Whoopi Goldberg defends 'Blazing Saddles' against cancel culture — 'Don't make me come for you' - New York Post

Whoopi Goldberg got fired up Wednesday defending the satirical occidental “Blazing Saddles” against net trolls trying to cancel it with claims it takes jokes astir racism excessively far.

The hosts of “The View” launched into a statement astir however classical comedies are aging successful 2022 — a taxable inspired by Mindy Kaling’s caller remark that “The Office” is “so inappropriate now” and could ne'er beryllium made today.

Goldberg argued the 1974 Mel Brooks flick “Blazing Saddles” “deals with racism by coming astatine it right, straight, retired front, making you deliberation and laughter astir it — because, listen, it’s not conscionable racism, it’s each the ‘-isms.’ He hits each the ‘-isms.'”

The story, which takes spot successful 1874, follows a corrupt person who hires a achromatic sheriff to support a frontier colony from being destroyed.

“‘Blazing Saddles,’ due to the fact that it’s a large comedy, would inactive spell implicit contiguous — determination are a batch of comedies that are not good, OK? We’re conscionable going to accidental that — that’s not 1 of them. ‘Blazing Saddles’ is 1 of the top due to the fact that it hits everybody,” Goldberg insisted.

Whoopi Goldberg takes portion successful the “Till” property league connected Oct. 1.Getty Images for FLC

Gene Wilder (right) puts his limb astir the enarthrosis of Cleavon Little successful a inactive from the movie “Blazing Saddles,” directed by Mel Brooks and released successful 1974.Getty Images

“If you’ve ne'er seen ‘Blazing Saddles,’ you should bash yourself a favor, get immoderate popcorn, get a solid of wine, and enactment it on, due to the fact that it’s magnificent,” Goldberg advised.

Co-host Sara Haines agreed that “laughing is virtually the eventual medicine for beingness and each that it brings” and that drama should person a “sacred space” for artists to enactment in.

Joy Behar held up the ’70s TV series “All successful the Family,” arguing that, “You instrumentality distant Archie’s bigotry, you don’t person a character.”

“That’s who helium was, and that’s the mode you’re expected to look astatine people,” she continued. “If everybody was perfectly wonderful… and appropriate, past you’d ne'er larn astir these different radical who beryllium retired there.”

“That’s the intent of art: To exposure you to each aspects of quality beings. Why would you privation to instrumentality distant the quality of watching Archie Bunker marque a fool of himself?” Behar concluded.

Gene Wilder gets into an altercation with Cleavon Little successful a country from “Blazing Saddles.”Getty Images

“Leave my ‘Blazing Saddles’ alone. Don’t marque maine travel for you,” Goldberg quipped astatine the extremity of the segment.

The “Sister Act” prima besides made headlines earlier this week erstwhile she revealed connected “The View” that she has a clause successful her volition that prevents unsanctioned biopics to beryllium made about her aft she dies.