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Mel Brooks, besides not being funny, is wrong about “Blazing Saddles”

September 22, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

Sigh.

I’ve addressed this repeatedly, dammit…

Far grosser (any Farrelly Brothers movie), funnier (Zoolander, Anchorman), more “ethnically offensive” (any Wayans Brothers movie) – or all three (Tropic Thunder) — movies have been released in the 40+ years since Blazing Saddles broke box office records.

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