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      • Daring, provocative, and laugh-out-loud funny, Blazing Saddles is a gleefully vulgar spoof of Westerns that marks a high point in Mel Brooks' storied career.
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  1. Jun 20, 2021 · But arguably Brooks’ strongest spoof is Blazing Saddles, his lampoon of the western genre. Co-written with a team that included none other than Richard Pryor, Blazing Saddles is easily Brooks’ masterpiece – and probably the greatest western spoof that will ever be made.

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  3. The 1988 animated television film The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound is a Western parody. Starring anthropomorphic cartoon dog Huckleberry Hound, the film is set in the California Gold Rush era and has similar spoofs and gags to Blazing Saddles, as well as depiction of Native American stereotypes.

  4. Feb 8, 2024 · Blazing Saddles is a spoof of that transforming genre—Brooks’ stock in trade. But it’s also a pointed satire of the time that genre’s bone-deep racism, which it gives both barrels.

  5. Feb 29, 2024 · So, Blazing Saddles is not really "like many a Western before it." Brooks was upending Hollywood's version of the Old West, much as Robert Altman 's dark, land-grab drama McCabe &...

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  6. Feb 6, 2024 · He leapt at the chance to write and direct “the wackiest, most insane movie ever made”, one that lampooned racism and spoofed the westerns he watched growing up as Max Kaminsky in Williamsburg,...

  7. Feb 6, 2024 · Mel Brooksspoof of Hollywood Westerns is full of the N-word and racial and ethnic jokes, and gay stereotypes are played for laughs.

  8. Daring, provocative, and laugh-out-loud funny, Blazing Saddles is a gleefully vulgar spoof of Westerns that marks a high point in Mel Brooks' storied career. Read Critics Reviews

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