BLAZING SADDLES (1974) FIRST TIME WATCHING - MOVIE REACTION !!!

[@janedoe5229]

When they were filming, Mel Brooks said, "Did I offend everybody?" An Irish stage hand said, "I'm not offended", so they put an Irish joke in there. :)

[@hughjanus9557]

LOL that's why nobody will ever be as good as Mel.

[@VirtualBabe29]

Irish immigrants did face discrimination, and were not wanted in many places, primarily because they were mostly Roman Catholic in predominately protestant country.

[@majorhemroid]

And it was the perfect joke in that moment of the script. "We'll give some land to the n-words and the (chinese slur of 5 letters), but we don't want the irish!"

[@VirtualBabe29]

@@janedoe5229 actually, the Irish were subject to discrimination back then , primarily because most of them were Catholic, in territories that were predominantly Protestant

[@mcbeezee2120]

THE best reaction to THE best Mel Brooks classic. Uncut, unfettered, unafraid, & understood. Well done, ma'am.

[@michaelschroeck2254]

Props and respect to you for not bleeping out the words! Seen as intended… 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@Elerad]

Jim was sleeping off his liquor in the drunk tank, which used to be a common practice. He wasn't actually a prisoner, just a guest for the night. However, when he sobered up, revealed who he was, and treated Bart with respect, Bart decided that having such a man as a deputy would be a pretty good idea, particularly as Jim had first raised the idea.

[@bernardsalvatore1929]

Not too many people actually verbalize that they understand OR see the one little subtle line and action that to me is one of the funniest lines in the entire movie!!! When Bart reveals his hands, when he's dressed in the KKK outfit, and Gene Wilder starts rubbing his hands saying that it's burnt cross that can rub off, he turns Bart's hand over to the palm and says "SEE, it's coming off!"😅😂 ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!!!!

[@karimhicks8376]

The man who played MONGO, in the 70s, was one of the most feared NFL PLAYERS, of that time period. MR. ALEX KARRIS.

[@GregoryMyles]

Indeed. He was part one of the greatest defensive front four in NFL history. And if I remember correctly he starred as the adoptive father on the tv show Webster.

[@CRabbit42]

Gene Wilder ad-libbed the line "You know, morons." Bart's laugh was legit.

[@eldonstrackeii7892]

Cleavon's laugh was legit, Bart is the character he played.

[@aheretic]

Another Mel Brooks comedy staring Gene Wilder you may want to check out is "Young Frankenstein"

[@RandomNonsense1985]

*Fronk-en-steen!

[@cainealexander-mccord2805]

Hello, young lady. First time here. Yes, your questions do belie a certain, let's say, youthful aspect to your video, but yours is a keeper, because you didn't bleep the sh*t out of it-you left it alone, as it was supposed to be seen, and practically nobody does that. It's admirable, and it convinces me to subscribe, so, here I am!

[@bsrlpar]

IT IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN. ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS. I WATCH IT ALL THE TIME. MEL BROOKS WAS A GENIUS.

[@jtindel1]

Mel Brooks is a comedy genius with parodies and satire. Gene Wilder also stars in and co-wrote another of Brooks’ films “Young Frankenstein”, which is definitely worth watching as are all Brooks’ films. If you are going to watch more Mel Brooks films, watch them in order of release. His films quite often have references to his previous films as jokes.

[@jefetters7182]

Since you asked, Mel Brooks was the Governor and one of the dancing guys onstage. And the Indian when they were crossing the desert. Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka) and Richard Pryor made a bunch of buddy comedies together. Richard Pryor was supposed to be the sheriff in this but couldn’t make it. I think Cleavon Little is excellent. Since you’ve watched Star Wars, you may consider Spaceballs. Another silly Mel Brooks comedy but more of a parody.

[@MrMbws]

He was only Governor Lepetomane and the Indian Chief.

[@stevedavis5704]

Don’t forget the indian chief spoke Yiddish. Just another piece of randomness tossed in.

[@jefetters7182]

@@MrMbws no, he’s also a dancing guy in Madeline Khan’s song.

[@holdenmcgroin1873]

Sorry, not a dancing guy (any of the 4). I have the CD, and am staring at them right now. If you want his 3rd (uncredited) character, check out the "director" in the middle of the line of "mugs, pugs, thugs... and Methodists." Leather jacket, white scarf, baseball cap, and big sunglasses. A few feet to the left (white suit), you'll also find Lee Van Cleef.

