BLAZING SADDLES (1974) Movie Reaction *FIRST TIME WATCHING* | ONE OF THE GREATEST COMEDIES?! 

LOL...what the heck was up with some of those subtitles??? That was some hilarious stuff...the Yiddish word "putz" got turned into "pats"..."candygram for Mongo" got turned into "came the grand final Mongol" ROFLMAO Those had to be auto-generated, yes? 😂😂

Dude check out "History of the World part 1" it's another great comedy movie from Mel Brooks

WB sucks!

I remember what Gene Wilder said the Waco kid and blazing saddles he said the reason he took this roll in this movie is because Mel Brooks did something that'll go down in history he literally punched racism in the face and the nose is bleeding in this movie he basically said racism is stupid in this movie

All Mel Brooks movies are hysterically funny they're all that way this poked fun at the West all the western movies Spaceballs makes fun of all of the science fiction movies Robin Hood Men in tights makes fun of all the Robin Hood movies that come and win history of the world part 1 makes fun of all of the biblical movies

Technically they didn't write it, but Richard did help with one of the revisions

@@wallacedufrene9971 thanks for the clarification

One of the best comedies ever made

This used to play some Sundays on cable... Uncensored.

The only reason he wasn't IN it is because the insurance company refused to cover him, sadly.

This… 100% this !!! Comedy was funny because everyone took a turn on the Barrel, which made us all realize we are all actually the same.

Yes!!!!!

Right on. People are so uptight and sensitive. Mel Brooks mocked the ignorant bigotry of these kinds of people and of stereotypes by pointing them out. He made more Jew jokes than anyone in Media... and he was Jewish. Lol Its super important today, cus nobody seems to know the difference between jokes and hate crimes anymore. They don't undestand that the joke is in the delivery, not the subject matter. Its not about putting anyone down, the subject of the joke is merely the vessel for the absurd or unexpected idea that is the punchline. I have sat around many campfires discussing and debating what humor is and why its funny, especially why offensive and shocking is funny and not at all insulting... unless you take it personally and makenit about yourself, its a just a joke. There has got to be some truth in a joke no matter how absurd or inappropriate, and if it offends you... its because you have an insecurity that you can not look past, not because the person making the joke is being hateful. And you can tell the difference between jokes and insults. For example... Calling a specific race "lazy" outright is very different than a joke that says it in a funny way. Its all about how its said... who its about is just the subject, the set-up for the idea. And most racial jokes are about making fun of racism... not glorifying it. Its about being shocked that it was said out loud, in the way its said. You need a stereotype to make the statement. Its about the stereotype... not the individual. I should have recorded and wrote a book about my friends and my conversations on this issue, cus I have had many revelations and been blown away by how intelligently and objectively we have been able to talk about it. Lol We came to the conclusion that most people offended by blue humor are mad at themselves for finding it funny, ashamed they laughed at something they wanna be outraged about. They wanna be on the high horse, but are rolling on the ground instead, and it pisses them off. 😆 Remember the "you know elf on the shelf..." meme with the little black kid wearing a Piglet shirt... and how people were claiming they were so not racist they didn't even get the joke.... but they still somehow knew to be angry about it? Thats what I am talking about. They laughed, then felt ashamed they laughed, and then got angry. They were mad it was hilarious, and finding it funny, in their mind, knocked them down from their position of self-declared moral superiority. Its not hilarious simply because it made a racial slur... but because of how you had to think about it, go there, and then when you got it... you laughed. The juxtaposition of the ideas and the clever wordlplay is whats funny. Not calling a black kid a mean name. Its not about the kid.

I disagree, I absolutely believe this movie could be made today. But only by Mel Brooks. So he needs to hurry and get working on Space Balls 3!

Part of what happened is the new guard of writers and directors slowly supplanting the old guard... and the passing if many, out of life or into retirement. We need folks like George Carlin, Conan Obrien, Terry Gilliam, Richard Pryor, Harold Ramis, Albert Brooks, the Farelley Bros, ect.

Pews hate Caucasians. Pews ran the transatlantic slave trade but now try to blame it on Caucasians.

In case anybody was wondering, the "native American language" being spoken by Mel Brooks and his warrior braves in Sheriff Bart's childhood story? That was Yiddish.

"We'll give some land to the n****** and the c*****, but we don't want the Irish!" will always crack me up (probably because I'm Irish).

I think they call that "mic drop"

you're lucky. one teacher in my high school flipped his desk over & left.

