[2ndDivisionVet]

Quite possibly the funniest movie ever made, in my opinion.

[Dallas59]

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

I didn’t think it could be made 40 years ago, but it was. The difference is that it wouldn’t be made today, not that it couldn’t.

[Celtic Conservative]

"He said the sheriff is near".

CC

[cripplecreek]

He needs to remake Blazing Saddles as an over the top parody of political correctness.

[Rummyfan]

Political correctness is censorship plain and simple.

I saw Blazing Saddles way back in the day. Walked in cold, having no idea who Mel Brooks was (even though I had been a huge Get Smart fan). I laughed like never before - or since - in my life.

[Perdogg]

and I’ll bet that for the last 40 years Mel has supported political candidates who have supported and implemented political correctness.

[Erik Latranyi]

Further proof that today’s liberals have no joy in their hearts, no humor in their bones nor any brains in their heads.

[siamesecats]

One of our favorite movies, too. We still laugh even thought I’ve lost track of how many times we’ve seen it. I’ve been saying for years, this movie wouldn’t be made today.

[bert]

——because of the N-word——

That would not be a problem. The evidence is the HBO TV series “The Wire’. The “nigger” word is used freely, abundantly by the various dwellers of West Baltimore. The word is used by the low and the high to endear and disparage.

The wire is perhaps the best TV ever made.

There is another series, Deadwood that is embellished liberally, very liberally with the F word. While the Wire might not use the N word as extensively as Deadwood uses the N word, it is a tossup.

[Texicanus]

Back in the days when Americans could laugh at ourselves and not get all bent out of shape. Thanks Liberals!

[Vaquero]

not Mel’s funniest...close though.

that award(for me) goes to Young Frankenstein...a perfect comedy...constant jokes....not a fart in a carload.

the problem I had with Blazing Saddles, was how stupid and inbred the white people were. The racism in Blazing Saddles was just that.

still cracks me up though.

[OldPossum]

Yet I would bet that Mr. Brooks will continue to give his political contributions to the Democrat Party.

[central_va]

You can put the original Airplane on the list of movies that cannot be made in today's hyper sensitive environment. I love when he takes a phone call and throws the basketball to the natives who immediately start playing like professionals in the background. LOL.

[skinkinthegrass]

That today's Left has become a bunch of insufferable, joy-killing, censorious,
fascist Church Ladies who would never allow "Blazing Saddles" to be made
today and that they will someday try to have the film banned. Isn't that the truth; by the way, Mel.."Whom did...
you vote for in last 4_6 national General Elections?"
..a freedom loving Conservative? ..not a GOP/e squish.

[bert]

Some believe the Sheriff is a Jewish metaphor for Jews.

[ops33]

I agree. And the campfire scene must be the funniest scene in the movie.

[Dr. Ursus]

Candy gram for Mongo!

[TomGuy]

Many pre-1990 movies could not be made today -- without major overhauls in scripts and characters.

Even some of those pre-1990 movies have been edited to reflect the more current PC culture.

E.T. is one prime example. The scene with government agents holding hand guns in the original movie have recently been replaced with agents holding walkie talkies -- to appease the anti-gun voices. [The original version was restored after viewer revolts against the PC version of the Blue Ray release.]

[VRW Conspirator]

They can't make that movie today because everybody's so politically correct.

The grievance industry has grown. The perpetually offended realized that pansies do not bite and do not bark.

[DemforBush]

A couple years ago, a friend of mine and I talked about the great movies you probably couldn’t get away with making today. Blazing Saddles was at the top of the list.

I also think you’d have a hard time making these films today, at least without radically altering them:

Better Off Dead / Harold and Maude - comedies about a teenager with a death wish? Not likely to get the green light today.

Animal House

16 Candles - not with the Long Duk Dong character, anyway. They’ll probably drop Lamar Latrell from the forthcoming Revenge of the Nerds remake as well.

Harvey - There actually IS a remake of this one in the works, but I suspect it will be very different in nature compared to the original. I just can’t see Hollywood having a central character who is a happy-go-lucky lush (no Thin Man remakes, either, I guess).