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1. Blazing Saddles (1974)
The Setup: The gold standard for Western comedies, this Mel Brooks favorite spoofs the Old West with a vengence.
The Punch Line: Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little) teams with alcoholic gunslinger "The Waco Kid" (Gene Wilder), who's "killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille, " and the townsfolk of Rock Ridge (where everyone's last name is Johnson) to ward off conniving Attorney General Lamarr (Harvey Korman) and his band of thugs (which includes just about every stereotype you can imagine). The good guys win, of course, breaking the fourth wall into the Warner Bros. Studio and climactically ending the battle with Sheriff Bart kicking Lamarr in the groin at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
Blazing Saddles, Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little, 1974. Photo courtesy of the Everett Collection.
