OT: Happy 100th birthday Mel Brooks

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An American treasure.

 

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Wow. God bless to a comic legend

 

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Happy Birthday to a comedy legend from Sid Caesar's Show of Shows in the 1950s to the present day

 

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Brooks day on TCM. Blazing Saddles on right now. Language uncensored.

 

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1 of an ever shrinking number of living WWII vets. Battle of the Bulge and into Germany.

 

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Still eagerly anticipating Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money!

 

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He was my Dad's favorite. We never missed a Mel Brooks movie at the theater. I'll never forget my Dad busting out with the loudest laugh at The Silent movie when the Mime was the only one to say anything.

 

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Kbe4 said:

An American treasure.

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Yes he is.

 

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As I said in in a previous post, one of the greatest runs of comedy all time-Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety

 

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As I said in in a previous post, one of the greatest runs of comedy all time-Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety

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Mel's Producers with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder was my favorite Brooks movie

 

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Not Brooks, but Slap Shot now on TCM with Hanson Bros debut coming up shortly