Mel Brooks to Donate His Expansive Career Archive to National Comedy Center in New York

Decades of comedy gold: Mel Brooks donates document archive to National Comedy Center

Through films like “Blazing Saddles” and “Spaceballs” and a pioneering career on television and Broadway, Mel Brooks has had a lifetime of serving up the funny.

Mel Brooks to Donate His Expansive Career Archive to National Comedy Center in New York

Mel Brooks has agreed to donate his expansive career archive to the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, N.Y.

Mel Brooks donates career archive to National Comedy Center

Mel Brooks has donated his entire career archive, spanning 5,000 photographs and 150,000 documents, to the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York. The archive includes the star’s earliest notes on comedy while he served in World War II, continuing through to his years on NBC’s Your Show of Shows. It also spans his rise in the world of comedy in the 1960s and 1970s in hit films like The Producers, Silent Movie, Spaceballs, and Young Franke…