The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Memes@sopuli.xyz · 8 months agoAirplane! is the perfect comedylemmy.worldimagemessage-square121fedilinkarrow-up1786arrow-down148
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minus-squaregerbler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down3·edit-28 months agoHate 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 Pryor%2C 1974&text=“He was playing a huge,released on a %24500 bond
minus-squarekarobeccary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·8 months agoWhile I agree with your point, Richard Pryor was not in blazing saddles.
minus-squareUltraviolet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months agoHe did quite a bit of writing for it though.
minus-squareKnightontheSun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·8 months agoCleavon 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 Pryor%2C 1974&text=“He was playing a huge,released on a %24500 bond
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/