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Related: About this forumBlazing Saddles... You know, morons.
Mel Brooks must have foreseen the Tea Party
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Blazing Saddles... You know, morons. (Original Post)
iandhr
Mar 2015
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also written by Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger.
progressoid
Mar 2015
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Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)1. One of the classic lines from cinema...
But Tea Partiers are far from something new. As Mel Brooks shows in that film, they been around for many, many years. Somehow, our society has managed to give them power not commensurate with their intellectual abilities.
longship
(40,416 posts)2. Mel Brooks nails this, as does Gene Wilder!
Love them, and Cleavon Little! (And Alex Karras, and the whole Blazing Saddles cast)
A brilliant film.
R&K
djokas
(1 post)3. Blazing Saddle
yes it is
BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)4. Mel Brooks has been a genius for many years
and hopefully for many more (he'll be 90 next year... unbelievable).
progressoid
(49,825 posts)5. also written by Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger.
Wonder if that was one of Pryor's jokes.