Monday, June 17, 2019

Still Makes Me Giggle




 

6 comments:

Count Robot said...

funny movie!

jester59388 said...

Like All in the Family, Blazing Saddles is one of those truly outstanding comedies that they would NEVER be able to make today. It's all about tolerance and the benefits of diversity, respecting each other and working together as human beings for a common cause, and getting to know people for the content of their character, not alienating them for their superficial characteristics. All presented through a deceiving veneer of racially based jokes, slurs and stereotypes. It's brilliant. But the PC police would vilify it if made today for daring to use these very tropes to make their point. And probably without ever actually seeing the movie. This is the sad, upside down world we now live in: Where those who preach tolerance tend to be among the most intolerant.

DrGoat said...

Watched it just last weekend. Still funny. Madeline Kahn is so good
as Lili Von Shtupp breaks me up every time.

Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...

Now you all see how much I HATE Space Ball. Blazzing Saddles is a man at the peak of his creative powers and the other one...well...

This movie got it right in so many ways and I still laugh every damn time.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Mel Brooks was the King of Bad Taste and I love him. He got away with everything because he was a satirist of humanity's worst impulses.

Count Robot said...

Well said Debra!