Where are the white women at

[iandhr]

A little thursday laughter for you.

[Jack Rabbit]

1. There were something like seven different individual sharing the writers' credit

. . . on Blazing Saddles. They never said who wrote what.

However, I never had any doubt that the one who wrote that scene was Richard Pryor.

[Lint Head]

2. I saw an interview with Mel Brooks where he said that Richard Pryor wrote mostly the non

controversial jokes and Mel and others wrote the racial and sex jokes. He said he would often ask Pryor if a particular off color joke would go over as intended. I always thought that Pryor wrote the "The sheriff is near!" joke. If he didn't write it he apparently was consulted about it. Brooks also said he they were breaking taboos and pointing out the ridiculousness of racism and sexism by lampooning them.

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Thank you for that information

Yes, Brooks and his team were definitely breaking taboos. The entire film lampoons racism, but its not possible to do that without being a wee bit un-PC, at least on the surface.

Huckleberry Finn is often given a bad rap by some as a racist book because, as one such critic pointed out, it uses the word niggger over 200 times. My suggestion to such people is to stop counting the words and put them together in sentences as Mark Twain wrote them. They would discover that it is far from a racist book.

[El Shaman]

4. Ask Tiger

Woods- he knows!!!