Mel Brooks, one of Hollywood's funniest film-makers, has told the BBC political correctness is "the death of comedy". He said Blazing Saddles, his Western spoof about a black sheriff in a racist ...

These classics ask those important questions that are beyond time.Others fade into the dusk of nothingness or get propped up as taxidermic specimens — lifelike, but lifeless — by the adulation of fans ...

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 ...

In 1974, Brooks co-wrote and directed a satirical, postmodernist, Western black comedy called Blazing Saddles, nominated for three Academy Awards. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the film ...

2024 marks the 50th anniversary of an all-time boundary-pushing comedy classic - Blazing Saddles. Directed by the legendary Mel Brooks, the Western satire following the adventures of the first ...

The film is a product of the legendary director Mel Brooks, with an impressive cast, including Cleavon Little ... Set in the American West of the 1800s, Blazing Saddles follows the story of Bart ...

We’re talking about “Blazing Saddles,” the 1974 western satire by the incomparable Mel Brooks. It’s a film I first saw as a teenager, and four-plus decades later I still say it’s the ...