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Mel Brooks: Make a Noise: American Master at the 92 Street Y

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.19.2013 | Entertainment
Regina Weinreich

If this were Dutch Masters instead of American Masters, I'd have a box of cigars, gripes Mel Brooks about the enterprise of including a documentary ab...

World War Z Author Says Movie and Novel Share Title Only

Dennis Miller | Posted 05.09.2013 | Entertainment
Dennis Miller

The upcoming release of World War Z starring Brad Pitt is creating a lot of publicity for its massive budget and the fact that it bears no resemblance to the bestselling novel. The one person least surprised is the book's author, Max Brooks.

Kimmel Grills Turkmenistan Prez On Public FAIL

Posted 05.03.2013 | Comedy

The president of Turkmenistan is in the middle of a PR disaster after publicly falling off a horse. Surprisingly, he agreed to an interview with Jimmy...

WATCH: Mel Brooks Says Adorable Things About His Late Wife

Posted 04.29.2013 | Comedy

Mel Brooks really misses his late wife, Anne Bancroft. In a taping of "SiriusXM's Town Hall with Mel Brooks," the legendary comedy writer, director...

Gone With the Wit

George Heymont | Posted 04.12.2013 | Arts
George Heymont

With The Young and the Restless now in its 40th season, how does one capture the painful distance between the witty and the witless that has come to dominate our celebrity-driven culture? Let me turn to a delicious quote from 1975's Chicago.

When Is Holocaust Humor Acceptable?

Rabbi Jason Miller | Posted 05.04.2013 | Religion
Rabbi Jason Miller

While we are several generations removed from the Holocaust, there is still new information coming to light about this dark period in European Jewish history. This makes it even more difficult to find humor from such tragedy.

Men and Laughter

Robin Amos Kahn | Posted 04.30.2013 | Women
Robin Amos Kahn

If I could find myself in an alternate universe, there would be all the men I love -- and in this alternate universe all these men I love would find me irresistible and they wouldn't be married.

Mel Brooks on Immortality, His Inspiration for The Producers, and the Racial Joke Left Out of Blazing Saddles

Vanity Fair | Posted 04.14.2013 | Entertainment
Vanity Fair

By Mike Sacks, Vanity Fair Although responsible for such comedy classics as Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and Spaceballs, not to mention 2001'...

Carl Reiner Talks Orgasms, Show Business And What It's Like To Be 90

Pat Gallagher | Posted 04.03.2013 | Fifty
Pat Gallagher

If Carl Reiner were a painting, he would be a Picasso. Reiner will leave 'permanent marks on every discipline he entered' -- television and film producer, writer, director and comedian. At 90, this eclectic showman is a true role model for every person who has ever attempted to entertain the masses.

WATCH: What If Mel Brooks Did 'Django'?

Posted 12.26.2012 | Comedy

Quentin Tarantino's latest historical revenge fantasy "Django Unchained" hit theaters on Tuesday, but if you're not quite ready to witness QT's over-t...

How Mel Brooks Got Me Down The Aisle

Darryle Pollack | Posted 02.10.2013 | Fifty
Darryle Pollack

Meeting celebrities is just part of the job when you're a television reporter; so this was a fairly typical day at work when I was in my 20s. I was sent to the Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach to cover a press conference with Sophia Loren, Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler and Mel Brooks.

Scotty McCreery's Christmas EPK Exclusive, Plus A Conversation With Danny O'Keefe

Mike Ragogna | Posted 02.05.2013 | Entertainment
Mike Ragogna

Back on November 13th, Christmas With Scotty McCreery was the subject of an interview with the young American Idol winner and country music star. As we're getting closer to the holidays, Scotty offered this glimpse into his Christmasness with this exclusive EPK...

Which 'Blazing Saddles' Seen Was Too Racy For Mel Brooks?

