The comedy director reflects on Brooks’ Jewish identity, his influence on modern comedy and “Mel Brooks: The 99-Year-Old Man!

With new interviews from the late Rob Reiner and David Lynch, the tender documentary pays loving homage to a comedy legend who does more than make us laugh.

But he had not had a critical or box-office hit since his 1977 Hitchcock spoof “High Anxiety.” And there he sat on a cold ...

How do you chronicle a career as vast, influential and dynamic as Mel Brooks'? By making an epic, two-part documentary that ...

The filmmaker does hope you watch his two-part HBO documentary, 'Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!' - but, at the moment, he'd ...

Judd Apatow's new documentary, "Paralyzed By Hope: The Maria Bamford Story," the latest in his series of documentaries about comedy icons, premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, offering ...

Variety will return to Sundance Film Festival with its annual Interview Studio, presented by Audible. The studio will start on Friday, Jan. 23, and will run until Sunday, Jan. 25, which will be ...

Judd Apatow said in a new interview that he knew his wife Leslie Mann was the one "the moment she walked in the room" Apatow and Mann married in 1997 and share two daughters; they met when Mann ...

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, as well as new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, ...