Mel Brooks
  • Seinfeld, Rickles, others help David Steinberg delve 'Inside Comedy'

    ...balancing act." Balance also applies to the range of comedy stars featured in the series, with Chris Rock , Mel Brooks , Ellen DeGeneres and Steve Carell (who, with Steinberg, is an executive producer of "Inside Comedy......

  • 'Torchwood': Bill Pullman, 'America's sweetheart,' explains the embarrassing history of the green screen

    "When we did 'Spaceballs,' they had this idea that we had to wear sunglasses in between the takes because it was going to hurt our eyes... They'd call cut and Mel Brooks and John Candy put on their sunglasses and we'd talk about the scene."...

  • Pee-wee Herman's zany romp on Broadway makes it to HBO

    ...cheered Jambi (John Paragon), and just the sight of Chairry, the big fuzzy blue chair, and Globey, the globe with Mel Brooks ' visage, made people happy. "In New York City , we had between 100 and 300 almost every night, waiting......

  • Bill T. Jones, McCartney, Oprah and others take a bow at Kennedy Center Honors

    ...because if it happened five years ago, the other awards would have been an afterthought." Herman, like Mel Brooks last year and fellow 2010 honoree Jones, just wants to help with the show. After all, they each mention separately......

  • TV Land Awards: Jaclyn Smith, Brad Garrett full of 'Glee'

    ... and Peter Scolari are reunited, and "The Love Boat." Hosted by Tim Allen , the event also salutes Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner , major contributors to the Sid Caesar -starring 1950s comedy-variety classic "Your......

  • 'Year One'

    ...One" is more or less indefensible, but I'll gladly defend parts of it. It's the knockabout biblical lark Mel Brooks never got around to making, with Jack Black and Michael Cera playing Zed and Oh, outcast members of......

  • 'Carol Burnett Show's' Harvey Korman Dies

    ...self-described "luminous second banana" for a decade on "The Carol Burnett Show" and for starring in such Mel Brooks films as "Blazing Saddles," has died. He was 81. Korman, who had undergone several major operations, died......

  • Legendary Mime Marcel Marceau Dies at 84

    ...and later Red Skelton , Jerry Lewis and others. Marceau appeared in numerous films, most famously Mel Brooks ' "Silent Movie," where as a joke he spoke the only word in the script: "No." Marceau was born Marcel Mangel......

  • 'Rawhide,' 'Blazing Saddles' Theme Singer Dies

    ...remained popular in Europe and Australia, and he caught a second wind recording the theme songs for "Rawhide," Mel Brooks ' movie "Blazing Saddles" and many commercials, including one for Campbell's Manhandlers soups. He also kept......

  • The Rock Makes a 'Smart' Career Move

    ...been attached to play the leads in the Peter Segal -directed version of the TV sitcom, which was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. According to Variety, Johnson will play the newly created Agent 23, while Stamp will play one......

  • 'Rocky,' 'Blazing Saddles' Join Nat'l Registry

    ...Chinese-American films and works by talented unknowns. The most recognizable on the list include "Rocky," Mel Brooks ' comic western "Blazing Saddles" (1974), Alfred Hitchcock 's noir romance "Notorious" (1946) starring......

  • Hathaway Gets 'Smart' Role

    ...The parts were played by Barbara Feldon and Don Adams in the original television series, which was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. The latest incarnation of the "Get Smart" script was written by "Failure to Launch" scribes......

  • 'Spaceballs' Series Enters G4's Orbit

    ...rights to an animated series based on the popular Mel Brooks film "Spaceballs." Production on "Spaceballs...as is animation," raves G4 President Neal Tiles. "Mel Brooks' classic movies 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Blazing......

  • 'Groomsmen' Director's Enthusiasm Still Burns

    ...guys are making those movies and I fell in love with Woody Allen and Truffaut and I did not fall in love with Mel Brooks , and I'm trying to do a different thing and if that means that it has to be tougher then that just is what it has......

  • 'The Producers'

    "Springtime for Hitler" is still pretty funny. Everything else is a horror. Made in 1967, Mel Brooks ' magnificent movie "The Producers" -- about an impresario and his accountant sidekick who try to stage the worst show in......

  • 'The Mel Brooks Collection'

    ...Both sides of the equation are represented in "The Mel Brooks Collection," a DVD box set that hits shelves...set. (I would also argue that anything called "The Mel Brooks Collection" should include "Spaceballs" before "Men......