Posted 11.28.2012 | Comedy

Mel Brooks' 1974 film "Blazing Saddles" tackled racism in a satirical and absurd way that has had a lasting impression on on the movie business, and i...

WATCH: Mel Brooks Keeps Asking Carl Reiner About His Erection

Posted 11.16.2012 | Comedy

When Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner met in 1950 working on "Your Show of Shows," they very well may have realized that they would still be hanging out 62 ...

WATCH: Mel Brooks Has Still Got It

Posted 11.09.2012 | Comedy

"You're talking to a somewhat serious intellectual character here -- with potty humor." Mel Brooks will look back on his remarkable career as a com...

EXCLUSIVE: Mel Brooks Curses Out Jerry Seinfeld

The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 09.20.2012 | Comedy

Get ready to hear Mel Brooks drop about half a dozen F-bombs on Jerry Seinfeld. On this week's episode of "Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee," we ca...

Alan Spencer's Bullet In The Face on IFC Is TV at Its Most Inventive

Xaque Gruber | Posted 10.15.2012 | Entertainment
Xaque Gruber

Bullet In The Face stars Eddie Izzard and Eric Roberts as two hilariously vicious rival business owners/crime lords happy to annihilate anyone in their way. And who stands in their way? Everyone.

BOTH SIDES: Huffington/Clarke Debate Obama's "Foreign" Policy & a Right to Bear AR-15s

HuffPost Radio | Posted 07.29.2012 | Politics
HuffPost Radio

2011-11-29-20111107bothsidesnow.jpgBeyond Romney's hoof-in-mouth moment in London, Arianna and Torie Clarke clash over policies abroad , guns after Aurora, career vs. kids, and rape jokes.

Dane Cook To Make Theatre Debut

Posted 06.28.2012 | Comedy

Dane Cook will make his stage debut in the Hollywood Bowl’s production of Mel Brooks' "The Producers," playing the role of Nazi playwright Franz Lie...

TCM Fest: "Frankenstein's Gonna Bite Me and Kill Me," Said Five-Year-Old Mel Brooks

Debra Levine | Posted 06.18.2012 | Entertainment
Debra Levine

In conversation with Turner Classic Movies creative exec, Tom Brown, prior to the TCM Fest screening of his great comedy classic, Young Frankenstein (1974), director Mel Brooks dug deep into his memory bank. "They were playing Frankenstein at the Commodore Theater in Williamsburg [Brooklyn]. My mother took me ... You know, the big guy who scared the shit out of us?"

Meatless Monday: Broccoli and Affordable Health Care

Ellen Kanner | Posted 06.09.2012 | Green
Ellen Kanner

The government can reward good behavior by subsidizing broccoli, lentils, kale, pumpkin -- all the produce we know we should be eating, rather than subsidizing beef, no one's idea of health food. How the government allocates the funding for our food system is a pivotal issue in the upcoming Farm Bill -- one we should watch.

Martin Short And Letterman Talk Rush Limbaugh And Offending Mel Brooks

Posted 03.15.2012 | TV

Wednesday night on "The Late Show," (weeknights, 11:35 p.m. ET on CBS) Martin Short and David Letterman discussed Rush Limbaugh's latest controversy a...

Mel Brooks Talks About Getting His Comedic Revenge On Hitler

Posted 03.09.2012 | TV

Mel Brooks sat down with David Steinberg on "Inside Comedy" (Thu., 11 p.m. EST on Showtime) and joked about how he's "made a fine living from Nazis!" ...

I Remember Joe Heller -- Part 2

Susan Braudy | Posted 05.01.2012 | Home
Susan Braudy

As an artist, he dared to write the unthinkable: that it's totally insane to be 22 years old and to see another soldier's half-digested lunch spill in a bloody mess out of his flak jacket after he'd been pulverized by a bomb.

Stars Who Served In World War II

Posted 12.08.2011 | Celebrity

When the bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor, Americans immediately went to work. In addition to a homefront that saw citizens plant victory gardens, bu...