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[Feeling “Blue” Jays @TheFakeSith]

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[NFL Stats @NFL_Stats]

11 more Sundays until the 2026 NFL season.

[IcyVert @IcyVert]

Only 1 game being on today is jarring

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

Babe Ruth hit 380 home runs after Mel Brooks was born.

[Feeling “Blue” Jays @TheFakeSith]

Is it true that there’s this massive condo bailout in Canada going on?

[ToonHive @ToonHive]

‘Coyote vs. Acme’ will triumphantly release in theaters 2 months from now (August 28th).

[CoveredGeekly @CoveredGeekly]

Happy 40th Birthday to Drake Bell! 🎂

[Out of Context Simpsons Couch Gags @OOCCouchGags]

Happy 100th birthday to Mel Brooks

[MVP05 @MVP05Guy]

Mvp05 energy

[Billy Mays III @infinitethird]

17 years ago today, the world got a little less clean

[Feeling “Blue” Jays @TheFakeSith]

@BBGreatMoments Halladay won in 2003 though

[Feeling “Blue” Jays @TheFakeSith]

Halladay won in 2003 though

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Some Cy Young losses look way worse with hindsight. Pedro's 1999 vote split was wild, Saberhagen had cases, and Halladay had years he should have won. Who got robbed the worst?

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Some Cy Young losses look way worse with hindsight. Pedro's 1999 vote split was wild, Saberhagen had cases, and Halladay had years he should have won. Who got robbed the worst?

[Toronto Blue Jays @BlueJays]

Cheering on Canada's team today 😎🇨🇦 #BlueJays50

[curemizi @glittermizuki]

this geniunely aged so well, like fine wine

[jack @Jolly_Olive]

how

[History Calendar @historycalendar]

Mel Brooks, age 100, was born before the invention of bubble gum. Bubble gum was invented by Walter Diemer in 1928.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Before Mel Brooks directed a single movie, he was an 18-year-old combat engineer in the Battle of the Bulge, one of the bloodiest battles American soldiers fought in all of World War II. His job was to find German landmines so a specialist could pull the fuses, and he did it while shells came down around him.

He made it home and spent the next seventy years making people laugh. First he wrote for Sid Caesar's TV show, in the same writers' room as Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, and a young Woody Allen. Then came his own films. Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein both landed in 1974, written and directed by the same man in the same year. Blazing Saddles cost $2.6 million to make and brought back $119 million. He even turned Hitler into a Broadway joke with The Producers, a show about two crooks staging the worst musical imaginable, "Springtime for Hitler." The kid who fought the Nazis spent a career making fun of them.

All of that put him in rare company. Fewer than two dozen people have ever won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony, the four biggest awards in American entertainment, and Brooks is one of them. He is also the only person ever to win an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony all for writing. The stage version of The Producers won 12 Tony Awards in 2001. No show before or since has won more.

He also did something quieter. His company, Brooksfilms, paid for some of the most serious dramas of the time and left his own name off them on purpose. In 1980 it financed The Elephant Man and handed the film to an unknown director named David Lynch, who had been working as a roofer to pay rent. Brooks left "Mel Brooks" off the posters so nobody would show up expecting a comedy. The film earned eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Brooksfilms went on to back David Cronenberg's The Fly and the Jessica Lange drama Frances.

He turns 100 today. The LEGO box behind him in that photo only goes up to age 99, one year below where he is now. He has a Spaceballs sequel coming to theaters in April 2027, with Brooks back as Yogurt.

[Thomas Nestico @TJStats]

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