BLAZING SADDLES (1974) FIRST TIME WATCHING | Full Movie REACTION! ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE LAUGHING???

[@jimtatro6550]

Anybody who gets upset by this movie is missing the point. This movie isn’t racist, it makes fun of racism brilliantly

[@katayfa]

It always tickles me when woke people get sooo offended by a bloody comedy that is soo blatantly making fun of racism and misogyny and classism. Todays young to busy getting offendedto realise

[@jasonhenninger8220]

@@katayfa "woke" people dont

[@estebanperez2557]

Its because modern audiences are full of morons who lack any creativity or critical thinking abilities

[@grizzlygrizzle]

Back in '74, we went into the theater with no trigger warning. I think my grandmother was a bit grossed out by the farting, but that was all. Back then, people of all persuasions laughed their asses off.

[@margretrosenberg420]

​@@katayfa1. Liberals don't refer to ourselves as "woke"; that's something your side came up with because you thought it was insulting. 2. This particular liberal gets offended when this movie plays on television with all the bad language bleeped out, ruining the message.

[@bmo1878]

Mel Brooks believed the best way to fight racism was to pull it into the sunlight and make fun of it. That was this movie.

[@Chokah]

That was Brooks' whole thing period. Same reason he did the Producers and "Springtime for Hitler", People were almost afraid to even say his name after the War. "The best way to take the power from something is to laugh at it".

[@shardinhand1243]

he was right, the best way to dismantle the power of an ideology like racisim, wether its black or white, is to take away how seriously its taken by people, the power power you give something over you, the more dame it can do, mocking and luaghing at it makes it small, weak unimportant, this is why those that want to cencor comedy are so dangerous.

[@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat]

It seems Mel Brooks was right. If we look at how mass censorship and social pressure to silence people has turned out for us.

[@SeattleLooksLikeScheisse]

Absolutely geniuse... this movie has always made my father uncomfortable. Even at 80 yo, he still can't sit through this entire movie. I feel bad since I'm laughing through to blatant bold racist jokes.

[@Dr.Mcstaby]

to be fair Mel Brooks aint wrong its makes the best jokes and takes out the hate, but these new generations are actually making the situation worse with the PC BS.

[@georgiaann4402]

Richard Pryor and Mel Brooks worked together on the jokes. They had fun making a joke out of racism. Basically back then, if you were racist, you were the butt of a joke.

[@johnnehrich9601]

Brooks wrote the dialog for the black performers, Pryor for the white guys. Pryor had a one-person standup comedy routine, which he heavily peppered with the "N" word, as you can see he did the same for the white folks.

[@elbruces]

@@johnnehrich9601 Pryor basically invented the "we can say it, but you can't" thing. Originally Richard Pryor was supposed to play Sherriff Bart, but... he was kind of in his cokehead phase at the time, so they put someone else up front.

[@Annonymous0283745]

That's the way it was for everyone until the damn internet showed up. Social Media screwed it up.

[@dennisswainston411]

​@@johnnehrich9601We all knew the stupidity of Racism back in the '70's and took this for the comedy it was..

[@johnnehrich9601]

@@dennisswainston411No, from what I've read, Pryor wrote dialog for the white people's racist taunts, etc., and vice-versa. (I just found a discussion about the making of the movie, where it said Pryor wrote the stuff for Mongo. For the rest, it was such a group effort with people throwing in ideas and jokes, it would be impossible to credit who contributed what.) I totally agree with the stupidity of racism but I disagree that "we all" back then knew that, because I know a lot of people who didn't. And many people today who still don't get it, unfortunately.

[@chrisvickers7928]

Mel Brooks who is 99 and still alive now was asked if he could make this film today and he said we couldn't make it then. I saw it first run in the theatre. Now Mel is almost the only cast member still alive.

[@MyNameIsBucket]

You couldn't make it today, you'd have fragile white men calling it "woke" and whining about how oppressed they are.

[@storky1]

Burton Gilliam ('Lyle') is still alive :)

[@chrisvickers7928]

@@storky1 Owww, I didn't know that.

[@HonRevPTB]

RIP Clevon Little & Gene Wilder one of the best onscreen buddy duos of all time!!!!!!! Both of these guys were very good human beings & gave the world many laughs!!!!!!!

[@EwanCumia]

Alex Karras, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, and Madeline Kahn are gone too.

[@WolffangLightwood]

They really did have on set chemistry and you can really see it shine through in the acting. I think when Gene called the townspeople morons and Cleavon cracked up from it it was a genuine reaction

[@DavidStebbins]

The thing to remember about all the racism is that everyone who uses racist slurs is portrayed as either just plain stupid (all the villains) or ignorant (the townsfolk, who learn better and come to love Bart). In this way, Mel Brooks (a Jew who was in the US Army during WWII) not only made a parody of Westerns, but also made an effective parody of racism. Decades later whenever he was interviewed and Blazing Saddles came up, the interviewer would always say, 'you couldn't make a movie like that today' and Brooks would always reply, "We couldn't make it then." When the studio executives screened the movie, they were ready to cancel the release entirely. Brooks arranged a second screening and invited the hourly workers at the studio who all enjoyed the movie so much that the executives agreed to a very limited release (I think NYC, LA, and Chicago). It was so popular, they agreed to a slightly wider release, over and over until it was released everywhere. I was 12 when the movie came out and it was rated R, so I talked my poor mom into taking me to see it. One of my favorite life-long memories is of the two of us laughing our asses off together in the theater. After that, we went to see all the Mel Brooks movies of the 70s together.

[@mamalannightshyaman]

The most accurate part of the movie is the racists being morons

[@wildmandon1]

I saw it in Salisbury Maryland when it came out.

[@bretcantwell4921]

Regarding Jewish military personnel, I had the pleasure of staying in the Berchtesgadener Hof and General Walker several times growing up. Years later, while watching Band of Brothers, I realized the irony of the many Jewish and Black soldiers enjoying the finest accommodations the Third Reich had to offer.

