![]() Who’s idea was it to take Blazing Saddles - and you - on the road? ![]() In honor of the event, we got Brooks to talk about the making of Blazing Saddles, how he produced the most memorable moment of screen fart-istry in American film history, how his friend Gene Wilder saved the picture ( the 83-year-old actor would pass away due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease a week after we spoke), and why what he thinks is “the funniest movie ever made” has stood the test of time. But his appearance at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday, September 1st, is one he says he’s been looking forward to for a while, and he promises a number of surprises, “plus maybe a Rockettes routine or two.” Please send my apologies to your coworkers.”īrooks has been taking his 1974 Western parody, the one with the justifiably famous symphony of flatulence, on the road for series of events he’s calling “Mel Brooks: Back in the Saddle Again,” in which he screens the film and then sits for an onstage Q&A afterward. There are easier ways to get in the mood to talk to me, you know. “Actually, three thousand miles between us might not be enough - it depends on the coffee. He’s just been informed that, as preparation for getting the 90-year-old filmmaker on the phone, the interviewer he’s speaking to has consumed a large amount of black coffee and baked beans - the same combination that fuels the notorious, and extremely noisy campfire sequence in Blazing Saddles. “It’s a good thing you’re in New York and I’m in Los Angeles then,” Mel Brooks says, before howling with laughter.
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