Mel Brooks made one brilliant comedy movie after another in 1974. (One was this film. The other was Young Frankenstein. Beat that creative double-header!) Blazing Saddles seems almost more brazen these days, because of our overall political correctness – but that makes it, somehow, even funnier with age. Richard Pryor worked on the script with Brooks, but Cleavon Little got to play the on-air role of black Bart – as opposed to Black Bart – opposite Gene Wilder.