[@MissMarchHare]

A beautiful mother son memory

[@ETXB]

That's awesome.

[@MarnieGolde7]

“Where the white women at?” An absolute masterclass in satire.

[@HorrorGenreLady]

that scene had to be redone because Madeline ran out and said here i am causing everyone to crack up laughing

[@elusiveDEVIANT]

​@@HorrorGenreLadythey shoulda kept that in, just esit out the laughing

[@JeffKelly03]

@@HorrorGenreLady Speaking of Madeline scenes they had to cut, in the "It's twue, it's twue!" scene, there was supposed to be one last joke in the dark when Cleavon says, "You're sucking on my arm."

[@user-blob]

I love that line! My man is always surprised at how often I can use the quote in regular conversation 😂

[@bigbow62]

The whip sound is actually the tip of the whip as it breaks the sound barrier ( or sonic boom ) Thats where the whip gets its snap sound !

[@hydro6en317]

i'm Native American, & my favorite scene from this movie is when the Native chief allows the black folks to proceed before telling the other Native: "they're darker than us."

[@TheCrazyCanuck420]

Woof!

[@hydro6en317]

@@voidmstr i did not know he was speaking Yiddish. i was aware it was Mel Brooks, though. i also recently found out that Jews & Italians used to play as Natives on film & they spoke Yiddish. i may mention that back then, if an actual Native played a "Indian" character in a film, the Native actor or actress would speak English, & the sound editor would play their words backwards to make it seem like they were speaking another language.

[@vapors4villains]

I took a semester of Yiddish, and we asked the professor the translation of what he actually said.

[@johnnehrich9601]

@@hydro6en317 There were Hebrew letters on the chief's headband, too.

[@JamesLachowsky]

In the old comedy western spoof, F-Troop, all of the Native Americans were played by Jews. It was an inside joke. The tribe was called the Hekowi. The explanation for the name was that the wandered through the wilderness until they finally asked, where the heck are we.

[@lazerblade2]

You guys are talking over the best lines. "You've got to remember these are just simple farmers. The common clay of the new west.. you know, morons."

[@Powerranger-le4up]

Wilder even adlibbed the morons part.

[@mothbreeder641]

2 rich jews making fun of people that actually contribute to society. Very original and very funny stuff.

[@lazerblade2]

@@mothbreeder641 Weird thing to say.

[@BrainMeltGaming]

Equivalent of people who constantly talk during movies then constantly ask questions because they don't pay attention

[@sverrg]

THANK YOU! I turned off the video an unsubbed when they did that, maybe the best improvised line in movie history, half the reason I love this movie so much, and by missing those few seconds they made me SO angry I was angry at myself for overreacting so much. But I literally watched this video to get their take on that line!

[@BryanH63]

I NEVER thought this movie would be shown in the theatre again... It is being shown in theatres in September for its 50th Anniversary.

[@Mia-dt3gl]

I saw it for Fathom Events. Everyone was _screaming_ laughing the entire time. 👍

[@godlyb0b]

Saw it last night at my local Alamo Drafthouse. The audience was laughing like crazy

[@Annonymous0283745]

In hollywood when they need extras to stand around in the background of a movie, they'll do what's called a "cattle call" so in this movie, instead of random people standing around in the background, they had actual cattle.

[@jamesmoyner7499]

I had heard that term before, but never connected it to why there were cattle in the background until I read your comment. Thank you for explaining it. 😅

[@rdumontdebeque]

Makes sense. Thanks. Always wondered about that.

[@lesblatnyak5947]

That sounds logical

[@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066]

That's hilarious 😂

[@vincegamer]

I've watched this movie repeatedly since the late 70s, and I never got that joke. Thank you

[@Rosiepooh75]

The point of the movie was to show how ridiculous racism is and how stupid racists are, and I think it achieves that. Mel Brooks had Richard Prior slotted for the sheriff, but because of his drug issues at the time, the studio didn't want to take a chance, so he just helped write the dialog around the sheriff , and Clevon was brought in to play the Sheriff, and did a brilliant job 😁

[@bradb3248]

I heard that Pryor called Mel Brooks from Cleveland one Monday morning when he was supposed to be in L.A. at this point the studio insisted he couldn’t be in the movie.

[@LordGrokken]

Pryor wrote all of the Mongo material.

[@NearEastMugwump]

There are more "racism is bad" movies than you can shake a stick at. I can't think of any other "racism is stupid" movies.

[@1980bwc]

Well Rosie. I'm glad you got your opportunity for the day, to announce how you find racism, to be stupid. I've got a feeling, that you only find racism to stupid, when the racists are white people, against people of color. However, when the racists are people of color, against white people, I bet you find that to be cool!

[@88wildcat]

Also Gene Wilder ended up being a replacement for Gig Young as the Waco Kid. Young's alcoholism got him kicked off the film a couple of days into the production.

[@janedoe5229]

I was a teenager in the 1970's. Back then, whenever they did anything racist in a movie, that let you know that was the bad guy and he was going to get it at the end. We all laughed our heads off at the racists from the first minute. Mel Brooks shouted out to the crew, "Did we miss anyone?" And an Irish guy said, "I don't feel insulted yet", so they slipped in an Irish joke.

[@Extortionism]

and had the line read by an Irish guy... 🙂

[@andybryson8008]

@@Extortionism That seems to be Mel Brooks's way - he insults everyone, and in doing so insults nobody. The genuine bigots and racists though - they're fair game for a comedy smackdown!

[@TheElliotPage]

@@Extortionism when the Irish came to America, they actually weren't considered white people. that's how dumb racism is.

[@VirtualBabe29]

actually Irish people were discriminated against, primarily because they were Catholic in areas that were almost totally protestant

[@houseontherock8345]

My favorite story on this whole film.

