BLAZING SADDLES Movie Reaction! | First Time Watch | Mel Brooks | Cleavon Little | Gene Wilder

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  • @Crikeys57
    @Crikeys57 Год назад +305

    Every Blazing Saddles reaction I watch, the ‘Laurel and Hearty (Hardy) hand shake’ joke goes over their heads.

    • @funsalmon
      @funsalmon Год назад +26

      breaks my heart every time. It's the best joke in the movie

    • @jamesalexander5623
      @jamesalexander5623 Год назад +19

      That's purely an Age thing!

    • @vorlon1
      @vorlon1 Год назад +39

      Another one that people miss most of the time is the reference to Randolf Scott.

    • @ronweber1402
      @ronweber1402 Год назад +24

      Not a whole lot of people under 40 even know who Laurel and Hardy are. I'm 60 and I had no idea who Randolph Scott was until I finally read or saw it somewhere.

    • @vegasbeersales
      @vegasbeersales Год назад +31

      They also miss Wild Wild World of Sports

  • @Daehawk
    @Daehawk Год назад +101

    Gene just tossed that "Ya know, morons" in on his own. Cleavons laugh is real.
    That director was Dom Deluise.
    Richard Pryor was supposed to play the sheriff but the studio refused due to his drug use. But Mel hired him anyways as a script writer / editor or something. Richard wrote all the white lines and Mel the black. Pryor is the one who insisted they used the N word so much. Mel asked him about it and he insisted it worked. Least thats wheat Ive read.

    • @glennwisniewski9536
      @glennwisniewski9536 Год назад +6

      Dom Deluise plays Buddy Bizarre, a take off on legendary film director and musical choreographer Busby Berkeley.

  • @clash5j
    @clash5j Год назад +110

    Mel Brooks wrote this with Richard Pryor. Mel Brooks later said that many of the jokes that people assumed were written by Pryor were actually written by him and vice versa
    Pryor was supposed to have the role of Sherriff, but the studio felt he was too much trouble. You'd think that Cleavon Little would have shot to fame after this performance, but it never really happened for him. There is a video on RUclips where he discusses his work on Blazing Saddles and the reasons why he feels he was never offered starring roles later on

    • @RicoRaynn
      @RicoRaynn Год назад +13

      That always surprised me as well. Little was so charismatic and wonderful in this role. Was always a shock he ended up doing mostly tv and bit parts. He was still stellar in everything (Broadway and Dear John are especially amazing), but I expected him to do more for the silver screen after seeing this.

    • @NealMarchuk
      @NealMarchuk Год назад +4

      @@RicoRaynn I remember that he had a pretty fun role in "Fletch Lives", for whatever that's worth.

    • @oliverbrownlow5615
      @oliverbrownlow5615 Год назад +3

      When he was cast in *Blazing Saddles,* Cleavon Little had already played a starring role on Broadway, in the musical *Purlie.*

    • @stevenmonte7397
      @stevenmonte7397 Год назад +1

      The two I always assumed was Pryor was "excuse me while I whip this out?" "They said you was hung!!! ...They were right!"

    • @Gravydog316
      @Gravydog316 2 дня назад

      @@stevenmonte7397 Pryor wrote Mongo's "Mongo only pan in game of life" line & most of the Mongo bits
      (but, when they were writing in LA,
      Pryor phoned... he was in Detroit doing cocaine with a random woman so...)

  • @Ephemerally_me
    @Ephemerally_me Год назад +90

    You should watch “Young Frankenstein” Gene Wilder is superb in it.

  • @TheNeonRabbit
    @TheNeonRabbit Год назад +62

    If you haven't done "Young Frankenstein" yet I'd definitely recommend it. In a weird way it's sort of a companion piece to Blazing saddles. It is to the old monster movies what Blazing saddles is to Westerns. Both movies were released in the same year. It's my personal favorite Mel Brooks movie.

  • @jamescronan7220
    @jamescronan7220 Год назад +8

    The Lily von Shtupp character is Mel Brook's homage to Marlene Dietrich's role in the Jimmy Stewart movie "Destry Rides Again" (1939)

  • @AndrewCheshire
    @AndrewCheshire Год назад +67

    Just the enthusiasm with which he says, "Hey, where the white women at?" I've seen this movie over ten times and I die laughing at that every time. 🤣

    • @NealMarchuk
      @NealMarchuk Год назад +11

      That is a good line.
      My personal favourite is, "Baby, you are sooooo talented. And they are sooooo DUMB."

  • @williambanks2223
    @williambanks2223 Год назад +12

    This movie is so iconic because it's self aware that it's a movie. The scene at the end when Jim is holding the popcorn he was eating in the theater.

