Mel Brooks was once asked why his movies always had Nazis in them. His answer was that they are evil and the best way to defeat evil is to laugh at it.
Blazing Saddles was cast perfectly. Period. I can't even imagine Richard Pryor in place of Cleavon Little. Little gives the role a sweetness and vulnerability that Pryor simply couldn't have done. With Pryor, it would have been very difficult to keep his anger, sarcasm and tendency to mug for the camera at every opportunity. But Little is PERFECT in this role. He is smart without being caustic, sardonic or angry. That's not easy to portray.
"Hey the Sherrif is a nigGONG.... " ... "He said the Sherrif is near" ...no dogblammet dangblammet the sherrif is a nigGONG!" Has me rolling every time partly due to his physical delivery
I never realized just how much my dad quoted Blazing Saddles during my childhood until I finally watched it when I was 15. From Bart's "Hep me! Hep me!", "I must, I must!", and Hedey's "...and Methodists!" He would use those lines in any context that he could. The old man's with the Lord now, but it's nice to rewatch Blazing Saddles and still find new Jokes and lines that he used to reference.
In 1976 apartheid South Africa, the world capital of racism, a group of friends roped me in to joining them to watch a "western". I went expecting a Clint Eastwood type spaghetti western, and by the end of the evening had nearly asphyxiated myself with laughter. For me, the satire in the context of where I was, and surprise of that movie will always make it one of the best I have ever seen. Thank you Mel Brooks.
@@bearlemley That is what tends to happen when an authoritarian system of racial oppression is instituted. It creates devastating social, political, emotional, and economic damage to that society, that - would you believe it - cannot be repaired in a matter of decades. Only a child can believe that. "Oh, no! Things in South Africa aren't perfect - so we should have kept the system of racial oppression instead!" is a classic example of illogical conclusion from a premise, and you aren't even making this error of critical thinking accidentally. It is being employed clearly for the purposes of being a contrarian edgelord who flirts with racialism. If you truly believe this phantasm - a psychological construct which allows you to avoid dealing with the real issue and simply allows you to carry on feeling better about doing nothing - you have a lot of hard thinking to do in order to find your way as an adult.
RIP - Cleavon Little, Alex Karras, Andy Devine, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, Dom DeLuise, and (of course) Gene Wilder. Simply an incredible assemblage of talent, and one of the funniest movies ever made.
You threw Andy Devine in there. Everyone else you mentioned was in Blazing Saddles - Mr. Devine was not. Just wondering why you included him. Not that there's anything wrong with that! :)
Ironically, when I saw Blazing Saddles in the theater when it was first run all those years ago, I had no idea that it was a comedy. I was in the mood to see a western and I had heard Blazing Saddles was a good movie. Although it was not what I expected it to be, I loved it immediately.
Other memorable things you might not have known: 1. Mel Brooks actually ran into Jon Wayne during filming, and asked him about appearing in the movie. Wayne said he thought the script was hilarious, but that he couldn't appear in a raunchy comedy due to his brand/image. 2. The actor who played the racist Lyle (Burton Gilliam) actually had trouble saying his lines to Bart (Cleavon Little) because he felt so uncomfortable calling him the n-word. Eventually, Little took Gilliam aside and told him it was okay to say the lines. "If I thought you would say those words to me in any other situation we'd go to fist city, but this is all fun. Don't worry about it."
Was lucky enough to meet Gilliam at a con, and aside from mentioning what you just did, he also said that the "bean scene" had to be shot multiple times in the cold :)
@@edwardmeegan1849 I saw that interview. Richard Pryor drove that decision. Mel Brooks called Gilliam directly but he thought it was just another prank by his fire fighting buddies. It took Mel Brooks calling his chief to convince him it was a genuine offer. When told hey would end up being paid the equivalent of two years of fire fighting pay for about one month of work, he hung up his hose and signed on.
John Wayne was pretty well known in Hollywood as a racist. It bursts some people bubble about their image of him, but my grandfather (RIP) worked in Hollywood in those days and confirmed it to us when I was a teenager. I wouldn't be surprised if that's why he refused it, even though it probably would have helped his image among his peers.
I hadn't realized that Madeline Kahn had passed way back in 1999. How time flies. She was only 67. Who can forget her roles in this and in Young Frankenstein movies? Both with such great casting.
I heard an interview with Frankie Lane ( with Terri Gross on “Fresh Air “ from NPR ). He related the fact that he didn’t know the movie was a comedy. He also intimated that he thought the lyrics were a bit silly, but he figured it was just bad songwriting (lol!! ) and THAT was why he put soooo much effort into making the tune swing! Mel Brooks eventually told him about the movie, and he said he enjoyed the movie a great deal! Frankie Lane was pure class, a real gentleman. RIP.
Mel Brooks wanted to make an authentic western movie, so for the title song, he put an ad in the business paper looking for a "Frankie Lane-type" singer. Two days later, Frankie Lane shows up in his office, ready to do the song.
I saw this movie at a sneak preview showing, and after the end of the movie, we had to fill out an index-sized question card. It was a longer, uncut version that was even raunchier than what was later released. This might have been the version that the executives viewed when they were considering scrapping the film. When I saw the final theatrical release I wished that they had kept in a couple of the deleted scenes. Wish that original cut still existed.
Didn't mean to forget Cleavon Little. He died young. Dom DeLuise's wife played the school teacher. She passed recently. One of the greatest cast ever assembled. The writing for each unequalled.
@@BigGator5 There is no such thing as "woke" Hollywood. Hollywood is all about making money and as capitalistic as you can get. Maybe I should use term Neo Liberal but I m not sure are you smart enough to know what that is. You might think that it' has something to do with what you think left to be when it's very right wing thing.
🎶 He rode a blazing saddle He wore a shining star His job, to offer battle To bad men near and far He conquered fear and he conquered hate He turned our night into day He made his blazing saddles A torch to light the way. 🎶
"Badges? We don't need no stinkin badges" What an insane movie. I was in Hi School, in Los Angeles, when the movie came out. We went to the theatre, three weekends in a row, to see it again; picking up missed bits, along the way
I love Harvey Korman so much; I stumbled across the Carol Burnett Show on Prime and he steals the show. Also one of my favorite Muppet Show guests of all time.
My buddy was a communications major in college. He flew out to California to attend some convention where people are trying to shop new tv series to the various networks. While there he saw Harvey Korman about 50 feet away. It had been several years since the release of History of the World. My friend yelled out "Count de Money, Count de Money." Without missing a beat, Mr. Korman yelled back "That's de Monay."
I was about 7 the first time I watched this and that scene was my favourite part of the whole movie and still is. But that line in particular, I have used that so many times, and would go out of my way to set it up, or at least try to 😂 No one ever really got it, but it made me laugh. Maybe that's why I don't have a single friend in the world. Geez, that got dark 😂
That line right there is the most perfect example of why they worked so well. I love pryor, and him and wilder, but in this case i think little was perfect. Richard always had a kinda manic/angry/flustered vibe. Cleavon had more of a chill "deal w what happens" kinda feel that i think was perfect for the situations. And i dont know of an older actor at the time that could of pulled off wilders...i dont know, "weathered innocence"? He knew the racist crap was there, he just couldnt understand it on a basic level.
