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rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually @rk@mastodon.well.com · Jun 30, 2026

In honor of Mel Brooks’s 100th birthday, here is Dr. Dan McClellan, scholar of the Bible and Religion, translating the Hebrew on the third tablet that Moses dropped in History of the World Part I; it actually had real words, and Brooks committed to the bit: https://youtube.com/shorts/RAycIBNgXcg #film #MelBrooks

Joseph @elgringomexicano@mastodon.social · Jun 30, 2026

Happy one-day belated 100th birthday to the great #MelBrooks . One-of-a-kind, impossibly funny and charismatic, and an examplar of #comedy as a #philosophy of life. (He's smoking in this clip and he just turned 100. Could laughter really be the best medicine? 😂 I doubt it's an accident that the Buddha is often depicted as laughing.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sdf05KmENw

Flipboard Culture Desk @CultureDesk@flipboard.social · Jun 28, 2026

Mel Brooks was born Melvin James Kaminsky in Brooklyn on June 28, 1926. Yes, that’s 100 years ago today, and what a life he continues to live. Brooks was a combat engineer for the U.S. Navy in World War II and went on to become one of Hollywood’s most influential comic filmmakers, earning an Oscar, Emmys, Grammys and Tonys across a career spanning more than seven decades. “It’s an amazing sound, people laughing at something I created,” Brooks once said. @Independent@flipboard.com has more, including the icon’s role in an upcoming reboot of “Spaceballs.” https://flip.it/l61Jl5 #Entertainment #Comedy #MelBrooks