As well as generating some of the biggest laughs in the history of the silver screen, Brooks has also courted his fair share of controversy. Blazing Saddles was nearly buried by Warner Bros because ...

Mel Brooks is a famous directorHe is now in his 90'sCheck out some of his career highlights in the video above Mel Brooks was born on June 28, 1926, hailing from Brooklyn, New York. He is widely ...

The Mel Brooks classic Young Frankenstein turns 50 this month. Here are 12 stories of how it came alive…. alive! Cleavon Little (L) and Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles. Warner Bros. Brooks, who turned ...

Mel Brooks, born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926, is one of the great comic voices of the twentieth century. Having won almost every entertainment award there is, Brooks has straddled the line ...