Mel Brooks

Melvin Kaminsky is more famously known as Mel Brooks. Brooks is an American director, writer, actor, comedian, composer, and producer. He is probably most-famous for movies like Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs and Robinhood: Men in Tights. The comedian had shared that a lot of his comedy had probably been rooted in the anger and hostility of losing his father when he was just at a very young age of two.

Brooks also didn’t have it easy growing up as he was often bullied and teased by his schoolmates. When Kaminsky was in college, he took a degree in psychology at Brooklyn College for a year and was later drafted into the United States Army. After the war, Brooks worked as a drummer and pianist and started as a stand-up comedian after he had to cover for a regular comic at one of the nightclubs he played at. This began his career as a comedian and later was hired as a writer on the revolutionary variety comedy series Your Show of Shows.