Mel Brooks

Obama At Kennedy Center Honors: I Think Fake ID Got Me Into First Mel Brooks Film (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

AP/ The Huffington Post | Posted 12.07.2009 | Style


**Scroll Down For Photos And Video** WASHINGTON -- With a little help from Carol Burnett, a new star from the hit TV show "Glee" and other top ente...

Meatless Monday: Listening To Your Broccoli

Ellen Kanner | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green


Ellen Kanner

In an old comedy routine, Mel Brooks plays a therapist who advises his patient, "Listen to your broccoli, and your broccoli will tell you how to eat i...

2,000+ Words for the 2,000 Year Old Man: Mel Brooks Is Saluted by the Academy

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 08.25.2009 | Entertainment


Gregory Weinkauf

Cloris Leachman aptly put it, "There is much that is serious about Mel Brooks. Inside that rapid-fire humor machine is a man with deep emotions, with a great capacity to care, and to love."

HuffPost Review: Year One

Marshall Fine | Posted 07.19.2009 | Entertainment


Marshall Fine

I wish Jack Black well. I really do. And Michael Cera, too. Funny guys, both of them. But I'm sorry, films like Year One just aren't going to cut it anymore.

Dom DeLuise's Funniest Film Roles (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 06.05.2009 | Comedy


Dom DeLuise, a comedy great, died Monday night after a long illness. He is survived by sons Michael, Peter and David, and dozens of hilarious films. H...

A Hilariously Tasteless Birth of a Notion

Marshall Fine | Posted 02.27.2009 | Entertainment


Marshall Fine

Without films like Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa? we wouldn't have had the Farrelly brothers, the Judd Apatow machine or a lot of other comedy that's fairly commonplace today.

It's a Boy!

Bruce Kluger & David Slavin | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics


Bruce Kluger & David Slavin

When a right-wing apologist-blowhard like Jonah Goldberg starts trashing our book five weeks before its release, you know we've hit a nerve.

How Mel Brooks Rejected Whoopi Goldberg As His Leading Lady

NY Post | Page Six | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


Mel Brooks and Whoopi Goldberg passionately canoodling? That jaw-dropping scenario nearly came to pass - until the curmudgeonly comic put his foot dow...

Mel Brooks "Young Frankenstein" Receives Cool Reviews

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


Is the $20 million stage version of "Young Frankenstein" a monster hit or miss? Most New York critics were decidedly cool to the new Mel Brooks music...

Mel Brooks Faces Broadway Backlash

NY Post | Michael Riedel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


THE knives are out for Mel. On the eve of the first preview of "Young Frankenstein," a growing chorus of theater people, their hearts as black as nig...