In 1993, he starred as Robin Hood in Mel Brooks's comedy, Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

Other references to Le Pétomane include Mel Brooks's 1974 film Blazing Saddles, Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming of the True, the 1984 college romp film Up the Creek, directed by Robert Butler, in which the four protagonists represent Lepetomane University in an inter-collegiate river raft race, Kinky Friedman's 1999 novel Spanking Watson, and John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise.

The Western genre has been parodied on a number of occasions, famous examples being Support Your Local Sheriff !, Cat Ballou, Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles, and Rustler's Rhapsody.

Mel Brooks's 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles leaves its Western setting when the climactic fight scene breaks out, revealling the setting to have been a set in the Warner Bros studio lot ; the fight spills out onto an adjacent musical set, then into the studio canteen, and finally onto the streets.

* One Froggy Evening was referenced in Mel Brooks's 1987 film SpaceBalls, in a scene where John Hurt plays a man who collapses as a small alien bursts from his stomach, recreating a similar scene Hurt performed in the 1979 movie Alien.

Lane won his second Tony Award for his portrayal of Max Bialystock in the musical version of Mel Brooks's The Producers, as well as Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards.

Considering this was Simon's first original screenplay, parallels can be drawn with fellow Sid-Caesar-staff-writer Mel Brooks's first screenplay, The Producers, satirizing the Broadway aspect of show business and also featuring con-men and a final courtroom scene followed by a jail scene.

* Hedley Lamarr, a character in Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles played by Harvey Korman

In a clearer reference to the historical figure, in Mel Brooks's comedy The Producers: The Movie Musical, Hans Delbrück is the name of the man to whom Franz Liebkind sends a letter by carrier pigeon.

But it's OK when it's Mel Brooks's The Producers singing ' Springtime for Hitler '”, Field added.

He appeared as the grand theatre director Roger DeBris in Mel Brooks's 1968 film comedy The Producers.

Mel Brooks's 1995 parody Dracula: Dead and Loving It has Peter MacNicol in the role.

Actor and author Bill Bailey ( the narrator in Mel Brooks's Haunted Honeymoon ) lives in Archway, as does actor, historian and True Crime author, Geoffrey Howse.

* In a scene deleted from Mel Brooks's film Young Frankenstein, the Monster encounters a cowardly English highwayman somewhat inexplicably named Jack Sprat.

Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ) featured a memorable performance between Mel Brooks and Harvey Korman ( who would team up again in Brooks's 1981 followup History of the World, Part I ).

She was urged to try acting by fellow Floridian Burt Reynolds and her best known movie role is as the Vestal Virgin Miriam in Mel Brooks's History of the World, Part I. Humes has a long list of guest starring roles to her credit on such diverse shows as Grey's Anatomy, The Dukes of Hazzard, Matlock, Knight Rider, Murphy Brown, The A-Team, The Fall Guy, Hardcastle and McCormick, T. J. Hooker,

Among the films which use Murphy beds as comic props are Charlie Chaplin's 1916 One AM, several Three Stooges shorts, the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, and Mel Brooks's Silent Movie.

Pasquale performed in the Mel Brooks's West End musical ' The Producers ' as Leo Bloom.

Also, Mel Brooks's The Producers and Young Frankenstein are based on his hit films.

Mel Brooks's 1974 parody, Young Frankenstein, included a hunchbacked assistant ( played by Marty Feldman ) who claimed his name is pronounced " Eye-gor " ( in response to Frankenstein's claim that his name is pronounced " Fronkunsteen ").

His two most memorable parts were as the crazed, disfigured sculptor in Mystery of the Wax Museum ( Warner Brothers, 1933 ), and as Inspector Krogh in Son of Frankenstein ( 1939 ), memorably sent up by Kenneth Mars in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein ( 1974 ).

* When Stewie is testing out his mind control device on Chris, they sing a part of Irving Berlin's " Puttin on the Ritz ," a parody of Mel Brooks's film Young Frankenstein.

Blazing Saddles is a 1974 satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks.

Among the leading lights in comedy films of the next decade were Woody Allen and Mel Brooks.

Anderson is a comedy sketch writer who has written for Frankie Howerd, Not the Nine O ' Clock News, and Griff Rhys Jones / Mel Smith.

) Mel Brooks directed a Keystone Cops-type car chase in his comedy film Silent Movie.

* 2007 – Mel Tolkin, television comedy writer ( b. 1913 )

Slapstick continues to maintain a presence in modern comedy that draws upon its lineage, running in film from Buster Keaton and Louis de Funès to Mel Brooks to the Jackass movies to the Farrelly Brothers, and in live performance from Weber & Fields to Jackie Gleason to Rowan Atkinson.

Hawn's career slowed down after leaving Hollywood in the late 1980s, but revived somewhat in 1990 with the action comedy Bird on a Wire, a critically panned but commercially successful picture that paired Hawn with Mel Gibson.

* To Be or Not to Be, a dark comedy on living in Nazi-occupied Warsaw ( also remade in 1983 by Mel Brooks ).

* The Producers, a 1968 comedy film by Mel Brooks about an attempt to mount a sure-to-fail musical based on a failed play by an ex-Nazi about the " glories " of Nazi Germany.

Spaceballs is a 1987 American science fiction comedy parody film co-written and directed by Mel Brooks and starring Bill Pullman, John Candy, Mel Brooks and Rick Moranis.

The Producers is a 1968 American satirical dark comedy cult classic film written and directed by Mel Brooks.

Radio comedy ran the gamut from the small town humor of Lum and Abner, Herb Shriner and Minnie Pearl to the dialect characterizations of Mel Blanc and the caustic sarcasm of Henry Morgan.

* In one of the ' Head-to-Head ' dialogue sketches in the BBC comedy series Alas Smith and Jones Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones reminisce about the war and about the songs of the era.

" In all 3 cartoons, Tedd Pierce ( normally a storyman / writer for the cartoons ) and Mel Blanc, respectively, provide voice impressions of the comedy duo.

In Robin Hood: Men in Tights, a 1993 spoof comedy directed by Mel Brooks, Dick Van Patten played the part of the Abbot.

What Women Want is a 2000 American romantic comedy film, written by Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa and Diane Drake, directed by Nancy Meyers, and starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt.

* Mel Brooks portrayed Torquemada in the musical song " The Inquisition " in the 1981 comedy movie History of the World, Part I.

Tomei appeared in the 2000 film What Women Want with Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt, which was a commercial success, and had a supporting role in the romantic comedy Someone Like You with Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd.

* Sue Perkins of comedy duo Mel and Sue

Positioned as a comedy series which was neither Monty Pythons Flying Circus or The Two Ronnies, even after the original pilot was pulled from the schedules he was retained for the first full series, billed equally with the then unknown Mel Smith, Pamela Stephenson and Rowan Atkinson.

Brooks said: " It's an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy.

* 1944 also saw animated gremlins playing a role in the romantic comedy starring Simone Simon called Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More, with an uncredited Mel Blanc providing the voice.