The ad even draws inspiration from Mel Brooks, breaking down the 4th wall with the Lebron James cameo.
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Or, for that matter, Rudy Giuliani with Bill Cosby, Mitt Romney with Montel Williams, or Ron Paul with Mel Brooks?
At the opening night Broderick said he wanted the role because he was eager to work with Mel Brooks and Nathan Lane.
Based on Mel Brooks' classic 1968 movie, The Producers has been one of the most successful productions on Broadway in many years.
The Tony nomination is a triumph for Mel Brooks, who is responsible for the show's music and lyrics, and who co-wrote the book.
Hurt even parodied the "chestburster" in Mel Brooks's comedy Spaceballs.
He barely mentions a New Yorker series written towards the end of his life: long profiles of vivid characters he admired, such as Mel Brooks, Johnny Carson, Ralph Richardson and Tom Stoppard.
Mr. Nolen is properly monstrous, Mr. Williams unyieldingly blunt, and Glenn Gover, who plays a writer based on the young Mel Brooks, comes on so strong that you'll feel like you've stepped into a wind tunnel.
If the fiscal cliff fiasco has taught us anything, it is that our elected officials no longer even pretend to place the needs of the nation ahead of their own to quote Mel Brooks phony baloney jobs.
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Unfortunately, many of the punch lines that have defined Mel Brooks' success cannot be repeated here. (Laughter.) I was telling him that I went to see Blazing Saddles -- (laughter) -- when I was 10.
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The Producers (Opens Dec. 21) Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are searching for a way to guarantee that their new musical, Springtime for Hitler, will become a catastrophic flop in the musical version of Mel Brooks' classic comedy.
Alas, his work there is now forgotten, and he spent his declining years batting out profiles of show-business celebrities like Mel Brooks and Johnny Carson for the New Yorker, a sad way for so spectacularly gifted a writer to go out.
Mel Brooks, a seasoned variety-show comedy writer at the time, wrote the pilot for Get Smart, which aired on NBC in 1965 and appeared alongside I Spy on the same network, another show that was styled on two secret service agents who are identifiably single, male characters.
Nearly four years later, Maron's become a king of the comedy podcast world, where he tapes episodes in his home garage and has icons of the comedy world such as Ben Stiller and Mel Brooks, as well as actors, musicians, chefs -- anyone that he can have candid conversations with about their career arcs and views on life.
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My interviews with people such as Warren Beatty, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Barbra Streisand, Mel Brooks, Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, James Caan, Robin Williams, Christian Slater, Lucille Ball, Meryl Streep, Sharon Stone, Julia Roberts, Sir Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, Tom Cruise, Carrie Fisher, Whoopi Goldberg, Lauren Bacall, and Bruce Willis (just to name a few) have enlightened me about the art of acting and the history of Hollywood.
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