Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credits: Warner Bros. If you love satirical black comedies trying to reclaim narratives, Blazing Saddles (1974) is a great ...

A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town ...

In July of 1974, Mel Brooks sat in the screening room at Warner Bros anxiously watching the assembled executives who were about to view his recently completed Western spoof, Blazing Saddles. He was ...

Namwene Mukabwa is a Collider author based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a penchant for Westerns, classics, historical, and underrated movies and television series. He became hooked on screens at the age ...

Classic films now face the wrath of perpetually enraged social justice warriors. Last weekend’s "Watters World" on Fox News Channel analyzed the impact of this politically correct phenomenon. Exhibit ...

Any fool can see Mel Brooks's flatulent comedy Western is an unflinching attack on racism. Why give it a trigger warning? Ed Power writes about music, television and video games. As a journalist he ...

Decrying political correctness as “the death of comedy,” Mel Brooks says his raucously offensive 1974 classic “Blazing Saddles,” about a black sheriff in the Wild West, could never get made today.