A half-century after it first hit theaters, Blazing Saddles just received its biggest honor yet. As Hollywood celebrated Mel Brooks' 100th birthday on Sunday, June 28, the American Film Institute ...

As Mel Brooks prepares to celebrate his 100th birthday on Sunday, June 28, one of his most beloved films has received a remarkable new honor from one of the country's most respected film organizations ...

If anyone knows how to make a comedy, it's Mel Brooks. His body of work is rife with comedy classics like Young Frankenstein and Spaceballs, the latter of which has a sequel — at last — in production ...

It sure is good to be the king. Comedy legend Mel Brooks is now 100 years old, and to celebrate the occasion, the American Film Institute (AFI) officially declared that his 1974 classic hit, Blazing ...

Mel Brooks has refused to make a sequel to his classic Western comedy Blazing Saddles because he fears woke audiences would not be able to handle the jokes, a former cast member has said.

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 ...

I was 15 and probably looked about 11 when "Blazing Saddles" was released in 1974, but my buddies and I had no trouble buying movie tickets. The kid at the counter was no cop, and the sweet lady ...

Like its polar opposite in horror, comedy remains quite possibly the most difficult genre to explore in the larger realm of cinema. After all, what one viewer finds funny, another might find painfully ...

Fifty years ago, Mel Brooks released Blazing Saddles to gales of laughter and a mighty roar of flatulence jokes. Also to mixed reviews from harrumphing critics. Typical was Vincent Canby, whose New ...