There is absolutely a way to describe Blazing Saddles. It’s called “satire.” And it may be the most brilliant satire ever made. While the two kids seemed to enjoy it, satire is often lost on younger generations, and is becoming a lost art. They see racism instead of understanding that satire attacks social injustices, including racism.

@Jordan-Ramses

Жыл бұрын

Gen z are all from Kansas City.

@Alvan81

Жыл бұрын

It's interesting that younger folks tend to use all types of curse words & say f-ck every other word in public and around kids even, but cringe from identity humor. (Edit, this was not a shade, just an observation)

@zeallust8542

Жыл бұрын

@@Alvan81 You literally know nobody thats Gen Z, do you?

@Alvan81

Жыл бұрын

@@zeallust8542 You "literally" can't refute my argument, can you? Also I didn't mention a specific generation! To answer your question I only personally know a small #. But many thousands are come on YT, saying "cursing shouldn't be censored", but; that's a side issue.

@lampad4549

Жыл бұрын

Most people get it dude, nobody is trying to cancel blazing saddles and furthermore, this is from the most brilliant satire ever made, its not thought provoking with its comedy in the slightest, its just joke after joke, if you want good satire american psycho, tropic thunder, maybe even big lebowski and that's not even talking about novels, slaughterhouse five, catch 22.

My late Dad, who was a Hollywood stuntman, worked on this film. He almost never went to the movies and if he did, he'd sleep through most of it. This was the ONLY movie that my Dad dragged me to see and on opening night. He said it was craziest movie he had ever worked, ever. Needless to say, he had never, nor did he ever since, belly laugh so hard. It was a grand experience for me to witness my Dad that happy. I'll never forget it.

@julienn8844

Жыл бұрын

That sounds like a wonderful core memory.

@kennethohnemus3192

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome

@miles1886

Жыл бұрын

That's amazing. I could only imagine..

@nevyn_karres

Жыл бұрын

Now that is a great story brother.

@brentbarr4679

Жыл бұрын

Sorry about your dad, and idk how I can say there's a common thread between us but my late father p pasted away with a smile on his face watching this movie. No kidding just thought it was a cool coincidence

Gene Wilder improv'd the "you know... morons" line. Cleavon Little genuinely cracked up.

@rickardroach9075

Жыл бұрын

Gene Wilder didn’t seem to feature much in this reaction. 🤷‍♂️

@jeanine6328

Жыл бұрын

Facts!

@phillipridgway8317

Жыл бұрын

He didn't improve it... he adlibbed it!

@rickardroach9075

Жыл бұрын

@@phillipridgway8317 Improv’d: short for improvised.

@lizd2943

Жыл бұрын

@@phillipridgway8317 And his ad lib improved it!

Mel brooks was asked about 10 years ago if he thought that Blazing Saddles could be made today, to which he replied, "I was amazed it got made back then!"

@OpenMawProductions

Жыл бұрын

One of the sharpest wits of the 20th Century.

@cewaffles

Жыл бұрын

All of his Movies are Gold, even when they are not. just watch them again later in your life and you will see.

@DisKorruptd

Жыл бұрын

well yeah, it painted the racists as being a bunch of morons and/or the antagonists you're supposed to be against

@theclaybeartravels3596

Жыл бұрын

He had to fight the studios and the censor board to keep the farting scene in the movie too

@Ashley-wi4ng

Жыл бұрын

not a mater of it couldn't be made its a mater of its not needed, this movie single handedly changed the wild west genre for the better.

"They said you was hung!" "And they were right" It took me over 40 years to get that joke! LOL! 🎥 💓 🍿

@KellyMurphy

Жыл бұрын

Me too...

@cynthiastanley35

Жыл бұрын

😆😆🤣🤣😂

This movie was meant to be a satire of racism. If you look closely, everyone who was racist, was stupid, or a moron. The vehicle was a western, set in 1874, with aspects of 1974 thrown in (Gucci, cars, the Hollywood sets, etc). Richard Pryor was picked to play the lead, but since he had a bad drug habit, the studio couldn't trust him, but they allowed him to be a writer. He wrote most of Mongo's line, including the iconic "Mongo is just a pawn, in the great game of life." There was a 25th anniversary edition, where they interviewed a lot of the surviving cast, where they told a lot of the things that were going on during filming. One of my favorite movies of all time.

@11DNA11

Жыл бұрын

Cleavon Little has a racist moment in the movie. And he's not stupid or a moron.

@jizzmonkey9679

Жыл бұрын

@@11DNA11 does he?

@txaggievet

Жыл бұрын

The guy on the right gets it... the guy on the left, not so much

@YodatheHobbit

Жыл бұрын

Haha, who the hell needs to look closely? You just need to look.

@wiredjerk

Жыл бұрын

From what I remember it’s said that Mel ended up having Rich write most of the dialogue for the white characters especially the racist ones, and Mel wrote the rest before they brought it all together.

