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Yep. Mel Brooks’ main target in Blazing Saddles is bigotry/racism; a perennial target in American comedy going back at least to Mark Twain. Comedy is a courageous window to truth, an unflinching mirror to ourselves. It seems to me the best comedy is only concerned with these things - concessions to the audience risk indenturing the comic to whoredom. The audience will get it, or not. (See Norm Macdonald.) When Dave Chappelle was in the midst of defending a cancel attack last year, he was unrelenting and said Americans’ "ears had become brittle.” Some consider him the GOAT.

I can't tell you have thankful I am... for you and Bolshevik and T-Bone and WordWolf and, well plenty of others who contribute their life experience and insight here on GSC. And for people who have been living their lives outside of fundamentalist religious cults, who think and ponder life and/or who do scientific research into lots of things around us and regarding human lives and culture. We obviously can't quantify how much we know or did know about much of anything at other points in our lives, but the rapid growth in knowledge available to know has been truly awe-inspiring. I doubt Victor had the imagination to envision what the 35 years after he passed would be like.