  • @frijolero6048
    @frijolero6048 Год назад +37

    I feel like this movie deserves an annotated version. A lot of the references are important for popular culture and film history, like Cecil B. Demille, Randolf Scott, and Jessie Owens. So I think it would be fun to watch an annotated version because it shows how smart these jokes actually were. Especially for film buffs and people who love popular culture.

    • @2ndTim3_1-6
      @2ndTim3_1-6 11 месяцев назад

      Yes, those references younger people probably wont get

    • @wiggion
      @wiggion 6 месяцев назад

      saw it at age 18, was already a tv/movie nut, did not know a thing about the movie. So got the Gabby Hayes jokes, knew of Alex Karras from football, even got the Randolph Scott jokes and Marlene Dietrich take off. A Laurel and Hardy handshake... For 1974, the times were weird, Vietnam and Nixon and Watergate... Still funniest movie I've ever scene

  • @penfold7455
    @penfold7455 Год назад +51

    That initial Lily von Shtupp "it's twue, it's twue!" scene originally had one more line at the end. After she says "it's twue!" , there was going to be a brief pause, and then you'd hear Bart say "I hate to disappoint you, ma'am, but you're actually sucking on my arm."

    • @CaptainFrost32
      @CaptainFrost32 Год назад +1

      not arm... "That's my elbow!"

    • @ellygoffin4200
      @ellygoffin4200 Год назад

      Do not remember that one

    • @penfold7455
      @penfold7455 Год назад

      @@CaptainFrost32 REally? Hmm...somehow I thought it was always arm.

    • @thomastucker6506
      @thomastucker6506 Год назад

      I think I remember that

    • @muddeer5383
      @muddeer5383 9 месяцев назад

      The line was never filmed. Didn't get pass the censors.

  • @tomchris60
    @tomchris60 Год назад +11

    You can tell "it's an older movie" because it's FUNNY!

    • @Gravydog316
      @Gravydog316 2 дня назад

      & because it's a movie
      they don't make those anymore
      Serpico was on TV like a month ago
      & it was great

  • @7woundsfist
    @7woundsfist Год назад +20

    You've NEVER seen Blazzin' Saddles? I've loved this movie since I was a little kid. Mel Brooks is comedy royalty.

  • @jasoneaster6979
    @jasoneaster6979 Год назад +20

    Two greatest cinematic endings ever are blazing saddles and Monty python and the holy grail

  • @michaelplano6941
    @michaelplano6941 Год назад +58

    Silver Streak with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor (One of the writers on Blazing Saddles) is a great action/mystery film with comedy thrown in.

    • @3364dean
      @3364dean Год назад +9

      Dont forget Stir Crazy with Pryor and Wilder. that is a classic.

  • @RedCedar
    @RedCedar Год назад +16

    The horses were trained to do the stunts and the fart scene were people off screen were doing the sounds - a funny movie.👍

  • @Pokyhawk
    @Pokyhawk Год назад +19

    The brilliance of Mel Brooks is in his ability to take the extremely taboo, put it right in your face, and make you see how stupid and childish it is while making you laugh at people who do it.
    Also, Cleavon Little only has some 60 credits (including television) because we lost him way to soon at the age of 53 to cancer.
    And on a more personal note: I've watched this movie hundreds of time since I first saw it in the theater (yes, I am older than dirt 👴🏻) so @ 18:30 I started to laugh when you started to take a drink. Boy did I see that coming 🤣🤣🤣.

    • @RichFrye
      @RichFrye 10 месяцев назад +1

      didn't he have a short lived sitcom where he was a barber? that show was a typical late seventies network crapfest but I always liked him

    • @Pokyhawk
      @Pokyhawk 10 месяцев назад

      @@RichFrye The only TV series he did that I'm aware of (aside from one-off guest appearances) would be "The New Temperatures Rising Show" (1972-1974) and "Bagdad Cafe" (1990-1991).
      There was a comedy called "That's My Mama" (1974-1975) that starred Clifton Davis as a barber in Washington D.C.. Clifton and Cleavon are both outstanding actors and do have very similar appearances, so I could understand the confusion if that's the show you're thinking of.

  • @torontomame
    @torontomame Год назад +7

    One of my favourite throwaway lines in the movie is the actor in the studio commissary, dressed as Hitler, saying "They lose me after the bunker scene."

