GEN Z WAS NOT READY FOR THIS!! | BLAZING SADDLES (1974) Movie Reaction *FIRST TIME WATCHING*

[@trekkiejunk]

There is absolutely a way to describe Blazing Saddles. It’s called “satire.” And it may be the most brilliant satire ever made. While the two kids seemed to enjoy it, satire is often lost on younger generations, and is becoming a lost art. They see racism instead of understanding that satire attacks social injustices, including racism.

[@Jordan-Ramses]

Gen z are all from Kansas City.

[@Alvan81]

It's interesting that younger folks tend to use all types of curse words & say f-ck every other word in public and around kids even, but cringe from identity humor. (Edit, this was not a shade, just an observation)

[@zeallust8542]

@@Alvan81 You literally know nobody thats Gen Z, do you?

[@Alvan81]

@@zeallust8542 You "literally" can't refute my argument, can you? Also I didn't mention a specific generation! To answer your question I only personally know a small #. But many thousands are come on YT, saying "cursing shouldn't be censored", but; that's a side issue.

[@lampad4549]

Most people get it dude, nobody is trying to cancel blazing saddles and furthermore, this is from the most brilliant satire ever made, its not thought provoking with its comedy in the slightest, its just joke after joke, if you want good satire american psycho, tropic thunder, maybe even big lebowski and that's not even talking about novels, slaughterhouse five, catch 22.

[@rmweidner7596]

Mel brooks was asked about 10 years ago if he thought that Blazing Saddles could be made today, to which he replied, "I was amazed it got made back then!"

[@OpenMawProductions]

One of the sharpest wits of the 20th Century.

[@cewaffles]

All of his Movies are Gold, even when they are not. just watch them again later in your life and you will see.

[@DisKorruptd]

well yeah, it painted the racists as being a bunch of morons and/or the antagonists you're supposed to be against

[@theclaybeartravels3596]

He had to fight the studios and the censor board to keep the farting scene in the movie too

[@Ashley-wi4ng]

not a mater of it couldn't be made its a mater of its not needed, this movie single handedly changed the wild west genre for the better.

[@lizd2943]

Gene Wilder improv'd the "you know... morons" line. Cleavon Little genuinely cracked up.

[@rickardroach9075]

Gene Wilder didn’t seem to feature much in this reaction. 🤷‍♂️

[@jeanine6328]

Facts!

[@phillipridgway8317]

He didn't improve it... he adlibbed it!

[@rickardroach9075]

@@phillipridgway8317 Improv’d: short for improvised.

[@lizd2943]

@@phillipridgway8317 And his ad lib improved it!

[@queefreak666]

My late Dad, who was a Hollywood stuntman, worked on this film. He almost never went to the movies and if he did, he'd sleep through most of it. This was the ONLY movie that my Dad dragged me to see and on opening night. He said it was craziest movie he had ever worked, ever. Needless to say, he had never, nor did he ever since, belly laugh so hard. It was a grand experience for me to witness my Dad that happy. I'll never forget it.

[@julienn8844]

That sounds like a wonderful core memory.

[@kennethohnemus3192]

That's awesome

[@miles1886]

That's amazing. I could only imagine..

[@nevyn_karres]

Now that is a great story brother.

[@brentbarr4679]

Sorry about your dad, and idk how I can say there's a common thread between us but my late father p pasted away with a smile on his face watching this movie. No kidding just thought it was a cool coincidence

[@Jsspres]

Mel Brooks breaks the 4th wall in almost all his movies . In this case. It was literally. You would enjoy more of his movies. The Producers (1967) was his first. Also, the actor who plays Boris the hangman, plays the same role in Robin Hood Men in Tights.

[@powerlifter5000]

Your right, ITS GOOD TO BE THE KING

[@Rummyson]

haha its always funny, seeing how long it takes people to realize that the 4th wall has been broken.

[@lancefawcett1809]

Everyone missed mel Brooks as the Indian chief's headband which is in Hebrew, it says kosher for passover.

[@RKnights]

Really!? Thats hilarious!

[@DarkPuIse]

It's actually slightly switched around (intentionally) - the first letters are switched around, so in the end, the effect is that it reads something more like "Posher for Kassover."

[@glenfitch6813]

Thank you! I always love watching millennials seeing this movie for the first time. The shock and awe is amazing to watch!!

