One of the great canards of the culture wars is that you couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today. It’s a half-truth that disguises a bigger lie. There are a thousand and one reasons why it would be hard—though, as Django Unchained proved, not impossible—to get a movie like Blazing Saddles made in contemporary Hollywood, from the declining public knowledge of the Western genre conventions it parodies to the general demise of big, mainstream comedy movies from the major studios. But the idea that you couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today is not about any of that. It is, more than anything, about the prodigious number of N-words the film jams into 93 minutes. “You couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today” is the rallying cry of people who think politically correct cancel culture is a major force in American society even as the U.S. slides deeper and deeper into Christian-nationalist fascism. The irony, of course, is that were Blazing Saddles to be erased from memory Yesterday-style and then unleashed on the world afresh tomorrow, Elon Musk would spend more time crying about it on X The Everything App than he has about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey having Black people in it.
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Short answer: As of 2026, Mel Brooks has not made any public statement about Israel, the Israel-Hamas war, or the hostages taken on October 7, 2023, and his name is absent from the 700-plus-signature pro-Israel open letter that circulated through Hollywood weeks after the attack. His connection to Israel runs entirely through a lifelong, proudly-stated Jewish identity and decades of Nazi-mocking, Jewish-inflected comedy, not through any political statement on the Jewish state itself. The honest read: a proud, outspoken Jew who has simply stayed out of the Israel conversation.
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