About
Mel guest starred on The Hollywood Squares six times as a star in one of the squares. The show was widely popular and has been brought back many times and to much success over the last 40 years. The dates he showed up were:
March 19, 1968 | March 31, 1969 | February 1, 1971 | February 7, 1972 | October 23, 1972 | June 30, 1975.
A quote from the show:
Peter Marshall: Why are German measles called, German measles?
Mel Brooks: Because late at night, when you're asleep, they march!
Here is what Wikipedia has to say about the show:
The Hollywood Squares was an American television comedy and game show in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win money (cash) and prizes. The "board" for the game is actually a 3 × 3 vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each occupied by an entertainer (or "star") seated at a desk and facing the contestants. The stars are asked questions and the contestants judge the veracity of their answers in order to win the game.
Although The Hollywood Squares was a legitimate game show, the game largely acted as the background for the show's comedy in the form of the "zingers", or joke answers, often given by the stars prior to their "real" answer. The show's writers usually supplied the zingers; in addition, the stars were given question subjects and plausible incorrect ("bluff") answers prior to the show. (The show was scripted in this sense, but the gameplay was not, as a contestant's success was based upon knowing whether the celebrity's "real" answer was correct.)
Here's a short audio clip of Mel on the show:
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