In 2006, Blazing Saddles was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Madeline Kahn was doing a very specific parody of Marlene Dietrich, an actress of the 30's, in a film called "Destry Rides Again". Marlene was, shall we say, limited in her talents. She couldn't sing, and honestly she couldn't really act, either. Mostly she was beautiful and exotic, a transplant from Germany. Madeline captured the vague air of resentment that Marlene exuded, who never seemed to really want to be in Hollywood. The performance was so good, she actually won an Oscar for it, an incredibly rare feat for a comedic performance. We lost her way too soon. (Please be sure to check out Young Frankenstein, the next of Mel's movies and another true masterpiece.)

@88wildcat

Жыл бұрын

She won a nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She didn't win the Oscar that year though. Ingrid Bergman won for Murder on the Orient Express.

@BuffaloC305

Жыл бұрын

@@88wildcat I'm always conflicted about this because Madeline's WHAT'S UP DOC performance still stands as a top supporting actress performance AND in her first big-time film. This small snippet in BLAZING SADDLES is hilarious. It's rather fun to have Madeline repeat the "Big Male" joke into YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, too.

@washo2222

Жыл бұрын

Correction: Madeline Kahn in 1960, graduated from Martin Van Buren High School in Queens, New York, and then earned a drama scholarship to Hofstra University on Long Island. At Hofstra, she studied drama, music, and speech therapy. Kahn graduated from Hofstra in 1964 with a degree in speech therapy. She later studied singing in New York City with Beverley Peck Johnson who was a professional singer, soprano, pianist and taught at Manhatten School of Music and Julliard and would train many of the contemporary opera singers as well as Kahn and actor Kevin Kline. Maderline went on to do light opera and sang the lead role in "Hello, Dolly." Her fear of singing too many nights during so many Broadway performances would ruin her natural speaking voice, she gave up but never forgot the true lessons of real singing but, if asked like in "Blazing Saddles" to sing off key or impersonate another singer like Marlene Dietrich (who she impersonated in this role), she could do it flawlessly.

@stevemattfis

Жыл бұрын

Madeline kahn was a classically trained high soprano and was cast on Broadway in a Sondheim role singing Not Getting Married Today. Check it out when she sings Bewitched here on KZread. When she starts going Soprano she shines. She could hit high notes like Mariah Carey.

@WUStLBear82

Жыл бұрын

Oh, Marlene Dietrich could sing well enough, even if her performance style isn't to modern tastes. She was a cabaret star in Germany, and when she was older and getting fewer film roles she toured the US and Europe attracting audiences of her generation who enjoyed this style of cocktail lounge entertainment. And she could act well enough to get cast in several Hitchcock films; she's pretty good in _Lifeboat_ , and her rendition of Cole Porter's 'The Laziest Gal In Town', which 'I'm Tired' parodies, is from another Hitchcock, _Stage Fright_ .

This was written by Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor together. It shows in the humor. Much love and keep on keepin on J.

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

Richard Pryor and Mel Brooks = Comedy gold!

@samuraiwarriorsunite

Жыл бұрын

In fact, Pryor was supposed to play the sheriff but the studio thought he was too controversial for Blazing Saddles if you can believe that.

@jeanine6328

Жыл бұрын

It’s weird that a lot of people today don’t get satire.

@John-tn7nm

Жыл бұрын

History of the world PT1 another funny Mel Brooks movie

@jcarlovitch

Жыл бұрын

Nobody ever gives poor Andrew Bergman, Norman Steinberg, and Alan Uger credit for writing just as much of this screen play as Brooks and Pryor.

Blazing Saddles was about the stupidity of racism. By showing the absurdity of racism. John Wayne was Brooks first choice for the Waco kid. Wayne told Brooks he couldn't do it Brooks "movies were to dirty, but he'd be the first line to see the movie"

@MCPiriri

Жыл бұрын

John Wayne would have ruined the movie.

@lisastout4651

Жыл бұрын

@@MCPiriri facts

@DudeSilad

Жыл бұрын

@@MCPiriri He would have been good as one of the townspeople though. And he was an old man when this was made.

At age 17, I was able to get into this R-movie and take my baby sister, who was 14. We (Black girls) loved it! Unfortunately, it was a double feature with "Flesh Gordon", a raunchy, forgotten film where I covered my eyes & sank in my seat even before the "Penisaurus monster" appeared. Baby Sis laughed hysterically throughout both films, but I made her promise to never tell Mom I took her there.

@lowkey1969

Жыл бұрын

Awesome. Wish we could get back to where we could all laugh at this sort of humor. Humor is a good way to approach painful subjects.

@bingbong7316

Жыл бұрын

OMG! I saw "Flesh Gordon" too back then, an outlandish piss-take of a film. Probably has it's own cult following.

Harvey Korman telling Brooks "think of your secretary" while guiding his arm into the ink well is done so quickly and subtly most people miss it.

Another Mel Brooks movie quote: "It's good to be the King!"

@viperdemonz-jenkins

Жыл бұрын

Robin Hood Men In Tights, when the king kissed the maid Marian.

@johnathon007

Жыл бұрын

@@viperdemonz-jenkins And History Of The World

"excuse me while i whip this out!" one of the best lines ever!

@stevensprunger3422

Жыл бұрын

And the line that was left out of the movie was “hey baby that’s my elbow”

@kenhoyer8601

Жыл бұрын

"They said you was hung" "And they was right!

