Airplane! is the perfect comedyThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Memes@sopuli.xyz – 739 points – 4 months ago118Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentHate to tell you this but in case you thought cancel culture was a recent phenomenon: Richard Pryor (the co-star of Blazing Saddles) was arrested for foul-language during his stand-up routine the same year Blazing Saddles came out. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-12-12/5-comics-arrested-onstage#:~:text=Richard%20Pryor%2C%201974&text=%E2%80%9CHe%20was%20playing%20a%20huge,released%20on%20a%20%24500%20bondWhile I agree with your point, Richard Pryor was not in blazing saddles.He did quite a bit of writing for it though.Cleavon Little, not Pryor. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001476/
Hate to tell you this but in case you thought cancel culture was a recent phenomenon: Richard Pryor (the co-star of Blazing Saddles) was arrested for foul-language during his stand-up routine the same year Blazing Saddles came out. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-12-12/5-comics-arrested-onstage#:~:text=Richard%20Pryor%2C%201974&text=%E2%80%9CHe%20was%20playing%20a%20huge,released%20on%20a%20%24500%20bondWhile I agree with your point, Richard Pryor was not in blazing saddles.He did quite a bit of writing for it though.Cleavon Little, not Pryor. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001476/
While I agree with your point, Richard Pryor was not in blazing saddles.He did quite a bit of writing for it though.
Hate to tell you this but in case you thought cancel culture was a recent phenomenon: Richard Pryor (the co-star of Blazing Saddles) was arrested for foul-language during his stand-up routine the same year Blazing Saddles came out.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-12-12/5-comics-arrested-onstage#:~:text=Richard%20Pryor%2C%201974&text=%E2%80%9CHe%20was%20playing%20a%20huge,released%20on%20a%20%24500%20bond
While I agree with your point, Richard Pryor was not in blazing saddles.
He did quite a bit of writing for it though.
Cleavon Little, not Pryor.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001476/