Mel Brooks celebrates 100th birthday
Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence.
Evyatar Pyrrhos150He might outlive it at this rate.
Jeremy Nicholl Photography72He’s got a lot to answer for.
Ron James26And he hasn’t fixed it yet???
northernrednekk.bsky.social20He's been holding a mirror up to the insanity of Americans for quite some time.
Don't Let Democracy Die19and he knows a Nazi wannabe when he sees one.. Thats why he hates Trump
hogdog610.bsky.social18I thought he was 2,000 years old!
John Wiswell92Everybody has a fact that causes their brain to immediately shut off. This is mine.
J.R.34I hope he outlives it 🙏
Emma Barry18My grandmother died earlier this year at 100, and I had never put together that she also was around for 40% of US history also.
🍁Dr.John E. Rock11And I've been around for 25%
Patrick Sauer9It’s good to be the King.
Mel Stefaniuk8Don’t put this shit on him
Carin Ruff7This is the perspective we need.
Brad Reed4'The Producers' alone would have bestowed him comedic immortality. Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, etc were a bonus
Joe Mason3So I calculated my percentage...but I really think it should be weighted. Periods of slow but real progress OR catastrophic reversals should count more than, say, the 1990s.
Brad Reed3His very presence is a blessing.
Happy 100TH BIRTHDAY to the king Mel Brooks, who wore a fake extra finger to his handprint ceremony🥳🎂🥳
Erik Corley54Mandy Patinkin still has the chance to do the funniest thing.
Bill Stewart21"Wrong number of fingers but it's NOT AI? Hmmm..."
Music Box Theatre18The best part is that he made it look so realistic that you wouldn’t even notice it unless you were looking for it (like during this Conan interview) m.youtube.com/watch?v=BJzZ...
calicoday.bsky.social11Alt text would be great for sharing more widely.
Eileen Ridge9no kings except for maybe Mel Brooks
Count_Floyd6Hmm, maybe there is something to that 'laughter is the best medicine' thing...
Phil Plait230What a genius. What really sticks with me, of everything he's ever done, is his example of tragedy versus comedy (slightly paraphrased): Tragedy is when I cut my finger; comedy is when you walk into an open manhole and die.
Shoshana, daughter of Ruth113Mel Brooks: fucking with AI before we even knew
Graeme Swanson13Mel Brooks is a great example of an "always on" comic.
Christian Sandberg6Man måste ju bara älska honom 😂
Hal 100004One of the biggest laughs I've ever heard in a theater was during Blazing Saddles. "Where the white women at?"
Specter177✈️4Hope Mandy Patinkin wasn't there.
Jonathan3Happy birthday Mel!!! (And also to me, but my birthday is 64% less impressive than his)
Christine Pulliam2“Blazing Saddles”, “Young Frankenstein” - a master of comedy.
🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power2Of course he did! 😂
fatsteverogers2‘Sgood to be the king
A hundred years of Mel Brooks isn’t anywhere near enough. Happy Birthday to the great one!
Anything worth doing is too much trouble.7May the Schwartz be with us all.
TrinityPhoenix GoodTrouble5Happy birthday! 🎉 absolutely love you to pieces! Mel Brooks!
Michael 4You gotta love Mel Brooks!
LiarSpeaksTheTruth3He's won Peabody, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards (PEGOT), and turned down a Kennedy Honour three times.
tomkrestik.bsky.social3Mel Brooks has been alive for 40% of America’s existence
The Mandawhorean3That man is a hero to me. I was running around at 9 years old yelling “MAY THE SCHWARTZ BE WITH YOU” at Sunday school.
Mel Brooks is a greater piece of American heritage than the Confederacy.
Drunk On Mystery15The Confederacy lasted less than 5 years. There are awful television shows that are greater pieces of America's heritage than the Confederacy. The Confederacy couldn't even last as long as Yes, Dear.
emily!4I'm looking for movies to watch on the 3rd and 4th and you know what? Blazing Saddles is going on the list.
MikeasaService2It's true, but so are Mel Blanc, Mel Tormè, Mel Blount and Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes.
Happy birthday, Mel Brooks! Thank you for making the best movie.
Shaenon K. Garrity38The single funniest word in cinema is "Sedagive?"