[@jakejager]

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

[@knavehart]

Heddy LaMarr was an actress in the 30s and 40s, who was also a brilliant inventor (she helped create the technology that eventually was developed in to Wi-Fi)

[@WolffangLightwood]

Didn't she get screwed over the royalties for her invention? I don't think she ever saw a dime post war for the patents

[@jacobterry1000]

The guy who plays Mongo is "Alex Karras". He plaid 12 seasons all for the Detroit Lions from 1958 to 1970. After football he started his acting career

[@BM-hb2mr]

He also was in a sitcom in the 80s.Called Webster.He was the father of webster

[@ericreep5341]

3 time Pro-bowler, I believe. Bad ass for sure and I wasn't a Lions fan. 😂 Love and peace guys.

[@marciclark8266]

He was in "Centennial" as Hans Brumbaugh...a settler in Colorado

[@jimwalter480]

Jerry Kramer the right guard on the Green Bay Packers, wrote in his book "Instant Replay" that Karras and Merlin Olsen of the Rams were the most difficult defensive tackles he lined up against.

[@kevinmassey1164]

Member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame

[@adamskeans2515]

Mel Brooks famously said they couldn't make this movie back then, but they did anyway.

[@lipby]

It wouldn't have been made if Brooks didn't demand final cut privileges. The studio wanted to rip it to shreds.

[@Stogie2112]

Brooks knew how important it was to put all the bad words and bigotry out there for all to see and hear. If you're going to mock racists and bigots, it's best to go all the way.

[@SmedleyButler-g6t]

You couldn't make it nowadays or people would be calling it "woke" because it portrays racists as stupid.

[@adamskeans2515]

@@SmedleyButler-g6t sure it could be made. Who the fuck cares what people call it? Also, what does calling an idiot an idiot have to do with woke?

[@lipby]

@user-cf3xp9kn8o Stop ranting the word "woke," a word that has lost all meaning. South Park and Family Guy go much farther now.

[@johnnehrich9601]

The tip of a whip is not hitting anything. If done right, the tip breaks the sound barrier, which is why the crack noise (just like a plane creates a sonic boom if it goes fast enough, and the air heated by lightening expands so fast, it too breaks the sound barrier, hence thunder.

[@AR.WalkerClan]

and then term "Cracker" came from the part of England a lot of southerners emigrated from.

[@bsb1975]

​@@AR.WalkerClanI always thought it was the white Southern overseers cracking their whips over their heads, both to menace the slaves and out of sheer boredom. Some cowboys do crack stock whips when herding cattle.

[@calvinthebold99]

These guys don't know a lot. It's kind of sad.

[@xXdallonXx]

The fact this movie completely went over your heads and all you did was dissect it and point out what was " offensive " it controversial is just sad.

[@billcorbett6375]

Missed the whole point of the movie and got offended. I gave up on you two after 5 minutes...grow up.

[@Mark_McC]

Seriously. It’s not even really a reaction video. It’s a video of them shit talking a movie they aren’t even paying attention to. There isn’t even the slightest clue to how important this movie was to race relations in America. Guys, Mel Brooks, the director, who also plays several roles in the movie, like, a native American chief, a nazi, the Governor, is showing to white america how stupid racism is and you got offended by it. 🤯

[@calvinthebold99]

Too bad. They totally missed the point of nearly every joke and the actual point of the movie

[@hunterlangley8287]

Hey, don't be rude.

[@garyward8605]

It rude -just fact

[@BrianBaileyedtech]

This was a completely anti-racism movie co-written by the great Richard Pryor and Mel Brooks. Everyone got skewered in this one - and the point was to show the racists as being really stupid - and then to laugh at them. Brilliant satire. We could use a little more of this today - and a little less of being offended at everything - which isn't actually a sign of intelligence.

[@jeanine6328]

17:33 He reached down the front of his pants when he said, “excuse me while I whip this out.” So the ladies screamed in fear thinking it was another Mr Johnson in town.

[@curtisthomas3598]

Good one

[@stephenlackey5852]

I always like to think that the townpeople are surrounded by Johnsons just like Dark Helmet is surrounded by A$$holes.

[@andrewbevan3933]

Why is it left up to the comments section to explain the jokes they cut out? This video is worthless.

[@joelw8789]

@@andrewbevan3933 If you didn't get the joke that they thought he was going to pull out his cock, then I can't help you. There was noting cut out. That was the joke.

[@chrisinf-11b10]

@@andrewbevan3933exactly right, they freakin missed that entire joke because they had to talk all the way through it. Lousy reaction video.

[@keywesttexmex1]

I think you missed Sheriff’s friend “They said you wuz hung!” Sheriff “And they wuz right!” 😂😂😂😂😂

[@andrewhafey1909]

LITERALLY EVERY REACTOR MISSES THAT ONE!!!!

[@anthonygallop290]

One of the best jokes in the movie They also didn't know about the joke they had to cut from the movie "It's true It's true.... Ma'am your sucking on my arm"

[@stevenmonte7397]

One of the funniest jokes in the movie! That and "excuse me while I whip this out!"

[@billwell9266]

everyone misses the Laurel & Hardy handshake joke too

[@caseybhargraves3696]

My favorite line too!!

[@jonathanbsmith5178]

You guys don't really understand Mel Brooks. Mel Brooks picked on every culture there was. That's why this movie was so famous

[@PaulWaldoff]

When Mel Brooks pitched the movie, he wanted a biting satirical criticism of racism, but he wanted to criticize modern racism. The studio said he couldn't do what he wanted in the modern era, so he made a western, exactly 100 years before the release date of the film. The entire ending sequence of the movie was his way of placing the racism and the criticism of that racism in the modern day, where he still saw it happening just as blatantly. One of my favorite moments where he was severely criticizing Hollywood was when he played a native American chieftain. Hollywood had a history of casting Jewish actors with darker skin as native Americans in the movies. He, as a Jewish actor, was well aware of this, so he played a native character but spoke Yiddish as a way to criticize Hollywood for not casting NA actors in those roles.