[@jefetters7182]

@@holdenmcgroin1873 sorry, still wrong. Stop the movie at 56:36, he’s the first one on the left, next to her and he just said “I’m tired” then pulls out a chair for her. He is the shortest chorus boy. Also you can tell by his voice, he goes on to sing a bunch of lines when she sits down.

[@garybassin1651]

"Do do that voodoo that you do so well" is a lyric from the song. "You Do Something To Me" written by Cole Porter in 1929. He also wrote "I Get A Kick Out Of You" which is the song the black railroad workers sing at the beginning of the movie.

[@bwilliams463]

I was thinking it bore some similarity to 'That Old Black Magic.' Is there any connection?

[@garybassin1651]

No connection at all. That Old Black Magic was written by Harold Arlen who wrote the songs for The Wizard of Oz, and lyrics by Johhny Mercer. Mel Brooks made two references to Cole Porter in this movie.

[@bigsarge8795]

"Have you ever seen such cruelty" That will never NOT be funny

[@bwilliams463]

RAVID! 5:15 How DID they lay the rails and ties over the quicksand, in the first place? Damn good question, and one I never thought about, until now. Howard Johnson's was more known for being a motel chain back when I was growing up, but as far back as 1925, they were a restaurant chain. As they branched out into hotels in the 1950s, the ice cream recipes were carried over, and the chain was just as famous for its ice cream as its rooms. 27:22 The greatest literal 4th Wall Break in American Cinema history.

[@yournamehere6002]

No one ever gets that when they sing "I Get A Kick Out of You" it's completely anachronistic---it's as if they started rapping.

[@Victor-lr2xr]

"I Get a Kick Out of You" is a Cole Porter song from the Broadway musical "Anything Goes." I worked that musical in a Summer Stock Theater. One of the multiple hints in the movie about Bart's sophistication versus the racists. Cleavon Little was a successful Broadway actor and singer.

[@yournamehere6002]

@@Victor-lr2xr But the joke is that the song wasn't even written yet in the late 1800's....and that style of singing didn't exist either. They're expecting a work song or spiritual, which is what the audience understood at the time.

[@curtismartin2866]

The real subtext is that the white cowboys are expecting a Minstrel show. When the black workers offer a sophisticated song, the cowboys then sing a song that was common in Minstrel shows and begin to dance around like they expected Minstrel performers to act. It's very subversive.

[@jeanine6328]

3:58 This guy here on the horse, not Mel Brooks. But you’re gonna just love his name, it’s Slim Pickens! No lie, check the credits. Of course that was just his stage name, his real name was Louis Burton Lindley.

[@jeanine6328]

9:54 The governor is played by Mel Brooks. He also plays the Indian chief a lil later on in Barts flashback.

[@michellerapchak4445]

Richard Pryor was one of the writers of this script

[@UWalvern0810]

He was actually supposed to play the sheriff, but the studio wouldn’t insure him. Brook’s initial intention was to have Pryor play the sheriff & John Wayne to play The Waco Kid.

[@cliffchristie5865]

Many of the townspeople are named for notable Johnsons of history or popular culture. Not all of the names resonate as well 50 years later. After westerns went out of fashion that western street on the Warner Brothers backlot was demolished for parking and other production buildings.

[@thunderstruck5484]

Sheriff Bart, one of the coolest characters ever written for the big screen, thanks enjoyed your reaction!

[@danielh6015]

There are many jokes in the movie that most people today dont get. The bad guy's name was Hedly Lamarr. There was a famous actress named Heddy Lamarr. That is why he is always pissed when they mispronounce his name. In one scene the Gov tells him that he can sue Heddy as he was born first. . The irony is that she wound up suing the movie. The Indian Chief was talking in Yiddish to the young boy (the sheriff) and his family. The same is true for Liily Von Shtup where the word Shtup is the yiddish verb for sex. When Hedly ties her up, she against uses Yiddish words. There were many other references to things from the 70s that most people have now forgotten.

[@gkiferonhs]

The n___ work song they sang at the beginning was by Cole Porter, the first black composer to be featured on Broadway. So, it a n____ song.

[@garylee3685]

Gene Wilder's character was in the drunk tank. Sleeping off a charge of public drunkeness.

