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@nathanclarke2777

6 ай бұрын

This and Young Frankenstein are tied for my favorite Mel Brooks films! But seriously every film he has done is amazing!

@clarencewalker3925

6 ай бұрын

Bea Arthur, from "The Golden Girls" was a Marine.

@nathanclarke2777

6 ай бұрын

Yes she was! @@clarencewalker3925

@bfdidc6604

6 ай бұрын

Another fun Mel Brooks movie is High Anxiety, through it's ideal to get some Hitchcock films under one's belt before watching it.

@kurtbarlow9402

5 ай бұрын

​@@bfdidc6604 Awesome and overlooked film. I don't think there's a single reaction video out there. Other neglected titles are Caddyshack, Time Bandits, The Cannonball Run, The Freshman and My Blue Heaven

The thing about Mel is that, for good or for ill, he really is a laugh-a-minute guy. You don't get breathing time between jokes. He just hits you with as many punchlines, be they brilliant or dumb, deep or shallow, as possible, and you've got to keep up or just collapse in a heap of hysterics. And, so far, no one else can do that successfully.

@NiceDudeMovieNight

6 ай бұрын

We wouldn't want it any other way

@everforward5561

6 ай бұрын

That's one of Mel's comedy rules, by his own mouth. If you machine gun someone with jokes, at least some of them have to hit.

You we're surprised by the Spanish Inquisition. That's normal, because.... "NOOOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!"

@EssEll9791

6 ай бұрын

I love you, funny stranger! Someone had to say it. ❤❤❤

Chris is the first reactor I’ve ever seen comprehend the Oedipus joke properly. Occasionally mel brooks went deep.

@wendymotogirl

6 ай бұрын

That's not very deep, unless you have some kind of an education from the United States or something

@tbone9474

5 ай бұрын

As deep as Oedipus went

Many critics were unkind to this movie on its initial release but it's nice to know a new generation finds it funny. Mel Brooks would be pleased. He's 97, you know.

@Cyke101

6 ай бұрын

Say what you will about Part 2 on Hulu, but the fact that it was produced by and starred so many of today's generation really speaks to your point, I think.

@wesker100000000

6 ай бұрын

I do know, but does mel know?.

@wendymotogirl

6 ай бұрын

Monty Python did it much better.

@janecrow1122

7 күн бұрын

Billy Crystal just presented the Peabody Award to Mel. Mel's as sharp as ever. 💕 peace, all 💕

The monk who say “Who knows Torq, you might win a buck” is David Lee Roth, the singer of Van Halen. I kid you not!

@MidBoss666

3 ай бұрын

Many people wanted to play cameos in Mel Brooks' movies, just for the fun of it, or serious actors who wanted to give comedy a shot. For one, the guy who played Jesus was John Hurt, and who could forget Gene Hackman in Young Frankenstein.

This movie always felt to me like Mel Brooks meets Monty Python in the most perfect way.

@NiceDudeMovieNight

6 ай бұрын

Especially the sketch comedy aspect of this movie. Very reminiscent of Monty Python

@TheUnstableThinker

6 ай бұрын

@@NiceDudeMovieNight Now that you've done all the other big ones, you've got one really big one left: The Producers. Just make sure you watch Mel Brooks version and not the remake.

Oedipus joke is one of the great deep cuts in movies

@LanceCorporalHawk30

6 ай бұрын

I laughed so hard the first time I saw it my friend had to pause the movie to wait for me to finish laughing

@Stuck-n-da-90s

6 ай бұрын

I remember seeing this before I knew about Oedipus Rex. After finding out that scene hit differently.

@howardbalaban7051

6 ай бұрын

I was a junior in HS and we read Oedipus. I'd seen this movie several times by that point, and when we got to the part of the story where we found out what Oedipus did, I just started laughing. Some of my classmates laughed at me. I don't care; it was hysterical!

To answer your question of the "Walk this way" joke, according to my research, it's an old vaudville joke of: "A fat woman walks into a store looking for talcum powder, and the bow-legged pharmacist says 'Walk this way' in response, the woman says 'If I could walk that way, I wouldn't need talcum powder!'"

