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

Blazing Saddles was a wild!!! Join me (Adison) & Brandon as we checkout Mel Brooks western spoof! This film stars Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks, & Cleavon Little. Did this film go TOO FAR?... Let me know your thoughts in the comments!
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[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@emperorconstantine1.361]

The deleted scene during the Lili dressing room bit, there was a line deleted after she says “oh it’s true!” The line is from the sheriff saying, “I hate to disappoint you…but you sucking on my arm!”😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@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 😂

[@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

[@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 !

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@athanatic]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@bernicejackson42]

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

[@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. 😬

[@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.

[@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!

[@Kookygirl111]

"They said you was hung!" "And they was right." The best two lines of the movie.

[@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.

[@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

[@thetomgibson]

Anyone who doesn’t smile all the way through this film should watch it over and over until they get the jokes.

[@SM-BSW]

33:20 Madeline Kahn (Lily) is doing an impersonation of Marlene Dietrich. Marlene German actress and singer whose career spanned from 1920-1980. You can find clips of her singing on KZbin. If you watch Madeline Kahn in Young Frankenstein, you'll see that she actually has an amazing voice.

[@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.

[@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!!!

[@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)

[@PaulEcosse]

Thing is, it was actually Gucci that made quality horse saddles and gear at the time. They never went out of fashion.

[@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.

[@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 .

[@jsmall10671]

OMG, you guys miss half the jokes.

[@jakeelliot2868]

I'm surprise that no one notice that Richer Pryor was one of the screenplay writers.🧐

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@lovetolearn881]

This movie was like Archie Bunker. Showing how stupid racism is. People didn't cancel back then. They kept talking. That's what actually fixes things. Suppressing speech prevents things being fixed.

[@nicolesaunders2964]

Anyone who finds this movie offensive has no sense of humor! Mel Brooks made this movie to make fun of the stereotypes NOT glorify them

[@kellysalinas7478]

Richard Pryor was one of the writers.

[@johnnehrich9601]

He was also supposed to play the sheriff but his drug use by that point made the studio worried about counting on him.

[@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.

[@floresincometax9112]

Richard Pryor, one of the most blackest persons out there, wrote half of the movie, understood what the great mel Brooks was trying to convey.

[@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.

[@robstyles8535]

Mel Brooks on this movie: "we set out to show the world how stupid racism is and make you laugh while doing it."

[@goldabernstein1215]

The movie is funny. Mel Brooks wrote the lines for the black actors and Richard Pryor wrote the white lines. My favorite: "Mongo merely pawn in game of life."

[@alleycatw9l641]

Blazing Saddles was always that movie where the first time you watch it you just sit there with a mouth open, but it's so quotable, it sticks in your head and the 2nd and 3rd time watching it you're laughing on your ass.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@eikana9274]

Now that you got a taste of Mel Brooks’ style where NO ONE is excluded & breaks the “4th wall” every time - would love to see you watch his other movies! Love you two’s reactions together! 😁👍🏽

[@dandoll4405]

Everyone says you couldn't make this movie today, but in 74 they told Brooks he couldn't make this movie but he did anyway.

[@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.

[@markefatdad]

This is probably the best satire about racism ever. The racist villains are buffoons, which shows the idiocy of prejudice. It's purposely made to overtly expose the stupidity of prejudice. It's not so much an attempt to be edgy by being racist, but to criticize prejudice through comedy.

[@Y2KNW]

"This is a fairly cordial conversation.." - Had to pause the video for a moment because it's hard to pay attention when you're laughing so hard you're tearing up lol

[@lbh002]

The crack of a whip is the tip of the whip moving so fast it breaks the sound barrier and creates a little sonic boom. So what you are hearing is not the ground or any other solid surface, but the air collapsing back on itself after the tip of the whip passes.

[@betterknownas4106]

I've watched some of y'all's reactions and when it's balanced, it's on point and actually really funny & entertaining, but man y'all talked way too much over so many key jokes you missed that I couldn't even enjoy or finish the video. I know you have enough subscribers who don't seem to mind, but if you want new people to stick around, try to actually watch the movie and let it breathe. A great musician doesn't play the most amazing notes and chords, back to back to back, nonstop; they know when to add silence, which is an essential part of a song, before continuing. All love and I hope you heed the advice and continue to grow and do well with your channel.

[@edn]

Ight, thanks. Have a good day. -Adison

[@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.

[@ohandy1]

22:19 "I don't get that joke" Too funny! The movie is satire, not a story about itself. The ending is about the battle of good vs evil extending into the real world.