[@stevedavis5704]

In some towns they used to take the drunks in and put them in a cell to sleep it off. When they got sober and woke up they were free to go. They weren’t locked up unless they were accused of drunk and disorderly. After they started charging for public intoxication the open door policy died out because they arrested you when they took you in. However I do know a small town in Nebraska where if you don’t feel safe driving home you can go to the jail and they will put you in a bed until you can take yourself home or someone comes and gets you.

[@PaulWaldoff]

One of my favorite bits of trivia about this movie is that Brooks originally wanted to make a movie satirizing racism in modern, post civil-rights era USA. He was told he couldn't put his anti-racism movie in 1974, so he put it in 1874 and made it a western. The entire studio scene ending of the movie was his way of demonstrating that the racism was as prevalent in 1974 as it was in 1874.

[@MeenaRuth2093]

Mel Broooks is the one who played the governor in the movie.

[@garybassin1651]

And the Indian chief!

[@JuanRodriguez-xp4jc]

@@garybassin1651 and its a shame that she doesn't know nothing about him... im Mexican and Ive seen this movies easily 50 times or more.

[@GirlWithAnOpinion]

Nobody ever catches Mel Brooks as one of the hited bad guys (black leather jacket, gray cap, and sunglasses laughing with some cowboys after the Nazis and before the Arabs on the camels. Also, at the end, when Harvey Korman (Hedley Lamar) runs out of Warner Brothers and passes the old guy in the blue sweater, that guy was a real bystander and clueless he'd walked into a movie. Thank you for being the first grownup in the room to not censor everything when reacting to this movie! How else are we gonna see the point of the movie, which was to show how stupid racism is?

[@davidshorb7453]

"They said you was hung" "They were right"😂😂😂 So many great one liners in this A fantastic mel brooks movie with gene wilder (willie wonka) is young Frankenstein

[@johnlong9534]

Mel Brooks wrote and directed this movie. He also played the part of the Governor and the Indian Chief.

[@BigGator5]

"Hey, where the white women at?" Insanely brilliant comedy that everyone needs to watch at least once. 😎 👍 Fun Fact: Randolph Scott was an American leading man who became Hollywood's greatest and most popular Western star. Historical Facts: Jesse Owens was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany. Owens was credited with "single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy" boasting before the games. Art Imitates Life Fact: The scene in which Cleavon Little aims his gun at his own head to save himself from the townspeople's wrath was based on an incident from Mel Brooks' childhood. He said that once, to his disbelief, he stole some gum and a water pistol from a drugstore; when a store worker tried to stop him, Brooks held the worker at bay with the very water pistol he had just taken from the store. Music Enthusiast Fact: When Mel Brooks advertised in the show business trade papers for a "Frankie Laine-type" voice to sing the film's title song, he was hoping for a good imitator. Instead, Frankie Laine himself showed up at Brooks' office two days later, ready to do the job, but nobody told him the movie was a parody. Apparently, Laine did not take offense at the deception considering he reportedly was pleased with the film upon seeing it on release. Unwanted Extra Fact: At the end of the movie when the whole group is running out of the Warner Brothers studio front gates, there is a man in a sweater standing on the sidewalk, watching the action. Mel Brooks has said that the man was not part of the movie, and had simply wandered into the scene. They shooed him away and then went to film the scene. The guy came back into the shot and is seen standing next to a light pole as the characters stream past him down the street. Brooks had asked the man to move, as they were getting ready to shoot that scene. The man, not understanding their requests, stood there. So Brooks sent out a waiver for him to sign, and left him in the movie.

[@kirkdarling4120]

"Mongo! Santa Maria!" Mongo Santamaria was a famous Cuban bandleader and percussionist.

[@Victor-lr2xr]

Howard Johnson's was restaurant known for its orange roof. Used to find them along the highways. Please note Bart's send off by Count Basie. Another point of class and sophistication.

[@Daren_PNW]

Loved Count Basie. Wasn't he also in Jerry Lewis' Cinderfella?

[@CigarMick]

Another great Mel Brooks film with Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka) is "Young Frankenstein". Definitely worth a watch and reaction. Then, "Spaceballs" is another great Mel Brooks film and worth a watch and reaction.

