As the 2,000-Year-Old Man prepares to turn 100, he’s looking to history. Mel Brooks — who will hit the century mark in June and whose titanic career includes playing an ancient man with a thick Jewish accent answering questions about subjects like the invention of fire (credit goes to a guy named Murray) — is donating his personal archives to the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, N.Y. Image Brooks on the set of “Spaceballs” (1987), which he directed and acted in. Credit... Mel Brooks