Yesterday, that genius comic movie maestro and all-round funny man Mel Brooks celebrated his 85th birthday!
Always one of my favourite producers way back to when I was a child, his Blazing Saddles, The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie and History of the World: Part I remain among my most cherished films, and I particularly adored his classic entourage of regular actors (Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLouise, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman among them).
He also has an unerring eye for camp - I suppose being married to Anne Bancroft for all those years must have helped!
So in recognition of his survival (apart from Miss Leachman and Mr Wilder, all the others are dead), and also befitting the Gay Pride theme of this week, here are a few of the more homosexualist sketches from his vast repertoire...
The "selecting escorts" scene from History of the World Part 1, with Madeline Kahn:
From the same movie, The Spanish Inquisition musical extravaganza:
And finally, Blazing Saddles and "The French Mistake" routine:
Mel Brooks on IMDB
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