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OMG! I am so ashamed. I forgot about Richard Pryor, old southern racist that I am. Thanks for reminding me. Mel certainly never wrote a funnier script.

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I actually prefer History of the World. I saw it at just the right age.

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Brooks seemed to always have a hard time figuring out how to end a script. I just hated that shit at the end of Blazing Saddles when it descended into asininity with the Dom DeLuise fancy dancers. It contaminated an otherwise perfect script. OMG! So many great lines. "What's a dazzling urbanite like you doing in a rustic setting like this?" "It's twue! It's twue!" Mel Brooks and Bugs Bunny pulled me through the worst times of my life.

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Mel Brooks and high opera (The Magic Flute and Wagner) are the go-to's for me when the shit hits the fan. There's nothing like screeching Valkyries or a raging Queen of the Night when you're filled with existential dread.

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