{"id":2313,"date":"2024-06-13T20:50:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshstoryes.lol\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2024-06-13T20:50:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T20:50:09","slug":"mel-brooks-looks-agile-as-ever-at-special-event-weeks-before-turning-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshstoryes.lol\/?p=2313","title":{"rendered":"Mel Brooks Looks Agile As Ever At Special Event Weeks Before Turning 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doyouremember.com\/200154\/mel-brooks-rare-public-appearance-honorary-oscar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mel Brooks<\/a> was honored with a well-deserved career achievement award at the recent 84th Annual Peabody Awards event in Los Angeles, which he attended wearing a sharp double-breasted suit over a cream shirt and gray tie. He looked content as he posed for red-carpet photos at Beverly Wilshire Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The comedy icon showed off his newest prize while taking pictures with his son, Max, and his teenage grandson Henry. He also posed with Billy Crystal, who described <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/06\/10\/hollywood-legend-97-sprightly-rare-appearance-receives-award-21008091\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mel\u2019s comedy<\/a>\u00a0as \u201cfearless genius and boundary-pushing,\u201d while presenting him with the award.<\/p>\n<p>Mel Brooks gets ready to turn 98<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C8Fvna_uyRj\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fdoyouremember.com&amp;rp=%2F207534%2Fmel-brooks-special-event-before-turning-98%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1NwkSA-RCnNz6_HojTBK0RdTQwJECq3BAcBnTea74B_W9nHOd0nVEiVM8_aem_yWVEdpmAKFmVdEL8h1qFHQ#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A1690%2C%22ls%22%3A1320%2C%22le%22%3A1679%7D\" height=\"1041\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div id=\"M789985ScriptRootC1482497_058b3\">\n<div id=\"AdskeeperComposite1482497_058b3\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"mgbox card-media\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mel\u2019s career took off in the \u201850s after serving in the US Army during World War II as a forward artillery observer, a combat engineer, and later a corporal before his discharge. He wrote Sid Caesar\u2019s comedy for\u00a0<em>The Admiral Broadway Revue, Your Show of Shows,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Caesar\u2019s Hour<\/em>\u00a0until he began performing with co-writer Carl Reiner.<\/p>\n<p>By the \u201880s, Mel was already established with numerous credits and recognitions to his name, his first of four Emmys in 1967, and an Academy Award the following year. With his latest award, Mel is the fourth person in history to achieve PEGOT status\u2014 a Peabody, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award \u2014 alongside Barbra Streisand, Rita Moreno, and Mike Nichols.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_207535\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-207535\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-207535 size-full entered lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/doyouremember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/if-you-re-not-in-the-obit-eat-breakfast-premiere-scaled-e1718258087511.jpg\" alt=\"Mel Brooks\" width=\"444\" height=\"670\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/doyouremember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/if-you-re-not-in-the-obit-eat-breakfast-premiere-scaled-e1718258087511.jpg\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-207535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel Brooks<br \/>\nat the \u201cIf You\u2019re Not In The Obit, Eat Breakfast\u201d Premiere, Samuel Goldwyn Theater, Beverly Hills, CA 05-17-17<\/figcaption>Mel looked agile and handsome despite turning 98 in a couple of weeks. The comedy legend has yet to announce his retirement; however, he has revealed in the past that he would keep working for as long as he wants. He has so far maintained good health, which he credits to his good genes, hard work, and luck.<\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_207536\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-207536\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-207536 size-full entered lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/doyouremember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MCDREGE_EC020-scaled-e1718258098849.jpg\" alt=\"Mel Brooks\" width=\"1110\" height=\"670\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/doyouremember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MCDREGE_EC020-scaled-e1718258098849.jpg\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-207536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">REMEMBERING GENE WILDER, Mel Brooks, 2023. \u00a9 Health Point Productions \/ Courtesy Everett Collection<\/figcaption>He also enjoys a regular meal of raisin bran and his favorite late-night yogurt snack. Mel has also managed to work through losing his wife, Anne Bancroft, in 2005, noting that life without her has been difficult as he misses her support, great kisses, and spaghetti. The duo married in 1964 and had one son, Max, together. Mel\u2019s first three children, Stefanie, Nicky, and Eddie, are from his first marriage to Florence Baum, which lasted nine years.<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mel Brooks was honored with a well-deserved career achievement award at the recent 84th Annual Peabody Awards event in Los Angeles, which he attended wearing a sharp double-breasted suit over a cream shirt and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mel Brooks Looks Agile As Ever At Special Event Weeks Before Turning 98 - FRESHSTORYES<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/freshstoryes.lol\/?p=2313\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mel Brooks Looks Agile As Ever At Special Event Weeks Before Turning 98 - 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