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  1. Mel Brooks’ 20 favorite films to be screened in LA for 100th birthday
    By Lois Beckett

    Comedian and director’s picks for American Cinematheque series range from Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights to Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #MelBrooks #Film #LosAngeles #Comedyfilms #Comedy #USnews #California #Culture #WestCoast #TheGuardian #LoisBeckett

  2. Mel Brooks’ 20 favorite films to be screened in LA for 100th birthday
    By Lois Beckett

    Comedian and director’s picks for American Cinematheque series range from Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights to Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #MelBrooks #Film #LosAngeles #Comedyfilms #Comedy #USnews #California #Culture #WestCoast #TheGuardian #LoisBeckett

  3. Mel Brooks’ 20 favorite films to be screened in LA for 100th birthday
    By Lois Beckett

    Comedian and director’s picks for American Cinematheque series range from Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights to Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #MelBrooks #Film #LosAngeles #Comedyfilms #Comedy #USnews #California #Culture #WestCoast #TheGuardian #LoisBeckett

  4. Noch kurz zu „Frankenstein Junior“ von Mel Brooks, das wir gestern als Musical bei den Burgfestspielen Jagsthausen erleben durften: Die Story passt auf zwei DIN-A4-Seiten in großer Schrift. Prüde sollte man auch nicht gerade sein. 🙂

    Wenn man aber mit viel Musik und Gesang ausgestattetem Klamauk und lustigen Regieeinfällen (keine Ahnung, was davon alles bereits im Skript stand) wie einem menschlichen Bücherregal samt Geheimtür etwas anfangen konnte, kam man definitiv auf seine Kosten.

    War ein wirklich unterhaltsamer Abend, irgendwelchen Anspruch hatten wir ja im Vorfeld bereits abgehakt. Herausragend: Karsten Oliver Wöllm als Frankenstein Junior. Tolle Bühnenpräsenz, grandiose Stimme. Auch Marianna McAven als Frau Blücher wusste sehr zu überzeugen.

    #Theater #BurgfestspieleJagsthausen #MelBrooks #FrankensteinJunior

  5. Noch kurz zu „Frankenstein Junior“ von Mel Brooks, das wir gestern als Musical bei den Burgfestspielen Jagsthausen erleben durften: Die Story passt auf zwei DIN-A4-Seiten in großer Schrift. Prüde sollte man auch nicht gerade sein. 🙂

    Wenn man aber mit viel Musik und Gesang ausgestattetem Klamauk und lustigen Regieeinfällen (keine Ahnung, was davon alles bereits im Skript stand) wie einem menschlichen Bücherregal samt Geheimtür etwas anfangen konnte, kam man definitiv auf seine Kosten.

    War ein wirklich unterhaltsamer Abend, irgendwelchen Anspruch hatten wir ja im Vorfeld bereits abgehakt. Herausragend: Karsten Oliver Wöllm als Frankenstein Junior. Tolle Bühnenpräsenz, grandiose Stimme. Auch Marianna McAven als Frau Blücher wusste sehr zu überzeugen.

    #Theater #BurgfestspieleJagsthausen #MelBrooks #FrankensteinJunior

  6. Noch kurz zu „Frankenstein Junior“ von Mel Brooks, das wir gestern als Musical bei den Burgfestspielen Jagsthausen erleben durften: Die Story passt auf zwei DIN-A4-Seiten in großer Schrift. Prüde sollte man auch nicht gerade sein. 🙂

    Wenn man aber mit viel Musik und Gesang ausgestattetem Klamauk und lustigen Regieeinfällen (keine Ahnung, was davon alles bereits im Skript stand) wie einem menschlichen Bücherregal samt Geheimtür etwas anfangen konnte, kam man definitiv auf seine Kosten.

    War ein wirklich unterhaltsamer Abend, irgendwelchen Anspruch hatten wir ja im Vorfeld bereits abgehakt. Herausragend: Karsten Oliver Wöllm als Frankenstein Junior. Tolle Bühnenpräsenz, grandiose Stimme. Auch Marianna McAven als Frau Blücher wusste sehr zu überzeugen.

    #Theater #BurgfestspieleJagsthausen #MelBrooks #FrankensteinJunior

  7. Noch kurz zu „Frankenstein Junior“ von Mel Brooks, das wir gestern als Musical bei den Burgfestspielen Jagsthausen erleben durften: Die Story passt auf zwei DIN-A4-Seiten in großer Schrift. Prüde sollte man auch nicht gerade sein. 🙂

    Wenn man aber mit viel Musik und Gesang ausgestattetem Klamauk und lustigen Regieeinfällen (keine Ahnung, was davon alles bereits im Skript stand) wie einem menschlichen Bücherregal samt Geheimtür etwas anfangen konnte, kam man definitiv auf seine Kosten.