@@bigdaddy741098 though I see you and have missed many opportunities with that,, man what stuck with us was... And, isn't it a LOVELY morning ma'am.. And of course,,, SHITLOAD of dimes! Oh, least we forget,,, Tell me cowboy,, are you in show bizzness...? Peace my friend, class of '81 here, when 5$ could get enough gas and grass to get to the woods, and what truely WAS, freedoom..
I have almost all of Mel Brooks films. This is one of my all time faves of his... "Hey, the sheriff is..." *Clock Bell Dings* 🔔 "What did he say?" "The sheriff is a n..." *Clock Bell Dings* 🔔 "Oh, he said the sheriff is near" "No, gone blame it dang blammit! The sheriff is a..." *Clock Bell Dings* 🔔
Definitely!! In a feature busting with hysterically funny and iconic lines, that's my favorite. I must have worked it into conversations a hundred times and I laugh every time I watch it.
League bowling has a phrase that if everyone gets a strike except you, then you're hung. I musta used that line so much it became the thing to say at that bowling alley, a great line
I live close to Burton Gilliam (Lyle) and have had the opportunity to chat with him several times. He’s a genuinely funny guy. In my opinion, his character is one of the reasons the movie was so successful.
funny thing about the "it's twru,it's twru" joke theres a line cut from the scene that goes " hate to disappoint you ma'am,but you're sucking on my elbow."😂🤣
Still is a genius! Up until a few months ago when Carl Reiner died, Brooks joined his old friend nearly every night for dinner. Brooks is still sharp and funny as hell.
Mel Brooks truly is the master of comedy directing. It's too bad that he's retired, there are so many things that he could do a masterful comedy of in today's world. It will be a dark day indeed when he passes away.
“How ‘bout some more beans, Mr. Taggart?” “I’d say you’ve had enough!” It’s such a drag to think of the idea that so much of what made this film special and sold it wouldn’t have made it through today. Mel Brooks was not intending to indulge racism or promote it; he was attempting to combat it. The irony of the Richard Pryor connection is incredibly deep, considering the times that he and Gene Wilder worked together afterwards.
I'm so glad it still gets love today. Like Minty said its a great example of how to show the stupidity of such intolerance with the natural power of laughter, rather than cram stuff down the audiences throat. I can't help but wonder how many friendships this movie started and made stronger thanks to its jokes. Thank you for making this vid sir, I got to learn more about one of my favorite childhood movies!
When Life of Brian came out I was 15 and I went to see it at the cinema - it was a double bill with blazing saddles. My face and ribs ached for days from laughing almost non- stop for over 4 hours.... Hand down my two favourite films.
This movie had both, silly situational laughs, as well as classic lines that are quoted to this day. I miss the comedic genius of Mel Brooks and Richard Prior.
Gig Young did not get “cold feet”. He was filming and was suffering from alcoholism and was ill and had to be taken to the hospital on a Friday.Mel Brooks called Gene Wilder to come out from the East Coast on Monday and start filming. #lazyresearch
Yes. You are right. Brooks thought that Young would be great as an alcoholic, because he WAS an alcoholic, but he was also unreliable and too drunk to work.
He's got a few mistakes in this one. Another is that he said Brooks showed the script of Blazing Saddles to Wilder during filming Young Frankenstein. Simple look at release date would've told you that was bogus. Blazing Saddles Feb 1974, Young Frankenstein Dec 1974. It was actually Wilder who pitched the idea of Young Frankenstein to Brooks during filming of Blazing Saddles.
Almost 50 years since the release, and still one of the Greatest Films of all time. A Masterpiece. Hard to imagine that only Brooks (96), Burton Gilliam (84), and Robyn Hilton (78) are still with us. "Somebody's gotta go back and get a S*load of dimes!"
@@BigGator5 There is no such thing as "woke" Hollywood. Hollywood is all about making money and as capitalistic as you can get. Maybe I should use term Neo Liberal but I m not sure are you smart enough to know what that is. You might think that it' has something to do with what you think left to be when it's very right wing thing.
@@BigGator5 there's also this line... ..."how many times have I told you to wash up after cross burning"... ...(Waco Kid rubs sheriff's palm)... ..."see? It's coming of...
Been laughing at the comedy since I first saw Blazing Saddles in the theater, brilliant film, brilliant actors. brilliant script and always remember that a very brilliant master of comedy; Mel Brookes, was the energy behind it all.
I've got to correct this guy on the casting of The Waco Kid. Actor Gig Young did not turn the part down. He accepted the role. Till that point, his career was in a slump and had become a raging alcoholic. He showed up the first day of filming. Shot the scene where The Kid was hanging upside down, hung over in the jail cell. At first they thought he was playing the part to the hill until he started puking all over himself, started screaming then collapsed on the set due to alcohol withdrawal. He was fired on the spot and taken to the hospital by ambulance. Dan Daily didn't turn to part down because of saying the lines. He said no because he had shitty eyesight and felt it would be unsafe to ride horses.
Also need to correct him on timing of Young Frankenstein. When Gene Wilder came on the cast for Blazing Saddles, he requested that Mel Brooks do "his" movie idea next. This is also according to Mel Brooks. Blazing Saddles was released in February 1974 and Young Frankenstein in December of that year.
So glad you mentioned the truth about why Gig Young did not portray The Waco Kid in the finished film. I am sorry he suffered so much, but I just can't see him (or Dan Dailey) in this comedy classic. Gene Wilder ended up giving a wonderfully hilarious performance. Poor Gig never did conquer his alcohol problem. He ended up shooting his 5th wife (they'd only been wed 3 weeks) and then turned the gun on himself. So sad.... :-(
@@jubalcalif9100 Yeah, Mel Brooks wanted someone older to play the part. Someone with visible age in their face. Told Gene Wilder no two or three times. He played the part brilliantly.
@@Tpklmale Thanks for your follow up comment ! I can see Mel's point; an older person with a craggy face would have made a good contrast to the youthful Cleavon Little. But in the long run, I am glad Gene ended up playing "The Waco Kid". At least they got an older gent with the wonderful Slim Pickens !!
been laughing my ass of at this movie since my Dad showed me the campfire scene when I was 5. now only if Mel would get around to doing History of the World part 2
Mel is just a natural-born comedy genius, and a National Treasure ❤ Whenever my family heard that there would be a new Mel Brooks movie coming out, we had a hard time waiting for it to hit the theaters.....family night out!
I'd heard that he fully planned to make several "History of the World" movies, but it turned out they'd pretty much used all the best jokes in the first one.
