![]() Want more TV news and reviews? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!įINALE FEVER: We're just a few days away from the official end of the broadcast network season, but on this Monday, the finales with the greatest critical buzz are on cable. Reiner says Brooks "makes fun of big things" - and quite obviously, the bigger the laugh, the better the life. ![]() And you're likely to flip as well as you hear others talk admiringly about him, including close friend Carl Reiner, comic muse Cloris Leachman (never funnier than in Young Frankenstein), pal Joan Rivers, Broadway The Producers star Nathan Lane and beloved late wife Anne Bancroft, in a clip recorded before her death. "I'm head over heels in love with myself," Brooks says, only half-joking. His brilliant career in TV ( Your Show of Shows, Get Smart), the movies and Broadway makes him an overdue American Masters subject, and his unflagging comic energy keeps everyone amused - including an intrusively visible camera crew. "I've come to stop the show," announces the irrepressible comic dynamo as he does just that, breaking into song mid-interview and reinforcing why PBS' American Masters titled its latest must-see career profile Mel Brooks: Make a Noise (Monday, check listings). At 86, Mel Brooks is still the life of the party, a consummate ham and peerless joke-spinning storyteller.
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