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[–] gerbler@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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%20Pryor%2C%201974&text=%E2%80%9CHe%20was%20playing%20a%20huge,released%20on%20a%20%24500%20bond

[–] karobeccary@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

While I agree with your point, Richard Pryor was not in blazing saddles.

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

He did quite a bit of writing for it though.