This is honestly one of the greatest comedy movies of all time. All the dance numbers, the jokes, the bits...... everything is just on another level of comedic glory. Also the best line hands down is "It's good to be the king...." Which if you guys don't remember he says at the end of Men in Tights when the king kisses maid Marian

@Nekomancer1983

6 ай бұрын

They do, they even added the clip.

@jakemetzgar

6 ай бұрын

Even though I do love Mel Brooks, I wouldn’t say it’s his best. However there are a good amount of memorable gags

@KrazzeeKane

6 ай бұрын

​@Nekomancer1983 half the time I feel like the people commenting haven't even watched the video lol, like OP obviously didn't watch it, or else they would have seen the inserted clip. You would think they would actually WATCH the video before commenting and possibly looking dumb lol

@TheOnlyHawkeye666

6 ай бұрын

@@KrazzeeKane comment while at work, did not have time to watch full video at the time so was unaware. Not going to change the comment though, I jumped the gun but so what its a KZread comment not a LA times movie review

@jotarokujo4571

6 ай бұрын

Count the money ! Count the money ! 😂 I use to watch this as a kid all the time ❤

There was a tribute to Mel Brooks at the Kennedy Honors. It featured celebrities performing musical numbers from his movies beginning with Martin Short atop a horse and ending with Matthew Broderick. Mel is sitting next to the Obamas moving his mouth along to the music. He seemed to really enjoy himself that night. It’s on You Tube.

@aaryamannambiar6677

6 ай бұрын

Next to the Obamas, and Robert De Niro, who actually laughs a lot during the whole show, which is a rare sight!

When you think about it, Mel did Jews in Space, it was called Spaceballs

The dead birds being set free always kills me 😂😂😂

@josephthompson4245

6 ай бұрын

Nobody plays a deranged old man like Spike Milligan

The man holding the pipe in Rome who is talking about the "new concept" of the centerfold is actually the founder of Playboy magazine, Hugh Hefner.

Piece of Trivia the Actor who played the Emperor of Rome was Dom Deluise and Mel Brooks always said when casting Dom he always had to add an extra day to shooting. Why? You needed one day for laughter.

Trivia: The title come from The Historie Of The World by Walter Raleigh. There'd been plans for at least three books but Raleigh was executed after only writing the first one.

Austin Powers and this film pay homage to the water ballet and insane choreography of a campy genius named Busby Berkeley. He directed dizzying musical sequences in the 1930's-40's that defied physics, logic and reason.

One Mel Brooks film everyone sleeps on is High Anxiety. If you're even remotely familiar with Hitchcock, it's a must watch.

You guys should watch the movie Clue if you haven't seen it yet. It also stars Madeline Kahn from the Mel Brookes films. I feel the comedy in that movie would be right up your alley

This movie truly had an all star cast of old comedians, from Sid Ceasar to Henny Youngman.

@davidlionheart2438

6 ай бұрын

I freakin' love Henny Youngman.

The Hulu series wasted the original joke, the title was based on the book by Sir Walter Raleigh "The History of the World", that was planned to be published in several volumes but there was only one because Raleigh died.

@denisealexander5441

6 ай бұрын

Also, the quality of delivering the jokes was sub par. I was excited to see it because it was a Mel Brooks series... but the cast just didn't deliver. Very disappointed. 🙄 If he was going to kill the joke by making a part two,he should have done it earlier... when he had comedic actors who were up to the task. He only made it because people kept begging him to,and he finally gave in to it.

The crazy man freed by the King is Spike Milligan, and his daughter is Pamela Stephenson, who is married to Billy Connolly

I love the Hugh Hefner cameo there, pitching his centerfold concept.

@robertt3715

6 ай бұрын

Definitely seems like that flew under the radar!

@blakes439

6 ай бұрын

I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING! @@robertt3715

@jordanrivers7736

6 ай бұрын

@@robertt3715More like it flew over their heads!

This and Young Frankenstein are my favourite Mel Brooks movies. Saw this back in 1980 when I was 12 with both of my parents. Were Jewish, and during The Inquisition, I thought my parents were going to fall out of their chairs they were laughing so hard. One of Mel’s absolute best bits of comedy.