All these comments make me happy. It’s incredible how we all have a connection to this movie. Read how many people share about laughing throughout the years with family and friends because of this movie. That is really a great accomplishment by Mel Brooks and the team. Lucky us.
Little bit of trivia: Near the end, when Hedley Lamarr runs into the theatre, we see a flashing (super-imposed) "Blazing Saddles" up on the marquee. It's quite obvious that this was added in post production. However, in SOME widescreen editions of the film, when the actors are all walking about the front of the theatre, if you look in the background, you can clearly see the theatre marquee showing yellow letters that say "BLACK BART". Meaning, the film was probably called "Black Bart" well into the production of the film, only finally changing to "Blazing Saddles" sometime between the end of filming and the beginning of post production.
I saw this movie when it came out. I loved it so much that I paid the admission to see it again. I was like..."What the hell did I just see ?!?!?!" Everyone was great in it and I especially "Mongo" !!! There is less than 5 times in my life that I paid twice to see a movie and this one was the first. Mel Brookes is a comedic genius, the Einstein of Comedy.
i saw this at a walk in theatre in 74....totally blew me away....have watched it many times since then....no matter how many times i watch it i break up laughing....brooks created a classic
“ Well good morning ma’am, and isn’t it a lovely morning?” 😂😂😂 Blazing Saddles is probably the funniest movie ever made. So many gags going on, like did ya notice all the towns people have the same last name, Johnson?
You hear people say that all the time, and it simply is not true. Now, could you make a spoof of westerns that was a success today? Probably not, because westerns are not what they were back then. Could you make a movie poking fun at racism? Of course you could. Would it be the hit that BS was? Probably not, because BS blazed the trail, and nothing again can be the first. But is the topic or the language outside the pale for 2020? That's just pretending that PC is 117 times more than it really is. People mock racism and racists in film all the time.
Actually, you could. Look at Matt Groening w/ The Simpsons - 30+ years, Parker and Stone w/South Park - 24 years. MacFarlane w/Family Guy, American Dad, and so on... all no strangers to offensive comedy and still going strong. Just like Mel Brooks in his time, they all understand the CARDINAL RULE of offensive comedy: If you can’t offend EVERYBODY, then don’t offend ANYBODY!
@Matt THX The snowflakes are the right wing conservatives who desperately need to see themselves as the victims, no matter what anyone says about anything, its seen as a slight against the right wingers.
Yeah. You got those egghead idiots out there screaming like banshees at every "Niger" and "Fagot" word that is being said, and completely miss the point of the movie.
If y'all hadn't mentioned this, tho I'm 52, I'd've never thought of it. That was for my dad's and grandparents' generations. Thanks for the explication.
The only scene that was cut was when Madeline Kahn and Cleavon Little were in her room in the dark and Bart tells Lilli " That's my arm you are sucking on".
“Blazing Saddles “ is the funniest movie ever made!!! It’s only competition for the #1 spot in my universe is “Monty Python And The Holy Grail”!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍🏾👍🏾
I would nominate Young Frankenstein but Something About Mary makes me thinks one cannot choose a single best because then there is The Philadelphia Story and Bringing Up Baby, whos generation and 'if we had another coat of paint on this car, we would have been in an accident...
I hate that, due to the current PC culture, that we'll never get more movies like "Blazing Saddles". I am a black man in my40s & I loved this movie since I was a kid. People just don't get it!
I think Mel Brooks playing the INidan Chief and calling the Black Slaves found in one Covered Wagon= "Swatzas" and then continuing speaking Yiddish might be considered very offense today. Pls see my other comment
@@HoldenNY22 Take it from a Jewish New Yawker, the word is _shvartzers._ And the Yiddish Indian chief was *hilarious!* In the PC delirium that later infected society, they arbitrarily decided that saying the Yiddish word for blacks was somehow derogatory and offensive. (The word _shvartz_ in Yiddish means black - nothing more or less. Schwartz, a common name, means "black" and "Weiss" means white.)
The 30th Anniversary Special Edition DVD released in 2004 is the best. Includes a lot of extras including a Mel Brooks interview and all the alternate scenes that weren't used in the movie.
Provably my all time favorite. This is a classic that could not be made today. Mel Brooks and a perfect cast. Ok, Young Frankenstein is another GREAT creation of Mel Brooks.
Blazing Saddles is one of the three funniest comedies because Mel Brooks is a comedic genius. The other two are Young Frankenstein and Caddy Shack, in my opinion. Honorable mention is Animal House.
LOVED this movie growing up. It was one of many I remember enjoying sitting down with mum and dad for the night. No matter how many times you watch this movie the jokes never get old.
When Blazing Saddles was released, I was in college. A group of friends and I drove a hundred miles to Westwood in L.A. to see it. We were drinking before the movie. Needless to say, when the movie was playing we were laughing hysterically at it. Normally, I’m a very quiet, introverted type of guy, but get me going and my laugh is kind of over-the-top funny. I had the people around us laughing at me laughing at the movie. Forty years later, Blazing Saddles became a “check list” item for prospective boyfriends of our two goddaughters. Our best friends would get us together with the “candidate.” If he laughed along with us, he was acceptable. If he didn’t, not. We all are still able to quote the movie line by line. Probably our favorite comedy of all time.
"By the time we get to the end of this song/ Ten thousand Frenchmen can't be wrong!" Doctor Demento played the whole song one night (thirty years ago). I'm sure he still has the recording.
Mel Brooks was once asked why his movies always had Nazis in them. His answer was that they are evil and the best way to defeat evil is to laugh at it.
Jojo Rabbit does that brilliantly. It's amazing that it got made, let alone released in 2019
Anyone recall "History of the World, Part II" which had a trailer "Hitler on Ice"?
That was a sneak up funny bit.
That explains why there was that one guy dressed as Hitler in the Warner Brothers commissary, mentioning that they lose him after the bunker scene.
Eric Basler how about Young Frankenstein ?
@Steve people dont like to talk about what the commies do/did
Blazing Saddles was cast perfectly. Period. I can't even imagine Richard Pryor in place of Cleavon Little. Little gives the role a sweetness and vulnerability that Pryor simply couldn't have done. With Pryor, it would have been very difficult to keep his anger, sarcasm and tendency to mug for the camera at every opportunity. But Little is PERFECT in this role. He is smart without being caustic, sardonic or angry. That's not easy to portray.
Of course film executives missed the point because they are racist
Richard Pryor helped write it.
You're entitled to your wrong opinion.
Gene Wilder’s “you know... morons” line was ad-libbed and Cleavon Little’s laughter at it was genuine.
LOL YES it was! And they had AWESOME Chemistry together! They just WORKED So well together!
No doubt. They are fantastic together. SO GOOD.
yeah, he and Richard Pryor made a good team, but it's really tragic that Wilder & Little never got to be a recurring team
You can see Little trying to hold it together. Like, "Something's coming. I don't know what, but something's coming!"
