Mel Brooks never met a stereotype he couldn’t upend. The classic Hollywood cowboy is always white. Mel Brooks’s Hollywood cowboy is black. And his Indian chief speaks Yiddish.
Designer: Ricardo Galvez. Producer: Tom McNamara.
Features
Clip | Bernadette Peters on Mel Brooks: “…he’ll get away with things because they were truly funny.”
Clip | Comic Legend Sid Caesar Discovers that Beethoven and Mozart are Dead!
Spaceballs: The Art of the Trope (or, making the cliché absurd)
Young Frankenstein: The Art of the Homage
Mel Brooks Biographical Timeline
Mel Brooks Biography
