratuation
December 29, 2021

While Mel Brooks is a great storyteller and this book is full of great stories, it becomes difficult and annoying to read once you get past the best parts… Mel’s childhood, service in WW 2, and work with the great Sid Caesar. Brooks’s self absorption is so great that it comes as a shock when he’s recounting the 1960s and casually mentions that his wife (who is never mentioned otherwise in any context, and is not even named) is divorcing him and that the marriage (never mentioned before) has produced three children, who are at least named, but never mentioned again until the last few pages of the book! Roughly half the book recounts his adventures as a film-maker, and the stories about those days would be interesting if one could trust them. An example of the problem is that anyone Brooks has ever met who has done him a favor is immediately described as now his best, dearest and closest friend, so that by the time the book ends he must have around 50 – 150 people who he can’t live without (but probably has never seen since they worked together!). No one is mentioned who is disliked by Brooks. The book really goes entirely off the rails when Brooks recounts his experiences in turning his film THE PRODUCERS into a Broadway musical. I greatly feared that I would learn Brooks had permanently disabled his arm patting himself on the back! Recommended if you like books about show business, but your mileage may vary!
I like and admire Brooks… who wouldn’t?… but this book was sometimes a chore to read.
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Steve Garfield
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This book is going to be great!
December 1, 2021

I already read an excerpt about GET SMART. It was super interesting. I can’t wait to read the rest of Mel Brooks’ behind-the-scenes stories.

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PJMA
ALL ABOUT ME
December 3, 2021

I enjoyed this book. Immensely!

It was written as if I were in a room with a very funny man reminiscing about his terrific feeling for life as he was speaking just to me.

Thanks for years of laughs, Mel Brooks. You really brightened up many of my days especially;;u when I needed my spirits uplifted. I have watched his movies over and over because they were just that good.

A remarkable talent and still going strong at 95! A great read from beginning to end. Amazing!

Joseph McBride
Fun but not enough
December 20, 2021

This is an enjoyable runthrough of Brooks’s work but without
a lot of substance beyond his reminiscences of his
early years — youth, army, live TV. The stories about his
films are amusing but superficial. Everyone he worked
with is talented and wonderful. No dark clouds ever appeared
on his horizon, even very much when he fought
the Nazis (or the “Narzis,” as he recalled Churchill
calling them). I recommend Patrick McGilligan’s thorough biography
for a more detailed, investigative, honest look into Brooks’s actual life and work.

Rich M
Disappointing
December 25, 2021

Mel Brooks is a legend, a creative genius, and an international treasure. For those reasons, I was looking forward to this deep dive into his life.

But with the exception of the beginning few chapters about his upbringing, military service, and early career, the book was a chronicle of each of his movies, in painful detail, from actors (all perfect), to funders (the same), on to the next success. It became an anthology rather than memoir, in need of a good edit. I couldn’t wait until the end.

Brooks has got perfect comedic timing and has given many of us lives full of laughter. Regrettably, on this one he missed.

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