Legendary comedy director Mel Brooks says his classic Western spoof Blazing Saddles would never get made today because of the “stupidly politically correct” climate of today’s society. Brooks, of course, is the godfather of irreverent film comedy, lampooning everything from Nazis in two versions of The Producers and a movie monster legend in Young Frankenstein, to history itself in History of The World Part 1 and Star Wars with Spaceballs.
But perhaps none of his films cut to the funny bone and frayed as many raw nerves than his 1974 comedy masterpiece Blazing Saddles, where a black sheriff (Cleavon Little) fends off racism in small Western town with the help of a recovering alcoholic gunfighter ...
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