For years, comedian Mel Brooks made audiences laugh as the “2,000-Year-Old Man” through his sketch routine with the late Carl Reiner, and this weekend his life is catching up with the punchline as he turns 100.
On June 28, Brooks will celebrate his centennial birthday, a milestone few entertainers achieve following a career spanning more than seven decades.
Born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926, Brooks served in the U.S. Army during World War II, before making a breakthrough in the entertainment industry as a writer for Sid Caesar’s television programs.
It was while working on the live variety series “Your Show of Shows” in 1950 that Brooks developed a close friendship with Reiner, who died in 2020 at the age of 98, and together formed a comedy partnership that went on to shape modern American humor through television and films….