[@RKnights]

These guys are fun to watch movies with

[@PapaEli-pz8ff]

Same here. Thanks, Guys. Great reactions. Brooklyn? Me too 🤠

[@RKnights]

@@PapaEli-pz8ff Yes sir Bed Stuy

[@CoffeeConnected]

They're not millennials they're zoomers.

[@kirkdarling4120]

"Wide World of Sports" was a popular ABC television Saturday afternoon show that presented sports from around the world to American audiences. Mongo Santamaria was a famous Cuban percussionist. Hedy Lamarr was a famous actress of the 1940s. She was also a brilliant theoretical physicist who invented a cryptography algorithm that the US military was still using into the 1980s. Warner Brothers also shot a television season of Blazing Saddles...with no intention of ever airing it. It starred Louis Gossett. Here is the pilot (it's terrible). kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2XcqKOvfreJfpo "Corinthian leather?" Back in 1983, I met a woman who knew the connection between Captain Kirk and Corinthian leather...so I wifed her right away. Had to.

[@RKnights]

I remember Wide World of Sports very well. So many great references

[@paulobrien9572]

You also missed Howard Johnson offering a Laurel and Hardy welcome. Mel was asked in the early 2000's if he could make this film at this time. He was shocked he was able to make it in 1974. They have to watch Young Frankenstein Brooks and Wilder's best collaboration

[@leslauner5062]

@@RKnights The thrill of victory...and the agony of defeat...God, I miss the 1970's.....

[@trekkiejunk]

Only a pilot was filmed for the TV show, not a whole season.

[@ericjanssen394]

@@paulobrien9572 And "The orange roof on Howard Johnson's outhouse". And his ice-cream parlor (1 Flavor). 🍦 And besides, every Fantasy Island fan knows the connection between Captain Kirk and fine Cor-IN-thian leather...

[@thunderstruck5484]

Harvey Korman just cracks me up , his “student “ line always makes me laugh, anyway brilliant movie everyone is perfect in it , thanks enjoyed your reaction lots of genuine laughs

[@KellyMurphy]

Harvey Korman was a brilliant comedian, Actually I don't know if it was him or Tim Conway, but I can't watch a skit with those 2 without laughing...

[@thunderstruck5484]

@@KellyMurphy exactly we were lucky growing up with shows like Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart and Mary Tyler Moore, tv’s best years in my opinion

[@paulwagner688]

The laughter. That's what Blazing Saddles is. You laughter is THEIR laughter who first saw it in 1974.

[@nolemons]

The lead sheriff character was supposed to be played by Richard Prior. I believe Mr. Prior co-wrote it with Mel Brookes. History of the world part 1 is another classic

[@vincegamer]

The homages to classes westerns run through this. The opening image of the railroad is frame for frame picking up the ending of Once Upon a Time in the West. The song The townsfolk sing is to the tune of Do Not Forsake Me from the movie High Noon. The list goes on.

[@ericjanssen394]

Just as Hedley is almost a dead ringer for OUATITW's railroad-baron villain.

[@rodlepine233]

during the early 70's The Wide Wide World of Sports was a sports show that did segments on different sports for an hour

[@warchild1673]

Glad you educated these guys to a comedy classic and the genius of Mel Brooks.

[@luminiferous1960]

In response to a question in this video, there were "raunchy" zany satirical comedy movies in the 1960s. Mel Brooks' 1967 movie "The Producers" is a prime example. I would also recommend "The Pink Panther" (1963) and its sequel "A Shot in the Dark" (1964). Perhaps not as "raunchy" per se, but certainly zany and satirical is the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."

[@GoldTopSlinger]

I think I don't quite understand the incredibly vague word, "raunchy" as applied here. In the 60s it was more like "nudge nudge, wink wink" humor. Maybe about sex, maybe about something different, wink, wink. Movie makers were still saddled with The Hays Code until 1968, so the ol' wink wink was as "raunchy" as it got.

