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Aerosmith in 1977 (Photo: Ron Pownall/Getty Images) The Iconic Aerosmith Song That Was Inspired by One of the Most Recycled Gags in Comedy History
Everyone from Abbott and Costello to the Three Stooges put their spin on the joke before Steven Tyler worked it into a top-10 hit
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Cleavon Little, Mel Brooks, and Harvey Korman in 'Blazing Saddles' (Photo by Warner Bros./Courtesy of Getty Images) The One Joke Mel Brooks Thought Was Too Offensive for ‘Blazing Saddles’
Cleavon Little had just a single line of dialogue cut from the final film
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Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman looking at something off-screen on the set of 'Young Frankenstein' (Photo by 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images) There Was a Frau Blücher Topless Scene in an Early Draft of ‘Young Frankenstein’
Now we know why those horses kept whinnying every time they heard her name
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Mel Brooks with his Honorary Oscar (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) How Mel Brooks Got an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony
The 99-year-old comedy legend is one of only 27 entertainers to have reached EGOT status
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The cast of the 'Dick Van Dyke Show' (Credit: Bettman/Getty Images) The ‘Dick Van Dyke Show’ Character Who Was Based on Mel Brooks
The ‘Young Frankenstein’ director was a significant influence on the classic sitcom
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Mel Brooks (Photo by Dan Neville/Newsday RM via Getty Images) Is Mel Brooks Hiding in the Original ‘Naked Gun’?
The ‘Young Frankenstein’ director appears to have gone undetected for almost four decades
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Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle appear in the 1974 Mel Brooks film 'Young Frankenstein' What’s an Ad-Lib and What’s Not? 4 ‘Young Frankenstein’ Legends Examined
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