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 ...

In 1974, Mel Brooks turned in one of his finest films when he made Blazing Saddles, a Western spoof that follows a Black sheriff facing racism and crime on the frontier. Viewed by many as the director ...

This year's 15th annual TCM Film Festival will celebrate EGOT winner Mel Brooks, specifically highlighting his trailblazing parody, Spaceballs. The writer, director, producer, actor, and playwright is ...

Happy 100th birthday to Mel Brooks, whose Blazing Saddles, released more than half a century ago, is still widely considered one of the funniest movies of all time ...

According to Deadline, the American Film Institute (AFI) has marked Mel Brooks' 100th birthday with a symbolic update to one of its most recognizable rankings. As part of an honorary reorganization of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Directed by Brooks from a story by Andrew Bergman, Blazing Saddles tells the tale of a corrupt politician who attempts to drive ...

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 ...

Many people consider Mel Brooks’s ‘Blazing Saddles’ to be one of the greatest comedies of all-time—and with very good reason. The resulting fart scene, in which a gang of thugs pass gas around a ...

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 ...

A half-century after it first hit theaters, Blazing Saddles just received its biggest honor yet. Released in 1974, Blazing Saddles blended Western parody with fearless social satire, becoming one of ...