As with most influential giants in the comedic genre, Mel Brooks has a career most comics can only envy. An unconventional ...

Comedy is subjective. There’s that famous Mel Brooks quote: “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an ...

Mel Brooks is a towering figure in the entertainment industry with legions of fans, but that doesn't mean that all his work ...

I n one of the best parody movies, Spaceballs, the wise sage Yogurt says we’ll all meet again for Spaceballs 2: The Search ...

As well as generating some of the biggest laughs in the history of the silver screen, Brooks has also courted his fair share of controversy. Blazing Saddles was nearly buried by Warner Bros because ...

Josh Gad had to educate Mel Brooks on the latest 'Star Wars' films while pitching his 'Spaceballs' sequel. Presley Ann/Getty Images for TCM/Leon Bennett/Getty Images A long time ago in a galaxy ...

to win an Oscar for writing or co-writing a song from a film he directed. The first was Joe Brooks (no relation to Mel Brooks), who wrote “You Light Up My Life,” which won in 1978. Here’s a ...

Space Balls has long been one of Mel Brooks’s most beloved films, in large part because it lovingly parodies the Star Wars universe. In fact, that film has become so beloved in and of itself ...

Josh Gad; Mel Brooks in 'Spaceballs' Jamie Foxx Says Leonardo DiCaprio Stopped Reading ‘Django Unchained’ Due to Script’s Racial Slurs. Then Samuel L Jackson Told Him: ‘Say That S ...

The new 'Spaceballs' will be filled with 'Star Wars' deep-cuts. "When we were pitching him the original conceit for what we wanted to do with the film, at the beginning he [Mel Brooks] goes, 'I'm ...