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Mel Brooks has been amusing people for almost a century. He reckons the laughs started almost as soon as he could burble. “I ...
Mel Brooks is officially returning as Yogurt, the gold-faced mystic Yoda-esque figure, in the forthcoming Spaceballs sequel, Amazon MGM Studios announced Thursday. The legendary multihyphenate ...
Though there was no shortage of Hamlet quotes in Mel Brooks 's send-up of Shakespearean actors To Be or Not to Be, "Frailty, thy name is woman" was not one of them. Indeed, Brooks had an ...
In honor of the just-announced Spaceballs 2, here are 12 behind the scenes stories of the original Spaceballs. As wild The ...
Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles, released half a century ago, is still widely considered one of the funniest movies of all The ...
In this interview from 2003, actor, comedian and producer Mel Brooks talks about the first Broadway show he ever saw—Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes.” He also talks about what makes the ...
Summer 2012 Quiet on the Set! One of Mel Brooks' biggest problems directing such classics as The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein was that his crew was always cracking up. With some ...