[@luminiferous1960]

@@GoldTopSlinger the meaning of "raunchy" provided by Google is "earthy, vulgar, and often sexually explicit." Thus, raunchy can include earthy or vulgar elements that are not sexually explicit. Fart and scatological humor would be examples of raunchy but not sexually explicit humor. What is considered earthy or vulgar varies over time and by culture. The kind of "wink, wink" innuendo and double entendre used in the 1960s (and earlier) was considered by some conservatives at the time and even today as raunchy, but only if they get the intended earthy or vulgar meaning of the innuendo. Even some of the raunchiest humor in "Blazing Saddles" is based on double entendre; for example, when Madeline Kahn is singing "...going and coming, and always too soon" the humor is based on the double meaning of "coming" which has one meaning as a slang word for something that many would consider to be earthy and vulgar, and not suitable for discussion in polite company. In this case, the vulgarity is sexual, but it is implied rather than being explicit. For me, what makes this double entendre raunchy is how vulgar the implied meaning is, rather than whether or not the vulgar meaning was explicitly stated rather than implied. I apply the same reasoning to the "wink, wink" innuendo and double entendre of the 1960s comedies to determine whether or not I would consider them to be raunchy.

[@luminiferous1960]

I just recalled an example of a very raunchy double entendre joke in which the sex is very implicit rather than explicit. This joke was told by Benny Hill on "The Benny Hill" television show sometime in the late 1960s or in the 1970s: "What's the difference between a vitamin and a hormone?" "You can't make a vita...min." This joke is dependent on applying the slight pause that Benny takes in between saying the second and third syllables of the word "vitamin" in the answer to the question, and applying that pause between the two syllables of the word "hormone." The implied punchline phrase that is not explicitly stated in this joke is "but you can make a hor...mone." Even though Benny's joke does not contain a single vulgar word, nor even a word with a double meaning so that the implied sexual meaning resides in a single pause and the fact that the word "hormone" sounds like the phrase "whore moan," it is a joke that I think most people who get the joke would consider to be very raunchy because the implied meaning is so vulgar.

[@boqndimitrov8693]

I've seen the movie a million times, and I've always laughed so hard! Which brings us to the question:- why, why, WHY doesn't anyone know how to make comedies like this anymore??

[@davidlipman8093]

Look at the youngest kid. Poor boy is so indoctrinated he can't bring himself to laugh. Woke sucks the joy from everything.

[@andrewwilkins7823]

@@davidlipman8093 sad but true. Humour is gradually dieing.

[@tommcewan7936]

Oh, they still know how to do it, it's just everyone's too scared of getting murdered by a rampaging angry mob who don't get the joke.

[@VolkswagenNut1969]

Thank you this was great! One of the all time favorites of my youth. While Hitchcock was the “master of suspense”, Brooks had to be the “master of satire”. 😉 Plus, you can’t knock a movie that has the Count Basie Orchestra in it! 😊

[@DonnaLang42rockglobally]

And then a few years later Brooks did a satire based on Hitchcock movies called "High Anxiety". I think you might like it.

[@slipknota7xeg]

Mel Brooks is a national treasure. Love his movies!

[@MaximalChoppage]

As someone who speaks French the surname "Le Petomane" reads as someone who can't stop farting. I presume it is intentional, but it is an obscure joke as a lot of people won't read it that way.

[@nomadnametab]

there was a stand up comic in france in the late 19th-early 20th centuries who had freakish abilities to fart .. play tunes with his butthole. he went by the name Le Petomane . :)

[@craigdohmen2648]

There was a French gentleman who had vaudeville act back in the day where he billed himself as "Le Petomane", and yes, his act was that he farted.

[@photo161]

Madeline Kahn is doing a spot-on parody of the legendary Marlene Dietrich. If you know Dietrich's work Kahn's irreverent send-up performance seems that much funnier.

[@stevenmonte7397]

I bet I've seen this 100 times! Classic!

[@yournamehere6002]

Younger people never get that "I Get A Kick Out of You" joke, they don't understand that it's anachronistic they'd sing a song in the late 1800's that wasn't written until the early 1930's, and with close harmonies from a Big Band Era.

[@Otokichi786]

Yeah, Cole Porter wrote "working on the railroad" work songs in the late 19th century.;)

[@yournamehere6002]

@@Otokichi786 The fact that they launch into this very urbane, sophisticated crooning should be a tip-off, but it just goes right over their heads---even when I saw this in the early 80's for the first time on a videotape--and I was a kid--I knew it was goofy!

[@rickardroach9075]

Also, “cocaine” features in the original lyrics.

[@CoffeeConnected]

Also many people miss the Laurel and Hardy line which is spoken during the announcement to greet the new sheriff. That too will likely be a generational thing.

