A lot of comedy fans love both Mel Brooks and Monty Python ... from the absurdity that Catholic Inquistiors would exist in modern day Britain and torture people with furniture padding.
“It’s like what Mel Brooks said about his ‘Springtime ... Gold, a graduate of Modern Orthodox day schools and Yeshiva University high school, has been taking on Jew-hatred for years ...
Boyle spent four hours a day in the makeup chair, Brooks wrote — and "stopped complaining the minute he saw the incredible results at the dailies." Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder Almost Had a ...
To mark the national premier broadcast of the American Masters installment on Mel Brooks, we’ve put together a collection of the master spoofer’s best Jewish clips. Monday night marks the ...
He paired with lifelong friend Carl Reiner to create genius works including The 2,000 Year Old Man, and Brooks co-created Get Smart, the spy spoof sitcom. But Mel Brooks, who recently turned 98 ...
Mel Brooks, the celebrated antiquarian, was looking much less than his recorded 2,000-year-old self, but still not feeling up to par. “I am in the last day of the dissolution of what could have ...
Patrick Marber's "loving" revival of Mel Brooks' "cheeky" musical "The Producers" contains all the elements of the original show, said Matthew Hemley in The Stage. Two decades after its West End ...
The musical adaptation of the film version of The Producers is one of Mel Brooks’ greatest successes ... He recalled: “David Geffen called me every day. I said, ‘David, it’s a perfectly ...
Roy Rochlin/Getty; Jon Kopaloff/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Tuesday's Only Murders in the Building was a happy reunion for Broadway fans as it reteamed Matthew Broderick and Mel Brooks ...
The two things I hate most in the world are combat and engineering." -- Mel Brooks Mel Brooks was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1926 as Melvin Kaminsky to Jewish parents from Germany and Ukraine.