EGOT champ Mel Brooks feted with AFI Lifetime Achievement Award by Gold Derby

Mel Brooks may need to buy another mantle. He is to be the second EGOT champ, after Mike Nichols in 2010, to receive a tribute from the American Film Institute.  In making the announcement Friday, Howard Stringer, chair of the AFI board of trustees, said, “Mel Brooks is America’s long-reigning king of comedy and as he taught us long ago, it’s good to be the king. He’s a master of…

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