Classic Films

in trying to find the answer I found the reason Mel Brooks hadn't received it either: he refused to accept the award the three times it was offered.

As for May, IMO (and/or Nichols), it seems it would be a no-brainer. No one aside from perhaps the Your Show of Shows gang (and related Sid Caesar writers Larry Gelbart and Woody Allen) had a bigger impact on shaping the look and feel comedy in the 1950s through the late 1960s.