I was recently working on a project where I was referencing Mel Brooks movies, and all his farcical, satirical, ridiculous slapstick humor. I ranked his classic & top grossing 1974 movie "Blazing Saddles" right at the top (well, me and the American Film Institute), because Brooks wrote it with the late, great Richard Pryor and a host of other comics to take on all the bad cliche's of Western movies and of course, "the absurdity of racial prejudice". If you are in need of a laugh, are not easily offended and not looking for anything too high brow, it is worth a rent. Today, I share one of the film's most famous scenes, of another 'late & great' - Madeline Kahn - doing her best (& worst) imitation of Marlene Dietrich, singing "one of the dirtiest songs I ever have ever written." (Brooks)