@DoubleMonoLR

Жыл бұрын

Personally I like the line "they lose me after the bunker scene" from the actor portraying hitler, but people don't even seem to react to it, even though it's a basic joke.

Mel Brooks breaks the 4th wall in almost all his movies . In this case. It was literally. You would enjoy more of his movies. The Producers (1967) was his first. Also, the actor who plays Boris the hangman, plays the same role in Robin Hood Men in Tights.

@powerlifter5000

Жыл бұрын

Your right, ITS GOOD TO BE THE KING

@Rummyson

Жыл бұрын

haha its always funny, seeing how long it takes people to realize that the 4th wall has been broken.

Congrats on being the first reviewers to comment on the fact that the Chief was speaking Yiddish.

@500midnightmary

Жыл бұрын

Nathen Hawk: You do realize that there are religious groups that believe that indigenous people were the lost tribe of Israel? That's what makes them speaking Yiddish really funny.

@donpietruk1517

Жыл бұрын

Also his headband is written in Hebrew. Says Kosher For Passover.

@DennisMoore664

Жыл бұрын

It's one of my favorite scenes from the film. The bit they show at 11:40 - "They darker than us!" gets me every time.

Fun trivia: After promising Warner Brothers that he would edit out several "offensive" scenes, such as the infamous farting sequence, Mel Brooks never cut a single scene except one: after the room is darkened and Lilly (Madeline Kahn) informs Bart "It's TWUE! It's TWUE!," Bart (Cleavon Little) quietly states, "You're sucking on my arm." The scene was later added back to the home video release. Fun trivia: When auditioning for the role of Lili, Madeline Kahn was asked by Mel Brooks to pull up her skirt so he could see her legs. She was quite hesitant, being unclear of Brooks' intentions. Brooks actually just wanted to see if she had legs good enough to approximate Marlene Dietrich's famous "gams." So she lifted her skirt and said, "No touching." Fun trivia: At the end of the movie when the whole group is running out of the Warner Brothers studio front gates, there is a man in a sweater standing on the sidewalk, watching the action. Mel Brooks has said that the man was not part of the movie, and had simply wandered into the scene. They shooed him away and then went to film the scene. The guy came back into the shot, and is seen standing next to a light pole as the characters stream past him down the street. Brooks had asked the man to move, as they were getting ready to shoot that scene. The man, not understanding their requests, stood there. So Brooks sent out a waiver for him to sign, and left him in the movie.

"....my grandmother was Dutch" That line always cracks me up. You can't get whiter than that.

Blazing Saddles was written to make fun of stereotyping and prejudice. Nothing was protected. Even the bean scene was the first of it’s kind. A lot of people were shocked - and delighted. Young Frankenstein is a must!

Brooks wanted to make a satire on racism and set it in present day (1974) but Warner Brothers wouldn't let him. So he set the movie in 1874 instead which was okay with Warner Brothers and he used the pull back shot to establish the studio lots to move the whole movie into 1974 where he wanted it filmed to begin with.

Mel wasn't the first to break the fourth wall but he was the first to obliterate it. A raunchy movie from the 70's is the uncut version of the Bad News Bears. The language that comes out of kids mouths in that movie will make you sit up. Tanner Boyle was my hero when I saw this in the theater.

@TheCpage66

Жыл бұрын

My Mother stood up, in the theater, and screamed "THIS IS A PG MOVIE?!?!" before yanking me and my two cousins up and dragging us out...it was several years before I finally got to watch "The Bad News Bears" uninterrupted...lol

@ChuckJansenII

Жыл бұрын

The American Rabbitzer Bugsenheimer Bunny broke the fourth wall all the time. Many comedians would break the fourth wall. Among those were Oliver Hardy with his looks into the camera in frustration over Stan, Lou Costello during some routines in the movies. Yeah, Mel Brooks obliterated the fourth wall.

You guys laughed in all the right places. Most people who react to this seem to not get the jokes.

@joefaller4525

Жыл бұрын

Really? I thought the guy on the left acted like he was told he was going to be watching a documentary on the old west. He kept asking why people did things (duh , it's a comedy) and he mentioned people sleeping upstairs would be getting hit by bullets from the dancehall of the saloon. The guy on the right laughed the most of the two, but he even seemed to try to suppress it.

@goldenageofdinosaurs7192

Жыл бұрын

@@joefaller4525 I notice this quite a bit with younger reactors. It’s like they don’t really understand ludicrous comedy. Their reactions are basically them explaining what’s going on, like it’s serious or something. It’s really weird

@Kern665

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, except for Gen Z on the left. They don't have a sense of humor.

@rwlynch3468

Жыл бұрын

After Work Reactions had the best reaction to it, and understood all the satire and meaning. (Don't know his age but he's obviously not 21).

@Delgen1951

Жыл бұрын

@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 The title to the category of movie that Blasing Saddles is Screw Ball Comedy/Satire.

One of my all time favorite movies. It was made in a time when people could laugh at themselves, and at others. There was no malice intended. It didn't make any difference what your race was, all were targeted. But people back then didn't take things so seriously like they do today. Today people don't laugh anymore especially at themselves. A good no holds barred movie is, "Paint Your Wagon." 1961 with Clint Eastwood, and Lee Marvin.