"Excuse me while I whip this out."
This movie is filled with some of the most quotable lines in Cinema history.
I said that to a Coke driver at my work: just came to mind, that it would be funny.... LOL.
everyone's reactions to Mongo:
"Mongo! SANTA MARIA!"
"Now gather round here folks, and-- HOLY SHIT!"
"Never mind that shit! HERE COMES MONGO!"
"Hey the Sherrif is a nigGONG.... "
... "He said the Sherrif is near" ...no dogblammet dangblammet the sherrif is a nigGONG!"
Has me rolling every time partly due to his physical delivery
@@ashandwit A coke driver? How do you get that job?
I never realized just how much my dad quoted Blazing Saddles during my childhood until I finally watched it when I was 15. From Bart's "Hep me! Hep me!", "I must, I must!", and Hedey's "...and Methodists!" He would use those lines in any context that he could. The old man's with the Lord now, but it's nice to rewatch Blazing Saddles and still find new Jokes and lines that he used to reference.
Young Frankenstein & Blazing Saddles, made in the same year & are two of the best comedy films ever. Must have been Brook's finest writing period.
@nowonyuno Cause you know cocaine is expensive so he had to work double.
Gene Wilder wrote the original script for Young Frankenstein
And sadly, cancelled by the cancel culture.
No. Mel Brooks wrote Get Smart with Buck Henry in the '60s. That was Mel Brooks' prime! Don't take my word for it, check it out!
O I agree two of my top five all time watch it every chance I can
In 1976 apartheid South Africa, the world capital of racism, a group of friends roped me in to joining them to watch a "western". I went expecting a Clint Eastwood type spaghetti western, and by the end of the evening had nearly asphyxiated myself with laughter. For me, the satire in the context of where I was, and surprise of that movie will always make it one of the best I have ever seen. Thank you Mel Brooks.
Yea getting rid of the apartheid really solved the problem of racism in South Africa.
Everything is just great now !
Mel is hanging in there as of 2023
@@bearlemley That is what tends to happen when an authoritarian system of racial oppression is instituted. It creates devastating social, political, emotional, and economic damage to that society, that - would you believe it - cannot be repaired in a matter of decades. Only a child can believe that. "Oh, no! Things in South Africa aren't perfect - so we should have kept the system of racial oppression instead!" is a classic example of illogical conclusion from a premise, and you aren't even making this error of critical thinking accidentally. It is being employed clearly for the purposes of being a contrarian edgelord who flirts with racialism. If you truly believe this phantasm - a psychological construct which allows you to avoid dealing with the real issue and simply allows you to carry on feeling better about doing nothing - you have a lot of hard thinking to do in order to find your way as an adult.
RIP - Cleavon Little, Alex Karras, Andy Devine, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, Dom DeLuise, and (of course) Gene Wilder. Simply an incredible assemblage of talent, and one of the funniest movies ever made.
Amen. Talent like that will never been seen again
IMO the funniest ever
You threw Andy Devine in there. Everyone else you mentioned was in Blazing Saddles - Mr. Devine was not. Just wondering why you included him. Not that there's anything wrong with that! :)
i wouldnt be surprised if scumbags didnt ban and burn it before the century is half over. truly great art.
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Ironically, when I saw Blazing Saddles in the theater when it was first run all those years ago, I had no idea that it was a comedy. I was in the mood to see a western and I had heard Blazing Saddles was a good movie. Although it was not what I expected it to be, I loved it immediately.
Other memorable things you might not have known:
1. Mel Brooks actually ran into Jon Wayne during filming, and asked him about appearing in the movie. Wayne said he thought the script was hilarious, but that he couldn't appear in a raunchy comedy due to his brand/image.
2. The actor who played the racist Lyle (Burton Gilliam) actually had trouble saying his lines to Bart (Cleavon Little) because he felt so uncomfortable calling him the n-word. Eventually, Little took Gilliam aside and told him it was okay to say the lines. "If I thought you would say those words to me in any other situation we'd go to fist city, but this is all fun. Don't worry about it."
Lol... “Fist City”
Now I want to see a movie with that title.
@@TheRealNormanBates Words of a country song. Loretta Lynn or Tammy Wynett
Was lucky enough to meet Gilliam at a con, and aside from mentioning what you just did, he also said that the "bean scene" had to be shot multiple times in the cold :)
I read that Burton Gilliam was a firefighter, then became an actor after staring in this movie.
@@edwardmeegan1849 I saw that interview. Richard Pryor drove that decision. Mel Brooks called Gilliam directly but he thought it was just another prank by his fire fighting buddies. It took Mel Brooks calling his chief to convince him it was a genuine offer. When told hey would end up being paid the equivalent of two years of fire fighting pay for about one month of work, he hung up his hose and signed on.
They didn't get John Wayne, but they got an even greater western veteran SLIM PICKENS. He seems to be one of the un-sung hero's of the movie. 👍
@starfiremale "GIDDY UP"!!! 👍
John Wayne was pretty well known in Hollywood as a racist. It bursts some people bubble about their image of him, but my grandfather (RIP) worked in Hollywood in those days and confirmed it to us when I was a teenager. I wouldn't be surprised if that's why he refused it, even though it probably would have helped his image among his peers.
Who can forget his exit in Doctor Strangelove?
Ditto!
Well he did try to head them off at the pass . 🤣🤣🤣
I hadn't realized that Madeline Kahn had passed way back in 1999. How time flies. She was only 67. Who can forget her roles in this and in Young Frankenstein movies? Both with such great casting.
She was also great in History of the World, Part 1.
It’s Truuuuuuue, It’s truuuuuuuue ! 😂😂😂
I heard an interview with Frankie Lane ( with Terri Gross on “Fresh Air “ from NPR ). He related the fact that he didn’t know the movie was a comedy. He also intimated that he thought the lyrics were a bit silly, but he figured it was just bad songwriting (lol!! ) and THAT was why he put soooo much effort into making the tune swing! Mel Brooks eventually told him about the movie, and he said he enjoyed the movie a great deal! Frankie Lane was pure class, a real gentleman. RIP.
I heard the smae thing but at 1st Frankie didn't like the movie but he did put a lot into the song
But at least he put his heart and soul into the song and sing it seriously
Mel Brooks wanted to make an authentic western movie, so for the title song, he put an ad in the business paper looking for a "Frankie Lane-type" singer. Two days later, Frankie Lane shows up in his office, ready to do the song.
I’ve got to mention the lovely Teutonic Titwillow. Madeline Kahn was brilliant in this movie.
It's twue!
She was one of his favorite leading ladies. Her comedy chops were something else
@@MUSKLR they read byron and shelly then jump on your belly!
@@TheWadotexas ..and bust your balloon..
Yes, she was imitating Marlene Dietrich
Brooks and Wilder were on fire that year. This movie is one of the best, funniest and vicious satires of all time. Never fails to bust me up.
