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Mel Brooks to Donate His Expansive Career Archive to National Comedy Center in New York
Mel Brooks has donated his career archive of more than 150,000 documents and 5,000 photographs to the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, N.Y., the same nonprofit institution that holds the papers of Brooks’ longtime collaborator Carl Reiner. The archive includes Brooks’ earliest notes on comedy during his service in World War II through his years […]
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According to Variety’s source item, Mel Brooks to Donate His Expansive Career Archive to National Comedy Center in New York, Mel Brooks has donated his career archive of more than 150,000 documents and 5,000 photographs to the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, N.Y., the same nonprofit institution that holds the papers of Brooks’ longtime collaborator Carl Reiner. The archive includes Brooks’ earliest notes on comedy during his service in World War II through his years […]
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- Mel Brooks to Donate His Expansive Career Archive to National Comedy Center in New YorkVariety - 2026-05-17T13:05:00+00:00
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