    War ein wirklich unterhaltsamer Abend, irgendwelchen Anspruch hatten wir ja im Vorfeld bereits abgehakt. Herausragend: Karsten Oliver Wöllm als Frankenstein Junior. Tolle Bühnenpräsenz, grandiose Stimme. Auch Marianna McAven als Frau Blücher wusste sehr zu überzeugen.

    #Theater #BurgfestspieleJagsthausen #MelBrooks #FrankensteinJunior

  8. Noch kurz zu „Frankenstein Junior“ von Mel Brooks, das wir gestern als Musical bei den Burgfestspielen Jagsthausen erleben durften: Die Story passt auf zwei DIN-A4-Seiten in großer Schrift. Prüde sollte man auch nicht gerade sein. 🙂

    Wenn man aber mit viel Musik und Gesang ausgestattetem Klamauk und lustigen Regieeinfällen (keine Ahnung, was davon alles bereits im Skript stand) wie einem menschlichen Bücherregal samt Geheimtür etwas anfangen konnte, kam man definitiv auf seine Kosten.

    War ein wirklich unterhaltsamer Abend, irgendwelchen Anspruch hatten wir ja im Vorfeld bereits abgehakt. Herausragend: Karsten Oliver Wöllm als Frankenstein Junior. Tolle Bühnenpräsenz, grandiose Stimme. Auch Marianna McAven als Frau Blücher wusste sehr zu überzeugen.

    #Theater #BurgfestspieleJagsthausen #MelBrooks #FrankensteinJunior

  9. The X-rated 1974 movie scene Mel Brooks called “too much for its time”

    Credit: Far Out / HBO Max Tue 18 August 2026 1:30, UK Having never met a joke he…
    #NewsBeep #News #Movies #1970s #1974 #ComedyMovie #Entertainment #MelBrooks #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/741503/

  10. New poll on voter opinion, tipping culture, Korean street food, FilmWeek and more

    Today on AirTalk: new poll on voter opinion, tipping culture, HO TOK Korean Pocket Pancake, FilmWeek and a…
    #EuropeSays #Korea #KR #AirTalk #ballotmeasures #Berkeley-IGS #FilmWeek #JuddApatow #Korean #koreanfood #Koreanstreetfood #MelBrooks #MichaelBonfiglio #nightmarket
    europesays.com/korea/120708/

  11. #antifa #MelBrooks

    "Mel Brooks, Antifascist Filmmaker

    Now 100 years old, the legendary comedy director has lampooned and skewered racists, and his work holds up better than most 'politically incorrect' humor.

    One of the great canards of the culture wars is that you couldn’t make *Blazing Saddles* today. It’s a half-truth that disguises a bigger lie. There are a thousand and one reasons why it would be hard—though, as *Django Unchained* proved, not impossible—to get a movie like *Blazing Saddles* made in contemporary Hollywood, from the declining public knowledge of the Western genre conventions it parodies to the general demise of big, mainstream comedy movies from the major studios. But the idea that you couldn’t make *Blazing Saddles* today is not about any of that. It is, more than anything, about the prodigious number of N-words the film jams into 93 minutes. 'You couldn’t make *Blazing Saddles* today' is the rallying cry of people who think politically correct cancel culture is a major force in American society even as the U.S. slides deeper and deeper into Christian-nationalist fascism. The irony, of course, is that were *Blazing Saddles* to be erased from memory Yesterday-style and then unleashed on the world afresh tomorrow, Elon Musk would spend more time crying about it on X The Everything App than he has about Christopher Nolan’s *The Odyssey* having Black people in it.

    There are many features that set Mel Brooks’s films apart from other parodic and gleefully transgressive joke-a-minute comedies. Amongst the zaniness, there is a literariness that makes him more than a gag writer; there is a deep cinephilia that makes his genre parodies rich in detail so lacking from *Scary Movie* et al. (*Young Frankenstein* captures the look, sound and feel of 1931’s *Frankenstein* to freakish precision. Ditto *High Anxiety* for Hitchcock and *Silent Movie* for the silent era.) There is his emphasis on Jewish identity, both his own and his characters’, which he has always cited as key in the development of his comedy.

