Mel Brooks they are not...

Fair enough, I guess he might be the father of the spoof. Young Frankenstein was great and Men In Tights was enjoyable (not as much as Your Highness, which is not a Brooks film but is hilarious), but I don't care for any of his other stuff. I guess the movie that really offended me was Life Stinks. I lived in my truck for four years in Los Angeles, and although I was not living on the streets like some poor folks in that city, I was technically a homeless guy. Life Stinks seemed like an insult to the homeless, especially when I read that Brooks came up with the idea when on a trip downtown and he saw all the homeless people and wondered where the heck they came from. He wouldn't have a clue what it's like to live on the streets, and instead of coming up with an idea for an unfunny comedy about being homeless he maybe should've come up with an idea on how to help the homeless in some way. But anyway, perhaps he's not deliberately pretentious otherwise, or not pretentious at all, he's just ignorant about the plight of the homeless - which I guess is natural seeing as he's a rich movie director.