This item is from April 7, 2016. If they had actually shot the joke, we’d have seen it by now, so it must have been left out of the script. How raunchy does a joke have to be for Mel Brooks to leave it out?

I was reading a book of interviews and discovered that Mel Brooks decided to leave out a punchline in his amazingly funny film, Blazing Saddles.

No one who saw the film and likes it can forget the scene where Lilly, in a dark room with the African-American sheriff, says “Is it true what they say about you people? It’s true, it’s true.”

Brooks told an interviewer the next line was, “I hate to disillusion you ma’m, but you are sucking on my elbow.”

I thought that was pretty funny, but Brooks apparently thought it was a joke too far.