I remember i saw both movies at the old Town and Country 6 in Houston...
@@mikepatrick5909 Nice. I was born in 76, so I first saw them when I was kid during the first rental boom in the early eighties.
I saw this movie at a sneak preview showing, and after the end of the movie, we had to fill out an index-sized question card. It was a longer, uncut version that was even raunchier than what was later released. This might have been the version that the executives viewed when they were considering scrapping the film. When I saw the final theatrical release I wished that they had kept in a couple of the deleted scenes. Wish that original cut still existed.
Saw it when I was 14 and have been laughing at it ever since.
RIP all those great actors we lost.
Thanks for the gut busting laughs.
“The sheriff is NEAR!"
"No no no. I said the sheriff is a n..(‘BONG’) classic scene. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hold on while I whip this out 🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Charlie: “They said you was hung!”
Bart: “And they was RIGHT!”
Bart: Are we awake?
Waco kid: That depends. Are we black?
Aq
Honestly glad Pryor didn't do the film, love him, but Cleavon Little was absolutely brilliant.
He was absolutely brilliant .
@Norbero Fontanez 🤦🏾♂️ask Dave who inspired him. You're welcome to your opinion. It's just wrong. Lol. 🤭🙌🏾✌🏾👍🏾🧡🇺🇸
@@toddtravis2596 could’ve been humble, but you ended the way you did. Ending with emojis hides the nasty, I guess? Lol
James Earl Jones would have made it odd, realizing of course that it was the original script.
the suttlety Cleavon Little put into the lines and feeders with Gene Wilder made for fanastic dry wit
"What do you like to do?"
"I don't know, play chess... screw..."
"Let's play chess."
Oh.. Mongo Straight!
Didn't mean to forget Cleavon Little. He died young. Dom DeLuise's wife played the school teacher. She passed recently. One of the greatest cast ever assembled. The writing for each unequalled.
WOW - I never knew that Dom DeLuise's wife was in this! Thanks for your comment
That's the thing a lot of people miss. It was written by a Jewish man and a black man. Nobody but nobody should find this movie offensive.
Nazi sympathizers might - and we know they're out there.
There's alot of people that would be offended by it , not me though
Correct, but i bet there's a ton of snowflakes out there that do
Like "woke" Hollywood with an agenda?
@@BigGator5 There is no such thing as "woke" Hollywood. Hollywood is all about making money and as capitalistic as you can get. Maybe I should use term Neo Liberal but I m not sure are you smart enough to know what that is. You might think that it' has something to do with what you think left to be when it's very right wing thing.
One of the funniest and most outrageous movies ever made. Everyone should give it a go. Thanks, Minty!
I grew up with it. Though I understand why some people might find it offensive, I’m not one of them.
@@Shred_The_Weapon amazing movie but I somehow doubt with this day and age of snowflakes being offended that it would ever be made in present time
Assuming I really know whom you are trying to identify as “snowflakes“,Gerard, i’m one of them. I still like this movie.
If you’re a guy😉.
🎶 He rode a blazing saddle
He wore a shining star
His job, to offer battle
To bad men near and far
He conquered fear and he conquered hate
He turned our night into day
He made his blazing saddles
A torch to light the way.
🎶
"Badges? We don't need no stinkin badges" What an insane movie. I was in Hi School, in Los Angeles, when the movie came out. We went to the theatre, three weekends in a row, to see it again; picking up missed bits, along the way
Mel Brooks' wife, the famous actress Anne Bancroft, had a cameo as one of the church ladies in the front row..
I love Harvey Korman so much; I stumbled across the Carol Burnett Show on Prime and he steals the show. Also one of my favorite Muppet Show guests of all time.
I love how Tim Conway made it a mission to bust him up. They were just too much together.
@@ferox965 Harvey and Tim made a perfect comedy duo!
It was even funnier when watching on Saturday night on a 25" color console with a signal coming in from the antenna outside.
@@Kingfisher1215
🎵🎶 Those were the days 🎶🎵
Different show, but you get it 😉
My buddy was a communications major in college. He flew out to California to attend some convention where people are trying to shop new tv series to the various networks. While there he saw Harvey Korman about 50 feet away. It had been several years since the release of History of the World. My friend yelled out "Count de Money, Count de Money." Without missing a beat, Mr. Korman yelled back "That's de Monay."
"You Know, Morons" . That line get me every time.
I read somewhere that line was pure ad-lib on the part of
Gene Wilder. Pure genius!
@@popeye807 I read that on IMD. I always felt that line was ad-libbed because of Cleavon Little's reaction. One of my favorite lines.
@@popeye807 - The only ad-lib in the whole movie
The common clay...
LOL
"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives!" Headley Lamarr is the man!
Uhhh, ditto!
YES YES YES! Far and above the best line/ scene! Splendid!
“You use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar who*e!!”…
ditto
I want the world back to when we could make a movie like that and all laugh together.
the media are the only ones offended, this erases their work on our division.
so you’re saying a comedy that INSULTS BIGOTS wouldn’t be made today?
well, BIGOTS do love cancel culture.
YES POLITICAL CORRECTNESS HAS RUINED THIS.
The dummycrats ruined that.
Quite easy get rid of the jerks
"Mongo only pawn in game of life"
" Candygram for Mongo"
“Mongo like candy.”
Richard Pryor said his favorite character to write was Mongo
@Carl Hopf even better there's this...czcams.com/video/q-swoCuEMJI/video.html
That would be because Pryor wrote most of Mongo's lines.
I've heard that the lines that Wilder said, with the punch line being, " You know. Morons " was ad lib and that's why Clevon laughed.
It was, and Brooks left it in.
I was about 7 the first time I watched this and that scene was my favourite part of the whole movie and still is. But that line in particular, I have used that so many times, and would go out of my way to set it up, or at least try to 😂
No one ever really got it, but it made me laugh.
Maybe that's why I don't have a single friend in the world.
Geez, that got dark 😂
That line right there is the most perfect example of why they worked so well. I love pryor, and him and wilder, but in this case i think little was perfect. Richard always had a kinda manic/angry/flustered vibe. Cleavon had more of a chill "deal w what happens" kinda feel that i think was perfect for the situations.
And i dont know of an older actor at the time that could of pulled off wilders...i dont know, "weathered innocence"? He knew the racist crap was there, he just couldnt understand it on a basic level.
@@blackc1479 I love both Pryor and Little, but I can't imagine Little being replaced, he was so good in the role.
@@bigdaddy741098 though I see you and have missed many opportunities with that,, man what stuck with us was... And, isn't it a LOVELY morning ma'am..
And of course,,, SHITLOAD of dimes! Oh, least we forget,,, Tell me cowboy,, are you in show bizzness...?
Peace my friend, class of '81 here, when 5$ could get enough gas and grass to get to the woods, and what truely WAS, freedoom..
Going on 50 years later - I STILL laugh!!!
"Now go do, that voodoo, that you do, so well."