    • @Gravydog316
      @Gravydog316 2 дня назад

      there was a comedy writer on a podcast saying that he ran into the Hitler actor,
      & he was so excited that he recognized him & met him

  • @3364dean
    @3364dean Год назад +24

    2 other classics of Mel Brooks from back in the day that are great, Young Frankinstien and History of the World Part 1. and that one is so relievent now a days because a few weeks ago they announced after 40 years they are finally making History of the World Part 2 that will be done on Hulu in mulitple episodes instead of 1 movie. each episode will feature a different point in history with various comic sketches.

    • @desmoove
      @desmoove Год назад

      The preview looks like Mel Brooks' version of "Drunk History"

  • @nathanmills5311
    @nathanmills5311 Год назад +27

    Fun fact: The scene where Bart is staring into the camera while Jim tries to cheer him up after the "up yours n*****", Gene was improving a lot of it, and when he called the townsfolk morons, Cleavon just couldn't help cracking up. His reaction was real! 😂

    • @USCFlash
      @USCFlash Год назад +1

      Who the hell is Trevon?

    • @nathanmills5311
      @nathanmills5311 Год назад

      @@USCFlash Sorry, autocorrect, meant Cleavon Little, guy that played Bart

    • @Gravydog316
      @Gravydog316 2 дня назад

      when this was on TV one Satuday morning (A&E of all channels!), they kept all the swears in, but of course muted the farting scene
      but: instead of "up yours, n___", the old lady says "Outta my way, n___"
      which made NO sense to me... they changed the line because "up yours" wasn't allowed, but the n-word is?!
      & i know there is a longer TV edit, so maybe that it was i was watching,
      i don't remember

  • @chriztianrox
    @chriztianrox Год назад +6

    Great reaction! You MUST go down a Gene Wilder rabbit hole. Young Frankenstein, Stir Crazy, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Woman In Red, Silver Streak.....

  • @gmunden1
    @gmunden1 Год назад +6

    Cleavon Little starred in several TV shows including "Temperatures Rising" an films until his death in 1992.
    There were references to the western film genre that you may have missed, such as the townspeople 's reverence for Randolph Scott. Scott was the symbol for good in every western film he was in. The other jokes were made about the western film "Destry Rides Again " starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich (the character Lily Von Shtupp was based on Dietrich 's character).

  • @antoineporche-rideaux4841
    @antoineporche-rideaux4841 Год назад +13

    The actor who played mongo was on a show from the 80's called Webster where he play the former football player who along with his wife where made God parents by 1 of his former teammates who was black and him and his wife became Webster's foster parents after Webster's parents died . He also played in the NFL with the Detroit lions and was inducted into the pro football Hall of Fame 2 years ago post death

    • @kathyastrom1315
      @kathyastrom1315 Год назад +1

      Alex Karras was also terrific in a film called Victor/Victoria, starring Julie Andrews and James Garner, one of my favorite movie musicals post-Classic Hollywood era.

    • @Lugnut64052
      @Lugnut64052 Год назад +4

      Alex Karras. His line about being a pawn in the game of life is hilarious because he was quite intelligent and articulate.

  • @sonicboomkj
    @sonicboomkj Год назад +11

    Can't believe someone convinced Jaby to watch this movie. Let me get my popcorn 😁🍿🍿

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 Год назад +38

    One of the funniest western comedy films ever made! Though the jokes in this movie would never work today, it's still very fun. Mel Brooks said in an interview 11 years after Blazing Saddles, he actually regrets making the film, saying that most people were offended by the jokes, while others found it hilarious.

    • @truenme
      @truenme Год назад +7

      Wouldnt say it was that divisive, not like they portray the racist characters as heroes. The "have you ever seen such cruelty" scene with the old lady is ironic comedy in itself

    • @cthulhucollector
      @cthulhucollector Год назад +16

      People always say that but I don't think that true. Anyone who would be offended by it is exactly who it is mocking.

    • @ChicagoDB
      @ChicagoDB Год назад +5

      This and “Support Your Local Sheriff” are my two faves

    • @dr.burtgummerfan439
      @dr.burtgummerfan439 Год назад +1

      Another funny western spoof that is doomed to languish in the shadow of Blazing Saddles is Rustler's Rhapsody, with Tom Beringer. Funny movie in its own right.

    • @TheOtherOne111
      @TheOtherOne111 Год назад +13

      Mel Brooks did not say he regretted making Blazing Saddles.

  • @lazerx1828
    @lazerx1828 Год назад +7

    Steph has seen the film already, 1000% guaranteed. Also, the person saying "Get your pies for the great pie fight!" is not the director from earlier, two different actors. The director is played by Dom Deluise, a well known comedic actor.

