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Here’s the Mel Brooks Oscars Acceptance Speech You Didn’t See on the Academy Awards Broadcast

At this year’s Oscars ceremony, the film world celebrated comedy legend Mel Brooks by awarding him an Honorary Oscar — without Brooks. The damn thing started at 7 p.m. Brooklyn time, you think a 97-year-old is staying up for that?

Brooks earned his first Academy Award in 1969 for a win in the Best Writing, Story and Screenplay category for The Producers. He’d earn a couple more nominations during his historic career for writing and for Best Original song in Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles respectively, but the genre-defining director would have to wait another 55 years to hoist a second gold statue. At the Governors Awards. Two months before the Oscars.

Larry David and Nathan Fielder Ignoring Each Other at an Oscar Party Is Peak Awkwardness

After spending more than three hours laboriously praising one another and enduring the stress of distributing miniature gold nudist statuettes to their friends, celebrities were able to finally get some downtime following the Academy Awards broadcast at the annual post-show Vanity Fair Oscars Party. Judging from the red carpet design, the theme of this year’s event was: “I sure could go for some McNuggets right now.”

This swanky function taking their decorating cues from a garish clown who hawks garbage food wasn’t the only thing that captured the attention of the internet. The party hosted major Hollywood stars like Sydney Sweeney, Margot Robbie and Chris Evans. Also walking the red carpet? The 76-year-old man who both popularized masturbation contests and viciously assaulted a beloved Sesame Street muppet.

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