There are tender chapters on his wife Anne Bancroft, who died in 2005, and Reiner, who passed away last year. “Thank God I could let my mind roam free to remember.”įor the first time, Brooks has put down on paper all of his tales, from growing up in Depression-era Williamsburg ('I loved the Depression!' he says cheerfully), serving in the army during WWII, starting out in the Borscht Belt, writing on Sid Caesar's “Your Show of Shows,” launching his 2000 Year Old Man schtick with Carl Reiner, coming up with possibly the greatest comic conceit of all time ('The Producers'), and crafting the films “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein,” “High Anxiety,' among others. “Like everybody else, I’ve been mostly stuck at home and fed up with the same diet of information and food,” Brooks says.

Brooks, 95, spent much of the pandemic working on the book - a year of remembering everything from getting hit by a Tin Lizzie as an 8-year-old in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to writing the musical version of “The Producers” with Tom Meehan at Madame Romaine de Lyon in Manhattan over omelets. “All About Me!,' which landed on bookshelves Tuesday, is indeed chock full of stories, anecdotes and memories from a comedy master of biblical proportions.

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