  • @Dilligff
    @Dilligff Год назад +8

    The gag with the toll booth was so effective Disney reused it in Kenobi.

  • @ganjamcninja
    @ganjamcninja Год назад +5

    Steph 100% NOT feeling it while Jabby Joker laughs at the beginning was such a delight 🤣

  • @paulwagner688
    @paulwagner688 Год назад +4

    A couple things. First, Mel Brooks went to Richard Pryor and asked about the use of n--. Pryor said to use it as much as possible, cause that's what it was like back then. Second, Lyle--Taggart's assistant--was so shook at having to say n-- that he almost had a breakdown. The Black cast members gathered him in a group embrace and told him that they KNEW he didn't mean it. Because they ALL were play acting. That moment of love and understanding is one of the most touching movie moments.

  • @inhumanmusic1411
    @inhumanmusic1411 Год назад +6

    I'm so glad that someone got the Cecil B DeMille joke. A lot of reactors don't understand that one.

  • @iKvetch558
    @iKvetch558 Год назад +18

    LOL...this is always a fun one to see folks react to for the first time...I hope CinePals really enjoys the humor in this. 🤞💯✌

  • @RexFuturi
    @RexFuturi Год назад +4

    For Gene Wilder, I'd recommend "See No Evil, Hear No Evil" and "Young Frankenstein", the latter of which was done with Mel Brooks.

  • @alonzocoyethea6148
    @alonzocoyethea6148 Год назад +3

    15:54-"Methodists?" Well, at least the man's an Equal Opportunity Employer...Even let the Arabs hire on for the raid!! Harvey Korman played this evil bad-guy role for years on the T.V series, "The Carol Burnett Show", and was just as funny on those skits. Clevon Little preferred stage acting to movies, died young at 54, his last role was the sarcastic butler to Lauren Hutton's vampire in the comedy "Once Bitten" 1987.. She's after a young Jim Carey for her next vampire-boyfreind, a pretty good movie.

  • @TheseDarkWoods
    @TheseDarkWoods Год назад +5

    Definitely check out the other Mel Brooks masterpiece from 1974 - Young Frankenstein.
    Gene Wilder’s performance is Oscar-worthy.
    As for Cleavon Little, I only know of the Chevy Chase film Fletch Lives, which is also great.

  • @ck_idgaf1680
    @ck_idgaf1680 Год назад +31

    Yes, Steph said something that most reactors who have been watching this have not pointed out, besides the message of racism is silly, Lily represents how a woman can do the bare minimum and most men are easily amused and infatuated by them, she literally falls asleep on stage, it's hilarious.

    • @Lugnut64052
      @Lugnut64052 Год назад +8

      That was Madeline Khan doing an absolutely brilliant parody of roles Marlene Dietrich played in a couple of old westerns; the world weary dance hall girl.

    • @ParkerAllen2
      @ParkerAllen2 Год назад +2

      @@Lugnut64052 You're the first person I've ever read that picked up on the Marlene Dietrich parody going on in that scene. The movie they're referencing is Destry Rides Again - a very good movie in it's own right.

    • @SM-BSW
      @SM-BSW Год назад +2

      It's also a parody of Marlene Dietrich's "Laziest Woman in Town"
      ruclips.net/video/Sr0xRNo6Xaw/видео.html

  • @Vipre-
    @Vipre- Год назад +10

    I'm impressed you both really got the point, seen many miss the message completely.

  • @tinaburgess7166
    @tinaburgess7166 Год назад +4

    Madeline Kahn doing a send up of Marlene Dietrich, perfection.

  • @matthewdunham1689
    @matthewdunham1689 Год назад +5

    The greatest comedy ever. Period

  • @penfold7455
    @penfold7455 Год назад +4

    Jaby, you two now need to react to "Young Frankenstein" if you both haven't seen it yet. If you thought Gene Wilder was great in this, he's amazing in "Young Frankenstein".

  • @Rich_Wallwork
    @Rich_Wallwork Год назад +2

    This is my favourite reaction video you have made so far. Glad you enjoyed it. I used to watch this film a lot in the late 80’s and 90’s. I’m glad that younger generation can also enjoy this movie!

  • @glennwisniewski9536
    @glennwisniewski9536 Год назад +2

    One of the most obscure references is to Dr. Leonard Gillespie, a wheelchair-bound character played by Lionel Barrymore (It's a Wonderful Life) in the popular Dr. Kildare series of films from the 1930s and 40s. (Dr. Gillespie would later get his own film series in the mid-1940s). The joke in BS is that the executioner is preparing to hang a man in a wheelchair and Hedley comments, "Yes, the Dr. Gillespie killings." Hedley clearly is implying that Dr. Gillespie here has committed some kind of capital crime prompting his hanging, wheelchair and all.

