[Shanghai Dan]

Mel Brooks, hands down.

Not just funny, but could also heal the nation. I think if people were forced to watch “Blazing Saddles” annually, and actually WATCH the movie, we’d have 1/100th the racial and ethnic tension we have today.

Brooks is not just a comic genius, he’s a socio-political genius.

[trisham]

One of the best movies ever made!

[dfwgator]

Not just funny, but could also heal the nation. I think if people were forced to watch “Blazing Saddles” annually, and actually WATCH the movie, we’d have 1/100th the racial and ethnic tension we have today.

That's what I said about Richard Pryor, who wrote a lot of Blazing Saddles. He got blacks and whites to laugh at and with each other.