[@DocFunkenstein]

I've never seen two ignorant people go into a movie just expecting to be insulted and offended, and adamantly refusing to admit they were wrong despite catching themselves laughing at it. Nevermind being completely oblivious to the fact that it's a movie mocking racists and bigots, not celebrating them. The Dunning-Kruger Effect in all its glory.

[@calvinthebold99]

Yes, this was pretty pathetic to watch. Never come back to this channel.

[@leftofpunk]

Rumor has it Mel Brooks approached John Wayne (famous western movie star) with the script. He read it and told Mel that it was the funniest script he'd ever read but there was no way he'd be able to be in it, but that he'd be first in line to see it.

[@88wildcat]

That's not a rumor. That's a fact though there is some debate about whether that decision was made by Wayne or by Wayne's agents.

[@DarkKnight52365]

@@88wildcat the fear was that it would ruin his reputation as a serious western actor

[@or2ak]

John Wayne was a known racist, that's why he wasn't in the movie.

[@MrAM4D3U5]

Thanks for explaining to the folks at home who JOHN WAYNE was. You’re a fountain of useful information

[@leftofpunk]

@MrAM4D3U5 plenty of younger people have no idea, so I added that context.

[@margretrosenberg420]

When this movie was made, big tractor trailers used to have "YES" and "NO" painted on the back to inform other motorists which side was safe to pass on. The implication here is that the brahma bull Mongo is riding is as big as a truck.

[@schirpik]

Thank you been wondering about that for 30 year. since first seeing it at a midnight show.

[@margretrosenberg420]

@@schirpik You're very welcome; I wondered about it myself for years. I'm in my seventies and don't even remember actually seeing this on trucks, though I must have when I was a child. I found it online through a Google search.

[@delscoville]

There's a bunch of jokes that younger generations just aren't going to get. Wide Wide World of Sports was a weekly program on TV, Jesse Owens is a Black Olympic Hero that won gold Track and Field during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, despite Hitler trying to ban Black and Jewish contestants. Cecile B. DeMille is one of the fathers of film. Back when chases would just smash through the yards and homes of everybody, and they pay to clean it up later. Randolph Scott was an actor who did western movies for 40 years. There's so much more, you can spend a day just Googling stuff you hear in this movie.

[@margretrosenberg420]

@@delscoville True. Still a great movie, though.

[@fester2306]

@@schirpik Same.

[@IanSinclairTaiChi]

It was funny for me watching you miss 85% of the movie because of your reactions, then being confused because of missed context. Reminds me why I watch movies alone.:)

[@Cheepchipsable]

Some reactor seem to thing they need to talk constantly.

[@oscarwilde6649]

These 2 THINK that THEIR constant comments, CONSTANT lip-flapping over 90% of the film is the centerpiece of it!! Unwatchable reactors😫😖 Worst I've seen (and I know at least 75 channels). I'd tell these idiots "Don't quit your day job"!!! Oh, SNAAAAAAPPPP !!!!!!!!!!

[@andrewbevan3933]

Exactly! I was prepared to watch an hour of hilarious Blazing Saddles highlights, but gave up in frustration after 5 min. They managed to cut out all the funniest lines and reacted to all the wrong things…then seemed befuddled that it didn’t make sense. Maybe they’re just an example of why this movie could never be made today.

[@AngelicaH3ART]

Thanks for letting me know this before I even hit play, can't stand reactors who don't know when to shut up and just watch so the rest of your audience can also enjoy it. Most times reactors just prattle on about stuff that has no bearing or anything to do with the movie whatsoever, you see that way the viewers can enjoy listening to them instead of the movie! /s

[@itoibo4208]

plus the movie volume is at 10 and the reaction volume is at 90.

[@Endless-River]

The crack sound you hear with the whip is the actual whip itself. the tip of the whip goes so fast it breaks the sound barrier, thus making a noise that you can hear.

[@wild_lee_coyote]

The tip of the whip is called a cracker.

[@Zane1962]

You guys talked over some of the best lines.

[@carlomercorio1250]

Mel Brooks, who is almost 100, is the only one of the top actors in this movie who is still alive

[@Cheepchipsable]

Sorry, Mel is not a "top" actor. He is an old vaudevillian and always acts OTT.

[@GeminiWoods]

@@Cheepchipsable He's in damn near every movie he made. OTT or not. That's just who he is.

[@robertbruce2128]

Actually, his secretary, Miss Stein, is still alive, too. And a couple of others.

[@carlomercorio1250]

@@robertbruce2128 Thanks

[@BlunderMunchkin]

An interviewer once commented to Mel Brooks that "this movie couldn't be made today," and Mel Brooks replied that it couldn't be made in 1974 either.

[@jarrettlowery2802]

I always say this. People think that this movie wasn't massively controversial at release

[@TheGoIsWin21]

My impression is that he was WILDLY annoyed by everyone saying that. I think he went through hell trying to get it made and released without anyone toning it down, and he took it personally that everyone kept saying it, lmao

[@Empty-Mask]

That farting scene was actually the first major "fart joke" in cinema and was controversial lmao

[@KPS2311]

My Grandpa (passed when I was 12) was as I remember him; an old, slow quiet man. He was a WW2 vet, pilot in the Canadian Air Force. So I always just chalked his personality up to being from his War days. We got along great, he just wasnt an energetic/enthusiastic person. I think it was about a year before he passed, that this was on TV and we watched it. He said it was his favourite movie and the campfire fart scene is the best part to him. I never heard him laugh that much/at all in all my short 10-11ish years. I wish I could go back and watch it with him again and an adult.

[@bwilliams463]

The first time I saw it - probably the late 70s-early 80s (I was just a kid) - on TV, they silenced the fart noises but left the n-word in.