  • @Thunderer0872
    @Thunderer0872 Год назад +4

    The great Dom DeLuise was the director "Watch me Fa**ots!". the chef was a different guy handing out pies. "Well that's the end of this suit!" "Where are the white women at?"

  • @larryharbison2466
    @larryharbison2466 Год назад +2

    Most people don't realize Mongo is played by former Detroit Lions defensive tackle Alex Karras--- a four time All-Pro.

  • @Uncle_T
    @Uncle_T Год назад +10

    "You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.!" One of the best lines in cinema history. 😁😁

    • @jordanpeterson5140
      @jordanpeterson5140 Год назад +2

      I work at a grain elevator and find myself thinking this line at least twice a month.

    • @MGower4465
      @MGower4465 Год назад +3

      And an improv by Wilder.

    • @Uncle_T
      @Uncle_T Год назад

      @@jordanpeterson5140 🤣

  • @phillipoutzen3234
    @phillipoutzen3234 Год назад +1

    I like how the Waco Kid still had the movie theater popcorn at the end.

  • @Jordashian93
    @Jordashian93 Год назад +20

    Love his movie! Long live Mel Brooks.

  • @theshakyproject2971
    @theshakyproject2971 Год назад +6

    Super fun reaction to a great movie! I think Clue (1985) would be a laugh riot for this pair.

  • @rnkelly36
    @rnkelly36 Год назад +2

    Mel Brooks set the standard. There are some modern TV shows I watch reviewers an fans complain about being either too political or forcing a message and most of the young people don't realize it's been done since films were being made. Brooks had great writers. Richard Pryor had a part in the creative part of this movie. The world has changed but good creators are still doing what Brooks started.

    • @aaronbredon2948
      @aaronbredon2948 Год назад

      I agree it does go back to the very start of movie making - Charlie Chaplin was doing political comedy in the silent movie days (The Great Dictator for one), and he probably wasn't the first.

  • @seanwright1749
    @seanwright1749 Год назад +5

    The scene when Jim was trying cheer up Bart was unscripted and that laugh was genuine when Jim called them morons

  • @bradjbourgeois73
    @bradjbourgeois73 Год назад +1

    Cleavon Little was in an episode of All in the Family with Sanford and Son's Demond Wilson called Edith Writes a Song! Hilarious!

  • @danielbaez97
    @danielbaez97 Год назад +12

    I remember my stepdad showing this movie to me when I was little and our favorite part was all the guys farting around the campfire lol

    • @Dilligff
      @Dilligff Год назад +3

      Oddly enough, Blazing Saddles counts as the first time audible fart humor was used in film.

    • @tranatkikomi6873
      @tranatkikomi6873 Год назад

      Same when my dad and I watched it.
      I've only ever shown the campfire scene to my niece and nephew (WAY too young for this movie!!) and they cracked up right at the first burp. The fart that followed had them rolling with laughter! Literally. (They actually roll with laughter if something is funny enough.)

  • @matthewkirkey2716
    @matthewkirkey2716 Год назад +1

    Mel Brooks co wrote with Richard Pryor on Blazing Saddles. John Wayne turned down the Taggert role specifically written for him to play. He felt there were expectations for him as an actor and he couldn't do the role. He did say he said it was the funniest script he's ever read. The director's commentary available on the DVD was very informative in the macking if and funny in it's own. The producers didn't know Mel had " final cut" in his contract and were very dismayed even at the time about the movie. 😂 No backsies.

  • @juanaboynkin1196
    @juanaboynkin1196 Год назад +1

    Mongo Santa Maria was a Cuban jazz drummer. Mel Brooks was a drummer and he threw in Mongo's name as a tribute.

  • @lukefish4875
    @lukefish4875 Год назад +1

    Cleavon Little has a part in the movie Once Bitten starring Jim Carry.

  • @MykFroopy88
    @MykFroopy88 Год назад +1

    25:02. He has the popcorn from the movie theater he was watching this scene in. 🤯

  • @CaptainFrost32
    @CaptainFrost32 Год назад

    I had a week where I watched a reaction to Blazing Saddles and caught an episode of The Waltons where Cleavon Little came to Walton Mountain as a worker and training for a boxing title to build a church.
    A few months later in the holiday season, I caught the movie fhat served as the inspiration of the Waltons tv show. Cleavon Little led a congregation and tried to help John Boy to find his dad in a winter storm.