🎶 The Inquisition, What a Show! 🎶 16:26

The mispronouncing of Count de Money's name is a callback to Blazing Saddles and the mispronouncing of Hedley Lamar's name (both characters played by Harvey Korman). Also, the Jews in Space song was repurposed in Men in Tights. He just changed the lyrics.

@nowthatsjustducky

6 ай бұрын

Didn't Hedley also chip a tooth on a bust in Blazing Saddles as well?

@wampa25

6 ай бұрын

@@nowthatsjustducky No, it was the back of Lily's head.

The old man Rambaud was the late great Spike Milligan who also appeares in Life of Brian. Jesus was John Hurt and of course lady Rambaud is Pamela Stephenson who is married to Billy Connolly.

Synchronized swimming numbers: Esther Williams did them first. At MGM. In the 40s. The swimming number here is an homage/rip on her style.

Would love to see the the prducers( possibly 2005) next! To further complete the mel brooks series.

@chickginger

6 ай бұрын

I love the Producers! Nathan Lane is having the time of his life in that movie and it's so funny.

@user-qv1bj2kb2c

6 ай бұрын

Yes, The Producers is as irreverent as Mel Brooks gets and that's going quite a way.

@gmaqwert

6 ай бұрын

The original was better.

@snafu313

3 ай бұрын

Watch the original "The Producers" from 1967 first before you watch the musical version.

One of those videos where you start smiling even before you press play.

@NiceDudeMovieNight

6 ай бұрын

☺️

They sure weren't expecting the Spanish Inquisition bit.

@schechteran

6 ай бұрын

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

"Walk this way" has been in almost all of Mel Brooks' movies

My teacher trolled us by making us watch this and said next week we were going to see part 2

Mel Brooks and his puns...gotta love them! I bet the "Spanish Inquisition" scene was when Mel Brooks really got to have fun with his role. You can tell he's just having a ball with the actors on set! The world will truly be a much darker place with him gone...

You have proven, yet again, the truth of the old addage: "NOBODY expects the Spanisb Inquisition!"

The voice of god was done by Dom DeLuise (he also played Caeser). He did a ton of other Brooks films, he was Don Giovanni in Men in Tights, he played the musical director at the end of Blazing Saddles, and was also the voice of Pizza the Hutt. He was also in Silent Movie, which you guys should check out as well. Stay nice, dudes!

@p.informatico1320

6 ай бұрын

He was also in Cannonball Run I and II, and he was hilarious.

@Labyrinth6000

5 ай бұрын

Also did a great job in Don Bluth movies like Tiger in American Tail and Jeremy in Secret of NIMH.

@nunocarvalho9255

3 ай бұрын

It's actually Carl Reiner.

The "walk this way" gag is from Young Frankenstein when Gene Wilder meets Igor and the use his tiny cane to go down the stairs from the train station.

I hope you now get the reference of Mel Brooks' last line in "Robin Hood: Men in Tights"

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition to have a musical number.

One of Mel's "racist" jokes that you guys seemed to have missed was "the jig is up" when Gregory Hines says, "And out of here!" Although the jig is up is an actual saying meaning that one has been caught, the "and out of here" is because the word jig was also a racial slur word referring to black people. Even though the joke had racist tones, no one cared because it was funny to hear Gregory Hines say it. So, for anyone looking to be offended by Mel's sense of humor I say get a thicker skin and don't sweat the petty stuff, or pet the sweaty stuff! :D

@johnharris6655

6 ай бұрын

After Blazing Saddles, all bets were off with Mel.

For a 9th grade history project I brought in my VHS copy and played the Spanish Inquisition scene for the class. The teacher was not impressed.

Jesus was played by John Hurt, the wand maker in HARRY POTTER and the alien’s host in ALIEN

@nowthatsjustducky

6 ай бұрын

And the alien's host again in Spaceballs.