Harvey Korman was a great comedian.
Chewing gum on line? I hope you brought enough for everybody!
@@jamesmack3314 "I Didn't Know There Was Going To Be So Many...."
@@CYBERVISIONSdotCom Boy, are they strict.
He was one of the only good parts of the Star Wars Holiday Special.
I have almost all of Mel Brooks films. This is one of my all time faves of his...
"Hey, the sheriff is..." *Clock Bell Dings* 🔔
"What did he say?"
"The sheriff is a n..." *Clock Bell Dings* 🔔
"Oh, he said the sheriff is near"
"No, gone blame it dang blammit! The sheriff is a..." *Clock Bell Dings* 🔔
Followed by the sheriff holding gun to his head and threatening himself... "These people are DUMB!"
@@Tarathathe77wookiee As a kid I found that bit the funniest part in the movie.. "I think he's serious !"
Dude, please give me a ranking.
@@Tarathathe77wookiee "You know...morons!
"I heard you was hung?"
" And they was right " 😂
By the end of the movie I was exhausted from laughing.
Definitely!! In a feature busting with hysterically funny and iconic lines, that's my favorite. I must have worked it into conversations a hundred times and I laugh every time I watch it.
OK, because of a mis-spent youth, (until my '60's)
I know just about every line. Uh, they ALL are the best.
steve
League bowling has a phrase that if everyone gets a strike except you, then you're hung. I musta used that line so much it became the thing to say at that bowling alley, a great line
This movie is such a classic that almost every line is iconic.
I live close to Burton Gilliam (Lyle) and have had the opportunity to chat with him several times. He’s a genuinely funny guy.
In my opinion, his character is one of the reasons the movie was so successful.
My son is black and this is his all-time favorite movie! He "got it" the first time watching it at age 6
A movie that exposed and pokes run at racism.
It’s twru, it’s twru.
Easy, shewiff.
funny thing about the "it's twru,it's twru" joke theres a line cut from the scene that goes " hate to disappoint you ma'am,but you're sucking on my elbow."😂🤣
15 is my limit on schnitzengruben
Uh, your sucking on my arm
@@LancGuy13 easy baby, you're making a German spectical of yourself
"Scuse me while I whip this out" followed by the blood-curdling scream was my dad and all my uncles' favorite part. 🤣🤣
and the disappointed "AW" sound(from a man) when he whips out a piece of paper.
THAT and this video clip are my FAVORITE LINES from this film...👍👍
Mel Brooks was an absolute genius! This was his greatest work ever!
Not enough thumbs up to reply to your comment 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Still is a genius! Up until a few months ago when Carl Reiner died, Brooks joined his old friend nearly every night for dinner.
Brooks is still sharp and funny as hell.
Maybe I did know these things.
Mel Brooks truly is the master of comedy directing. It's too bad that he's retired, there are so many things that he could do a masterful comedy of in today's world. It will be a dark day indeed when he passes away.
Uhh, Mel is retired? I guess they forgot to tell him.
RIP Gene wilder we will miss you😪😪😪😪😪
@David R he was funny in stir crazy
@David R I loved him as Willy Wonka
@David R have you ever seen Brewster's millions?
@David R question if you had $30 million what would you do with it?
Gene's been dead for four years. Your sentiment is too late.
“How ‘bout some more beans, Mr. Taggart?” “I’d say you’ve had enough!”
It’s such a drag to think of the idea that so much of what made this film special and sold it wouldn’t have made it through today. Mel Brooks was not intending to indulge racism or promote it; he was attempting to combat it.
The irony of the Richard Pryor connection is incredibly deep, considering the times that he and Gene Wilder worked together afterwards.
I always thought Mel should have had the campfire flames gradually get higher as they farted.
I once ready somewhere where this movie used the n-word 74 times.
I'm so glad it still gets love today. Like Minty said its a great example of how to show the stupidity of such intolerance with the natural power of laughter, rather than cram stuff down the audiences throat. I can't help but wonder how many friendships this movie started and made stronger thanks to its jokes. Thank you for making this vid sir, I got to learn more about one of my favorite childhood movies!
One of my favorite movies of all time! So many memorable lines. So many absolutely funny actors and actresses!
Blazing Saddles, Life of Brian, and Airplane are the top three, in no particular order, funniest films ever.
When Life of Brian came out I was 15 and I went to see it at the cinema - it was a double bill with blazing saddles. My face and ribs ached for days from laughing almost non- stop for over 4 hours.... Hand down my two favourite films.
So true
I would say: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
My late parents got me into this movie and Mel Brooks in general. So glad they did, because his stuff is absolutely hilarious.
This movie had both, silly situational laughs, as well as classic lines that are quoted to this day. I miss the comedic genius of Mel Brooks and Richard Prior.
Mel Brooks is still alive he's 95
Context tells the story every time. This film came from a place of love and that was evident throughout.
Ya gotta love Mel Brooks, comedy gold.
Saw this in 74 when it first came out and had to go a second time a few nights later to hear the bits I missed laughing so much
My mom said she had to do the same thing, lol.
Gig Young did not get “cold feet”. He was filming and was suffering from alcoholism and was ill and had to be taken to the hospital on a Friday.Mel Brooks called Gene Wilder to come out from the East Coast on Monday and start filming. #lazyresearch
Yes. You are right. Brooks thought that Young would be great as an alcoholic, because he WAS an alcoholic, but he was also unreliable and too drunk to work.
Glad you brought this point up; I was going to if no one else had.
He's got a few mistakes in this one. Another is that he said Brooks showed the script of Blazing Saddles to Wilder during filming Young Frankenstein. Simple look at release date would've told you that was bogus. Blazing Saddles Feb 1974, Young Frankenstein Dec 1974.
It was actually Wilder who pitched the idea of Young Frankenstein to Brooks during filming of Blazing Saddles.
"Somebody's got to go back and get a shitload of dimes".
LMAO I hear Slim's voice right now!
Quite possibly one of the best lines in the film. But the options are endless really.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
My absolute favourite line - especially as all they had to do was go around the toll booth rather than through it. Genius!!
The tollbooth in the middle of the desert was my favorite scene. LePetomane Thruway? What'll that asshole think of next?
"More beans Mr. Taggert?"
"I'd say you've had enough"
Absolute classic movie
Count Basie was in the movie amazingly talented Count Basie.
Almost 50 years since the release, and still one of the Greatest Films of all time. A Masterpiece. Hard to imagine that only Brooks (96), Burton Gilliam (84), and Robyn Hilton (78) are still with us. "Somebody's gotta go back and get a S*load of dimes!"
Of course! Land-snatching!
Land. La-land. "See 'Snatch'."
Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman nailed it)
One of my all-time favorites!
If you are offended by Blazing Saddles, then YOU are the racist. Just saying.
Love it. Could not get made today
Binx 1371 ...That's because "woke" Hollywood is racist and they wouldn't know what a morality tale is if it jumped up to bite them on the face.