  • @JustCallMeMeghan
    @JustCallMeMeghan Год назад

    This was one of my mom's favorite films, and she made me love it too. It makes fun of racism so well. Mel Brooks was/is the best parody/comedic director/writer/actor for the past 100 years.

  • @rickwoodham4570
    @rickwoodham4570 Год назад +1

    I read that Mel Brooks originally wanted this movie set in modern times of the 70s, but the studio said no. So he turned it into a western. He then destroyed the 4th wall bringing it into modern day anyway.
    Also when asked in an interview if he could Mahe this movie today, he replied "we couldn't make it back then, but we did anyway. "

  • @SonyaDelmare
    @SonyaDelmare Месяц назад

    I love the contrast in this particular reaction. The guy is laughing his ass off and the lady is clearly just absorbing the deeper themes in shocked disbelief. This movie has something for everyone.

  • @ronbarnes687
    @ronbarnes687 9 месяцев назад

    Mel Bookes created something that would blow your mind for thrity sears this movie continues to get the same reaction from people that show how much they treasure this movie.

  • @maestro80smusic93
    @maestro80smusic93 Год назад

    The character Lyle (The cowboy with the red shirt / black vest) was the Colt Peacemaker salesman in Back to the Future III...

  • @c-j-p
    @c-j-p Год назад +3

    The kids today should watch this to see what racism really is all about. It will undo all of that CRT stuff they're being spoon-fed.

  • @davidr1050
    @davidr1050 Год назад +1

    29:08 -- Actually, that accent was improvised and Gene Wilder really did spit out his drink.. Just like earlier, Gene improvised "Morons" and made Cleavon laugh...

  • @shallendor
    @shallendor Год назад

    Mel Brooks has never made a bad movie!
    Mel Brooks films are to movies as Weird Al songs are to hit songs!
    Mel Brooks admits that they couldn't make this film in 1974!
    The Morons line was improvised and the laugh was genuine!
    Gene Wilder has been in so many great movies, Stir Crazy is such a great movie with Richard Pryor!
    High Anxiety is my favorite Mel Brooks movie!

  • @daryl772003
    @daryl772003 Год назад +3

    The director who got Punched is played by dom deluise. He's not the pie fight chef

  • @idiosyncratichandle
    @idiosyncratichandle Год назад +1

    I watch Young Frankenstein every time October comes around... love that movie.

  • @williamjones6031
    @williamjones6031 Год назад

    1. Mel Brooks played the Governor, the Indian Chief and one of the thug roundup.
    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 Kahn also had a smallish role 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. The guy that was supposed to play Jim 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.
    7. 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.
    8. Jim still has his popcorn from the theater.
    Movie suggestion "Young Frankenstein" with Gene Wilder

  • @randykellogg8734
    @randykellogg8734 Год назад

    Clevon Little played a Blind DJ in "VANISHING POINT" (ONE OF MY FAVORITE CAR MOVIES)

  • @gmunden1
    @gmunden1 Год назад

    Slim Pickens is a traditional western films actor. Mel Brooks cast the film with many western film actors. Singer Frankie Laine, who sings for many western films was unaware what type of film this was.

  • @antoineporche-rideaux4841
    @antoineporche-rideaux4841 Год назад +2

    Cleavon Little was one of Richard Pryor's best friends and he was more of a stage actor . He and Richard did a movie about the 1st black race car driver to win 1 of the Major races

    • @Otokichi786
      @Otokichi786 Год назад +1

      Yes, and it was a shame that racer Wendell Scott didn't even get a cameo role in "Greased Lightning" (1977).

  • @bensweiss
    @bensweiss Год назад +1

    Robin Hood Men in Tights was Mel's second attempt at Robin Hood. When Things Were Rotten was his first (It is not his best work but worth a watch if you like Mel Brooks).

  • @martinhafner2201
    @martinhafner2201 Год назад +1

    I don't know if you caught it, but the gag about all the Johnson families at the town meeting was to introduce Howard Johnson during the string of "xxxx Johnson is right, ...". Then during the scan through the town we see the "Howard Johnson's Ice Cream - 1 Flavor", which is a joke on the "Howard Johnson's 28 Original Flavors" restaurant chain. They are all closed now, so you may not have known of them.

  • @Jsspres
    @Jsspres Год назад

    The two other Mel Brooks movies with Gene Wilder are The Producers (1967) and Young Frankenstein. Two other Mel Brooks movie with Madeline Kahn and Harvey Korman is High Anxiety and History of the World part 1.

  • @stevenspringer1599
    @stevenspringer1599 Год назад +2

    legend: "you know...morons" was an unexpected ad-lib so the reaction was real.