@NYMetsNo1

6 ай бұрын

And The War Doctor

When this film came out, I went to see with a friend This movie was “R-rated”. We were both 14 years, the cinema had 3 movie screens. We paid our ticket for whatever E.T., and we snuck into “History” instead. We laughed our brains off!!! This is still one of the most brilliant, and funniest movies ever. And, near 40 years later, it’s great to see some experience the first time -and laugh their brains off!!! 🤣

The part one is a joke that took centuries to materialize, while imprisoned by the English crown, Sir Francis Drake wrote a book entitled History of the World, Part I, fully intending to write a sequel, but he was hung before he could.

YES"!!!!!!! The best historical movie of all time (That takes the piss out of the big historical/biblical epics haha) It's the first Mel Brooks movie I ever watched and I fell in love with him from this. To this day, my family still quote it anytime we're together. I always say "It's good to be the King" :D

You forget to include: Guard: You're beautiful... M.Khan: Shove it!

The beauty of a Mel Brooks movie is that comedy is supposed to push people's buttons. One person will laugh, one person will cry, and one person will get angry. We live in a time, that comedy tries to play it safe by not pissing off that one person at the expense of the other two.

So glad you got to History of the World! Part 1! I'm a newer viewer, spent the last two weeks watching all your vids. Thought I'd throw a couple 80s movie suggestions onto the pile. Real Genius (1985) Top Secret (1984) Explorers (1985) Flight of the Navigator (1986)

@michaelpennington9327

6 ай бұрын

Definitely Top Secret!

@Joetino

6 ай бұрын

I liked Real Genius a lot

Its good to be the king!

Oh my gosh one of my faves… also I think it was the first Mel brooks movie I ever saw, definitely made me a fan for life… sadly it’s super hard to find his stuff on dvd anymore without paying an insane price, and owning a digital copy on a streaming service means nothing since they can just cycle it out

Mel Brooks once said that a cheap laugh was better than no laugh at all. That's definitely his mantra.

This movie has THE MOST number of Mel Brooks' constant actor collaborators all in one movie. Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Dom Deluise, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey, Howard Morris, Sid Caesar (The guy who gave him his start), Andreas Voutsinas, and Rudy De Luca.

The agent's name, Swiftus, is a play on Irving "Swifty" Lazar, a very famous Hollywood agent who represented Cary Grant, Ernest Hemingway, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Richard Nixon, and a lot of other famous people. His was what you'd call a household name. ( Mel's films are full of jokes almost no one gets anymore.) At some point, you really should check out "The Twelve Chairs". It's one of Mel's best but it's rarely mentioned. His second film, it depicts crazed hijinks during the Russian Revolution, centering on a set of dining chairs that everyone wants to get their hands on. It features what I think is one of the best movie theme songs ever written, "Hope For The Best, Expect The Worst". Pretty much the entire Russian mindset in song form. A hilarious movie that should get a lot more love. :)

SILENT MOVIE! It's got Mel Brooks, Dom Delouse, Marty Feldman, and a crapload of special guests.

@kylejde

6 ай бұрын

including famous mime Marcel Marceau

@GarrestheWarrior

6 ай бұрын

@@kylejde The worlds most famous mime, and he has the only speaking role in the movie.

This movie is one of several times that Mel Brooks replays the "Walk this way" line that was originated in Young Frankenstein (you can also see it in Spaceballs, etc.)

@FloraWest

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, that joke has been around forever. I'm sure I saw The Marx Brothers do it and I'm sure they didn't invent it either. Love that Mel helped keep it around.

@FloraWest

6 ай бұрын

It originated long before that but Mel was an excellent torch bearer of that gag!

My first Brooks movie, and honestly still my fav

I just have to say when I saw this as a kid so many jokes I didn't get. now as an adult after like 5 or 6th time I finally picked up on them. The servant waits while the Master baits joke was the last one I just never realized.

@Goosemeyer

6 ай бұрын

The Caledonia line is BB King lyrics

Watch The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980), I promise you're gonna laugh your asses off 😅 The sequels are fun too!

Fun Fact: Mel Brooks' first love was music rather than comedy. He composed most of the songs used in all of his films, and once stated in an interview that if he had never become a director, he would have wanted to become a film composer.

Finally!! A reaction from ANYONE to this film. This one is completely unhinged 🤣🤣

18:00 - I worked in a theater when this came out. My boss got one of the Brooks coins and it was pretty awesome.

