Mel Brooks FINALLY Gets a Walk of Fame Star!

And it's about time, too.

I mean, come on: this is the man who made farting around the campfire high comedy. He helped create Maxwell Smart and Max Bialystock, made silent movies funny again and put Jews in space.

Mel Brooks is just about the funniest man on the planet and he did it from the ground up, so to speak. He's earned every one of the laughs he got the old fashioned way - he knows what's funny.

The old story from Roger Ebert goes that in Mel's days as a writer on "Your Show of Shows", star Sid Caesar would storm into the writing rooms, pick up a desk, toss it and yell, "FUNNIER!"

It worked.

Twelve movies directed, thirty-five writing credits, thirty-five more acting stints and seventeen productions to his name (including actual serious flicks like 84 Charing Cross Road, Frances and The Elephant Man), Mel has proved that he has what it takes, does what is necessary and knows what it means to entertain.

After all, this is the man who made a Broadway play about Adolf Hitler funny. He knows what he's doing.

So from the MBZ, congrats go out to Mel Brooks. May people walk on you and take pictures of you at their feet for years to come.

Dope out.

- TGWD