  • @jamesstrickland517
    @jamesstrickland517 Год назад

    The only other movie I've seen Cleavon Little in was a movie called "vanishing point" where he plays a blind radio personality in a California desert town in the mid-70s.

  • @jeanine6328
    @jeanine6328 Год назад

    They did it right with this. The white guy didn’t come in and save the day for Bart, he was Barts Tonto, Robin or Scrappy Doo. He even beat The Kid at chess. Every plan came from Barts brain. The Kid was his sidekick. I remember being a kid (10ish) in the early 80’s, my dad made sure I watched this movie. Even as a kid I understood the point. I think it should be shown in every middle school, no censorship.

  • @long-timesci-fienthusiast9626
    @long-timesci-fienthusiast9626 Год назад

    The Lili Von Shtupp character was based on the German Hollywood actress & singer Marlene Dietrich. She was most popular during the `30`s & `40`s & appeared in some westerns, in a similar role.

  • @Predjama631
    @Predjama631 Год назад +1

    If someone hasn't already mentioned it, Lily Von Schtup (s slang word for having sex) is a parody of Marlene Dietrich. Find her singing " See what the boys in the back room will have."

  • @christhornycroft3686
    @christhornycroft3686 Год назад +2

    The Producers is terrific too, the 1968 version with Gene Wilder and the 2005 musical is pretty funny too. It's not quite as good, but it's funner IMHO.

  • @johnwatson3948
    @johnwatson3948 Год назад

    Great and intelligent reaction vid - I was 13 when this came out and it was in the theater for several months. Probably saw it 10 times with friends - if we had nothing to do it was always “let’s go see Blazing Saddles again!”.

  • @mciddangelo9790
    @mciddangelo9790 Год назад

    I see so many younger viewers are lost when it comes to the identities of the performers here. Dom Deluise is the director of the musical "You're doing the French Mistake" bit - truly a magnificent performer and comedian; the immortal Madeline Kahn was Lily von Schtupp; Slim Pickens (Dr Strangelove, etc) as Taggert the underboss; Harvey Korman (Carol Burnett Show) as Hedley LeMarr (because the real actress Heddy LaMarr sued Mel Brooks for using her name); Richard Pryor is noted to have written the black jokes and lacing the "N" word throughout; Mongo was played by the pro footballer Alex Karras and is particularly noted to play the Father in the TV show Webster; Mel Brooks as the governor and the Indian Chief.

  • @SammyxSweetheart.02
    @SammyxSweetheart.02 10 месяцев назад +1

    8:21 9:16 9:34 9:45 10:04 10:19

  • @Shadewe
    @Shadewe Год назад

    "Why does he have popcorn?"
    They were watching the end of the movie in the theater. When they move back to the ending. He wanted to still eat his popcorn.

  • @criticallol3039
    @criticallol3039 Год назад +1

    I always appreciated the "They lose me after the bunker" Hitler joke.

  • @ghostlee6434
    @ghostlee6434 Год назад +38

    Steph's reaction to this clearly shows what afraid of saying something controversial get nowadays. Me and my friends watched this and we didn't cringe at the movie they cringe at Steph's reaction. Believe it or not black people loved this movie and majority of us got the meaning of this. I had to stop the reaction because we were so uncomfortable watching her be so 😣 uncomfortable

    • @fritzy123
      @fritzy123 Год назад +6

      Yea, she must be fun to be around....yawn

    • @ObiJuanage
      @ObiJuanage Год назад +4

      totally agree with you. this is a classic movie that is hilarious. Could it be made in todays world? maybe not. But as it stands it's one of the funniest movies ever. Some people have to realize that it's ok to laugh at things that we find uncomfortable. If the humor is done well, we can laugh at about most anything. And this movie is done extremely well.

    • @TallBlondeSassy
      @TallBlondeSassy 9 месяцев назад +3

      I have been trying to tell every person or couple or group that do reviews or reacts to videos on RUclips...
      1 You're in 2024 watching a 1974 movie. Not only did people in the wild west speak like that...they STILL spoke that way in 1974 when the movie was being made!
      2 it was made BEFORE the HUMOUR POLICE came along and started TELLING us what we can and can't laugh at anymore.
      and 3 LAUGHTER is your body's NATURAL RESPONSE! If something is funny...YOU WILL LAUGH! If I'm watching your video while you're watching Blazing Saddles and you don't LOL until you pee your pants, then you have NO BUSINESS REVIEWING IT!
      Mel Brooks was in the entertainment industry at a time when black celebrities still had to walk in through the back door. People like Mel, along with Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, Frank Sinatra, and many other top rated celebrities, had to watch someone like Sammy Davis Jr. be treated like a dog because of the colour of their skin. Several times they, (the "RAT PACK") refuseded to perform if their friend SDJ wasn't allowed to enter the venue through the same door that they used.
      Mel also made one called TO BE OR NOT TO BE where he poked fun at nazis, and HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 1, to poke fun at everybody. Lol.

