Let's look back at Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles as the comedy icon celebrates his 98th birthday this month. The film, released 50 years ago this year, is widely considered one of the funniest movies of ...

The story of why Richard Pryor didn’t play the role of Black Bart in “Blazing Saddles” (1974) has been rendered shopworn through many retellings, but it bears mentioning on the occasion of the film’s ...

In 1974, Mel Brooks’ Western comedy “Blazing Saddles” shook up the game, sending up themes of racism that were pervasive in Hollywood, the Western genre and American culture as a whole. Now, “Paws of ...

Brooks celebrated the film's 50th anniversary with a screening and Q&A in Los Angeles this past weekend. “I didn’t have a speech because Stanley Kubrick was in the same category for ‘2001,’” Brooks ...

Mel Brooks has been making audiences laugh for more than six decades! The legendary actor, director, comedian and producer, who turns 99 on June 28, 2025, kicked off his career in comedy by helping ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Mel Brooks, known as king of satire, is one of the few EGOT winner who has influenced multiple generations of the greatest comedians out there.His work in some of the biggest Hollywood ...