Mel Brooks

Review: Utterly trivial, occasionally disrespectful and hugely amusing

It is 50 years since the 1968 Cannes film festival was called to a halt in solidarity with protesting students – but don’t expect commemorations

Review: Treat of a documentary about the actor and inventor who died broke

Nothing will be quite the same after Trump, Weinstein and Brexit

The Luke Skywalker actor on fame, Carrie Fisher and making Star Wars in Ireland

Cannes 2017: Todd Haynes latest has moments to cherish, but doesn’t quite deliver the emotional payoff

In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett

Shared, unspoken knowledge is always the active ingredient in ‘getting the joke’

Obituary: Wilder’s characters shone out in movies from ‘Willy Wonka’ to ‘The Producers’

Solid political liberal who worked hard for charities dies after Alzheimer’s complication

Hybrid of memoir and political rant sells 70,000 copies, to historian publishers’ alarm

His genial, self-deprecating manner and mellifluous voice contributed to a career that was extraordinary, both in its longevity and popularity

I have never seen a single episode of the space opera, and I've no idea why Luke is angry with Darth Vader

Canale 5 stalwart Ezio Greggio pays €45,000 fine to avoid jail sentence for tax evasion

Comedian Marc Maron was an embittered recovering alcoholic before he found his way as a podcast interviewer of brutal honesty. Not even Obama refused the call

From never saying ‘Macbeth’ to never whistling backstage, the theatre world is full of odd beliefs. What’s even odder is that they seem to work

Mel Brooks’s legendary ’68 comedy and ’01 musical remains an unapologetically hilarious paen to bad taste – after all, ‘Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer’

But Gordon Strachan is right – this is pantomime booing – lots of noise but nothing more

The comedian Eddie Izzard has exploded the myths that jokes can’t travel and that German humour doesn’t exist