[@neutroniumranger9036]

Mel Brooks when to the actor that is the cowboy in the red shirt and was like "How would you like to be the first person to fart on screen."

[@stevensauer8539]

The legendary Richard Pryor's fingerprints were all over this movie (he was a cowriter). Such an amazingly scathing mockery of racists and racism.

[@JeffKelly03]

Mel Brooks released both this and Young Frankenstein in the same year. Two of the most iconic comedy movies ever made, in the same freaking year. That's wild. That one also has Gene Wilder as the star, and Madeline Kahn is in that one too. Highly recommend, one of the funniest movies ever made.

[@Jogjosmowwdkfs]

I love Young Frankenstein. I have it on vhs

[@Cheepchipsable]

Movies were made a lot faster back then, the same way many TV shows had 40 episode a year.

[@zeframmann1641]

Mel Brookes on whether this movie could ever be made today... "Make it today?! We couldn't even make it back then!!!"

[@trelard]

I am at the tail end of Gen X, and this movie is one of my favorite comedy movies of all time. In fact, Mel Brooks movies pretty much set up my whole social views when it comes to comedy and controversial takes. Today they are attempting to take way, PERMANENTLY, the whole point and HISTORY of "Jesters Privilege". If we can't laugh, what's left? Y'know?

[@shallendor]

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

[@ultimaofelsewhere]

The campfire scene with the beans was because you always see them being eaten in westerns but no one ever has gas and that didn't make any sense.

[@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.

[@Texantomhorn]

“They said you was hung! And they was right!” 😂😂

[@p.j.d.8199]

Ya'll were laughing and say, "I'm not suppose to be laughing at stuff like this" that was back in the days where we weren't so sensitive or cancelled for telling jokes and picking on everyone, the good old days of laughter instead of hate, today hiding behind a computer screen is where real hate presides. Let free speech ring

[@puddentame9475]

Guy, the hangman was "The Hunchback of Notadame". This thing is dripping with cools hidden gags.

[@bwilliams463]

He reprised the role for Brooks' 'Robin Hood: Men In Tights.'

[@Mulavi]

"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"

[@honorsilverthorne7227]

VERY famous line! 😁

[@martinsarmiento1036]

It was a line from a Humphrey Bogart movie called Treasure of Sierra Madre.

[@rebeccajohnson8769]

@@martinsarmiento1036 And was later spoofed in Weird Al's movie UHF: "Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers!"

[@cucumber1991]

lol i remember being a kid watching this with my grandpa laughing my ass off

[@kissmy_butt1302]

Hedy Lamar joke was because she was an actress that sued everyone. It gets lost today because she belongs to the movies of the 30's and 40's. Hedy Lamar is considered the mother of the cell phone today. During WW2, she used her knowledge of music to come up with frequency hopping for torpedoes. The concept is used today in cell phone and wi-fi technology.

[@tyharris9994]

Also Hedy Lamar invented Tupperware and was the first person to reach the South Pole.

[@Cheepchipsable]

@@tyharris9994 First woman in space and circumnavigate the sun...

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

Look it up, people!

[@frankgerlach5059]

@@tyharris9994 It's true, Google 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.

[@yarnfigment]

And now to watch more of the classic Mel Brooks films: Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. 😊

[@charleslatora5750]

Let's add two other movies. The producers with zero. Mostel and a Funny Thing happened to me on the way to the forum. again with zero mostel hilarious! Hilarious

[@randybass8842]

Also Silent Movie

[@lawrencenehring2567]

And an earlier film called The Twelve Chairs. Not many cultural references, and much more of a studio film.

[@SeebsL]

And The Producers! Not enough reactions to that one (and its musical remake) on KZbin.

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

Don't forget history of the world Part 1

[@Jenisonc]

My parents had me watching this very young. It made me realize how stupid everyone can be around you. No matter how "powerful." Trust is earned, always be true, honest, and be open to everyone.

[@the9-2-5outlawreviews3]

And for the obvious reasons, can never be remade even after 50 years. Even Quentin Tarantino was inspired by this film and many others to make Django Unchained.

[@Pauba1946]

Mel Brooks could make any movie he wanted and had a ton of funny movies. You can’t use 2024 values when you are watching old movies.

[@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.

[@Charsept]

I think a movie like this *needs* to be made today.