The Roman talking about the centrefold (3:27) is actually Hugh Hefner, found of Playboy.

It's good to be the King. Is a play on Mr. Brooks name. The word for king in Yiddish is Mel!

The dad in the French Revolution section is Spike Milligan who is a comedy legend. He was part of a British radio show called The Goon Show which was a major influence on Monty Python. Other members included Peter Sellers (Pink Panther and Dr Stranglove) and Angela Morley who went on to work with John Williams collaborating with him on a bunch of his soundtracks including Superman and the first two Star Wars films.

I really hope someone can show Mel Brooks your reactions to his movies, I think he'd get a kick out of the visible and audible enjoyment you two give through-out. I'm just a fan and I get a lot of smiles watching you two go on about how funny his movies are and how impressed you are. Well done Nice Dudes ^_^

On Mel Brooks looking so happy during the inquisition scene, how could you not have a blast filming something like that?

The soldier who shouted “Move that miserable piece of shit!”, the one and only Al Bundy.

The guy explaining the centerfold was actually played by Hugh Heffner himself.

Jesus was the guy who had the Alien burst out of his stomach. The black guy is Gregory Hines, an epic dancer. The eunuch test joke original punchline is that the sexy woman gets no response. But when the male test giver drops his pen and bends over to pick it up, then the feather rises. Borscht Belt type humor (or vaudeville) was big from the 20's thru the 50's. I saw Sid Caesar and Jackie Mason in here. They were big stand-up and on TV. Engelbert Humperdinck was a popular singer that the ladies swooned over. Orson Welles also narrated Start The Revolution Without Me. It's also a fun silly period comedy starring Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland. ❤❤

as always, madeleine kahn was killer funny! and who would have guessed that hitler was so good on the ice?.. 😂😂😂

I actually love so much that you two dudes, younger than me (I'm 34) ACTUALLY get the jokes and references in these older movies too.

3:30 That was Hugh Hefner in the scene talking about Inventing the centerfold. You know, Hugh Hefner, the guy who created Playboy magazine? 😊

I saw this in a movie theatre when it was new. Half of the people were already going out - we of course didn't budge at all - before "Where are you going?" appeared on the screen, followed by the "Hitler on Ice", "Jews in Space" and "Viking Funeral" appeared. :D :D :D At this time nobody had ever even thought of extending any movie beyond the end credits.

I saw this in the theater when it first came out. I've been waiting for History of the World part 2 ever since.

Loved it, I know you've done a few but one that hits hard, and not just comedically is To Be or Not to Be. As much as I love "It's good to be the king". ""That's Frank-en-steen" and so many others.... Brooks' delivery of "Excuse me, is this England?" might be my funniest Brook's line of all time. Trust me, save maybe Life Stinks and High Anxiety, To Be or Not to Be might be the least known Brook's gem. It's almost certainly the most underrated.

15:50 “I mean the Spanish Inquisition wasn’t chill” 😂🤣😂🤣😂 Dude!!! So funny!

Any Mel Brooks movie is always a classic... just add weed and munchies...

Two lesser known Mel Brooks films gems are The 12 Chairs and To Be Or Not To Be (co-staring his wife Anne Bancroft). Also highly recommend The Producers (1967 version with Gene Wilder). The newer musical version is awesome, but you can't miss Wilder's performance.

Fun fact, Jesus was played by John Hurt, which was the first time he played in a Mel Brooks movie, followed by his Spaceballs cameo.

The “walk this way” joke is from a VERY UNDERRATED CLASSIC called “The Private Eyes” with Tim Conway and Don Knotts. 11:48

Hands-down, Mel Brooks' finest work, ever!!

That was a fun time! You enjoyed this movie about as much as I do. Great reaction!

Nice John Hurt cameo as Jesus.

You should watch "High Anxiety", also a Mel Brooks movie, which is a Hitchcock parody. Highly recommended!

One of the guys in the Spanish Inquisition scene is one of the characters in the first movie, "The Producers" as the screenwriter

There is finally a part 2, and it is a series. I just can't remember on which streaming service.

