The saying goes, "dying is easy, comedy is hard," but man has Mel Brooks made comedy look pretty easy over his career in TV, movies and stage. The writer/director/actor/producer has been making audiences laugh since he started writing on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows all the way back in the 1950s before he eventually made his move to the big screen with his Oscar-winning The Producers in 1967.
What followed is pure comedic delight as Brooks wrote and directed Blazing Saddles, The Twelve Chairs, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World Part I, Spaceballs, Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Dracula: Dead and Loving It. At 95, Brooks is still at it; he most recently was a writer on History of the World Part II, a continuation of his original movie, and is set to produce a Spaceballs sequel.
