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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...