Mel Tolkin

Mel Tolkin was a television comedy writer best known as head writer of the live sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows during the Golden Age of Television. There he presided over a staff that at times included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Danny Simon. The writers' room inspired the film My Favorite Year (1982), produced by Brooks, and the Broadway play Laughter on the 23rd Floor (1993), written by Neil Simon. ^{Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-American screenwriter and producer (d. 2007)}

3 August 1913

Born on the same birth day (3 August): Aaron Chorin • Charlie Shavers • David Knox (rugby union) • Frano Botica • Linda Howard • Lucky Dube • Mark Reynolds (baseball) • Martha Stewart • Norman Dewis • Stanley Baldwin

Born in the same month (August 1913): Angus Wilson • Bob Crosby • Don DeFore • John Argyris • Leonard Pagliero • Lindsay Hassett • Mark Felt • Oscar Alfredo Gálvez • Richard Simmons (actor) • Roger Wolcott Sperry • Xavier Thaninayagam