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.

* 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 Mel Brooks's comedy Young Frankenstein, Doctor Frankenstein sends his assistant, Igor, to retrieve the brain of Hans Delbrück for transplant into Frankenstein's monster.

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.

Mel Brooks ' 1974 film Blazing Saddles, set in the Wild West in 1874, contains many blatant anachronisms from the 1970s, including a stylish Gucci costume for the sheriff, an automobile, a scene at Grauman's Chinese Theater, and frequent references to Hedy Lamarr ( 1914 – 2000 ).

Basie made a few more movie appearances, such as the Jerry Lewis film Cinderfella ( 1960 ) and the Mel Brooks movie Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), playing his arrangement of " April in Paris ".

The line was parodied in the Mel Brooks film Blazing Saddles in 1974 and was cited in many movies after that.

In Mel Brooks ' 1974 Western Blazing Saddles, the line was delivered as " Badges?

In 1974, Lamarr filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit to the tune of $ 10 million for the unauthorized use of her name in the Mel Brooks satire Blazing Saddles ; the case was settled out of court.

The property has been used several times as a filming location, featured most prominently in producer Irwin Allen's 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno, the 1977 Mel Brooks comedy High Anxiety, Don Siegel's spy thriller Telefon of the same year, and the 1979 sci-fi thriller Time After Time.

A close succession of Kahn comedies — Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Young Frankenstein ( 1974 ), and High Anxiety ( 1977 ) — were all directed by Mel Brooks, who many Hollywood observers claimed was able to bring out the best of Kahn's comic talents.

Peter Lawrence Boyle ( October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006 ) was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical monster in Mel Brooks ' film spoof Young Frankenstein ( 1974 ).

* Thad Jones / Mel Lewis and Manuel De Sica ( 1974 )

Tayback's most famous role was diner owner Mel Sharples in both the 1974 movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and in the television series, Alice, which ran from 1976 to 1985.

Little was widely known for his lead role as Sheriff Bart in the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles.

* Thad Jones / Mel Lewis and Manuel De Sica ( 1974 ) Pausa

* Thad Jones / Mel Lewis and Manuel De Sica ( 1974 ) Pausa

* Thad Jones / Mel Lewis and Manuel De Sica ( 1974 ) Pausa

After its 1931 use in Frankenstein, the effect was used in many films from the 1930s through the 1980s ( including Mel Brooks '/ Gene Wilder's Young Frankenstein ( 1974 )), until it was mostly retired by 1988.

*' Mel Brooks ' Young Frankenstein ( 1974 )

* Live in Tokyo ( The Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra album ), a 1974 live recording of the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra

In Mel Brooks ' 1974 comedy Young Frankenstein, Gene Wilder portrays Frederick Frankenstein, grandson of Victor, who inherits the family estate but is at first repelled by his grandfather's work ( to the point of insisting that his name is pronounced " Fronk-en-steen ").