Infusing the Western genre with comedic elements dates back to the 1910s. Famed silent-era comedians such as Harold Lloyd and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle starred in Western comedy shorts like Two-Gun ...

In 1974, Mel Brooks turned in one of his finest films when he made Blazing Saddles, a Western spoof that follows a Black sheriff facing racism and crime on the frontier. Viewed by many as the director ...