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That time Mel Brooks almost pulled down President Obama’s pants
When President Barack Obama presented Mel Brooks with an arts award for “a lifetime of making the world laugh,” the president might not have realized that the Jewish comedic actor and ...
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‘Blazing Saddles’ still stands as one of the great comedies — and the Mel Brooks film teaches lessons, too
We’re talking about “Blazing Saddles,” the 1974 western satire by the incomparable Mel Brooks ... to the inept governor (Brooks) to drive out the residents of the frontier town Rock Ridge.