Really enjoyed watching you guys enjoy this movie. According to Mel Brooks, the studio execs screened the movie before release and gave him a long list of things they wanted cut from the film. He convinced them to keep everything on the list except one joke. When Lily Von Shtup says to Sherrif Bart, "Is it true about how you people are gifted? Oh, it's true. It's true. It's true! It's true!", they cut Bart's response, "You're suckin' on my arm."

When I was a kid one of our local stations would to a movie marathon at midnight every new years day. It always started with Blazing Saddles. My family made it a tradition to stay up, not for new years, but just to watch Blazing Saddles. Still the funniest.movie ever.

I still wonder at the schoolteacher who is not "used to public speaking" when talking to groups is literally the core piece of her job.

@pegasusactua2985

Жыл бұрын

That was the joke

Thank you! I always love watching millennials seeing this movie for the first time. The shock and awe is amazing to watch!!

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

These guys are fun to watch movies with

@PapaEli-pz8ff

Жыл бұрын

Same here. Thanks, Guys. Great reactions. Brooklyn? Me too 🤠

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

@@PapaEli-pz8ff Yes sir Bed Stuy

@CoffeeConnected

Жыл бұрын

They're not millennials they're zoomers.

Everyone missed mel Brooks as the Indian chief's headband which is in Hebrew, it says kosher for passover.

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

Really!? Thats hilarious!

@DarkPuIse

Жыл бұрын

It's actually slightly switched around (intentionally) - the first letters are switched around, so in the end, the effect is that it reads something more like "Posher for Kassover."

So a little fun fact: First of all, I am a millennial and I fondly remember watching this when I was younger. No, I did not have the VHS of this movie but instead, I watched this movie on cable. Yes, they showed this movie on cable back in the 1990s and I think is was AMC or whatever channel that showed classic movies. It was funny to see it back then and even funnier to see it now that the references make sense.

@Dessertpvnk

Жыл бұрын

I watched this in the 90s on a VHS at a friends house. To this day I still quote the, "Excuse me while I whip this out." and its mainly a pen or sharpie lol

It's being shown on TV tonight. Starts at 2000 runs for 5 minutes, consists of the opening song and the end credits.

It may be hard to believe, but when I was a kid in the 70's, this movie played almost every Saturday afternoon on TV. It was after cartoons, and completely uncensored. I understood it for the farce of racism, as a child. I find it so funny today for the audacity, a deliberate punch in the gut.

15:40- that scene was originally supposed to end with the line "Ma'am, you're sucking on my elbow." But that was one battle the censors won.

"Wide World of Sports" was a popular ABC television Saturday afternoon show that presented sports from around the world to American audiences. Mongo Santamaria was a famous Cuban percussionist. Hedy Lamarr was a famous actress of the 1940s. She was also a brilliant theoretical physicist who invented a cryptography algorithm that the US military was still using into the 1980s. Warner Brothers also shot a television season of Blazing Saddles...with no intention of ever airing it. It starred Louis Gossett. Here is the pilot (it's terrible). kzread.info/dash/bejne/l2it2dKyebW8eJs.html "Corinthian leather?" Back in 1983, I met a woman who knew the connection between Captain Kirk and Corinthian leather...so I wifed her right away. Had to.

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

I remember Wide World of Sports very well. So many great references

@paulobrien9572

Жыл бұрын

You also missed Howard Johnson offering a Laurel and Hardy welcome. Mel was asked in the early 2000's if he could make this film at this time. He was shocked he was able to make it in 1974. They have to watch Young Frankenstein Brooks and Wilder's best collaboration

@leslauner5062

Жыл бұрын

@@RKnights The thrill of victory...and the agony of defeat...God, I miss the 1970's.....

@trekkiejunk

Жыл бұрын

Only a pilot was filmed for the TV show, not a whole season.

@ericjanssen394

Жыл бұрын

@@paulobrien9572 And "The orange roof on Howard Johnson's outhouse". And his ice-cream parlor (1 Flavor). 🍦 And besides, every Fantasy Island fan knows the connection between Captain Kirk and fine Cor-IN-thian leather...

The actor who plays Gabby Johnson would some years later play one of Rambo's torturers in First Blood who falls to his death in the helicopter scene.

Harvey Korman just cracks me up , his “student “ line always makes me laugh, anyway brilliant movie everyone is perfect in it , thanks enjoyed your reaction lots of genuine laughs

@KellyMurphy

Жыл бұрын

Harvey Korman was a brilliant comedian, Actually I don't know if it was him or Tim Conway, but I can't watch a skit with those 2 without laughing...

@thunderstruck5484

Жыл бұрын

@@KellyMurphy exactly we were lucky growing up with shows like Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart and Mary Tyler Moore, tv’s best years in my opinion

There was never a fourth wall in this movie to break. Mel was just indulging the audience's desire to believe in one.

The homages to classes westerns run through this. The opening image of the railroad is frame for frame picking up the ending of Once Upon a Time in the West. The song The townsfolk sing is to the tune of Do Not Forsake Me from the movie High Noon. The list goes on.

@ericjanssen394

Жыл бұрын

Just as Hedley is almost a dead ringer for OUATITW's railroad-baron villain.