Facts.... sjws are the new facist of today....this is a classic movie
@@BigGator5 There is no such thing as "woke" Hollywood. Hollywood is all about making money and as capitalistic as you can get. Maybe I should use term Neo Liberal but I m not sure are you smart enough to know what that is. You might think that it' has something to do with what you think left to be when it's very right wing thing.
That makes absolutely zero sense.
"What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on here?"
"Where are all the white women at?"
I lose it every time. 😂
@@BigGator5 "Auf wiedersehen, baby"
Jessica Wood ...Madeline Kahn is the kind of class and sexy that we won't ever see again.
@@BigGator5 there's also this line...
..."how many times have I told you to wash up after cross burning"...
...(Waco Kid rubs sheriff's palm)...
..."see? It's coming of...
Miklos Ernoehazy ..."And now, for my next impression... Jesse Owens." (runs off)
Bart: Are we awake?
Jim: We're not sure. Are we black?
Bart: Yes. We are black.
Jim: Then we are awake, but very puzzled.
Bart: A man drinks like that’s gonna die.
Waco kid: When?
Been laughing at the comedy since I first saw Blazing Saddles in the theater, brilliant film, brilliant actors. brilliant script and always remember that a very brilliant master of comedy; Mel Brookes, was the energy behind it all.
I've got to correct this guy on the casting of The Waco Kid. Actor Gig Young did not turn the part down. He accepted the role. Till that point, his career was in a slump and had become a raging alcoholic. He showed up the first day of filming. Shot the scene where The Kid was hanging upside down, hung over in the jail cell. At first they thought he was playing the part to the hill until he started puking all over himself, started screaming then collapsed on the set due to alcohol withdrawal. He was fired on the spot and taken to the hospital by ambulance. Dan Daily didn't turn to part down because of saying the lines. He said no because he had shitty eyesight and felt it would be unsafe to ride horses.
Straight from Mel Brooks himself.
Also need to correct him on timing of Young Frankenstein. When Gene Wilder came on the cast for Blazing Saddles, he requested that Mel Brooks do "his" movie idea next. This is also according to Mel Brooks. Blazing Saddles was released in February 1974 and Young Frankenstein in December of that year.
So glad you mentioned the truth about why Gig Young did not portray The Waco Kid in the finished film. I am sorry he suffered so much, but I just can't see him (or Dan Dailey) in this comedy classic. Gene Wilder ended up giving a wonderfully hilarious performance. Poor Gig never did conquer his alcohol problem. He ended up shooting his 5th wife (they'd only been wed 3 weeks) and then turned the gun on himself. So sad.... :-(
@@jubalcalif9100 Yeah, Mel Brooks wanted someone older to play the part. Someone with visible age in their face. Told Gene Wilder no two or three times. He played the part brilliantly.
@@Tpklmale Thanks for your follow up comment ! I can see Mel's point; an older person with a craggy face would have made a good contrast to the youthful Cleavon Little. But in the long run, I am glad Gene ended up playing "The Waco Kid". At least they got an older gent with the wonderful Slim Pickens !!
"Scuse me while I whip this out"
Easily one of my favorites. Actually saw it in the theater. Can't imagine Richard Pryor playing the Sheriff. Cleavon Little was perfect.
Mel Brooks is a comedic genius! Pryor's influence on this mixed with Mel's brilliance took this movie to epic levels!
An absolutely perfect cast line up for this film!
been laughing my ass of at this movie since my Dad showed me the campfire scene when I was 5.
now only if Mel would get around to doing History of the World part 2
HECK YES!! Part 1 is hilarious!!
Mel is just a natural-born comedy genius, and a National Treasure ❤
Whenever my family heard that there would be a new Mel Brooks movie coming out, we had a hard time waiting for it to hit the theaters.....family night out!
Spaceballs is part 2.. If you remember at the end of party 1 they show a preview for "history of the world part 2: Jews in space"
I think he better hurry. He’s 94 now!
I'd heard that he fully planned to make several "History of the World" movies, but it turned out they'd pretty much used all the best jokes in the first one.
As a wise man once said, "Great ideas don't happen in the boardroom; they happen in the BATHROOM!"
All these comments make me happy. It’s incredible how we all have a connection to this movie. Read how many people share about laughing throughout the years with family and friends because of this movie. That is really a great accomplishment by Mel Brooks and the team. Lucky us.
Little bit of trivia: Near the end, when Hedley Lamarr runs into the theatre, we see a flashing (super-imposed) "Blazing Saddles" up on the marquee. It's quite obvious that this was added in post production. However, in SOME widescreen editions of the film, when the actors are all walking about the front of the theatre, if you look in the background, you can clearly see the theatre marquee showing yellow letters that say "BLACK BART". Meaning, the film was probably called "Black Bart" well into the production of the film, only finally changing to "Blazing Saddles" sometime between the end of filming and the beginning of post production.
Additional thing: Cleavon Little's sister is DeEtta Little, best known for singing Gonna Fly Now in the first Rocky.
Holy shit. Seriously, thank you. I'd've never known, and am better off for learning. Be well, friend.
@@injunsun NP bud, stay awesome!
COOL!
“Wow”
"LE PETOMANE THRUWAY!"
"NOW WHAT WILL THAT A..HOLE THINK OF NEXT."
"DOES ANYBODY GOT A DIME?"
"SOMEBODY'S GOTTA GO BACK
AND GET A S...LOAD OF DIMES!"
Beans
😂$$$🥴
@Thomas B same thing happens in spaceballs in the who made that man a gunner scene
My favorite part of the movie. Every time I see a roll of dines I think of the sh*t load of dimes line
@Thomas B Yeah, it didn't sound anything like the rest of the line!
Can't believe you never mentioned Madeline Kahn's contribution to this film.
or what she was able to do to Cleavon's arm!
It's true...
It's twue, it's twue, it's twue!
Madeline Kahn was the best!
The title of this video was 10 things you didn't know about Blazing Saddles not what you didn't know about any of the actors or their contributions.
I saw this movie when it came out. I loved it so much that I paid the admission to see it again.
I was like..."What the hell did I just see ?!?!?!"
Everyone was great in it and I especially "Mongo" !!!
There is less than 5 times in my life that I paid twice to see a movie and this one was the first.
Mel Brookes is a comedic genius, the Einstein of Comedy.
Hey Minty, FYI - Mel Brooks’ character in the film, LePetomane, is actually a French term which means “to fart”.
Actually, Le Petomane (real name: Joseph Pujols) was a French performer who farted music. For real.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane
He also played the Indian cheif.
@@janetaldrich7747
His career ended when he followed through.
@@keegan773 Yeah, Le Shartomane was not as popular.
I just petomaned.
Mel Brooks is one of the GREATEST comedic mind of all time.
One of my all time favorite movies! I wish people would find their sense of humor again.
