Mel Brooks: 40 Years After ‘Blazing Saddles’

MSDBLSA EC003Mel Brooks 40th anniversary of Blazing Saddles has a Blu-ray edition out Tuesday, May 6. He made a recent appearance at the Turner Classic Film Festival to give everyone the inside poop of what he thinks is the funniest movie of all-time.

Read 10 things you didn’t know about “Blazing Saddles” at nypost.com. Here’s one of them.  It was Richard Pryor who urged Brooks not to hold back on using the N-word.

“When I thought it was getting to be too much, Richard said, ‘No, we are writing a story of racial prejudice. That’s the word, the only word. It’s profound, it’s real, and the more we use it from the rednecks, the more the victory of the black sheriff will resonate.’ ”

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