[@gregwillson7952]

​@@bwilliams463now that's a wild moment in history lmao

[@stevedavis5704]

I remember when this came to TV pretty much the only thing that got edited out was the sound of the farts. Farts were too offensive to be heard on TV so you just saw a bunch of people sitting around a campfire bouncing up and down with no sound.

[@bwilliams463]

@@stevedavis5704 I had to ask my mother what was going on.

[@wild_lee_coyote]

When Mel Brookes was asked if this move could be made to day he said “made today? Hell it wouldn’t be made back then.” On the first screening they had a bunch of Warner Brothers execs who didn’t laugh, the movie almost died there. But Mel brooks did a showing for all the crew and they laughed through the whole movie. That’s when it was finally released.

[@mistytharpe3991]

Y'all weren't ready for this 😂

[@johnnehrich9601]

Lili Von Shtupp was a parody of Marlene Dietrich, who had a strong German accent. In one of Dietrich's most iconic scenes, she straddles a straight-back chair while wearing fishnet stockings. She also had a fondness for dressing in a feminized version of a man's tuxedo, as Lili is seen in the final scenes. Dietrich's starred in Billy Wilder's 1957 Witness For The Prosecution, from a story by mystery queen Agatha Christie, one of my most favorite movie. I defy anyone watching it to guess the ending.

[@evilpenguinmas]

But it is a western called Destry Rides Again with Jimmy Stewart where she played a western burlesque performer like Lily von Shtupp (which is Yiddish for f--k). Madeline Kahn is a great singer so her bad singing where a "sexy" performer is singing about being "so tired" is a pretty funny take. Explaining jokes ALWAYS makes them funnier!

[@johnnehrich9601]

@@evilpenguinmas Did not know that, never even heard of the movie before but I looked it up on Wiki. Will have to watch it but I can see now EXACTLY why Kahn as Dietrich makes so much sense. Thanks.

[@leehung4429]

I saw the movie and was truly shocked at the ending

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

@@evilpenguinmas The rule among professional comedians is that the longer it takes to explain why something is funny, the funnier it is.

[@dodobassoon]

…And played by the late, great Madeline Kahn. She was one of the funniest, most talented, and most charismatic actors back then. Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder put her everything. I loved her in everything she was in.

[@dmikewilcox]

Cecil B. DeMille was a filmmaker. He was a producer, director, and actor. He made gigantic biblical epics and westerns. His movies had epic battles, with lots of deaths shown, and often thousands of extras. He is the guy who dirrected The Ten Commandments.

[@tenjenk]

He also notoriously insisted on doing complicated stunts with many people involved in a dangerous and unsafe manner with little regard for precautions. Stuntmen and Extra's did get maimed or die in the process.

[@dmikewilcox]

@@tenjenk Yup! He was a bastard!

[@keeslover777]

Thank you for explaining who he was!

[@dmikewilcox]

@@keeslover777 You are welcome.

[@Bevsie54]

Gentlemen, you really need to rewatch this movie and if you’re going to converse, pause the movie, you talked through do many of the greatest lines.

[@3toobular]

Yeah, they missed at least 70 percent of the movie if not more. The captions may have helped a little but not much. It's their channel though so I won't criticize. I just won't watch many if any more. I really want to partake and support their channel but knowing how much of a film they are missing...no way to really react if not watching. I'll check in another time and save my subscribe or not for then. Best of luck in all endeavors, however.

[@chuckleezodiac24]

lol. Reaction Police! "Obey. Do what you're told. Or else!"

[@runawaytrain9794]

@@chuckleezodiac24 He's right tho...they missed like 90% of the dialogue and most of the jokes.

[@teenofthailand1]

Without question they missed most of the actual clever/timeless jokes

[@MarcosElMalo2]

Did none of you notice the channel name? Or maybe you’ve only seen movies in segregated white only movie theaters? Y’all have unreasonable expectations.

[@janneaalto3956]

No, gosh-darnit! The sheriff is A NEAR!!

[@Warlocke000]

Cleavon had charisma for days. Sadly, we don't have a whole lot of his material, since a lot of his acting career took place on stage, rather than the screen, and colon cancer took him from us far too early.

[@mikedignum1868]

The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16- to 18-piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935 and recording regularly from 1936.

[@jacobterry1000]

This movie broke hollywood in two when it cane out because its just pointing out how ridiculous the whole entertainment industry in general really is and was really the first to do so. Mel Brooks is such a Legend and all the other Legends in this movie such as Cleavon, just brilliant...simply brilliant.

[@karen6477]

It’s important to talk over all of the dialogue when reacting to a comedy. Excellent work you two.

[@austenhead5303]

I feel sorry for young people. They're so steeped in the insanity of what I'd like to call the social media age, they can't even recognise satire.

[@MrTuubster]

It is fear that holds them back.

[@cptchaotic]

It held the mirror up for society to see how absolutely ridiculous prejudice was and the only people getting upset over the film were the people who held these beliefs to be true. The rest of us just thought it was comedy gold. We understood it was done in humor and not hate and we took it as jokes.

[@NoelMcGinnis]

The 'Yes' and 'No' on the rear end of the brahma bull, was in reference to school buses in the 60-70's. They had that printed on the back of the bus to show the right and wrong way to pass the bus. The law preventing passing a stopped school bus was enacted in the mid 70's. A reference that has become lost to time for people under 40.

[@brainfloss9710]

Thank you for explaining this. I've been watching this movie for 20 years, and I never understood that joke.

[@bernardsalvatore1929]

The "yes no" was also put on the back of tractor trailer trailers because in those days they traveled a lot on just two lane roads one lane in each direction and people would pass on the shoulder so it was a warning on the back of a lot of trailers back in those days too!!!

[@mikepaulus4766]

I'm 52 and I never knew that. Thank you.

[@youngThrashbarg]

This movie needs to come with a reference guide.

[@cmay7429]

People under 50. 😬

[@tommywalker3746]

The Mel Brooks universe has a lot of great movies in it. you guys will enjoy this rabbit hole

[@ryadinstormblessed8308]

Absolutely! One of the greatest film makers of all time!

