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'History of the World, Part II' review: The school of Mel is in session

If you don't count the years when he worked as a drummer, a "tummler" and a teenage comic in the Catskills, Mel Brooks began his show business career in television, writing for Sid Caesar at the dawn of the medium. He returned in the mid-1960s to co-create "Get Smart," and…

Los Angeles Times

Review: Mel Brooks’ giddily irreverent style of comedy is emulated in new Hulu series ‘History of the World, Part II’

The comedy of Mel Brooks might as well be its own genre. It’s broad. It’s irreverent. It’s giddily absurd. And no more so than in the 1981 movie “History of the World, Part I,” wherein various events on the human timeline are filtered through this winking sensibility, transforming something like…

Chicago Tribune

The 15 best jokes in Mel Brooks movies

One of the funniest people to ever work in Hollywood, so it’s no easy task whittling down the best jokes in Mel Brooks movies.

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‘History of the World, Part II’: Mel Brooks picks up where his jokey 1981 movie left off

‘Part I’ ended with a fake teaser to a ‘Part II’ that Brooks never planned. But now it’s here as a wacky Hulu series, and most of the sketches are loaded with stars and laughs.

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: 'History of the World, Part II' reminds us that Mel Brooks is one of our greatest court jesters

Mel Brooks is still going strong.

Tribune News Service

Review: Netflix’s ‘Cunk on Earth’ is the funniest mockumentary around

The Mel Brooks sequel “History of the World: Part II” premieres on Hulu March 6, but there’s room for more than one amateur sociologist / historian / gagmeister on the planet. To wit: the British mockumentary series “Cunk on Earth,” now on Netflix. It’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in…

Chicago Tribune

Actor Viola Davis is the latest person to reach EGOT status. Here are the 17 others, and what the title means

American actor Viola Davis becomes the 18th person to reach EGOT status, after winning her first Grammy Award.

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Viola Davis becomes EGOT winner at the 2023 Grammy Awards

Actor is 18th person to claim grand slam of an Emmy, an Oscar, a Tony and now a Grammy

The Guardian - AU

Actor Viola Davis achieves EGOT with win at Grammys

LOS ANGELES — Add yet another honor to Viola Davis' long list of accolades.

Los Angeles Times

Love, betrayal and "Getting Smarter"

Feldon's engrossing memoir reminds us that we can recast the past — even come to treasure it

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Celebrities? They’re all a bit weird … Hadley Freeman on 22 years interviewing stars

Ben Affleck was delightful, Justin Timberlake a drag and Keanu so handsome I couldn’t speak. Here’s everything you always wanted to know about A-listers (but were afraid to ask)

The Guardian - UK

‘My Favorite Year,’ Comic Salute to TV’s Golden Age, Hits 40

Peter O’Toole was famed for his commanding, Oscar-nominated turns. Mark Linn-Baker was a fledgling stage actor. Richard Benjamin, who’d made a leading-man splash in "Goodbye, Columbus" and "Westworld," had a few TV directing credits. The sum of these unlikely parts was the zesty 1982 movie comedy "My Favorite Year," starring…

Asharq Al-Awsat

'My Favorite Year,' comic salute to TV's golden age, hits 40

A movie that takes a fond look back at the original golden age of TV has reached a milestone

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TV tonight: Keira Knightley shares her family’s wartime love stories

The Oscar-nominee takes part in My Grandparent’s War. Plus, John Bishop – whose eldest son, Joe, is partially deaf – unpicks the issues his family have faced. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Paddington to Sidney: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Recent events have turned the beloved Peruvian bear into a national treasure, while Oprah’s documentary about Sidney Poitier is an extraordinary look at a legend

Los Angeles Times

Top Hollywood lawyer Bert Fields dies at 93 after COVID battle

LOS ANGELES — Bert Fields, the prominent Hollywood litigator who represented such stars as Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Jackson and Mel Brooks, died Sunday. He was 93.

Daily Mirror

Chase star Anne Hegerty playing 'only sane person' in new housekeeper sitcom role

I'm a Celeb star Anne Hegerty, 63 - one of the chasers on ITV quiz show The Chase - reveals her dream comedy co-star as she's picked to play a housekeeper in new sitcom Gammon, about two dim brothers

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Boston Herald

Movie review: Top-notch cast, ‘Blazing’ plot makes ‘Paws of Fury’ an all-ages delight

Loosely inspired by the Mel Brooks’ 1974 groundbreaking comedy classic “Blazing Saddles” (and originally titled “Blazing Samurai”) and set in a mythical Japan inhabited mostly by cats, the computer-generated animated production “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank” tells the story of a beagle named Hank (Michael Cera).

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Paws of Fury’ an animated ‘Blazing Saddles’ knockoff without the audacity, or the humor

The racial element is replaced by a dog thrown into a community of cats.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Review: ‘Paws of Fury’ a Sad, Declawed ‘Blazing Saddles’

Writer and director Mel Brooks’ 1974 Western spoof "Blazing Saddles" tackled racism so head-on that Brooks recently mused he wouldn’t be able to make the film today. Maybe, just maybe, he has done just that with "Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank," but at a terrible cost. Paramount's limp,…

Salon

11 "History Of The World, Part I" facts

According to Mel Brooks, the Moses scene was a last-minute addition

Inverse

You need to watch the best sci-fi satire of all time on Amazon Prime ASAP

There's never been a better spoof than 'Spaceballs.' Here's why it holds up so well and where to stream it right now.

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