{"id":14122,"date":"2026-01-22T10:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14122"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:22:42","slug":"celebrating-mel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/22\/celebrating-mel\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Mel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/tv\/story\/2026-01-22\/mel-brooks-the-99-year-old-man-review-judd-apatow-hbo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from the Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!\u2019 chronicles the comedic genius of a living legend<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/robert-lloyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert Lloyd<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Top 20 Hilarious Mel Brooks Movie Moments\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/50DYnw3ds3A?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio have made a two-part, four-hour documentary about a comedy idol, \u201cMel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!,\u201d premiering Thursday on HBO and HBO Max. It follows Apatow\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/tv\/la-et-st-garry-shandling-doc-judd-apatow-20180325-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cThe Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and \u201cGeorge Carlin\u2019s American Dream,\u201d also directed with Bonfiglio, in a growing library of comic biographies; a film on Norm Macdonald is in the works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a basically chronological telling of the life and work of a man who helped shape the comedy of the 1950s, \u201860s and \u201870s, and as an influence, of the \u201880s and \u201890s and beyond \u2014 there is perhaps no\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2001-aug-22-ca-36949-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cAirplane!,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0no\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-1997-05-02-ca-54528-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cAustin Powers,\u201d\u00a0<\/a>without the trail blazed by \u201cBlazing Saddles\u201d and \u201cYoung Frankenstein.\u201d When I told my friend Jack, 33, that a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-1987-06-25-ca-10396-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cSpaceballs\u201d<\/a>\u00a0sequel is coming, co-starring and co-written by Brooks, he could not have been more excited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/tv\/story\/2026-01-22\/mel-brooks-the-99-year-old-man-review-judd-apatow-hbo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at LAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Los Angeles Times \u2018Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!\u2019 chronicles the comedic genius of a living legend by Robert Lloyd Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio have made a two-part, four-hour documentary about a comedy idol, \u201cMel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!,\u201d premiering Thursday on HBO and HBO Max. 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