Mel Brooks is a genius-level comedy filmmaker. His undisputed masterpieces are The Producers, Young Frankenstein, and Blazing ...

Here are all 11 Mel Brooks movies, ranked from entertaining to hilarious.

Mel Brooks is a big fan of musicals, and he once recommended that everyone watch the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie ...

Mel Brooks' parodies hit the mark by uncovering ... His escape plan makes no sense whatsoever, but that's what makes it so funny. As soon as Bart creates enough distance to drop the charade ...

I suppose it’s not as funny if you’re not a Mel Brooks fan but even then if you don’t laugh at some of the scenes you’re just too serious. Carl Reiner has already passed as has Sid Caesar ...

Mel is turning 97 this summer ... a result of being around other funny people or as a result of no one being funny? Brooks: That’s a good question. I don’t know. I have no idea.

Mel Brooks came up with the title to his 1981 comedy ... who’s known for his sketch comedy (in addition to the painfully funny take on adolescence “Big Mouth”), to kick around a “Part ...

that Mel Brooks became comedy royalty after an impeccable ... Young Frankenstein—the Brooklyn-born rascal always took his funny business seriously. He constantly combed the desert for gags ...

And obviously, Mel [Brooks] was doing that 40 years ago ... he manages to also always have these like very funny visual jokes that are visual gags but then also just incredibly precise, funny ...

Mel Brooks had his work cut out for him when he ... "His reading of it was so real and funny that everybody on the set exploded with laughter! I had to sternly caution the crew not to break ...

They quickly threw me out. But according to Patrick McGilligan, author of Funny Man: Mel Brooks, these outbursts were not all good clean fun. Other writers claim to have been bullied by Brooks ...

Mel Brooks, who directed Teri Garr in the iconic ... “She was so talented and so funny. Her humor and lively spirit made the Young Frankenstein set a pleasure to work on. Her ‘German ...