Heard he passed earlier today, read an article on him one time about stuff he did. Wasn't just an actor, wrote screenplays, wrote and sang songs, directed, did Shakespeare, etc, etc, Very talented. In the same article it talked about Blazing Saddles, he wasn't supposed to be in it, the original actor got sick, Brooks called him up and said I need help and he did the movie, that's where he met Richard Pryor, who was a writer for the movie and they did what 3,4, ? movies together. We Bad, un huh, we bad