It’s the weekend! It’s also Mel Brooks’ birthday. Even if I’m not terribly focused on comedy in my art right now, I am focused on the world I live in. Mel Brooks remains one of the best to have done it. My personal favorite of his will always be ‘Blazing Saddles’ (of course), but […]
As I’ve been wading into the deeper end of the ‘awkward/uncomfortable comedy’ pool, I’ve been going back and looking at some of the people who make me laugh and inspire me as a writer and an actor. Mel Brooks of course is on that list. Do I think it’s a coincidence he crossed paths […]
Lucas, Spielberg, and Scorsese all get their well-deserved credit, but doesn’t Mel Brooks deserve a little more love for pumping out his own classic films in the 70s/early 80s? Chief among them is his parody of the Western genre, Blazing Saddles. The story revolves around a black sheriff put in charge of a racist town […]
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