[@christhrasher9892]

When he had that popcorn box while in the movie...lol

[@WhatsTeeWatchin]

Runs back to see what I missed 😂

[@janedoe5229]

When Mongo rides into town, the bystander says, "Mongo Santa Maria!" Mongo Santamaria was a musician with the hit "Watermelon Man".

[@justwondering5651]

Howard Johnson is an ice cream company, it sells 28 flavors. Apparently it got its start in Rock Ridge with one flavor. I'm not sure you understood Hedley's "too Jewish" comment. When God sent Moses to free the Israelite slaves from Egyptian rule, the last of the ten plagues was that God killed the firstborn son in every Egyptian household. What did Gabby say? "He said the sheriff is near." No, that's not what he said. The band in the desert was the Count Basie Orchestra, a famous band from the swing era. The Count himself was conducting. Everybody seems to miss the laurel and hearty handshake. (Stanley) Laurel and (Oliver) Hardy were a famous comedy team, they made over 100 movies in the 1930s-40s era. "For my next impression, Jesse Owens." He was a black track and field athlete who humiliated Adolph Hitler in the 1936 Olympics (hosted by Germany) by beating Hitler's Aryan athletes to take home four gold medals. Oh, and the bad guy wearing the aviator jacket in the crowd was also Mel Brooks. I think "you'd do it for Randolph Scott" also went over your head because you flew right by it. Randolph Scott was another movie star, who made dozens of western movies in the 1950s-60s. No, that rap song isn't where "You do that voodoo" comes from. It's from a Cole Porter song, "You Do Something to Me" from the 1929 Broadway musical "Fifty Million Frenchmen". The song the railroad crew sang was "I Get A Kick Out of You", also a Cole Porter song. I often want to go nowhere special too.

[@allenruss2976]

Howard Johnsons was also a diner/hotel chain

[@justwondering5651]

@@allenruss2976 True but in Blazing Saddles the Howard Johnson's in Rock Ridge was an ice cream parlor not a restaurant or hotel.

[@allenruss2976]

@@justwondering5651 and therein lies the joke. I always took it this was supposed to be the first business eventually leading to the motel empire

[@aaronbredon2948]

Howard Johnson's started as restaurants featuring ice cream desserts. It later expanded to motels with restaurants.

[@FlamesCagney]

"Oh, it's making fun" I get it, now. Thank you.

[@toodlescae]

The cows in the buildings is a reference to the theatrical term "cattle call". That's when they put out a general call for actors to basically be background dancers or extras.

[@Raven5150]

Dunks only had to stay the night in jail, as soon as jim woke up he was free

[@janna2245]

I love a Native American speaking Yiddish! It's a slap at Hollywood casting ANYONE as Indians but actual indigenous people. I've actually seen a film where Joey Bishop played an Indian. Oy.

[@mousetreehouse6833]

What was so great was it starts out as a super serious movie, but then it breaks down into sheer nuttiness. For reference, Richard Pryor wrote the white dialog, and Mel Brooks wrote the black dialog. It it truly anti-racist and anachronistic... and, btw, Mel Brooks played the dim-witted Gov. 😂

[@walterpanovs]

Richard Pryor was a co-writer on this and Brooks wanted him for the lead but the studio thought he was too much of a risk.

[@scgreek1114]

I saw this in the theatre when it was first released. When Cleavin Little said "Where the white women at?" the audience laughter was so loud you couldn't hear any dialogue for about 30 seconds. Comedy has often been used to point out outdated social norms, before people were triggered by everything. It's a dead art form.

[@geoffwilliams4478]

Watch the movie "Airplane!" It's a must-see comedy!

[@rccraig7580]

I'm not certain if the late Richard Pryor wrote most if not all of the script for this movie or shared the writing credit with someone else. Actually, Richard was supposed to portray Sherriff Bart in the movie, but Richard's well-known public and private issues led the studio to seek out a replacement which was Cleavon Little. Mel Brooks not only breaks the fourth wall, but he also curb stomps it, body slams it and tosses it off a cliff. Only Mel Brooks, would have the townsfolk engage in an all-out brawl which spills over into the studio during a dance rehearsal and continue into the cafeteria. Then have the movie's villain escape to the premier of Blazing Saddles only to be gunned down by the hero who then goes watches the rest of the movie that he is in. PRICELESS!!! Also, Mel Brooks @ 97 or 98yrs old and the dim-witted henchman Lyle at 85 or 86 and the Governor's secretary are the only surviving cast members from the movie.

