Okay, yes, fart jokes feel like they've been done to death. For many people, the most uproariously funny thing that happened during recess and sleepovers has turned into one of the most groan-inducing ...

You can read the plot for Blazing Saddles here: Ribald, tasteless and hilarious … this classic spoof of the Western genre by director Mel Brooks pokes fun at everyone and everything. A corrupt ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mel Brooks’s classic 1974 Western parody Blazing Saddles was groundbreaking in a great many ways. The famous campfire scene, for example, offered theatergoers something that they didn’t get to ...