    Born in a Brooklyn tenement a century ago, his father died of tuberculosis when he was just two years old, and as he grew into a small, sickly boy, he used humor as a defense against his bullies. When he served in the Army during World War II—as a combat engineer, among other roles—he once heard Germans singing over the other side of the river, and responded by singing 'Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo’ Bye!)' into a bullhorn."

    currentaffairs.org/news/mel-br

  12. #antifa #MelBrooks

    "Mel Brooks, Antifascist Filmmaker

    Now 100 years old, the legendary comedy director has lampooned and skewered racists, and his work holds up better than most 'politically incorrect' humor.

    One of the great canards of the culture wars is that you couldn’t make *Blazing Saddles* today. It’s a half-truth that disguises a bigger lie. There are a thousand and one reasons why it would be hard—though, as *Django Unchained* proved, not impossible—to get a movie like *Blazing Saddles* made in contemporary Hollywood, from the declining public knowledge of the Western genre conventions it parodies to the general demise of big, mainstream comedy movies from the major studios. But the idea that you couldn’t make *Blazing Saddles* today is not about any of that. It is, more than anything, about the prodigious number of N-words the film jams into 93 minutes. 'You couldn’t make *Blazing Saddles* today' is the rallying cry of people who think politically correct cancel culture is a major force in American society even as the U.S. slides deeper and deeper into Christian-nationalist fascism. The irony, of course, is that were *Blazing Saddles* to be erased from memory Yesterday-style and then unleashed on the world afresh tomorrow, Elon Musk would spend more time crying about it on X The Everything App than he has about Christopher Nolan’s *The Odyssey* having Black people in it.

    There are many features that set Mel Brooks’s films apart from other parodic and gleefully transgressive joke-a-minute comedies. Amongst the zaniness, there is a literariness that makes him more than a gag writer; there is a deep cinephilia that makes his genre parodies rich in detail so lacking from *Scary Movie* et al. (*Young Frankenstein* captures the look, sound and feel of 1931’s *Frankenstein* to freakish precision. Ditto *High Anxiety* for Hitchcock and *Silent Movie* for the silent era.) There is his emphasis on Jewish identity, both his own and his characters’, which he has always cited as key in the development of his comedy.

    Born in a Brooklyn tenement a century ago, his father died of tuberculosis when he was just two years old, and as he grew into a small, sickly boy, he used humor as a defense against his bullies. When he served in the Army during World War II—as a combat engineer, among other roles—he once heard Germans singing over the other side of the river, and responded by singing 'Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo’ Bye!)' into a bullhorn."

    currentaffairs.org/news/mel-br

  13. #antifa #MelBrooks

    "Mel Brooks, Antifascist Filmmaker

    Now 100 years old, the legendary comedy director has lampooned and skewered racists, and his work holds up better than most 'politically incorrect' humor.

    One of the great canards of the culture wars is that you couldn’t make *Blazing Saddles* today. It’s a half-truth that disguises a bigger lie. There are a thousand and one reasons why it would be hard—though, as *Django Unchained* proved, not impossible—to get a movie like *Blazing Saddles* made in contemporary Hollywood, from the declining public knowledge of the Western genre conventions it parodies to the general demise of big, mainstream comedy movies from the major studios. But the idea that you couldn’t make *Blazing Saddles* today is not about any of that. It is, more than anything, about the prodigious number of N-words the film jams into 93 minutes. 'You couldn’t make *Blazing Saddles* today' is the rallying cry of people who think politically correct cancel culture is a major force in American society even as the U.S. slides deeper and deeper into Christian-nationalist fascism. The irony, of course, is that were *Blazing Saddles* to be erased from memory Yesterday-style and then unleashed on the world afresh tomorrow, Elon Musk would spend more time crying about it on X The Everything App than he has about Christopher Nolan’s *The Odyssey* having Black people in it.

    There are many features that set Mel Brooks’s films apart from other parodic and gleefully transgressive joke-a-minute comedies. Amongst the zaniness, there is a literariness that makes him more than a gag writer; there is a deep cinephilia that makes his genre parodies rich in detail so lacking from *Scary Movie* et al. (*Young Frankenstein* captures the look, sound and feel of 1931’s *Frankenstein* to freakish precision. Ditto *High Anxiety* for Hitchcock and *Silent Movie* for the silent era.) There is his emphasis on Jewish identity, both his own and his characters’, which he has always cited as key in the development of his comedy.

