Mel Brooks is one of 27 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. He began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows. Brooks won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers (1967) He then rose to prominence directing a string of successful comedy films such as The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974) and Spaceballs (1987), Life Stinks (1991), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)