[@moonglow630]

History of the World Part 1 is another great 1!!!

[@gerrisutton7586]

Spaceballs

[@timhundley9719]

You need to do a movie called stir crazy with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor

[@intrepidis1]

For a second I thought the subtitle in the thumbnail was "Is This Toot Fart???" 😂 (referencing the bean eating scene)

[@MarkHWillson]

"One of those movies where they thought people gettin hit in the head was funny". Bro, getting hit in the head NEVER goes out of style. 😆

[@grizzlygrizzle]

From Abbot and Costello to the Three Stooges to Bob Barker beating up Adam Sandler.

[@thisiswhatilike54]

Yep, that’s why the majority of America’s Funniest Videos was Fall Down Go Boom. Slapstick will never die.

[@Raven5150]

The actor that played Lyle really hated saying his racist lines clevon little sat him down and told it was cool Lyle is saying not you

[@Chokah]

I think the quote I heard about it was something like "It's the job. I get it. I know you don't mean nothing by it. If you did, I'd have laid you out on the floor"

[@andybryson8008]

@@Chokah Either version seems reasonable to me. If any actor really had a problem with someone just because of the colour of their skin, then that actor probably wouldn't be welcome on most movie sets!

[@joshuahessel4915]

Everyone being named Johnson was just a too-long set-up for a Howard Johnson's joke. That used to be a highly recognized chain of restaurants back then with a distinctive orange roof. They were often next or attached to Holiday Inns. Another list joke is "laurel (the flowers) and hearty handshake". Back then everyone knew who Laurel and Hardy were, a comedy duo from back in early Hollywood.

[@88wildcat]

There are a few interpretations of the Johnson joke. One is to show how inbred the town is which explains the racism rampant in it early in the movie. Another is basically telling the viewer the town is full of dicks.

[@mconnors1733]

There's a Howard Johnson's ice cream parlor in Rock Ridge too. But they only have ONE flavor.

[@cwilliams7017]

Yeah, but it's also about them being inbred.

[@peterjackson4763]

Laurel and Hardy were the greatest comedy duo from Hollywood. They won an Oscar for The Music Box. It would probably be worth doing a reaction to that.

[@TS-ef2gv]

Yeah, so many of the jokes in this movie are missed by anyone who wasn't alive back then. The Howard Johnson, Hedey Lamarr, and Cecil B Demille references, the Indian chief speaking Yiddish, some of the casting of certain people in this movie like NFL'er Alex Karras as Mongo, etc

[@athanatic]

You really talk over all the jokes and miss almost everything.

[@legalizitt]

...a Laurel & Hardy handshake. Get it? Hands him a laurel (a wreath), and offers him a hearty handshake. Laurel & Hardy were a comedy team back in the 40's.

[@MadamMaru-gm5ff]

You talked over my favorite line in the movie, when the Waco Kid is talking to Sheriff Bart about the town folks, at the end, he says " You know, morons!"

[@Extortionism]

That part of this video was almost criminal!

[@EpimethiusPSN]

Gene Wilder ad libbed that line and Cleavon Little breaking down laughing was him really laughing at the line.

[@bigh3431]

these young gents know nothing about this type of movie... i feel they should have read a little background on this (especially THIS ; Mel Brooks) movies

[@sjnix7044]

They talked over half the jokes. I’m also feeling old for how many just went over their head because they are just young.

[@Tobelia]

@@EpimethiusPSNand Cleavon Little ad libbed the pronunciation of “dwessing woom” when reading Lilli’s note and made Gene Wilder laugh

[@Kevin.Costner.]

Wait "Where da white women at" line comes from this? 😭

[@duchess93]

Yes sir lol

[@KPS2311]

Yes, Kevin.

[@DamnQuilty]

Yeah

[@sjnix7044]

😂🎉 welcome to 1974.

[@312af]

It may have already been a thing, idk. It at least goes back this far.

[@Raven5150]

Most important movie ever made. The behind the scenes and what mel Brooks had to go through ahould be a movie itself

[@0okamino]

In addition to everything else he had to do, it was a hard day’s work of tossing studio exec notes into the trash.

[@Arkainjel]

Honestly, I’m surprised there hasn’t been a Mel Brooks movie yet. I could see Taika Waititi helming it.

[@z8kfltgeek]

It is. Look up American Masters on PBS--the episode is called Mel Brooks: Make a Noise, and the section about Blazing Saddles is called the Art of the Stereotype. There's also a documentary from 2001 called Blazing Saddles: Back in the Saddle.

[@curtisthomas3598]

The reason he took the movie to present day and broke whatever wall there was left was because he wanted to make the movie a modern day film, but considering the racial tensions of the time, the studio declined. He convinced them to allow a western since that was not too far fetched from the true racism of that time. But Mel said i Can't do a modern day, WATCH THIS.🤣🤣🤣🤣 Pure genius.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

Oh. My. God. An actual intelligent comment after reading a dozen comments explaining comedy and racism and what was appropriate “back then”. I can’t put it better than you did. I just wanted to thank you for not being an idiot and for posting something worth reading.

[@bernicejackson42]

Cleavon Little and Gene Wylder were funny as hell in this movie and the Count Basie Orchestra playing his theme music is priceless.

[@killardan1]

I love how s[o many accused Mel Brooke's of be racist when Richard Pryor wrote most of the "racist" jokes. Richard was supposed to play Bart. But he was cracked out. So, they went to Broadway and got Clevon Little. He was amazing!

[@Discworld-Edge-Witch]

Pryor also wrote most of Mongo's dialog.

[@DavidStowers-o7k]

The first time I saw this film, Gene Wilder's character saying the line, "Little Bastard Shot Me In The Ass." truly made this, my all time favourite comedy!