    Born in a Brooklyn tenement a century ago, his father died of tuberculosis when he was just two years old, and as he grew into a small, sickly boy, he used humor as a defense against his bullies. When he served in the Army during World War II—as a combat engineer, among other roles—he once heard Germans singing over the other side of the river, and responded by singing 'Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo’ Bye!)' into a bullhorn."

    currentaffairs.org/news/mel-br

  14. #antifa #MelBrooks

    "Mel Brooks, Antifascist Filmmaker

    Now 100 years old, the legendary comedy director has lampooned and skewered racists, and his work holds up better than most 'politically incorrect' humor.

    One of the great canards of the culture wars is that you couldn’t make *Blazing Saddles* today. It’s a half-truth that disguises a bigger lie. There are a thousand and one reasons why it would be hard—though, as *Django Unchained* proved, not impossible—to get a movie like *Blazing Saddles* made in contemporary Hollywood, from the declining public knowledge of the Western genre conventions it parodies to the general demise of big, mainstream comedy movies from the major studios. But the idea that you couldn’t make *Blazing Saddles* today is not about any of that. It is, more than anything, about the prodigious number of N-words the film jams into 93 minutes. 'You couldn’t make *Blazing Saddles* today' is the rallying cry of people who think politically correct cancel culture is a major force in American society even as the U.S. slides deeper and deeper into Christian-nationalist fascism. The irony, of course, is that were *Blazing Saddles* to be erased from memory Yesterday-style and then unleashed on the world afresh tomorrow, Elon Musk would spend more time crying about it on X The Everything App than he has about Christopher Nolan’s *The Odyssey* having Black people in it.

    There are many features that set Mel Brooks’s films apart from other parodic and gleefully transgressive joke-a-minute comedies. Amongst the zaniness, there is a literariness that makes him more than a gag writer; there is a deep cinephilia that makes his genre parodies rich in detail so lacking from *Scary Movie* et al. (*Young Frankenstein* captures the look, sound and feel of 1931’s *Frankenstein* to freakish precision. Ditto *High Anxiety* for Hitchcock and *Silent Movie* for the silent era.) There is his emphasis on Jewish identity, both his own and his characters’, which he has always cited as key in the development of his comedy.

    Born in a Brooklyn tenement a century ago, his father died of tuberculosis when he was just two years old, and as he grew into a small, sickly boy, he used humor as a defense against his bullies. When he served in the Army during World War II—as a combat engineer, among other roles—he once heard Germans singing over the other side of the river, and responded by singing 'Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo’ Bye!)' into a bullhorn."

    currentaffairs.org/news/mel-br

  15. I am actually quite glad #MelBrooks is still working on films while being a centinerian. We need #Jewish creators, especially ones who remember #WorldWar2. People who can turn tragedy into comedy, and make #spoof and #parody of everything. Even those #sequels he teased about in his films, but refused to make for fifty years. Waiting fifty years to make a sequel almost makes it even more comical.

  16. I am actually quite glad #MelBrooks is still working on films while being a centinerian. We need #Jewish creators, especially ones who remember #WorldWar2. People who can turn tragedy into comedy, and make #spoof and #parody of everything. Even those #sequels he teased about in his films, but refused to make for fifty years. Waiting fifty years to make a sequel almost makes it even more comical.

  17. I am actually quite glad #MelBrooks is still working on films while being a centinerian. We need #Jewish creators, especially ones who remember #WorldWar2. People who can turn tragedy into comedy, and make #spoof and #parody of everything. Even those #sequels he teased about in his films, but refused to make for fifty years. Waiting fifty years to make a sequel almost makes it even more comical.

  18. I am actually quite glad #MelBrooks is still working on films while being a centinerian. We need #Jewish creators, especially ones who remember #WorldWar2. People who can turn tragedy into comedy, and make #spoof and #parody of everything. Even those #sequels he teased about in his films, but refused to make for fifty years. Waiting fifty years to make a sequel almost makes it even more comical.

  19. I am actually quite glad #MelBrooks is still working on films while being a centinerian. We need #Jewish creators, especially ones who remember #WorldWar2. People who can turn tragedy into comedy, and make #spoof and #parody of everything. Even those #sequels he teased about in his films, but refused to make for fifty years. Waiting fifty years to make a sequel almost makes it even more comical.

  20. The 1974 Mel Brooks movie scene that revolutionised the music industry

    Credit: Far Out / UMC Pictures Mon 13 July 2026 18:45, UK Not content with revolutionising Hollywood in…
    #NewsBeep #News #Movies #1970s #1974 #Aerosmith #ComedyMovie #Entertainment #MelBrooks #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/689977/