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 ...

Among the television series celebrating 60 years in 2025 (including Green Acres and I Dream of Jeannie) is Get Smart, a ...

Mel Brooks is an iconic American actor ... Beyond his entertainment career, Brooks served in the U.S. Army during World War II, enlisting at just 17. As part of an engineer combat battalion ...

Tim Carmody writes for DeepLearning.AI and was a film and literature adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Even after he’d established himself as a brilliant filmmaker and left his ...

World War II Goes to the Movies & Television Guide indicates ... so it's difficult to think he'd have gone the full Mel Brooks route, but there's little doubt he'd have used the opportunity ...

He was a small boy during World War II, and his life was never affected by the atrocities ... He was preceded in death by his parents; sisters; brothers-in-law, Carl Bellini, Benny Gibbs, Mel ...

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

Josh Gad’s latest update about Spaceballs 2 came from November when he said the draft was done and those who read the script ...

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 ...

One fan was producer Stuart Cornfeld, who worked with Mel Brooks, and eventually tapped Lynch to direct The Elephant Man, a drama based on the life of Joseph Merrick, an English artist with severe ...