And another amazing thing is that Mel Brooks at 96 is one of the few surviving cast members from that movie of nearly 50 years ago. ( save for the small black child during the wagon train flashback scene ) Rodney Allen Rippy and the dim witted henchman at the start of the movie named Lyle portrayed by the 84 year old Burton Gilliam.

@glennwisniewski9536

Жыл бұрын

Of the credited cast, only Mel Brooks, Burton Gilliam (as you so rightly pointed out) and Robyn Hilton (the Gov's secretary, you forgot her) are still with us.

@rccraig7580

Жыл бұрын

@@glennwisniewski9536 No I saw she was still among the living. I didn't feel like editing my comment at that point but I figured someone would point that out.

@CoffeeConnected

Жыл бұрын

That's shocking to know considering that it was the seventies, which is still a relatively modern era when you take into account that many actors from prior decades are still with us. Having said that many of the cast weren't exactly young at the time.

@daveweber9577

Жыл бұрын

Burton Gillian’s back story about this movie is great. He really struggled with all the racist language & actions of his character. Cleavon Little & Mel Brooks were key to him feeling comfortable enough to play the part.

One of the Greatest Comedies of ALL TIME. Mel Brooks is a damn genius!

Thanks for bringing the generations together. That's inspiring and much needed today! Seems nobody's working to sow harmony these days and Blazing Saddles can only keep everyone laughing!

"look who's coming to dinner" is a movie you guys should watch

Fun fact...the fart scene is the reason for the movie's R rating 😬

@Fmanzo10

Жыл бұрын

Even more fun fact.. The fart scene in this movie was the first time farting was ever in a film.

@rachelhughes8487

Жыл бұрын

Another fun fact. In like 2016 I saw a TV version where, of all things, they censored the fart noises.

@jb888888888

Жыл бұрын

@@Fmanzo10 Wrong. There's a fart in 1971's _Cold Turkey._

One of my favorite lines from a Mel Brooks movie: "You farging icehole!" I literally use that line frequently. I love it!

The laughter. That's what Blazing Saddles is. You laughter is THEIR laughter who first saw it in 1974.

I've seen the movie a million times, and I've always laughed so hard! Which brings us to the question:- why, why, WHY doesn't anyone know how to make comedies like this anymore??

@davidlipman8093

Жыл бұрын

Look at the youngest kid. Poor boy is so indoctrinated he can't bring himself to laugh. Woke sucks the joy from everything.

@andrewwilkins7823

Жыл бұрын

@@davidlipman8093 sad but true. Humour is gradually dieing.

@tommcewan7936

Жыл бұрын

Oh, they still know how to do it, it's just everyone's too scared of getting murdered by a rampaging angry mob who don't get the joke.

The studio was pretty lenient about dialogue in the film but they made Brooks cut at least one line. After Madeline Kahn says oh it's true, it's true Cleavon Little's next line was I'm sorry to disappoint you ma'am but you're sucking on my arm.

@rayharley597

Жыл бұрын

Mel Brooks cut that line himself; studio had naught to do with it, kerk

@samuraiwarriorsunite

Жыл бұрын

@@rayharley597 Interesting, By the way, what's a kerk?

It's important to remember that Richard Pryor had a hand in writing a good bit of this movie as well.

This came out when I was in HS and we used so many of those tag lines in this movie. "Excuse me while I whip this out", How bout some more beans mr Tagart", and a whole slew of others. Ahhh I loved and miss the 1970s. Madeline Kahn was emulating a famous actor from the 1930s. Her name was Marlena Detric.

No, Corinthian leather was made up for Chrysler. That was a Cadillac.

The world needs Mel Brooks movies now more than ever! The bearded Genxer gut laughing says it all..... ...our generation grew up watching Mel Brooks movies and we loved them dearly! Check out High Anxiety it's my favorite ❤👌

The lead sheriff character was supposed to be played by Richard Prior. I believe Mr. Prior co-wrote it with Mel Brookes. History of the world part 1 is another classic

Love that you guys enjoyed this one. It came out when I was only 2 but it’s by one of my favorites. Not sure if you’ve done it yet, I suggest Mel’s Robinhood Men in Tights next. You should also watch Spacebslls, do yourselves a favor and be sure you’ve all seen the very first Star Wars movie from 1977. You won’t be able to fully appreciate it without seeing Star award first. You’d be cheating yourselves if a great experience if you don’t.

That Dr. Gillespie joke, tho! All in the Family got away with stuff that the recent tributes got bleeped out for. That's going backwards, since the whole point of saying those words like that was to take away their power to offend.

Those were the days when people didn't take themselves seriously. We weren't afraid of laughing no matter what. No division, just fun. We could talk like that to each other and no one was offended.

It took quite a while, but that young prude on the left finally broke down and started enjoying himself. 😸

we've gone backwards in social acceptance. why can't we make this now? Thanks!!! Great reaction!!!!

Irish people back in the old west faced a lot of prejudice too. Not to the same degree black people did, but still some. If you haven't seen it, The Producers is another excellent Mel Brooks film. The original is great, and 2nd one is more of a musical stage play and there's a lot of modern references in it.

