That was the prevailing spirit among the all-star assembly of contemporary comedy stars who turned out for the premiere of Hulu’s long-awaited follow-up to Brooks’ 1981 comedy classic “The ...

Mel Brooks recalled in his memoir that Gene Wilder had just won request for him, and delivered with “with a big smiles on his ...

Kroll says that he met Brooks at an Emmy party several years ago. “He gave us boxes of [candy] on our way out. It was the greatest day of my life.” Mel Brooks during "Golda" Broadway Opening ...

(JTA) – Finally fulfilling the promise Mel Brooks made in 1981 ... Jews piloting the vessel as they dance the hora, we get modern-day liberal Jewish stereotypes played by Kroll, Barinholtz ...

Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein (1974), back ... Wilder’s romantic and dashing portrayal of the modern-day Frankenstein, with his wavy Albert Einstein hair, hasn’t dated in the slightest.

Mel Brooks at home in ... out of it than Cleveland.” Mr. Brooks, too, said he would no longer use the inflammatory words he used so freely back in the day. I asked him about his fellow comics ...

A lot of comedy fans love both Mel Brooks and Monty Python ... from the absurdity that Catholic Inquistiors would exist in modern day Britain and torture people with furniture padding.

"All the stuff I used to do with Carl is still around, but I don’t enjoy it if I don’t share it with Carl," Brooks said of his longtime pal, who died last year. Mel Brooks is bringing the ...

Let's look back at Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles ... Let’s cook.” Brooks told Playboy in 1975: "What grabbed me were the possibilities of a modern black man arriving in the traditional West.

Mel Brooks had his work cut out for him when he ... better than anything we had written for that moment." "I think that day on set was when I truly realized how lucky I was to have John Candy ...

Thank you. Thank you, and goodbye. Good bye. Have a nice day. Goodbye. Get out of here! -But he was irreverent. One thing that Mel Brooks did do was to puncture sacred cows and squeamishness and a ...