[@yournamehere6002]

@@CoffeeConnected Well, that goes without saying....and the Hedy Lamarr jokes, too. But it's bizarre to me that they don't see how off it is that they suddenly sing in this slick style...I saw this movie as a kid in the early 80's, and I understood it was anachronistic and ridiculous. Although we knew who Laurel and Hardy were....and were vaguely aware that Hedy Lamarr was a famous actress.

[@andreaechevarria6725]

This was the funniest movie I ever saw until I saw Animal House and History of the world P. 1. Harvey Korman as the Count De Money was hysterical.

[@philiprice7875]

5 funniest films blazing saddles life of brian porkies (youtube porkies principles) madmadmad world gods must be crazy (if you ignore the followup will be the only film from botswana ever see)

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

The Hays Movie Censorship Code, enforced from 1934 to 1968, prohibited "raunchy" comedy, along with lots of other things. In '68, the code was replaced by the MMPA ratings system we have today, and more varied content, including raunchy comedy, became possible.

[@bidwell13]

This movie is great. Love how they make fun of racism. Mel Brooks was asked in an interview if he could make this movie today and his response was I couldn’t make it back then. The fart scene was the first time it was done in movies. Mel Brooks sat with the sound editor recording the sounds and grabbing any passersby to contribute to the sounds. The song that Lily Von Shtupp sings according to Mel Brooks is the dirtiest song he’s ever written. There’s a new animated movie out by Mel Brooks called “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank” and it’s supposed to be a remake of “Blazing Saddles”.

[@pheenobarbidoll2016]

The satire of Mel Brooks is the max level one could ever hope to achieve.

[@powerlifter5000]

Fun fact, this movie is in the US Library of Congress for "HISTORICAL ACCURACY". Should do AN AMERICAN CAROL. With Kevin Farley

[@chrisleebowers]

R-rated 80's comedies that leaned into their R-rating and pushed boundaries even back then: "Porky's" "Animal House" "The Blues Brothers" "Trading Places" "Stripes" "Fast Times as Ridgemont High" "Police Academy" "Heathers" "Kentucky Fried Movie" (You should see "Enter The Dragon" and "The Wizard of Oz" first but you don't have to.

[@dizzyshar]

Good list, it is missing "Revenge of the Nerds"

[@RKnights]

Kentucky Fried movie gets a lot o votes here

[@johnmccall5576]

Young Frankenstein. Funniest comedy ever made. They had so much fun on the set, Mel went back to the studio for more money to finish it....they were finished filming, they didn't want it end. It totally shows.

[@photo161]

Richard Prior, a writer on this film along with Brooks and others wrote Mongo's line about being a pawn in the game of life, among other of Mongo's funny lines and business.

[@daveweber9577]

Alex Karros, who played Mongo, was college educated & a former professional football player.

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

15:31 the "gifted scene" was supposed to include a line something like, _"Miss, would you stop kissing my forearm."_ i'm an old man and i don't remember what it was supposed to be, but it was something similar to that.

[@julienn8844]

Hehehe when i started watching this, the viewer count is/was at 420

[@debraleesparks]

Slapstick comedy.. Mel Brooks was a genius. The movie theater where I saw it was exploded with laughter! Love Grandma Debbie

[@Ringking-ws7bz]

Robin Hood Men In Tights is another good one

[@chrispruett81]

I am only 41yo... but I will tell you... what I have learned so far... One of the best things you can have in life.. is a sense of humor!! If you don't have a sense of humor... your not enjoying life!! This is the 1 movie that will test you and your sense of humor for sure!!!! LMFAO!! Basically.... Jokes are just jokes... Live a little!!

[@michaelmaher4154]

Mom and dad took us to the drive in. Thought we were watching a western. I was 8. Boy were they surprised

[@BobBlumenfeld]

That loud sound you just heard during the big finale fight was the Fourth Wall collapsing.

[@whereintheworldisjuliet3611]

Richard Pryor was 1 of the writers. He was supposed to play Black Bart, the sheriff. But no one would insure him. This movie was putting issues in people's faces. History of the World is a great movie of Mel Brooks too. If you watch it make sure to watch after the credits

[@christophertaylor9100]

I love how some of the jokes just fly right over the heads of the younger guys heh. Wide Wide World of Sports....