@jerryadams6799

Жыл бұрын

Irish workers were slaughtered on the east coast several times. they were used and killed when they were protesting their conditions. they were also hated because they were catholic. when not being killed or treated as slave laborers, they were treated to signs that said no Irish allowed.

@chemech

Жыл бұрын

In the pre Civil War South, Irish workers were used for the most dangerous jobs, since as freemen, they weren't property, and if they got injured or killed, no plantation owner would face a large monetary loss. Before the significant importation of African slaves, Irish people made up a large portion of the Indentured servants in the early colonial days. Lingering prejudices against Irish immigrants and Irish Americans arose from problems in Ireland, made worse during several downturns during the period of the Anglo-Irish rule of Ireland... Ireland always seemed to have a surplus population of very poor people who would work as laborers and the like, because their situation in Ireland was so bleak. "It's no sin to be poor, but for most sinners, poverty is inevitable" or similar was a common saying in many households, including Irish American families who were trying to succeed.

@CorePathway

Жыл бұрын

I’m not saying they didn’t have it tough; but the Blacks and Chinese had it waaaay next level.

@vancouvervixen4253

Жыл бұрын

We owe most of the Erie canal to the Irish, they dug it by hand and died of malaria in droves.

@melorafoy7109

Жыл бұрын

My co worker has a sign with "Irish" painted on it and an arrow. His wife found it online.

Your next Mel Brooks movie should be History of the World pt. 1😬

Younger people never get that "I Get A Kick Out of You" joke, they don't understand that it's anachronistic they'd sing a song in the late 1800's that wasn't written until the early 1930's, and with close harmonies from a Big Band Era.

@Otokichi786

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, Cole Porter wrote "working on the railroad" work songs in the late 19th century.;)

@yournamehere6002

Жыл бұрын

@@Otokichi786 The fact that they launch into this very urbane, sophisticated crooning should be a tip-off, but it just goes right over their heads---even when I saw this in the early 80's for the first time on a videotape--and I was a kid--I knew it was goofy!

@rickardroach9075

Жыл бұрын

Also, “cocaine” features in the original lyrics.

@CoffeeConnected

Жыл бұрын

Also many people miss the Laurel and Hardy line which is spoken during the announcement to greet the new sheriff. That too will likely be a generational thing.

@yournamehere6002

Жыл бұрын

@@CoffeeConnected Well, that goes without saying....and the Hedy Lamarr jokes, too. But it's bizarre to me that they don't see how off it is that they suddenly sing in this slick style...I saw this movie as a kid in the early 80's, and I understood it was anachronistic and ridiculous. Although we knew who Laurel and Hardy were....and were vaguely aware that Hedy Lamarr was a famous actress.

Glad you educated these guys to a comedy classic and the genius of Mel Brooks.

During the 'its twoo! Its twoo!' scene, there is a deleted line where Bart replied "I hate to disillusion you. But you're sucking on my arm."

There is only one way to describe this movie: Unique. This movie is just so damn good. Btw... you remember Canonball Run old man? (We're about the same age) I think these younglings might appreciate them.

You guys absolutely have to review Brooks' masterpiece, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN! I had the privilege of seeing it with a packed audience in the 70's and we were screaming with laughter!

That Beans scene makes me laugh my ass of every time I see it. Little bit of trivia: this is the first movie to have a fart in it😂

@jb888888888

Жыл бұрын

1971's _Cold Turkey_ was the first major American motion picture with a fart.

This used to air on TV about once a year before video rental became a thing. The N word was not censored and to my recollection, neither was the scene between Bart and Lily. The thing that was censored... the fart scene was removed. In fact... it almost prevented the movie from being made as the execs found it too crude. A different time.

My Dad took me to see this, I about 15, I laughed so hard that tears were running down my cheeks.

@philiprice7875

Жыл бұрын

my nan took me to see it best memory is her laffing her head off tears streaming down face she was 65

Burton Gilliam (Lyle) was a part-time actor and stuntman whose full time job, until _Blazing Saddles_ ,was a fireman. He recounts talking with Cleavon Little (Bart) on just how hard it was for him, a firefighter who had always worked with Black firemen, to say THE WORD. Cleavon reassured him, in the context of ridiculous satire, using THE WORD was one of the best ways to destroy its destructive power.

The immortal ... "Blazing Saddles." For sure, in my top 10 movies all time. Not just comedies, movies all time.

As someone who speaks French the surname "Le Petomane" reads as someone who can't stop farting. I presume it is intentional, but it is an obscure joke as a lot of people won't read it that way.

@nomadnametab

Жыл бұрын

there was a stand up comic in france in the late 19th-early 20th centuries who had freakish abilities to fart .. play tunes with his butthole. he went by the name Le Petomane . :)

@craigdohmen2648

15 күн бұрын

There was a French gentleman who had vaudeville act back in the day where he billed himself as "Le Petomane", and yes, his act was that he farted.

The satire of Mel Brooks is the max level one could ever hope to achieve.

I saw this in the theater and it's really fun watching younger peeps react to it. I've sought out Gen Z reactions to this and you're one of the few who got the "but not the Irish" reference. I've seen several recs in the comments for "The Producers", which is also great. If you watch that one and like Zero Mostel, then I'd like to see your reaction to "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum". It's a musical comedy starring lots of comedians who started in vaudeville, notably: Mostel, Phil Silvers, & Buster Keaton. Also, it's one of Stephen Sondheim's first musicals and it also starred a very young Michael Crawford, who would originate the title role of "The Phantom of the Opera" on stage in London and NY.

