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Blazing Saddles: 12 Stories of Mel Brooks’ Absurdist Western Satire

Let's look back at Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles as the comedy icon celebrates his 98th birthday this month. The film, released 50 years ago this year, is widely considered one of the funniest movies of ...
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‘Blazing Saddles’ Was Almost a Completely Different Movie, According to Mel Brooks

This year's 15th annual TCM Film Festival will celebrate EGOT winner Mel Brooks, specifically highlighting his trailblazing parody, Spaceballs. The writer, director, producer, actor, and playwright is ...
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Blazing Saddles at 50: Against all odds, Mel Brooks created the wackiest western ever made

It was “too dirty” for John Wayne to accept a part. Too “disgusting and vulgar” for Ted Ashley, the chairman of Warner Brothers, who threatened to “bury” the film. But director Mel Brooks stuck to his ...
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50 years ago, 'Blazing Saddles' broke wind — and box office expectations

Fifty years ago, Mel Brooks released Blazing Saddles to gales of laughter and a mighty roar of flatulence jokes. Also to mixed reviews from harrumphing critics. Typical was Vincent Canby, whose New ...
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The Mel Brooks Comedy Even He Thinks Is the "Funniest Movie Ever Made"

If anyone knows how to make a comedy, it's Mel Brooks. His body of work is rife with comedy classics like Young Frankenstein and Spaceballs, the latter of which has a sequel — at last — in production ...
IndieWire

Mel Brooks Recalls Many, Many Notes on ‘Blazing Saddles’ from Warner Bros.: ‘I Would’ve Had an 11-Minute Movie’

Brooks celebrated the film's 50th anniversary with a screening and Q&A in Los Angeles this past weekend. “I didn’t have a speech because Stanley Kubrick was in the same category for ‘2001,’” Brooks ...