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Review: 'Get Smart' funny, some of the time

Forty-three years ago, Mel Brooks and Buck Henry hatched a show about a not-so-smart intelligence agent constantly confounded by his own incompetence.

Time.com: Get Smart Got Lost

How to prep a humorous old-fangled TV show for the modern big screen? Gunk it up with action sequences. So not funny

Time.com: Comedic Actor Harvey Korman Dies

Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to The Carol Burnett Show and played a conniving politician to hilarious effect in Blazing Saddles, died Thursday

Long line of Jewish comedians ahead of Seinfeld

Handed down since Moses was kvetching about having to cross the desert in his bare feet, Jewish humor emanated from Eastern Europe where the Hebrews overcame some seriously hellacious circumstances on the way to the Promised Land. "Laughter through tears," they called it.

Time.com: Young Frankenstein: Monster Mashed

Mel Brooks's follow-up to The Producers doesn't have the same spark

CNNMoney: Brooks' latest gag? $450 seats for musical

Producer Mel Brooks is charging a record high of $450 a seat for a weekend performance of his new Broadway musical, 'Young Frankenstein,' according to a newspaper report.

Review: 'Producers' puts Broadway on film

It's impossible to imagine any movie getting as much advance publicity as Mel Brooks' "The Producers."

Actress Anne Bancroft dies

Actress Anne Bancroft, who seduced Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate" and won Oscar and Tony awards for playing Helen Keller's teacher in "The Miracle Worker," has died of cancer at age 73, her agent said Tuesday.

EW review: Gene Wilder's uneven 'Kiss'

It's impossible not to feel deep affection for Gene Wilder, the frizzy-haired Mel Brooks regular, Oscar nominee and Mr. Gilda Radner: His sui generis screen persona fused volatility and adorability into a new isotope of comic acting.

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Brenda Strong, who plays the deceased Mary Alice Young on ABC's "Desperate Housewives," has a long history of playing dead.

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