THE VIDEO SHELF · blazing saddles and satire
"You Couldn't Make Blazing Saddles Today!"
A long video essay arguing against the claim that Blazing Saddles could not be made today. It looks at the film as satire of the sanitized Western genre and what it did to that genre.
Why HN readers recommended it
Pointed to as an informative rebuttal to the popular claim and as an explanation of the film's satirical effect on Westerns.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Infranaut
- Topic
- blazing saddles and satire
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
I saw a good youtube video about how blazing saddles was satirizing decades of hyper popular sanitized Western genre and helped kill it [VIDEO]
nerfhammer on Hacker News · 2020-02
In Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner on their 70-year friendshipThere's an informative video-dive into that, centered on the effect of the movie Blazing Saddles : [VIDEO]
Terr_ on Hacker News · 2025-03
In The "Take It Down" Act
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.