@newmoon766

Жыл бұрын

Yep. That "not the Irish" ref is a deep dive into American racism, alright. I had a great-grandmother who was "German" who married an "Irish" man back in the late 1800's. It was regarded as a "mixed marriage". Of course, all of their combined immigrant ancestry was 4 or more generations back. His name was Flint. Mine is Schmidt. Ah, racism; the gift that keeps on giving. (Boomer on the cusp of Gen X.)

Mel Brooks is a national treasure. Love his movies!

In response to a question in this video, there were "raunchy" zany satirical comedy movies in the 1960s. Mel Brooks' 1967 movie "The Producers" is a prime example. I would also recommend "The Pink Panther" (1963) and its sequel "A Shot in the Dark" (1964). Perhaps not as "raunchy" per se, but certainly zany and satirical is the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."

@GoldTopSlinger

Жыл бұрын

I think I don't quite understand the incredibly vague word, "raunchy" as applied here. In the 60s it was more like "nudge nudge, wink wink" humor. Maybe about sex, maybe about something different, wink, wink. Movie makers were still saddled with The Hays Code until 1968, so the ol' wink wink was as "raunchy" as it got.

@luminiferous1960

Жыл бұрын

@@GoldTopSlinger the meaning of "raunchy" provided by Google is "earthy, vulgar, and often sexually explicit." Thus, raunchy can include earthy or vulgar elements that are not sexually explicit. Fart and scatological humor would be examples of raunchy but not sexually explicit humor. What is considered earthy or vulgar varies over time and by culture. The kind of "wink, wink" innuendo and double entendre used in the 1960s (and earlier) was considered by some conservatives at the time and even today as raunchy, but only if they get the intended earthy or vulgar meaning of the innuendo. Even some of the raunchiest humor in "Blazing Saddles" is based on double entendre; for example, when Madeline Kahn is singing "...going and coming, and always too soon" the humor is based on the double meaning of "coming" which has one meaning as a slang word for something that many would consider to be earthy and vulgar, and not suitable for discussion in polite company. In this case, the vulgarity is sexual, but it is implied rather than being explicit. For me, what makes this double entendre raunchy is how vulgar the implied meaning is, rather than whether or not the vulgar meaning was explicitly stated rather than implied. I apply the same reasoning to the "wink, wink" innuendo and double entendre of the 1960s comedies to determine whether or not I would consider them to be raunchy.

@luminiferous1960

Жыл бұрын

I just recalled an example of a very raunchy double entendre joke in which the sex is very implicit rather than explicit. This joke was told by Benny Hill on "The Benny Hill" television show sometime in the late 1960s or in the 1970s: "What's the difference between a vitamin and a hormone?" "You can't make a vita...min." This joke is dependent on applying the slight pause that Benny takes in between saying the second and third syllables of the word "vitamin" in the answer to the question, and applying that pause between the two syllables of the word "hormone." The implied punchline phrase that is not explicitly stated in this joke is "but you can make a hor...mone." Even though Benny's joke does not contain a single vulgar word, nor even a word with a double meaning so that the implied sexual meaning resides in a single pause and the fact that the word "hormone" sounds like the phrase "whore moan," it is a joke that I think most people who get the joke would consider to be very raunchy because the implied meaning is so vulgar.

Madeline Kahn is doing a spot-on parody of the legendary Marlene Dietrich. If you know Dietrich's work Kahn's irreverent send-up performance seems that much funnier.

Slapstick comedy.. Mel Brooks was a genius. The movie theater where I saw it was exploded with laughter! Love Grandma Debbie

There's even some stealth humor in the "But we don't want the Irish!" line: David Huddleston was of Irish descent.

@julienn8844

Жыл бұрын

Oh thats even better.

Another funny MB movie often ignored is “The Producers” starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder

@Otokichi786

Жыл бұрын

Franz Liebkind's Broadway smash hit: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eoSMqrSRaLSYmNY.html

@boomhaueroo8703

Жыл бұрын

Ha! 😀 beat me to it.

@boomhaueroo8703

Жыл бұрын

I just happened to catch A funny thing happened on the way to the forum on TV the other day. I had forgotten how funny Mostel was in that.

@robertcartwright4374

Жыл бұрын

"Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Nazi party!"

@donpietruk1517

Жыл бұрын

Springtime for Hitler and Germany! Winter for Poland and France! Gets me every time! Then they end up in the Nazi cross shaped kick line. Mel wrote and choreographed that whole number.

The beauty of this movie, is that everybody who uses offensive language, looks like the idiot they are, So it's not really offensive

@codymoe4986

Жыл бұрын

Just saying, apply that same logic to a films like Boys in the Hood, Menace to Society, etc. Still just as idiotic, coming out of the mouths of a "person of color"...

during the early 70's The Wide Wide World of Sports was a sports show that did segments on different sports for an hour

“….extend a laurel and hearty handshake….” It took me a long time to get that one.

