OT: Happy 98th Birthday Mel Brooks (Updated 2024)

[mdk01]

Richard Pryor also wrote the most important sketch in this history of SNL (the job interview sketch with Chevy Chase) and they could never, ever show it on TV today because the country has lost its collective mind.

"Dead Honkie!"

Now where's my safe space?

 

[Knight Shift]

98 years old yesterday. My mother is 96 tomorrow.

 

[Knight Shift]

50 years of Blazing Saddles:

 

[Kbee3]

Happy Birthday to the man who brought the world spoofs of movies
like these
Blazing Saddles (1974), History of the World: Part I (1981), Silent Movie (1976), Young Frankenstein (1974), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), High Anxiety (1977), Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995), and Spaceballs (1987).

In a class by himself with that body of work.

 

[93RUDoc]

What a run in the 70"s, Blazing Saddles-Young Frankenstein-High Anxiety. Probably the greatest run in comedy movies ever except maybe The Marx brothers-Animal Crackers-Horse Feathers-Duck Soup-a Night at the Opera.

 

[yesrutgers01]

My Dad would stop everything to watch a Mel Brooks movie