After 75 years in show business, you’d think he may want to at least slow down. But comedian Mel Brooks, now 92, continues to believe he has a mission in life: to make terrible things entertaining. From his early days in Brooklyn and the Catskills to his work behind the scenes with Sid Caesar, and through his decades of filmmaking, Brooks has been a reliably hilarious chronicler and comedian on such taboo topics as anti-semitism, racial prejudice and the infirmities of old age.

Currently overseeing a London theater production based on his movie Young Frankenstein as well as regularly performing with renewed gusto in live performances, Brooks offers up this advice for a long life: “Walk a mile a day and stay alive, sing Broadway songs, (and) you’ll live forever…and the last thing is chicken chow mein.” Read more about his work habits and his hilarious philosophy of life in this newly published interview in The Atlantic. And if you want your fill of old video clips of his comedy routines, subscribe to the Mel Brooks YouTube Channel Here. Finally, listen to a recent interview with Brooks on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his classic original movie, The Producers.