    • @richardlandrum1966
      @richardlandrum1966 3 месяца назад

      ​@@ObiJuanageI think it could be made today. It would have to be pre-empted by an enormous ad campaign, explaining what satire is....and would still face major backlash, but anything is possible.

  • @Knightmarex5
    @Knightmarex5 Год назад +1

    Lots of suggestions Young Frankenstein, which is great and you should watch it, but I want to toss another recommendation for another great Gene Wilder film, See No Evil, Hear No Evil. Fantastic comedy.

  • @garybassin1651
    @garybassin1651 Год назад

    If you like Gene Wilder. I would recommend The Producers from 1968. One of Wilder's first films and a comedy tour de force. Mel Brooks won an Oscar for best original screenplay for it.

  • @wileecoyote57flh22
    @wileecoyote57flh22 Год назад +1

    Back in the mid 80's, I was invited to a female friends engagement party, I knew only a couple of other friends who were going... it wasn't until I walked in, I realized that I was the only Black guy there so I cracked the line "Where the White women at..?" It did help ease a bit of the initial tension...! 😁😁

  • @daver18qc
    @daver18qc 11 месяцев назад

    -"Joined by Steph SaBRAW"
    -"What up BRAW"
    Always cracks me up 😂

  • @manbirsingh576
    @manbirsingh576 Год назад +1

    Please do more of these mel brooke awesome movies. This was awesome.

  • @Bongolala909
    @Bongolala909 Год назад

    To be clear, I never had a problem with the "what up brah" but now the look jaby gives the camera when he says it is so "I dare you to say something" and it's hilarious

  • @62impalaconvert
    @62impalaconvert Год назад

    6:59 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were a comedy duo from way back when. 12:34 Hedy Lamarr was a famous actress in the 30's and 40's. She was also an inventor.

  • @margretrosenberg420
    @margretrosenberg420 Год назад

    Unfortunately, Cleavon Little died young.
    At this point we've lost most of the actors in this movie. Cleavon Little. Gene Wilder. Madeline Kahn. Harvey Korman. Alex Karras. Slim Pickens. John Hillerman.
    Mel Brooks is still with us, I'm happy to say, as is Burton Gilliam (the actor who played Lyle - wanted them to sing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and "Camptown Racetrack"). Burton Gilliam is 84 years old now, and Mel Brooks is 96.
    None of the actors were comfortable with the racist things they had to say, but they knew it was meant to make a point so they did it. Burton Gilliam apologized to Cleavon Little for it, and Cleavon told him it was okay; he knew it was just a role. If he'd thought Burton meant it, however, they would have had a problem.

  • @APigsEye
    @APigsEye 19 дней назад

    Watch Gene Wilder at his best in "The Producers" (1967). Written and directed by Mel Brooks and also starring the great Zero Mostel. Decades later, Mel Brooks adapted he script to a smash Broadway musical.

  • @alkalinus4325
    @alkalinus4325 Год назад +1

    Gene Wilder is hilarious in Young Frankenstein, my favorite of Mel Brooks' comedies

  • @clojap
    @clojap Год назад

    I love that you left the part in where he was trying to get a student discount for the movie, that part is hilarious.

  • @cliffendicott7832
    @cliffendicott7832 Год назад +1

    "Where are the white women at?" is one of the funniest lines in the history of film.

  • @jeffswanson5722
    @jeffswanson5722 7 месяцев назад

    My favorite joke that people don't get now is when Clevon Little rides by Count Basie and his big band in the desert.

  • @chadhoward5976
    @chadhoward5976 Год назад +1

    Mel also re uses A Lot of the actors so you see a lot of familiar faces, and is one of few directors who acts in his films and adds to them. Maddilyn Kann ( totally spelled wrong) is epic, you got honework Jaby! Steph!! Teach him! With Achara.

  • @dutchkreutzer6909
    @dutchkreutzer6909 Год назад +1

    Him: Laughs at all the funny shit.
    Her: Notices him laughing, pretends to get the joke.

  • @chadhoward5976
    @chadhoward5976 Год назад +1

    Holy crap I cant wait to see your reaction!!!! I saw this as an early teen and many times since. Im about to laugh hard with and at yall!!!!! Love you guys!!!