Comedy legend Mel Brooks turned 94 on Sunday, and social media did not forget about the director who has brought the world such amazing films like Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and Spaceballs.
Born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, Brooks eventually changed his name when he was a teenager. According to Celebrity Cheat Sheet, Brooks knew after seeing a Broadway play with his uncle that he wanted a career in show business.
By the 1940s, Brooks was working as an entertainer at the resorts in the Catskills Mountains. And, in 1949, Sid Caesar asked Brooks to join the writing staff for The Admiral Broadway Revue television show.
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