Mel Brooks describes his sadness over the loss of his late wife Anne Bancroft ...

Mel Brooks is considered to be on the short list of comedy legends, who has written, created, and performed in some of the most enduring classics for the stage and screen over the past seven decades.

But despite having such credits as The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs and History of the World, Part I, Brooks takes most pride in his marriage to his late wife, Anne Bancroft.

And now, more than 15 years after her passing, the Brooklyn, New York native shares his sadness over her loss, along with his amazing journey to stardom in Hollywood and the Broadway stage, in his new memoir, All About Me!: My Remarkable Life In Show Business, as reported by People. 

In the memoir, the now 95-year-old gives readers an overview of his life and career, starting with his Depression-era upbringing in New York, which moves into such experiences as his stint in the U.S. Army during World War II, and his years as a teenage comedian in the Catskills.

He also offers insight into his break into show business, and breakthrough as a writer and a comic for Sid Caesar's variety show, Your Show Of Shows (1950-1954), alongside the likes of Woody Allen, Neil Simon and Larry Gelbart, and Caesar's Hour (1954-1957).

But he wouldn't reap all the rewards of success until his middle aged years when he partnered up with Carl Reiner on the comedy sketch, The 2000 Year Old Man, and he created and wrote the hit TV comedy series Get Smart (1965-1970). 

During those early years, it would be love at first sight for Brooks when he first saw Bancroft rehearsing at the Ziegfeld Theatre in Manhattan in 1961, which led them to the wedding alter just three years later.

Brooks credits his beloved wife with helping provide the support, and thus the confidence, he needed to go on and write and create what would turn out to be his career gems in film and the stage.

'Anne supported me for the

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