Mel brooks biography pbs schedule

• PBS%27 %27Mel Brooks%3A Make a Noise%27 premieres Monday at 9 ET/PT %28times may vary%29
• Brooks will also receive a lifetime-achievement award from the American Film Institute in June
• Which current comedians can make him laugh%3F Louis C.K.%2C Sarah Silverman%2C Steve Carell and Judd Apatow

Considering that he is responsible for the first-ever fart joke heard in a major motion picture (a long-winded one at that, in Western spoof Blazing Saddles), Mel Brooks is being taken awfully seriously these days.

First up: The year-old farceur of nature is the subject of a documentary, Mel Brooks: Make a Noise, premiering at 9 ET/PT Monday (a DVD goes on sale the next day) on PBS' American Masters.

Then, on June 6, he'll receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award; the event airs June 15 at 9 ET/PT on TNT.

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