[@elbruces]

Any Mel Brooks comedy: once you catch one joke, you realize how many others you probably missed. A lariat is another word for lasso. Cecel B. Demille was an early Hollywood film director. You know how in modern movies, they'll CGI a thousand people into a huge battle? Back in his day, he'd hire thousands of people and have a huge battle, and film that. Mongo was played by Alex Karras, a four-time NFL pro-bowler. Maybe the word isn't so much "racist" as "racial." They're making fun of racism. But in order to do that, they have to bring it up.

[@unstrung65]

Mel Brooks just shoots a LOT of arrows ( jokes ) some of them miss , but a lot hit their mark .

[@alexdundas-taylor3420]

It's okay to get lost at the end. It's a gigantic fourth wall break; the fighting spills off the movie set and into a musical filming on the same Warner Bros lot, then the studio restaurant, and finally onto the streets of Burbank, California.

[@DavidStowers-o7k]

Can you imagine if the ultimate fourth wall breaking director, Mel Brooks directed a DEADPOOL Movie?

[@Specter515]

And ending with the main duo walking into a theater to watch the end of the movie they're in.

[@Rdfelic]

Does these 2 dudes know that this is a comedy movie??? 🤣🤣🤣

[@okieg8960]

I love how these guys don’t acknowledge the cows at all

[@clevelandnative7175]

This is one of those fabulous classic comedies that almost requires undivided attention, it’s too easy to miss something. I definitely recommend watching it again.

[@lawrencenehring2567]

And multiple viewings. It’s so easy to miss a joke and only get it the next time you watch.

[@Cheepchipsable]

You need to know cinema history and general history to get most of the jokes. Simply watching it multiple times won't help with that.

[@lawrencenehring2567]

@@Cheepchipsable thats one of the quities I feel make a film brilliant. Not that you have to know all these things to like it, but that you can enjoy it the first time and enjoy it more as you learn more of the references. Layers upon layers.

[@laurab68707]

This movie was hysterical in 1974 and still is. Mel Brooks was making fun of how ridiculous racisms is. One of the writers of this movie was Richard Pryor.

[@FrogLegs313]

Actually Brooks wanted Pryor to play the part of Bart but the studio said absolutely not because of his drug problems at the time made getting him insured was completely impossible.

[@danicohenator]

Well summarised. 👍

[@caras2004]

The Yiddish translation in the wagon train scene Chief: Blacks Indian raised tomahawk Chief: No, no, don't be crazy Chief: LET THEM GO!!!! Chief (in English): Cop a walk. It's alright. The family: Thank you Chief: As long as you're healthy. (English) take off. Indian: Have you seen such a thing? Chief (English): They darker than us!!!

[@6strings1pickup12]

Imagine life back when it was ok to be funny.

[@DewkChronic]

Mel Brooks did Spaceballs maybe they will get them jokes.

[@keithmartin4670]

Cleavon Little was most at home on stage, though he was in a hospital tv comedy called “The New Temperatures Rising”. Sadly, he died in 1992 of colon cancer at the age of just 53.

[@danielpalitza4347]

“Young Frankenstein” is Mel Brooks take on the horror genre. You would enjoy that one too. It also stars Gene Wilder (Waco kid), and Madeline Kahn (Lili Von Schtoop)

[@Cheepchipsable]

It's a parody of the earlier 1930's Frankenstein movies, even using the same props.

[@cheriremily9360]

Young Frankenstein was Gene Wilder's project with Mel's help with script and as director. Young Frankenstein doesn't have a cameo with Mel in it. Mel had a cameo in just about every one of his movies. Gene agreed to pay Waco Kid to get Mel on the project. Both movies were released in 1974.

[@rondoiron6907]

This flick still gets me in stitches. The line of villians and they're resumes is fire and asking if the dude brought gum for everyone 😂😂😂

[@128MrRon]

Mel Brooks the creator of this movie 🎥 is a movie genius…Ya back then we didn’t get all butt hurt about jokes like today.I mean for god sakes if you say anything funny today and you’ll have somebody in tears…Jesus could you imagine the great comedians back then having to watch everything they say..We would have no Redd Foxx no Richard Pryor no Eddie Murphy…That’s the whole problem today with people is we can’t laugh along with each other 😅😅😅…This old dogg sure misses the old days when we went to a show and everybody got ripped on it was part of the show…I hope you two can set down and watch it again and pay more attention to the jokes …You two have a great day..👍

[@JayAshkevron]

I think watching you guys analyze this film like it was a documentary was pretty funny. Its really really not meant to be serious. Its a parody. Mel Brooks was legend of the genre, thats why they let him do this film. But parody is a dying genre, they just don't make many parodies anymore. Movies like this, and Airplane etc. were probably the genre at its best. Gene Wilder is always good in whatever role they put him in. You should check out his movies with Richard Prior they are some of the funniest things ever made.

[@keeslover777]

These reactions are typical gor most of the black people who watch this. As a descendant of Irish (maternal), American Indian (Chippewa-Cree paternal side), and a methodist, I thought the jokes were hilarious- but at the time the movie was made, we weren't afraid of offending or being offended. Sometime in the last, I'd say 20 years, that ALLLLLL got changed. Now you can't even say black or white without someone saying something about it.

[@pskroob]

This is the type of movies that we can’t lose as we go into the future. We need more comedy movies like this.

[@DethOnHigh]

Mel Brooks originally wanted to do a movie about racism in modern day (at the time) but the movie studio wouldn't go for it, but they would let him do a movie about racism in the Old West, hence this movie and why it spills over into 1974 for a bit. It was the only way he could pull it off.

[@johnwest5837]

Hedey Lamar was an actress in the 40,s and 50,s, she helped develop technology for the war,it eventually led to smart phones.Very intelligent person.

[@johnwest5837]

It took years for her to receive recognition for her contributions to technology.

