We all love “Blazing Saddles,” a groundbreaking 1974 comedy from director Mel Brooks that featured a black sheriff in a racist town and had an abundance of politically incorrect, racially-driven jokes.
I was, sadly, inevitably, waiting for this day to arrive, but Brooks’ satirical masterpiece, one of the great comedies of the 20th century, has now been stamped with a trigger warning (via Christian Toto).
HBO Max, the streaming platform that canceled “Gone With The Wind,” is at it again — they just slapped “Blazing Saddles” with a nauseating pre-film PSA. If you want to watch “Blazing Saddles,” you will have to watch an introduction by TCM’s Jacqueline Stewart, who is the channel’s expert on film preservation and “representation.” Here’s part of her speech to the viewer:
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