If you saw Blazing Saddles in a theater back in 1974, you already knew it was something special. Now, more than 50 years later, the American Film Institute has made it official.

The AFI just moved Blazing Saddles to the number one spot on its famous 100 Years…100 Laughs list, naming it the funniest American film ever made. The announcement came on Friday, just days before Mel Brooks turns 100 years old on June 28.

For years, that top spot belonged to Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot, which had been number one since the list first launched in 2000. Blazing Saddles had sat at number six all that time.

AFI President and CEO Bob Gazzale made no apologies for the change. Brooks had long argued his film was the funnier one, and Gazzale agreed.

“He’s right! We’re happy to right this wrong as Mel celebrates his centennial. It’s good to be the king, and may he live to be a 2,000 year old man.”

Brooks directed, co-wrote, and produced Blazing Saddles, and he also appeared in it. The film starred Cleavon Little as Bart, a Black railroad worker who becomes sheriff of an all-white frontier town. Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Slim Pickens, and Harvey Korman rounded out the cast. Richard Pryor was among the co-writers.

The film earned three Academy Award nominations and used its absurd comedy to take aim at racism, prejudice, and the conventions of classic Hollywood Westerns. The same week the AFI made its announcement, the publication Consequence ranked Blazing Saddles as Brooks’ greatest film, placing it ahead of Young Frankenstein, The Producers, and Spaceballs.

The new AFI ranking also reveals just how remarkable Brooks’ place in film history really is. He is the only filmmaker with three movies in the organization’s Top 15 comedy rankings. Blazing Saddles is now at number one, The Producers at number 11, and Young Frankenstein at number 13.

The honors keep coming for Brooks as his centennial approaches. He recently announced he is donating his career archives to the National Comedy Center, where the collection will become part of the museum’s permanent exhibits.

Over a career spanning more than seven decades, Brooks has earned the EGOT; winning Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards. He has also received the AFI Life Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors, and an Academy Honorary Award.

Not bad for a kid from Brooklyn who made us laugh so hard we forgot we were also thinking.