[@CherylHughes-z8d]

Im surprised how many people don't understand in the end the when they go off set they're wandering onto other sets at the movie studio ☮️

[@Dirtbagmonkeyskk]

this is 50 years old this year ...and Mel used comedy to oppose racism ... notice he plays the most bubbling fool in the movie he plays the governor. He raised question in a time they weren't questioned

[@LordGrokken]

Cleavon Little is a highly underrated actor and during the seventies did iconic characters, in the movie Vanishing Point he played the blind DJ and that was the role that had me going wow.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

He also starred in the Broadway musical *Purlie* (1970), for which he won a Tony Award.

[@AntonGully]

He was also uncredited on multiple episodes of Magnum as the "Background "background" guy", the one that stole the car but got away with it, even though the car was there next episode.

[@kellyfarley5611]

You need to watch it again without commentary and then you may catch more of the jokes. I love when Bart is dressed up in Guccii and runs into Count Bassie and his band. PRICELESS!

[@tjd1969]

I think they also missed the fact that this was the great Count Bassie, whoever he was...🙄...

[@maxxcurrey7547]

@@tjd1969 Basie not Bassie.

[@danicohenator]

They missed all references, innuendos and clever jokes. Sad to see this is what today's generation get from this movie.

[@HenryCabotHenhouse3]

The term cracker comes from Florida ranchers who used the crack of whips to encourage cattle to move out of the palmettos and thick brush. The whip is never intended to hit the cattle (well maybe brush by with about as much energy as a fast moving feather) but the sharp noise directly behind them startles them into moving. The crack is caused when one throws the whip and a wave rushes down the length, because the whip thins the energy in the wave causes the lighter section to speed up until, at the narrow tip, it is traveling over 700 miles per hour thus breaking the sound barrier which is the noise. At that point almost all of the energy as dissipated and the end slows to under 10 mph (when done correctly). If one does not aim for the whip to break before striking something, it can end up putting all of that energy into what it hits instead of a noise. That can cause a lot of damage.

[@JeremyKing]

My man said a BullGoat. I'm not able to handle it.

[@DavidRJones82]

They didn't understand the assignment.

[@edn]

Did you listen to the review? -Adison

[@TheMalibujoe]

The guy who is difficult to understand Gabby Johnson was actor Jack Starrett. He played Art Galt in Rambo 1st blood. The guy that Rambo killed by hitting the helicopter with a rock causing him to fall to his death.

[@jlrinc1420]

That's a great reaction guys. I didn't know if you guys were going to get it or not, but you definitely got it.

[@ryadinstormblessed8308]

41:37 "This script couldn't even be written in Microsoft Word!" 🤣🤣 Facts! Google AI bots would erase your hard drive for writing that!

[@oneearrabbit]

“I see you are trying to use the N-word, is there another word you would rather use?”

[@kurtn4819]

That's the scary truth!! I was also surprised to see how PC-whipped these two are. Too scared to do or say anything outside the prescribed script.

[@huffsnuffleupagus7963]

"Church of the Latter Day Heathens" 🤣🤣🤣

[@marciclark8266]

😂😂😂😳😂😂😂

[@tomstone7647]

Would you love to have been there when Richard Pryor say no you have to say it🤣 it will be funny😂

[@willwillis6184]

We really need more movies like this. If we cant laugh at ourselves what can we laugh at? It feels like racial tensions have worsened over the last ten years. We have gone backward somehow and I hate it.

[@abducteeofearth1703]

I highly recommend the movie “See No Evil Hear No Evil” it stars Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. Pryor is hilarious as always.

[@ChristopherJames1993]

A deaf guy and a blind guy walk into a bank. What happens next lol. One of the best movies ever.

[@enicole1203]

Seconding this rec. That's a great movie!😂

[@michaelpapp5518]

57:10 in my opinion, the reason why Blazing Saddles is funny and acceptable, even with such strong language, is because none of the racism is depicted as good. Generally speaking, you can use any negative language you want if it’s not shown as the way to behave. All the racists were bad guys, and the ignorant townsfolk were reformed by the end. That is the thing people nowadays forget. It’s OK to hear the bad words. As long as we put them in the proper context.

[@Cheepchipsable]

None of the black dudes ever call anyone a name...funny that.

[@willywonka7812]

​@@Cheepchipsableawwww are you offended?

[@shallendor]

Mel Brooks films are to movies as Weird Al songs are to hit songs! Great reaction!

[@jlo96f3]

They think it’s a drama, not a comedy. 😅

[@Yata69]

Cleavon Little was a great personality, its sad he died so young!

[@Yata69]

Im sure i speeeled his name wrong

[@Raven5150]

Lariets are just a rope usually used in lassos

[@edn]

ohhhh okay I appreciate you for that intel. I was definitely lost there. -Adison

[@martyjones984]

The cows in all the scenes were there to show the "cattle call", a term used for finding extras just to have people in the background but who didn't have lines. Mel Brooks just used cattle.

[@johnwest5837]

The orchestra in the wilderness was The Count Basie band with Basie himself in the lead.Popular in the 30,s 40,s and 50,s.

[@GirlWithAnOpinion]

He played at my University in 1980. Legend!!!!

[@Ken-pi7qk]

Never seen a reactor acknowledge the great Count Basie. Guess it’s a generation thing

[@johnwest5837]

@@Ken-pi7qk I,m 75yrs old Ken also big fan of the Duke Ellington same era both Jazz royalty.

[@aaronbredon2948]

Count Basie actually volunteered to be on the film when he heard about it.

[@karidrgn]

You talked over some of the funniest lines Like when jim is consoling sherrif bart by calling the towns people morons

[@MWSin1]

The sound of a whip crack is the tip of the whip exceeding the speed of sound. It's actually a small sonic boom, and doesn't depend on the whip hitting anything.

[@marlarogers9304]

They cracked on EVERY race, sex, and religion. I saw this in the theater, and we all laughed. This was written by Mel Brooks, and Richard Pryor.

[@craig05ish]

Let's give proper credit. There were four other guys. Mel put together a writers room to do the script.