[@filibertoarteaga9571]

Richard Pryor was going to play the sheriff but the studio executives said he was to controversial he did write some of thethe scenes...Madeline Khan was doing a parody of Marlene Dietrich especially the movie Destry Rides Again

[@johnford4031]

Richard Pryor also helped write this movie. That’s why they fit away with how much they did, even for the 70s

[@carlajenkins1990]

John Wayne was too sick with cancer to do this movie. Slim Pickens did the part he wanted. "I knew it would be a big hit. Hell, I bought one of the first tickets."

[@JohnMiller-zn9pf]

Mel Brooks was asked recently about how he felt when people say that he couldn't make Blazzing Saddles now, His response? We couldn't make it then.

[@alebuisq7]

One of the best comedy movies ever made. A Classic.

[@seanwright1749]

History of the world is hysterical Another Mel Brooks classic

[@ewetoobblowzdogg8410]

It seemed like that young man felt guilty about laughing at times.

[@owengilchrist8143]

I just watched Paws of Fury: the legend of Hank. Basically the “G” version of blazing saddles.

[@aladoristcg3769]

The studio was terrified to release this film, They feared it was too offensive and there'd be this huge uproar. Mel Brooks and production team convinced them to do a test showing, people where rolling in the aisles and that was enough to get it released.

[@YT_AKai_]

I couldn’t wait for y’all to see this movie!!!! Love y’all!!!

[@RKnights]

Love you back!!!

[@julienn8844]

❤

[@michaelsullivan4213]

Saw this movie at the theater when it came out. Still watch it today. Way to funny.

[@mikehorrocks2909]

There is some movies that cannot be described only experienced…this is one of them.🤪

[@mildredpierce4506]

I never get tired of reactions to Blazin Saddles

[@HenryCabotHenhouse3]

How did they handle it for TV? They cut so much out that three extra Mongo/Bart scene's were inserted to make up time. Mell knew they were going to do this so they wrote filmed the scenes with the main work. I haven't ever seen them as DVD extras but one was a "Draw against Bart" arcade machine were the chest dropped open to reveal a cannon and one was a "Dive for lost gold" carney attraction in the town well with an old brass helmet diving rig and Bart stopped pumping air saying "Break Time". I don''t remember the third but it was equally Bugs Bunny vs. Yosemite Sam-ish. Also, they left out the sound effects for the bean scene. It was just a silent ballet. During the first screening for studio execs no one got it. Mel had to arrange a quick second screening for studio employees, who laughed uproariously, before the execs agreed to take a chance on a release. They did want cuts but Mel had final cut rights and only ever cut one joke, when Lilly says "It's twue, it's twue, it's twue ..." Bart replied "I hat to tell you, ma'am, but you're sucking on my arm."

[@johnhudson8950]

Harvey Corman is absolutely hilarious

[@mikebunner3498]

Over all the young guys did well. Bravo you two!

[@bensweiss]

Mel Brooks cut one joke from Blazing Saddles: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2mafWikead8epY The genre is satire and this was a truer and better western for that day. Also the executioner was in When Things Were Rotten and in Robin Hood Men In Tights. There are alot of layers to the film references. E.G. Jesse Owens who is referenced when the two escape the sign in, won 4 medals at the Berlin (Nazi) Olympics (after agonizing over whether to participate) in 1936, embarrassed Hitler, and challenged his Aryan supremist claims in those Olympics. Brooks hated Nazi's and often took shots at them (notice the Nazi's in line and Hitler actor in the cafeteria). So Brooks got a double reference when referring to Mr. Owens a speedy reference calling on national and racial pride and a subtle anti-Nazi/anti-racism refence/jab. The men with Mrs. Kahn were Prussians. Point being there are many jokes with references and layers to them including Mr.s Kahn's character and the Hedy joke. And after 40 years, I just (4 weeks ago caught) a Laurel and Hardy joke. Funny reactions, thanks for watching.

[@calvinmichael359]

Gen z can say want he wants but he loved this movie. If more gen z would just see the humor in things life would be so must simple

[@pegasusactua2985]

I have never understood the people who think this couldn't be made today. Jojo Rabbit came out just three years ago and not only was nobody offended it won Oscars.

[@neintales1224]

One of my favorite movies and satires, I've loved it since I was a kid. I also love High Anxiety and Young Frankenstein by Mel Brooks deeply, though you need to know a little about Hitchcock films and the old Frankenstein black and white movies to get some of those.

