Mel Brooks is one of 21 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 Blazing Saddles (1970), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977) Later Brooks made History of the World, Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), Life Stinks (1991), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995