Black Myron5When I finally watched all the classic Frankenstein movies, I was amazed how many details he used from them, right down to the police captain with the artificial arm!
Thomas A Spooner4Putting on the Ritz. ❤️
Critical Bill.4Frederick: (scared) Jesus Christ. Get me outta here! Open this goddamn door or I'll kick your rotten heads in. MOMMY!!!
snp21.bsky.social3Guaranteed to lift your spirits when you're down in the dumps. 🤣😂 Sedagive??!!
Mike3Hard to believe that Mel Brooks at first was against this scene in 'Young Frankenstein', but Gene Wilder insisted it be in the movie.
Happy 100th Birthday, Mel Brooks! Aside from your vast own work, allow me to say thank you for rescuing David Lynch from what he described as "surreal obscurity". He couldn’t have had the career he did without you first opening the doors to the Hollywood industry and then standing behind him.
DougieLombax🩷💜💙 (Dougie/Adrienne/Zeek/not my real name) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇪🇦🇲🇺🇦10Yeah. He insisted that David Lynch directed The Elephant Man, he didn’t want to be credited as a producer. Id say the results were worth it.
Ciudad De Escanaba8Mel Brooks is the man.
GP3331Mel Brooks blew open the doors for many talented people. A true visionary. Happy 10Oth Birthday, Mel! 🎂🥳🎉
Ladu T. Wade1Mel Brooks is the GOAT!!!❤️🐐
Mel Brooks and David Lynch on the set of The Elephant Man, 1980
thepowerdroid.bsky.social10Mel's David Lynch story: First day of shooting on "Elephant Man" and Lynch does not have a coat against the chilly weather. Mel sent an aide to Harrod's with his measurements and bought a dark blue woolen overcoat. He wore it every single day. When Mel got his AFI, Lynch brought it out for Mel.
Where the HELL did I put my glasses TODAY?9God, Lynch was a kid.
Vaughan_Michaels4Thought young Lynch was Edward Norton at first glance.
Kasey Jones2That’s a lot of brilliance and talent!
brendanamartin.bsky.social1What is the context for this?
Richie Ryan1That's a proud dad right there.
It's officially June 28th, and you know what that means... 🎉 HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY, MEL BROOKS! 🥳 @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social In the next post, I'll tell you my favorite joke cut from the Broadway production of Young Frankenstein...
Maggie Wittlin37On a well-timed family vacation, I saw the Young Frankenstein musical in Seattle before it opened on Broadway. This was my favorite joke in the show, and I can't imagine why it was cut before Broadway. (It's because the joke is long and incredibly silly, but hey, it's Mel Brooks.)
I will be puttin on the ritz in his honor
Hedley Lamar's fugly sister8ATTABOY MEL! THE PRIME MINISTER OF COMEDY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Piratedan74he certainly had either an incredible eye for talent or was able to surround himself with performers who had great chemistry. Growing up in the 70s, I learned two great truths from Mr. Brooks.. 1) Racism is stupid 2) Teri Garr would end up being my personal female archetype preference
TAKE 24I saw his Springtime with Hitler on Broadway. In the famous dance scene, who comes out as one of the soldiers? Mel Brooks...that NYC audience went wild.
Kathleen Bergeron4If Mel is the world’s oldest comedian, does it follow that he’s also the teller of the world’s oldest jokes? Funny that he once teamed with Carl Reiner to portray a verrrry old man!
Hexpat2Laughter is good medicine for longevity
Born on this day, 1926, the 100 year old man, Mel Brooks.
thepowerdroid.bsky.social2100 years down, 1900 more to go!
Raider2Mel Brooks is proof that laughter prolongs life!😁🤣😂
Sane Florida Native1My favorite of all time is his Frankstein movie. So many great one liners and sight gags. Abby Normal anyone?
TRDowden1Happy, Happy, HAPPY Birthday, Mel!!
Glen Toogood1"What's the secret to your longevity?" "NO FRIED FOODS!!
Mor'e1Probably the nicest bloke on the planet.
Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)24Strongly recommend Mel's autobiography, "All About Me!" He narrates the audiobook version himself! To be honest, it really is all about HIM. He says almost nothing about anything that happened more than about ten feet away from him. But what a life! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646673...
