AFI Names 'Blazing Saddles' Funniest Film of All Time for Mel Brooks' 100th Birthday
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Pete Hammond
Summary
The American Film Institute (AFI) has reorganized its "100 Years…100 Laughs" list in honor of Mel Brooks' 100th birthday, moving his 1974 western spoof "Blazing Saddles" from 6th place to 1st, declaring it the funniest film of all time. The change replaces Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot" at the top, a film Brooks has long complained about being ranked above his own. The article explores whether readers agree with this honorary re-ranking.
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· 2 pulledAFI terms it as an 'honorary' reorganization of the list, moving Brooks' 1974 western spoof Blazing Saddles from 6th place to 1st and proclaiming it 'the funniest film of all time.'
It replaces at the top, Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, which AFI notes in its release that Brooks 'has long kvetched that his film is far funnier than Some Like It Hot.'
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