Thank you this was great! One of the all time favorites of my youth. While Hitchcock was the “master of suspense”, Brooks had to be the “master of satire”. 😉 Plus, you can’t knock a movie that has the Count Basie Orchestra in it! 😊

@DonnaLang42rockglobally

Жыл бұрын

And then a few years later Brooks did a satire based on Hitchcock movies called "High Anxiety". I think you might like it.

I bet I've seen this 100 times! Classic!

Funnest movie ever!!! Every time I watch it it’s still funny. You will catch jokes you missed the first & second time you watch it. It’s fun to watch people see it for the first time, everyone’s laughing!!!! You couldn’t make this movie today, but the humor still works, young & old. Richard Pryor was a writer on this movie. Mel Brooks is a genius!!!!

"He said, "The Sheriff is near!"" Use this whenever someone says something inappropriate and someone else who doesn't need to know asks, "What?'

This was the funniest movie I ever saw until I saw Animal House and History of the world P. 1. Harvey Korman as the Count De Money was hysterical.

@philiprice7875

Жыл бұрын

5 funniest films blazing saddles life of brian porkies (youtube porkies principles) madmadmad world gods must be crazy (if you ignore the followup will be the only film from botswana ever see)

R-rated 80's comedies that leaned into their R-rating and pushed boundaries even back then: "Porky's" "Animal House" "The Blues Brothers" "Trading Places" "Stripes" "Fast Times as Ridgemont High" "Police Academy" "Heathers" "Kentucky Fried Movie" (You should see "Enter The Dragon" and "The Wizard of Oz" first but you don't have to.

@dizzyshar

Жыл бұрын

Good list, it is missing "Revenge of the Nerds"

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

Kentucky Fried movie gets a lot o votes here

This movie is great. Love how they make fun of racism. Mel Brooks was asked in an interview if he could make this movie today and his response was I couldn’t make it back then. The fart scene was the first time it was done in movies. Mel Brooks sat with the sound editor recording the sounds and grabbing any passersby to contribute to the sounds. The song that Lily Von Shtupp sings according to Mel Brooks is the dirtiest song he’s ever written. There’s a new animated movie out by Mel Brooks called “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank” and it’s supposed to be a remake of “Blazing Saddles”.

Another great movie is Trading Places with Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis. Absolutely hilarious and totally inappropriate in todays world.

@jrdougan

Жыл бұрын

One of the greatest descriptions ever of how brokerages work.

To me Blazing Saddles has always been one of my absolute favorite movies. The way Mel Brooks uses satire and comedy to poke fun at racism has always been brilliant to me. The movie was written by Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor (with Brooks writing a lot of the dialogue for the African American parts and Pryor writing for the white characters). The original plan was to have Richard Pryor and John Wayne play in this movie but John Wayne has to bow out although he said the script was one of the funniest things he'd ever read and so Gene Wilder got that part and Richard Pryor was busy on another project so he had to bow out also. It would have been great to see Wilder and Pryor together in this movie but at least we got several movies with them in it, especially Silver Streak and Stir Crazy. It would be hard to imagine any cast being funnier or anyone playing the Sheriff any better than Cleavon Little and also the dozens of stars that played great parts in this movie especially Alex Karras who played Mongo as he was an ex NFL football player, ex pro wrestler and went on to star in the tv show Webster and a couple other projects. Another couple of movie that y'all might want to check out by Mel Brooks are History of the World part 1 (tons of star appearances) and also Silent Movie which also had a ton of guest stars including Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLouise.

Hehehe when i started watching this, the viewer count is/was at 420

the world needs more Mel Brooks movies!

Tell the dad if he wants to love Madeline Kahn even more, he needs to watch "Destry Rides again" to see her performance in Blazing Saddles was a fantastic impression of Marlene Dietrich

The Hays Movie Censorship Code, enforced from 1934 to 1968, prohibited "raunchy" comedy, along with lots of other things. In '68, the code was replaced by the MMPA ratings system we have today, and more varied content, including raunchy comedy, became possible.

I am only 41yo... but I will tell you... what I have learned so far... One of the best things you can have in life.. is a sense of humor!! If you don't have a sense of humor... your not enjoying life!! This is the 1 movie that will test you and your sense of humor for sure!!!! LMFAO!! Basically.... Jokes are just jokes... Live a little!!

This is classic Mel Brooks. First time for me was with my cousins and my family. We were the only ones in the theater. We all laughed our asses off. Funny you mentioned that your cheeks hurt. We all suffered the same syndrome. 😂😂😂

Young Frankenstein. Funniest comedy ever made. They had so much fun on the set, Mel went back to the studio for more money to finish it....they were finished filming, they didn't want it end. It totally shows.

This is crazier than Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I won't spoil it if you all haven't reacted to it yet but it has a broadly similar situation regarding how the characters relate to the world.

@jeffdietz630

Жыл бұрын

Agreed definitely need Holy Grail reaction.

Robin Hood Men In Tights is another good one

There is a deleted scene after Madelaine Kahn said the line, "It's true! It's true!" Cleavon Little replied, "Stop it, you're sucking on my elbow."

Mom and dad took us to the drive in. Thought we were watching a western. I was 8. Boy were they surprised