Jason2i was shown Young Frankenstein far, far, far too young, and it very much helped turn me into the irresponsible immature lunatic i've become. happy centennial to the king (which it's good to be)
"Feeling different, feeling alienated... that's probably what's responsible for the Jews having developed such a great sense of humor. The people who had the greatest reason to weep, learned more than anyone else how to laugh." - Mel Brooks Happy 100th birthday to the best to ever do it.
Joel S.100In 2023, Mel Brooks was asked if he believes in God, and he said, “Well, if there is a God, I’m pretty sure he’s Jewish... If there is a God, he probably has sent me some warnings that I didn’t heed.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Amy Alton Bautz, clown21Also, the Torah is deeply funny.
Erica1I hope he now has new material for his stand-up routine, 'The Hundred Year-old Man'.
xanadian1I'm so glad he's still with us.
Joel S.528I posted something nice about Mel Brooks and Jewish humor for his one hundredth birthday, and half the responses are complaining about Israel. A lot of people on here just really don’t think Jewish people should get to exist without constantly atoning.
MB Brown7Happy 100th Birthday, Mel Brooks! What a gift to the world you are and have been.
Happy 100th birthday to Cpl Melvin Kaminsky aka Mel Brooks - the Mensch of Mensches When speaking of his service with the 78th Infantry Division in WWII, he reportedly said, “I was a combat engineer. Isn’t that ridiculous? The two things I hate most in the world are combat and engineering.”
Paint-Stripping Peptides, LLC18It’s hard knowing I’m the second-funniest alum of the 78th.
va_benny11May the Schwartz be with him
Larry Wolfarth9After he lost part of his foot to a grenade, my father-in-law served with quartermasters in Paris. So he hated combat and logistics. Happy birthday, Mr. Brooks!
S K USA 🪖👠🌎🗽♻️8Ah, you know a Soldier is happy when he's complaining!
Kenneth W. Noe4I once read that for years he couldn't use a toilet without checking for booby traps.
Björn Thegeby 2The toughest job in an army. Telling the Assault Team to wait until you have finished the bridge.
Mel Brooks has always understood that the best way to disempower fascists is to laugh at them. Their power is fear. “Springtime for Hitler,” anyone? Happy Birthday, Mel Brooks!
killerwhaletank 🍁7Same with racists. Blazing Saddles was a masterclass in trolling racists.
Dr. Vaughn Joy4I wrote about this in my review of The Producers a couple months back, and how he hired people who could make powerful statements just by being present, as with Zero Mostel whose blacklisting and principled testimony to HUAC add an extra level of defiance through comedy. Brooks is beyond comparison.
am-mccarthy.bsky.social2Jiminy Glick to Mel Brooks : What's your beef with the Nazis?
FessorFrink1To Be Or Not To Be was also underrated.
Peter Kaufman1The 2,000 year old man. “Stuffed Cabbage.”
Phil Bryan1Totally agree. In the UK we have Nigel Farage, can’t believe how no comedians have made fun of him. He’d vanish over night. Loads of skits about his £5m dodgy undeclared personal donation from a Crypto billionaire. It’s a door wide open.
Dr. Vaughn Joy85I wrote about this in my review of The Producers a couple months back, and how he hired people who could make powerful statements just by being present, as with Zero Mostel whose blacklisting and principled testimony to HUAC add an extra level of defiance through comedy. Brooks is beyond comparison.
Stephanie Lucas2He also perfected the idea of listening to producer demands (ex: that he fire Gene Wilder), agreeing to do them, then (once the producer left) ignoring them entirely.
The craziest thing you need to know about Mel Brooks is that in 1974, he released two of the funniest and most iconic films of all time. Even wilder (no relation to Gene, who's in both flicks), Mel Brooks began shooting Young Frankenstein less than two weeks after Blazing Saddles opened.
🌈Mandamonium FROM THE TOP ROPE5And they're both just, so great. It's hard to pick one over the other, since it varies by day for me.
ZachFutureSomething2A testament to the inimitable genius that is Mel Brooks. An official welcome to the 100 club, sir, and thank you for the memories.
Brian McCurdy2According to Brooks’s autobiography, he and Gene Wilder wrote YF while shooting Blazing Saddles.