[@torontomame]

From what I understand, Richard Pryor wrote the racist dialogue that some of the white people spoke. Mel felt that way he himself wouldn't get in trouble for it. 😄 Also, the white leader of the railway-building gang (in the red shirt and black vest) felt very uncomfortable saying the n-word and kept apologizing to the other actors. Cleavon Little had to reassure him that they knew it was just part of the script and they didn't hold it against him. 😁

[@rccraig7580]

@@torontomame The leader of the railroad crew is Burton Gilliam he portrayed Lyle in the movie. At 85 or 86 He is one of the few surviving cast members next to Mel Brooks . Gilliam was also in Back to the Future 3 as the gun salesman who gave Marty his gun for his future showdown with Mad Dag Tannen.

[@torontomame]

​. Thanks! I couldn't remember his name. And I didn’t know he was still with us. Yay! 😊

[@flarrfan]

Comedy suggestion: Raising Arizona is hilarious and a great introduction to the brilliant Coen brothers...

[@Kevonutube303]

Please Don't say it was off putting.....probably one of the best, honest and genuine reactions I've see on a reactor channel! Seriously, great job. Wanna see more Gene Wilder,? Another Mel brooks direction, watch "Young Frankenstein" Helps if your familiar with the story line and or the original Frankenstein movies from the 30's but, it's funny all by itself as well. Again great job!

[@erikz9026]

Lilli von Schtup is a send up of the German born actress Marlene Dietrich. She played a saloon girl in the Western “Destry Rides Again” and sings a couple of songs ala Lilli.

[@jimglenn6972]

She is also in “Young Frankenstein”. Willie Wonka is a fun movie but, if you have already seen it, check out YF.

[@jamesodonnell3636]

Some other comedies you might enjoy: Monty Python & the Holy Grail; Monty Python & The Life of Brian; A Fish Called Wanda; Bros; Young Frankenstein; Bedazzled (1967); Harold & Maude; The Ruling Class; Educating Rita; The Blues Brothers; Delicatessen; The Birdcage; South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut; Shaun of the Dead; Hot Fuzz; The World's End; Heathers; The Big Lebowski; Annie Hall; Hannah and Her Sisters; Crimes and Misdemeanors; Zelig; Kingpin; Galaxy Quest; Raising Arizona; Cheech & Chong's Up In Smoke; His Girl Friday; My Man Godfrey; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Beverly Hills Cop; Top Secret...

[@joepowell7025]

That Voodoo song was way way before your time it was first played in the 1940's and was made famous by artists like Frank SINATRA.

[@Jsspres]

There are two other Mel Brooks movies with Gene Wilder. The Producers (1967) and Young Frankenstein (1974).

[@MrMbws]

The Producers is my Favorite. Madeline is also great in 2 Peter Bogdanovich movies - What's Up Doc? & Paper Moon.

[@Jsspres]

​@MrMbws Madeline Kahn is also in a few Mel Brooks movies. Including Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, and History of the World Part 1.

[@benpowersguitar]

This movie is my favorite takedown of racist morons ever. Cleavon and Gene are pure gold. Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor's writing is comedy and satire legend.

[@tx_1]

Gene Wilder (Willie Wonka) has been in a lot of great movies. Hedley Lamar is Harvey Korman. He is hilarious. Lily "I'm Tired" is Madeline Kahn & is legendary. Too many classics to choose from. Here are my suggestions Young Frankenstein Mel Brooks "Spaceballs" movie. Or History of the World Part 1. Harvey Korman- skits with Tim Conway from the Carol Burnett show, like "The Dentist". Tim Conway would ad-lib and crack Harvey up.

[@roywall8169]

Greatest comedy of all time!

[@myownchannel247]

Mel Brooks was the GOV! and the Indian chief. He didn’t just break the fourth wall, he knocked it down 🤠

[@williamjones6031]

1. Mel Brooks played the Governor, the Indian Chief, the round-up thug with the aviator hat. 2. Mel Brooks doesn't just break the 4th wall he shatters, steps on and grinds it into the ground. 3. The preacher/Liam Dunn also plays in Young "Frankenstein" as Mr. Hilltop. Madeline Khan also had a great roll in it. 4. Imagine how much fun this was to make. 5. The line, "You know morons" was ad lib by Wilder. Little's reaction was real. 6. "Look, it's comin' off".🤣 7. Gig Young was supposed to play Jim but showed up the first day drunk so he was let go. Wilder agreed to do this movie for Mel Brooks only if Mel would direct Young Frankenstein for him. 8. Richard Pryor was supposed to play Bart but he was going through his addictions at the time and they thought it wouldn't be a good idea. However, he did some of the writing. 9. Finally, Mel Brooks is the only member of "Blazing Saddles" still living.