@EssEll9791

6 ай бұрын

Hulu, my dear. ❤

This movie is incredibly underrated and opens up the Melverse with a single line. "It's good to be the King"

@ScottSummers563

6 ай бұрын

Dont say Melverse. Sounds like such an insult to Mel.

Another Mel Brooks film that everyone seems to forget is To Be or Not To Be (1983) which is very good, also Mel Brooks Silent Movie (1976) which has the very best mime joke ever in it.

Okay, this show is AMAZING even if you don't like Westerns you need to see this show! You WILL be hooked from the first minute to binge watch all of 1883 to find out what happens with Elsa! It starts with one season of 1883 then it goes to the same family in the show 1923, then it has 5 seasons in present day called Yellowstone... I CANNOT believe that MTV did this show! Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Sam Elliot, Harrison Ford, Kevin Costner... I can't believe the lineup of talent! This is the BEST Western saga ever!

3:28 this cameo went straight over your head

Thanks guys. Still the only reaction channel i can tolerate, and a cure for Seasonal Affective Disorder (well, a respite, anyway). Thanks for the joy and the laughs.

Some fun facts: • You had no reaction, so I am guessing that you were not aware that the guy in Rome describing the centerfold to the beautiful model was Hugh Hefner, the actual publisher of Playboy Magazine. • The exterior of Caesar's Palace was actually shot in Las Vegas. It wasn't a set designed to look like it. • Caesar was played by Dom DeLuise. He was also the voice of Pizza the Hut in Spaceballs and the director Buddy Bizarre at the end of Blazing Saddles. • The nuns doing the synchronized swimming during the Spanish Inquisition is a spoof of a kind of movie from the 1930s (I think) made by a guy named Busby Berkeley. He specialized in scenes where gorgeous women swim around much like they did in this movie.

"Fight to the death, crucify the winner." A line from Spartacus.

"It's good to be the king" is also in the Broadway musical of the Producers, maybe elsewhere as well...

In this film you hear Mel say his catch phrase " It's Good to be the King". Later used in " Robin Hood , Men in tights" and the recent version of " The Producers".

@Lovebug06901

6 ай бұрын

Gregory Hines as the 'black jew'

10:45 - Younger people don't get that joke, so I'll explain (pardon the language, but I use it to make the jokes clear). "The jig is up" was a double antandre. (however you spell it) "Jig" was short for the racial slur "Jigaboo", but ALSO, meaning "the situation has been revealed". So, "The jig is up!" as said by the white Roman soldier could be taken two different ways.... but Gregory Hines' response, "And GONE!" played that duality of the statement up, because he meant that "yeah, the black guy got a boner (was "up"), but was about to flee the scene." Back then, slurs could be used in a comedic sense, because of the lack of malice behind them. Mel Brooks was famous for this, because he would use slurs in a purely comedic way. They weren't intended to offend people, and he never held back on which slurs he used (in other words, everyone could be a "target", if the joke was funny).

I saw this movie in the theater when it first came out in 1981. There was a big problem because I was 10 years old. My dad was a big Mel Brooks fan. My mom wanted some time by herself so my dad said I’ll take the boys to the movies. My brother was thirteen and a little bit more mature. Needless to say I wouldn’t stop saying piss boy and it’s good to be the king for about 2 weeks. Lol!! My mom let my dad have it. I almost got sent home from school the following Monday. lol. My dad passed 10 year ago and my brother and I still have a good laugh about the time we saw History of the World Part 1. And I was so looking forward to part 2,coming out. Lol😊

You guys are truly the best to watch classic comedies with. Your laughter is transformative! You leave in all the right jokes, and guys, I've seen this movie probably 500 times and it never, ever gets old. I know it word for word, like Jaws, Rocky Horror and every episode of MASH. (Yeah, it's a good thing I live alone.) Watching this movie with you made it hilariously new again. This one's a keeper. Thanks, guys. Oh, and I've got a list of movies I'd love you to see...

Gotta watch High Anxiety. It's another great Mel Brooks film!

3:30 That actually was Hugh Hefner. We'll put that down as one of the seven-thousand jokes I didn't pick up on when I was a little kid watching this movie.