There will not be a list of Mel Brooks’ 98 best movies in this story. In case there could be any confusion, the headline above is me taking a stab at a parody of “best-of” lists, which are completely subjective and usually based on arbitrary criteria and, perhaps most irritating, they never make everyone reading them happy.
One thing we can all agree on is that the much-beloved director and producer of some of the most brilliant parodies and comedies of all time is a national treasure, and it’s awesome that he’s still with us at 98 years old. Friday (June 28th) is his birthday!
Others have already taken to celebrating Brooks this year, including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AKA the Oscars people), when he was honored in January at the Oscar-adjacent Governor’s Awards with an honorary statuette. Watch as he accepted the award from Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick,…