[@InsidetheBoothTV]

lol.. love watching you all laughing so much.. this is one of my fav. movies

[@sue08401]

We went to see the Sting movie, but the line was long so as long as we were there, we decided to take a chance and go see Blazing Saddles -- Nobody knew anything about the movie, and it was the only time I ever saw people (including me) actually were falling in the aisles.

[@bwilliams463]

When I watched this on broadcast TV in the early 1980s, they silenced the farts but let the n-word fly. Have you done 'Young Frankenstein' yet? For me, that film or 'Blazing Saddles' is the greatest American comedy of all time.

[@pjftoo7588]

Great Blazing Saddles reaction. Can you imagine such a movie being made today? Never happen. For more 70's absurdist comedies Monty Python and The Holy Grail might be worthwhile. British humour though. Another good, oft skipped 80's comedy is Real Genius (1986) When Val Kilmer was young healthy and funny. In the vintage Sci-Fi genre you guys might consider reacting to the original 1968 Planet Of The Apes, if some of you haven't seen it. Still the best version IMO and way smarter and thoughtful than you would expect.

[@bp-ob8ic]

IIRC, Wilder did this movie as a trade-off for Brooks to do his story, which resulted in Young Frankenstein. Frankie Laine did not know it was a comedy when he sang the opening song, and got the job by answering an ad for a "Frankie Laine" type singer. Alex Karras (Mongo) is in both the College and Pro Football Halls of Fame. He also played George in the sitcom Webster. Legend has it that John Wayne was offered the Gene Wilder role, but thought the script made too much fun of the persona he had lived throughout his career.

[@nolanturner5607]

While it's probably on Patreon, you didn't do my favorite scene here. Just after Bart 'hostages' himself into the sheriff's office, he finds Jim (Wilder) passed out drunk in 1 of the cells. Jim rolls over and is stuck upside down hanging from the top bunk. Bart looks at him through the cell door B "Are we awake?" J "We're not sure. Are we... black?" B "Yes we are." J "Then we are awake... but we are very puzzled."

[@julienn8844]

Definitely on patreon.

[@fan-i-am]

After this, now u simply MUST introduce these boys to History Of The World Part 1. It will be quite educational!

[@donpietruk1517]

For the uneducated in comedy they get a glimpse of why Sid Cesar was a legend as a performer. Mel got his big break as a writer on his Your Show of Shows.

[@emmapeelfan]

Yiddish Chief: Blacks/n-s! No, no, you make me crazy. *yells* LET THEM GO! Cop a walk...it's alright Go in good health! Have you ever seen anything like that? They darker than us! *translation courtesy my Yiddish grandma.

[@kirkdarling4120]

Thanks for the translation. After all these years, it's good to know what he said.

[@RKnights]

I grew up in Brooklyn NY some of my friends are Jewish. They translated to me years back that's why I still laugh at that scene. So funny!

[@Towerbrian23]

This is REAL comedy

[@chrisg9196]

🎯 👁 *Comedian RICHARD PRYOR was asked to play the new sheriff but he did write, with Mel Brooks and others, the script for Blazing Saddles.* Here's an excerpt from Mel Brooks' interview on the subject: article *"Mel Brooks Credits Gene Wilder And Richard Pryor For Making ‘Blazing Saddles’ The Funniest Ever"* by Andrew Roberts, Sep.16 2016 *Mel Brooks:* "So I called up a friend of mine, this guy who was a brilliant writer and the best stand-up comic of all time: Richard Pryor. *I said, “Richard, read this, tell me what you think.” He read it and said, “Yeah, this is good … this is real. I like this.” I asked, “Right, but what about the N word? We can’t say this so many times …” “Well, Mel, you can’t say it. But the bad guys can say it. They would say it!” Then I asked him to come write it with us, and he said sure. That was how it started."* *Q:* Pryor was supposed to play the Cleavon Little part, right? *Mel Brooks:* "Right. I almost quit the movie because the studio was scared of casting him. He was the original Black Bart. But Richard said, “Mel, don’t quit - I still have two more payments coming to me from the Screenwriters’ Guild, let’s make the movie. I have to get paid. We’ll find a good Black Bart, let’s just do this.” We saw about 20 different people before we saw Cleavon. The minute he read for us, Richard and I just said, “This is the guy.” He was so laid-back and took his time with the jokes."

