Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles ranks at number 6 on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films.
Three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute 's list of the top 100 comedy films of the past 100 years -LRB- 1900 -- 2000 -RRB- , all of which ranked in the top 15 of the list : Blazing Saddles at number 6 , The Producers at number 11 , and Young Frankenstein at number 13.
