{"id":249223,"date":"2026-06-30T01:24:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/mel-brooks-turns-100\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T01:24:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:24:59","slug":"mel-brooks-turns-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/mel-brooks-turns-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Brooks turns 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Join us in wishing a very happy 100th birthday to the legendary actor, filmmaker and comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MelBrooks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@MelBrooks<\/a>! \ud83c\udf82\ud83c\udf88\ud83c\udf89 With a career spanning over 7 decades, he has earned many accolades, including EGOT status. With his many iconic roles, Mel has cemented his place in our hearts. \ud83d\udc9b <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CdHKxQhycY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/CdHKxQhycY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SAG-AFTRA (@sagaftra) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sagaftra\/status\/2071247352606667260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 28, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In honor of Mel Brooks\u2019 100th birthday, <i>Blazing Saddles<\/i> has been named funniest film of all time:<\/p>\n<p>American Film Institute (AFI) \u201c100 Years\u2026100 Laughs\u201d reordered their list, moving Brooks\u2019 1974 western spoof <i>Blazing Saddles<\/i> from 6th place to 1st and proclaiming it \u201cthe funniest film of all time\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It replaces Billy Wilder\u2019s <i>Some Like It Hot<\/i> which had been #1<\/p>\n<p>Brooks has long said that his film \u201cis far funnier than <i>Some Like It Hot<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy 100th birthday to Mel Brooks! \ud83c\udfac In honor of his centennial, AFI proclaims BLAZING SADDLES (1974) the funniest film of all time, in an honorary reorganization of the AFI\u2019s 100 YEARS\u2026100 LAUGHS list. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/MelBrooks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#MelBrooks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/BlazingSaddles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#BlazingSaddles<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IBwciX5QuL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/IBwciX5QuL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AFI (@AmericanFilm) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AmericanFilm\/status\/2071202013837238544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 28, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a name=\"cutid1-end\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Source <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sagaftra\/status\/2071247352606667260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AmericanFilm\/status\/2071202013837238544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>What do you think is the funniest movie of all time?<\/i> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132537067.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us in wishing a very happy 100th birthday to the legendary actor, filmmaker and comedian @MelBrooks! \ud83c\udf82\ud83c\udf88\ud83c\udf89 With a career spanning over 7 decades, he has earned many accolades, including EGOT status. With his many iconic roles, Mel has cemented his place in our hearts. \ud83d\udc9b pic.twitter.com\/CdHKxQhycY \u2014 SAG-AFTRA (@sagaftra) June 28, 2026 In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-249223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}