I was 10 years old when I first saw that farting scene, I'm 57 and it still makes me laugh, mel Brooks was a genius
i saw this at a walk in theatre in 74....totally blew me away....have watched it many times since then....no matter how many times i watch it i break up laughing....brooks created a classic
With a perfectly gilded 'Lily' from the unbeatable genius that was Madeline Kahn. (The ultimate 'fantasy dinner' guest?)
"It's twoo, it's twoo!"
“ Well good morning ma’am, and isn’t it a lovely morning?”
😂😂😂
Blazing Saddles is probably the funniest movie ever made. So many gags going on, like did ya notice all the towns people have the same last name, Johnson?
did you notice the hotel/house with an orange roof?
Not too proud to say that the flatulence scene I had tears running down my eyes it was so funny. Definitely a had to be there kind of moment.
One of the best comedies of ALL TIME!!! Sadly this movie would never be made in today’s society. Even though it is a 100% anti racism film 🎞
You hear people say that all the time, and it simply is not true. Now, could you make a spoof of westerns that was a success today? Probably not, because westerns are not what they were back then. Could you make a movie poking fun at racism? Of course you could. Would it be the hit that BS was? Probably not, because BS blazed the trail, and nothing again can be the first. But is the topic or the language outside the pale for 2020? That's just pretending that PC is 117 times more than it really is. People mock racism and racists in film all the time.
Actually, you could. Look at Matt Groening w/ The Simpsons - 30+ years, Parker and Stone w/South Park - 24 years. MacFarlane w/Family Guy, American Dad, and so on... all no strangers to offensive comedy and still going strong. Just like Mel Brooks in his time, they all understand the CARDINAL RULE of offensive comedy: If you can’t offend EVERYBODY, then don’t offend ANYBODY!
@Matt THX The snowflakes are the right wing conservatives who desperately need to see themselves as the victims, no matter what anyone says about anything, its seen as a slight against the right wingers.
@@paulpeterson4216 Nope.
Yeah. You got those egghead idiots out there screaming like banshees at every "Niger" and "Fagot" word that is being said, and completely miss the point of the movie.
We extend this laurel, and hardy hand shake
I just now got that! True sign of a great movie when you catch new things after all these years.
I always loved Laurel and Hardy movies.
If y'all hadn't mentioned this, tho I'm 52, I'd've never thought of it. That was for my dad's and grandparents' generations. Thanks for the explication.
To our new... (ahem) Sheriff 😉 😂😂
I’m 46, and I got that as a kid. Of course, back then you had three channels, and Laurel and Hardy played quite a bit late at night.❤️
The only scene that was cut was when Madeline Kahn and Cleavon Little were in her room in the dark and Bart tells Lilli " That's my arm you are sucking on".
🤣🤣🤣
Oh my stars. That would have been great.
Hilarious!
“Blazing Saddles “ is the funniest movie ever made!!! It’s only competition for the #1 spot in my universe is “Monty Python And The Holy Grail”!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍🏾👍🏾
Anthony Summers That might be!. But I still love Animal House!.
I nominate Hot Shots Part Deux
Airplane!
those two are right in there. I also find What's up Doc? hilarious
I would nominate Young Frankenstein but Something About Mary makes me thinks one cannot choose a single best because then there is The Philadelphia Story and Bringing Up Baby, whos generation and 'if we had another coat of paint on this car, we would have been in an accident...
The Greatest comedy ever period
Its Headly
@@isaiah5323 yup
@@isaiah5323 , and Spaceballs.
What the hell are you worried about? This is 1874. You'll be able to sue *her*.
I hate that, due to the current PC culture, that we'll never get more movies like "Blazing Saddles". I am a black man in my40s & I loved this movie since I was a kid. People just don't get it!
@Kd 78orangerangerpete I'm offended by that! 😡Ummm... what did you say again? 😉
@@jay-day EXACTLY !!!
Remember that cowboy movie Jamie Fox was in? That was literally Blazing Saddles.
I think Mel Brooks playing the INidan Chief and calling the Black Slaves found in one Covered Wagon= "Swatzas" and then continuing speaking Yiddish might be considered very offense today. Pls see my other comment
@@HoldenNY22 Take it from a Jewish New Yawker, the word is _shvartzers._ And the Yiddish Indian chief was *hilarious!* In the PC delirium that later infected society, they arbitrarily decided that saying the Yiddish word for blacks was somehow derogatory and offensive. (The word _shvartz_ in Yiddish means black - nothing more or less. Schwartz, a common name, means "black" and "Weiss" means white.)
The 30th Anniversary Special Edition DVD released in 2004 is the best. Includes a lot of extras including a Mel Brooks interview and all the alternate scenes that weren't used in the movie.
This was the first Mel Brooks movie I ever saw. I was sold on him after that!
An epic classic ! I could watch this movie a million times and not get tired of it.
Provably my all time favorite. This is a classic that could not be made today. Mel Brooks and a perfect cast. Ok, Young Frankenstein is another GREAT creation of Mel Brooks.
Blazing Saddles is one of the three funniest comedies because Mel Brooks is a comedic genius. The other two are Young Frankenstein and Caddy Shack, in my opinion. Honorable mention is Animal House.
Still my all-time favourite comedy. It's hard to beat such a powerful story wrapped in a barrel of laughs.
My favorite shot in this movie is Bart's huge smile in the distance as the frontier gibberish guy is looking at him through the scope. Lmao
This movie caused me to experience my one and only occurrence of hyperventilation as I laughed myself into that state. Ah, good times.
LOVED this movie growing up. It was one of many I remember enjoying sitting down with mum and dad for the night. No matter how many times you watch this movie the jokes never get old.
This my favorite comedy. Never get tired of watching it.😀
When Blazing Saddles was released, I was in college. A group of friends and I drove a hundred miles to Westwood in L.A. to see it. We were drinking before the movie. Needless to say, when the movie was playing we were laughing hysterically at it. Normally, I’m a very quiet, introverted type of guy, but get me going and my laugh is kind of over-the-top funny. I had the people around us laughing at me laughing at the movie.
Forty years later, Blazing Saddles became a “check list” item for prospective boyfriends of our two goddaughters. Our best friends would get us together with the “candidate.” If he laughed along with us, he was acceptable. If he didn’t, not.
We all are still able to quote the movie line by line. Probably our favorite comedy of all time.
"Throw up your hands/Stick out your tush/Hands on your hips/Give 'em a push/You'll be surprised, you're doing the French Mistake/Voila!"
Linnea D sounds like steam escaping!
@@mckinleycason8884
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssss....
"By the time we get to the end of this song/ Ten thousand Frenchmen can't be wrong!"
Doctor Demento played the whole song one night (thirty years ago). I'm sure he still has the recording.
French MISTIQUE.
You made a MISTAKE.
I love this movie, everything about this movie is absolutely spot on. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍
One of my favorite movies! Just great fun. Especially the ni, ahem, the sherriff. Love him!!!