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This month we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Blazing Saddles. This Mel Brooks film is often cited as among the director’s best and is in a perpetual three way tie with The Producers and Young Frankenstein. In his Chicago Sun-Times review, Roger Ebert called the movie “crazed grab bag of a movie that does everything to keep us laughing except hit us over the head with a rubber chicken.”

And much of that humor is vulgar. There’s repeated use of the N-word. Madeleine Kahn sings a song about how she’s tired of sex. A guy named Hedley Lamarr must constantly correct everyone that his name is not Heddy Lamarr. For all the credit Brooks het for poking fun at racists, his real forte is bringing dumb jokes to life… and being very good-natured about it.

After all, the film’s most infamous is a bunch of guys fart around the campfire. Sometimes humor can be witty. But sometimes there’s nothing like laughing at farts.

It’s also revolutionary: Blazing Saddles is the first time farts were heard on film. Put yourself back in 1974. For the first time ever, gas was passed on film. Shrek has much to thank for.

Bonus prompt: what is the dumbest thing you’ve ever laughed at in a movie?