[@philmullineaux5405]

Not only was Madelyn a brilliant actress,and comedian, bur an opera singer beyond parallel!

[@Cheepchipsable]

Gene Wilder did a few comedies with Richard Pryor, who was a big stand up comedian in the day and co wrote this movie.

[@thunderstruck5484]

Young Frankenstein! Excellent saw at the theater, classic

[@scottd345]

Richard Pryor, Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder you can't miss.

[@warrenread7488]

The one thing that drove me crazy about Siskel and Ebert reviewing movies was they never began with "Let me pour a glass of wine 🍷 before we start this video." Back then there was no wine in the theater, but there sure as hell is now. THIS is the modern day version of an honest review. I love it

[@TonyTigerTonyTiger]

Went to the movies today. The theater had a list of classic movies that were coming out again. Blazing Saddles was one. I cannot imagine this movie playing to a modern audience.

[@THEPATRIOT1000]

it's very popular with reactors. has to be an older audience

[@ink-cow]

You can't think too hard on how they were building the rail or how it got in "quicksand". If you really pay attention to the workers in the opening shot, they're just hitting the ground where there's already track laid. It would have been a huge expense to try replicating the actual building of rail, and quicksand used this way is a typical fantasy movie plot device. Mel Brooks movies are just big live-action cartoons. Gene Wilder's been in a couple more of Brooks' best: The Producers and Young Frankenstein.

[@kevinhayes1656]

In case you didn’t notice the governor and the Indian chief are Mel Brooks

[@brettv5967]

And Gabby Johnson, who speaks in genuine frontier jibberish.

[@MiLikesVids]

The statue is a statue of justice so he is humping justice.

[@benlee8436]

This film was co-written by Richard Pryor!

[@bahamutskingdom]

"I appoint Achoo my new Sheriff of Rottingham" "A black sheriff!!!????" "Why not? Worked in Blazing Saddles" You have got to watch Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (Where the quote is from) Mel Brooks (Who was the governor) is a fantastic beyond amazing comedy director. One of the best to ever do it. And Young Frankenstein is perhaps the best comedy film ever.

[@davidzornes6863]

Richard Pryor helped write this script.

[@morrning_group]

😂🎥 Wow, what an entertaining reaction! Thanks for sharing your first-time experience with Blazing Saddles! Your commentary had me laughing along with you. 🌟 What was the most surprising or unexpected moment for you in the movie? And are there any other classic comedies you're planning to watch next? 🤔🎬 Keep up the awesome work! Can't wait for more reactions! 🙌🎉

[@jimglenn6972]

Hedy Lamar was an old time actress from the silent film era. Mel Brooks named the prosecutor “Hedy Lamar” assuming that she was dead. She wasn’t and threatened to sue him. He changed the name to “Hedly Lamar” and put in the line that, in a movie set in the 19th century, he could sue her!

[@janedoe5229]

I saw an interview with Mel Brooks and he said that Hedy Lamarr did sue him. But he had a boyhood crush on her. He said, "Give her whatever she wants - within reason. Give her my address".

[@larrybremer4930]

It's too bad so many jokes wont be understood by people born after the boomers, like Wide World of Sports, Laurel and Hardy, knowing that Count Basie was a famous musician, the band playing "Strike Up the Band" when asked by Howard Johnson, the entire Heddy/Hedley Lamarr running gag, riding off in the sunset and other old western tropes, etc. This movie lampooned western tropes so hard that it was a decade after blazing saddles until Hollywood made another big budget western (a little movie named back to the future 3) that reopened a revival of the genre.

[@thomasalbrecht5914]

Kudos for not bleeping the n-word. That’s exactly what Richard Pryor intended.

[@karimhicks8376]

You must remember that Richard Pryor was a writter on this film. He didn't give 2 shits about political correctness!!

