The competition for funniest movie of all time is fierce, with the likes of Airplane!, Superbad and Dumb and Dumber in the ...

Mel Brooks' satirical Western Blazing Saddles got mixed reviews when it opened in February 1974, but it became the year's biggest box office hit. Above, Cleavon Little, left, as Sheriff Bart and Gene ...

Mel Brooks turned in a perfect Western spoof with Blazing Saddles, but some Western comedies have proven to be even better.

Decrying political correctness as “the death of comedy,” Mel Brooks says his raucously offensive 1974 classic “Blazing Saddles,” about a black sheriff in the Wild West, could never get made today.