[@edn]

I'd be down to see how they do it!! -Adison

[@88wildcat]

I'm highly doubtful the talent exists in Hollywood today to pull it off though. And I would bet my life none of the financiers involved in putting up the money would be willing to risk investing in it. Hollywood today will go a thousand miles out of its way not to crack the fragile eggshell that is the psyche of the far left political wing that dominates it.

[@BlackavarWD]

Tropic Thunder was in 2008... We're almost due for another movie like this.

[@ChrisKing-e3m]

When Jim shoots the TNT 🧨: It's horses flying through the air 🐴

[@robinmitchell4721]

This is classic Mel Brooks. There's no way this movie could be made today.

[@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.

[@HenryCabotHenhouse3]

There are many anachronistic elements in this film. The song the railroad workers sing is from 60 years after the time period, the executioner is from 800 years previous, motorcycles and the KKK were not present in 1974, the film Treasure of the Sierra Madre ("We don't need no stinking badges") is from the 1950's, Jesse Owens is a track star famous for winning the 1934 Berlin Olympics against Hitler's superior Aryan race, they are fighting in 1874 and the break into a sound stage in 1974 on the Warner Bros. lot. The horse being hanged is in reference to an old saying, "I want him [bad thing] ... and the horse he rode in on." In this case hanged. The Yes/No is in reference to school buses that used to have that printed on the back to indicate you were not allowed to pass them on the right. By the way, if you had listened to Lilly's song you would have been laughing. And to shtupp is Yiddish for f-ing. The man who says they don't want the Irish is, of course, of Irish heritage. When the Warner studio executives screened this film there was not a single laugh. Mel had to quickly pull together a bunch of regular people from the lot who laughed uproariously before the execs would agree to release it. Heddy Lamar (famous actress) sued about the use of her name in the film and Mel just paid her off as good publicity. Even though his name is Heddly, Heddly Lamar. And yes, because you are not steeped in the cultural milieu of 1974 many of the jokes simply swept by you. A laurel and hearty handshake references the famous comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. Randolph Scott is a famous actor portraying heroes in western films. Cecile B. De Mille is a famous director of epic films "with a cast of thousands" (gladiators, soldiers, slaves, etc.) many of whose characters would be killed off during the story.

[@enicole1203]

Lol I can't believe I never noticed that Laurel and Hardy joke!

[@evilpenguinmas]

Science nerd moment! The crack of a whip actually comes from the tip of the whip breaking the sound barrier. It is a little sonic boom. It doesn't have to hit anything.

[@MoMoMyPup10]

It is truly amazing that 'facts' are different, depending on where you hear the origin from.

[@duaneswab3420]

Actually Florida Ranchers would use the crack of a whip to encourage cattle to move out of cane breaks or palmetto stands. That is where the term 'cracker' as a white slave owner comes from.

[@the9-2-5outlawreviews3]

Most of these actors are deceased except for Mel Brooks who's pushing 100.

[@the9-2-5outlawreviews3]

25:21 that was the late Alex Karras, from the sitcom Webster with his real life wife Susan Clark, they were also in the first Porky's movie together. He used to play in the NFL and became an actor.

[@warnerbasement1628]

Clevon Little and his chemistry with Gene Wilder make this movie which I think is arguably the greatest anti racism movie ever made equaled only by some of Spike Lee's work. I saw this when I was about 9 at the time. The scene where Clevon rides in with the Gucci saddle bag and the towns reaction had me on the floor dying laughing. The old woman scene was both hilarious but also deeply disturbing and that's the mark of great movie making, to create two completely opposite emotions sumultaneously and make an impact in doing so. That scene alone showed the absurdity and the insanity of racism more than any serious drama could convey because in the end racism is crazy and in that crazy it can be absolutely hilarious , tragic and depressing at the same time. The image of Clevon staring blankly in despair in the next scene has always stuck with me and for that I'm greatful for that lesson at such a young age.

[@JWarrenPhilly]

It is funny that Richard Pryor was slated to do that role. If he hadn't gotten mixed in the drugs, this movie wouldn't have been what it was. Sad that Richard fell off that way as he and Wilder were soooo good together in everything they did.

[@mgratk]

@@JWarrenPhilly Well I'd hate to see any change to Blazing Saddles, but Pryor and Wilder were indeed amazing together.

[@mandapanda2847]

Mel Brooks is the GOAT of satire. Please react to Robin Hood Men in Tights, Spaceballs and Dracula Dead and Loving It. All Mel Brooks classics!

[@dmikewilcox]

Lariat = Lasso - It is the rope with a hoop at one end that they use to catch cattle.