[@emperorconstantine1.361]

My favorite deleted quote was immediately after she asked if the sheriff was gifted and she says it’s true, he has a line immediately after where he says, “I hate to disappoint you, but your sucking on my arm!”

[@kennycooper294]

watch "stir crazy" its funny and has gene wilder in it too, maybe CB4 if you have not seen it

[@Raven5150]

That's a brama bull mongo is riding they are a species of cattle with that prodomandt hump

[@PetePavloff]

Old westerns used to have huge fight scenes.

[@philmullineaux5405]

Mel Brooks was the governor. He wrote produced directed, and acted in most of his movies!

[@icetech6]

gotta do Airplane...

[@davidyoung745]

Mel Brookes was the guy who played the governor and the Yiddish-speaking Indian chief.

[@JoeandOlly]

A really great movie with Gene Wilder is called “See no evil, Hear no evil” it’s Wonka and Richard Pryor. One is blind and the other is deaf.

[@P-M-869]

I recommend Young Frankenstein with Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka). Another Mel Brooke's movie. To my count Mel had 5 characters in the movie.

[@react2reactions246]

I love that you thought of Shoop 😂 They actually used those lyrics from a really old song, like a big band standard. I think Sinatra sung it, and probably others. But Salt n’ Pepa gave it some flavor 😁

[@WhatsTeeWatchin]

Shoop is my karaoke song 😂😂

[@react2reactions246]

@@WhatsTeeWatchin looking forward to that upload 😁

[@bsrlpar]

MEL BROOKS WAS THE GOV.

[@justapile4376]

And no one ever questioned how they laid track on quicksand.

[@100john4]

FYI, Salt N Pepa came after this movie. The song was an old Cole Porter song.

[@RukoHanaji]

I was curious, so I had to look it up. The earliest mention of "the voodoo" etc dates from the Cole Porter song "You Do Something to Me" from 1929.

[@dsmkrotj4990]

You should watch the buddy comedies Gene Wilder did with Richard Pryor 😂😂 you won't stop laughing.

[@TruckerMike_FL]

Mel Brooks portrayed the GOV & the Indian chief in the sheriff's 1956 flashback

[@TheCastellan]

1:35 Spaceballs, and Dracula: Dead and Loving it.

[@Zane-k7q]

Watch Robin Hood men in tights by Mel Brooks. You will like the ending.

[@AJAT800]

In case you're wondering Tynia, Mel Brooks played the governor

[@jnovikoff001]

Nobody gets the "I killed more people than Cecil B DeMille".

[@DewJee2019]

I liked your edit and appreciate your perspective. Nice to meet you.

[@stevensprunger3422]

It warms my heart that you can laugh at this….. ……

[@Whateva67]

I like you already,you took the humour like a champ 😊

[@timroebuck3458]

Campfire scene. It's pretty bad when you're afraid to light a match and you're sitting in the audience.

[@mikejankowski6321]

The first farts in film! For TV, they censored the sound. Guys standing and sitting in silence while eating beans. The things they did to protect us from art over the airwaves!

[@timroebuck3458]

I seem to recall that in the TV version, they replaced them with whinneying horses.

[@janedoe5229]

Lily Von Schtup is impersonating Marlene Dietrich from Destry Rides Again - which is a VERY old western. The actress who plays Lily, Madeline Kahn, is really a terrific singer. And Schtup is Yiddish for the F-word.

[@TheCastellan]

9:07 That old guy is speaking fluent Drunkenease.

[@karimhicks8376]

My bro friends & I loved your reaction!! Awesome!!! Keep on rocking young lady!!! All HAIL Richard, Redd Foxx, Chris Rock, Creech Marin & Eddie Murphy!

[@darrenshoults4620]

Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder were something of a comedy duo, Silver Streak, See no Evil Hear no Evil, there are other movies. That's all l can remember off the top of my head. He was supposed to star in this as well but had personal issues and couldn't do it.

[@goransundell7914]

Suggestions: airplane! (1980) and blues brothers (1980). And all Mel Brook movies.

[@ScooterVauto]

great review, Mel brooks is the GOV and the guy Headly sits on in the theater. Gene wilder has a list of awesome movies, in Stir Crazy and See no evil hear no evil, he teams up with Richard Pryor and the chemisrty is magical. being you have see Gene's willy wonka, watch the Johnny Depp version, you know the story but its a fun movie aswell