Thousands of notes, storyboards, early scripts and photographs belonging to the “2,000-year-old man” and EGOT winner will join material from Lucille Ball, Joan Rivers and George Carlin

More than 5,000 photographs, including these polaroids, from the archives of Mel Brooks will be donated to the National Comedy Center. National Comedy Center

A month before he turns 100 years old, comedian Mel Brooks announced that he will donate thousands of documents and photographs from his long career for preservation and public display at the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York.

Brooks’ trove of materials spans decades. From jokes and notes he kept while serving in the U.S.…