Mel Brooks is being saluted by TCM on Wednesday. Meanwhile, today, as an appetizer, TCM leads off tonight’s Carson on TCM compendium at 8 p.m. ET with a 1975 Brooks appearance on The Tonight Show, taking place the year after he released both Blazing Saddles (pictured) and Young Frankenstein. Following that: Johnny Carson interviews Dom DeLuise, from 1976 (8:12 p.m. ET), Bette Davis, 1983 (8:24 p.m. ET), Burt Reynolds, 1972 (8:36 p.m. ET), and Fred Astaire, 1979 (8:48 p.m. ET). An evening of Fred Astaire movies caps the evening, starting at 9 and 11 p.m. ET with the one-two punch of 1934’s The Gay Divorcee and 1935’s Top Hat.