[@mikebunner3498]

Are you two younger guys ready?? Mel had no filter. Mel and Richard Pryor wrote this and it is brutal. And we loved it! Get ready for Gabby's speech. Keep in mind all of these people are named Johnson - inbreeding??? The Indian chief and yiddish? Alex a retired NFL lineman. Can you imagine how large he was in his younger days? The Irish were treated like shit at one time in this country. Go get a shit load of dimes. The ending proved that no group was safe from their sharp wit. I hoped you liked it! Mel Brooks at his best.....No words! Mel was the GOAT. He also did "Get Smart" An old TV spoof of secret agents. FUNNY!!!!!!

[@meta4zs]

Haha one of the most memorable movies of my childhood.

[@d.wayneharbison8691]

Describe this movie: One of the funniest movies ever made.

[@lucimitchell7273]

Fun fact! Richard Pryor wrote all of mongo’s lines

[@davidclarke7122]

Raunchy comedy from the Sixties, Barbarella with Jane FONDA

[@jalsr.speak2379]

you have to give anybody under 40 a history lesson and context for this movie for them to appreciate it

[@michaelschmitt3015]

History of the World part 1 needs to be done too guys

[@clintoncarver1926]

Just subscribed to the channel, really enjoyed you guys. Mel Brooks made movies that spoofed a genre. This obviously made fun of westerns while Young Frankenstein spoofed horror and so on. He specialized in the absurd, the shocking and silly.

[@mackloyd687]

This is when humor was humor. When the hell did people get so distant from our humor?!

[@jonesey251]

No more dangerous place in the old west than the second floor of a saloon

[@PitfallHarry72]

It's interesting, though not unexpected, that younger generations miss some of the gags. "...wide, wide world of sports", "...laurel, and hardy handshake", "Hedley Lamarr", "Is Bismarck a herring?", etc.

[@Yusuf_Sc]

You guys gotta watch naked gun 😂 you’ll love it

[@neilusdin2389]

So... When are you going to introduce them to the majesty of History of the World Part 1? Pretty sure we'd ALL LOVE to see your young friends reaction to THAT.

[@fuzar]

If you think that was raunchy then you need to see the John Waters film, “Pink Flamingos,” from the late 60s.

[@jerbar10]

If you love Mel Brooks and his comedian friends, you all should react to History of the World part 1. They are making a part 2 series that will be out in 2023!!!!!

[@Caroline_Tyler]

I remember watching this in the cinema late teens. It was completely uncensored and I creased up - such a riot - I love how Mel Brooks just stuck it to the racist bigots.

[@mercenarygrip]

Greatest film ever made.

[@PegasusBYU]

Back in 1974, there was no censoring the racial language - because everyone was saying those things. Nobody cared. If someone got offended, they were told they were ridiculously over sensitive and told to lighten up.

[@kenhoyer8601]

Funniest movie ever made. It's a comment on prejudice . A parody on the Movie - Destry Rides again.

[@dianadonnell]

Mel Brooks world history.

[@mattslupek7988]

“Hey, where the white women at?” Far and away the best line in the movie!!

[@PatrickMJr]

If you get on Paramount+ they have a movie called Paws of Fury, with Mel Brooks as the Shogun, it's basically a Blazing Saddles for kids, with white people being the cats and black people are the dogs.

[@iammelon7803]

Only way to describe that movie is, the funniest movie in existence!

[@frankfedison5203]

Neat fact - the majority of the movie was written by Richard Pryor and Paul Mooney.

[@giuseppemonaco9362]

Y'all need to see History of the World Part 1!

[@cathyhensley3349]

Richard Pryor and Mel Brooks both wrote the movie. Pryor was suppose to play the sheriff. He had to bow out of it. Clevon Little did a great job

[@kenhoyer8601]

finally, these guys get it.

[@rgrif777]

I watched this in a theater back in 1974. The next movie I saw in a theater was Star Wars in 1977. You should watch the two Hot Shot movies with Charlie Sheen. There was also an Airplane II. The three Naked Gun movies are hilarious.

[@sarahfullerton6894]

You would like "Young Frankenstein" and "High Anxiety"!

[@gmaqwert]

It’s not a movie but you should watch All in the family

[@trekkiejunk]

Oh yes. The best satire ever on television. It will shock them when they hear the language in the pilot, but if they understand it’s satire (and what satire means), they should find it hilarious.

[@robertkaplan3324]

Well young Frankenstein is a must man