As a child in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Mel Brooks assumed he would grow up to work in Manhattan's garment district. That's what most of the kids
Brooks wrote countless edgy jokes over the years, but he doesn t regret any of them. He calls comedy his "delicious refuge" from the world. "I hide in humor," he says. His new memoir is All About Me!
It was a great time to be alive, they all said. We would get up in the morning and look out at an America safe once again from the threat of fascism. Em.