If you love satirical black comedies trying to reclaim narratives, Blazing Saddles (1974) is a great find. Helmed by Mel Brooks, it is an inspiring post-modernist political satire on how racism was ...

I was 15 and probably looked about 11 when "Blazing Saddles" was released in 1974, but my buddies and I had no trouble buying movie tickets. The kid at the counter was no cop, and the sweet lady ...

This year's 15th annual TCM Film Festival will celebrate EGOT winner Mel Brooks, specifically highlighting his trailblazing parody, Spaceballs. The writer, director, producer, actor, and playwright is ...

If anyone knows how to make a comedy, it's Mel Brooks. His body of work is rife with comedy classics like Young Frankenstein and Spaceballs, the latter of which has a sequel — at last — in production ...

You’ll often hear the common refrain online: “You could never make Blazing Saddles today” because modern audiences are too sensitive for Mel Brooks’ politically incorrect Western satire. There’s a fig ...

Mel Brooks' stone-cold classic Blazing Saddlesis one of the rare comedies that's lost little of its impact over the years. It uses the inherently backward-looking form of the western to lampoon the ...

“It deals with racism by coming at it right, straight, out front, making you think and laugh about it, because, listen, it’s not just racism, it’s all the isms, he hits all the isms,” the ...

Editor’s Note: Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat) is a freelance writer in Chicago. The views expressed here are his own. View more opinion on CNN. On social media at least, Mel Brooks’ classic “Blazing ...

(WHTM)– This year is marking a milestone for a couple of classic movies, and to celebrate many movie theaters in central Pennsylvania will be showing them. Mean Girls is celebrating turning 20 this ...

The Emmy winner penned jokes for Flip Wilson, Marlo Thomas and Luciano Pavarotti and worked often with Mel Brooks. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor While working as a writer on a 1972 CBS special, ...