And for completely different and exactly the same reasons.

He couldn't get the Producers released. It was shelved never to be shown. Then Peter Sellars went to the screening room and asked if there were any good movies. The projectionist said there was one but he wasn't allowed to show it. The next day Peter Sellars took out a national full page ad saying that he had just seen the funniest movie that he had ever seen

He only got away with making it back then because it took comedic jabs at EVERYONE on the planet.

@@lightbriareos yeah. The language was OK, but fart scenes and smoking marijuana were forbidden. And this was actually the very first fart scene in a motion picture.

@@aaronbredon2948 More or less, this film was a slap in the face of Hollywood's hypocrisy of the day, and it still made it big, especially when VHS became huge in the 80s and 90s, and again when the DVD became the next big thing, and still, yet again, when Blu-ray and Streaming came into full service. Blazing Saddles is the reason why Mel Brooks is the biggest head in black hoods, and not to be messed with. He helped bring about some of the first big name Black people into the role of Lead Character, not a side OR support character.

Movie doesn't really portray all groups realistically though. None of the black people in the movie showed any racist tendencies, yet they are some of the groups with most racist tendencies in modern society, right next to asians. Even back then, only white people could be shown as anything but virtuous. When in reality, every race and I'd even go so far as to say any large enough group have their close minded people.

Not quite...the citizens of Rock Ridge were good people...they just didn't know any better...at first.

@@leslauner5062 They were racist dimwits, but then a black man saved their bacon by doing things that aren't even humanly possible so they accepted him. No, they "become" good people through the course of the movie. Marginally.

Real racist are quiet, and hide their racism. The real racist are those who say that you can be racist by saying certain words.

@@TehAmelie I was paraphrasing Mel Brooks, himself. That was his intention regarding the ignorant racism of, what were otherwise, good people.

Alex also played the dad on "Webster"

Alex Karras (1957) and Gene Wilder (1955) are BOTH , University of Iowa graduates !!

One of the best parts of the whole film.

Fun fact Richard Pryor co-wrote this with mel Brooks. Double fun fact Pryor wrote all the hard R parts.

Shows how racists sound

I was the same as as you. Mom took us to see it at a Drive-in. She was laughing hysterically at jokes my sister and I completely missed!

I have watched this movie with my dad countless times, and we both can quote the movie verbatim. Even though my dad and I align significantly different politically, this movie always brings a laugh. And show racists for what they were and are ignorant.

I sat next to my dad in the theatre watching this. I’ll always remember how much he laughed.

I encountered muskeg as a kid (basically if quicksand were mixed with peat/soil) and thought “….shit. The movies were telling the truth.”

I had a summer job in the Northwest Territories near the south shore of Great Slave Lake. I had a large backpack full of electronic equipment (1978 think tubes) doing mining exploration. I walked across what looked like some moss but it covered a quicksand bog. I broke through and sunk up to mid thigh. I took off my forty pound back pack and set it to one side and stopped sinking. Quicksand is sand and has a density much higher than a human body. You won't drown in it. It did take me 1/2 hour to free myself though since I didn't want to lose my boots.

@@chrisvickers7928 Yeah, the real danger of quicksand is getting trapped in it without the ability to extract yourself or get help. People have died of exposure by getting stuck in quicksand.

And those people complaining about it probably don't even realize it was co-written by Richard Pryor lol, him and Mel Brooks were friends.

uhh he clearly didnt get it because he got offended by every line before the punchline to the joke could even be delivered.

This is one of the best anti-racism movies of all time. Plus, it's bloody hilarious, and very quotable.

@@billysmith1797 It was absolutely an anti-racism movie. It was supposed to be offensive, because it was 100% satire, lol!

This is from back in the days of "Show, don't tell" in media. Nowadays, not ONLY to they "Tell", but they TELL you what they are saying, but also WHAT you are SUPPOSED to think (i.e. what "side" you SHOULD be on) AND will generally ACCUSE you of being BAD! Here, you simply "pick up" on the simple, underlying message of "racism is just plain stupid", instead of being TOLD it! (which we all already KNOW) AND not being CALLED racist to boot.

@@billysmith1797 “where the white women at” is often said by my manager and I at work

@Christa Simon only twice? Lol

WHERE ALL THE WHITE WIMEN AT

@@MrTheHillfolk I've seen the movie 100 times and that line still cracks me up🤣

I liked the part where heddly shoots the gum chewer and the sheriff says he's struct.

@@bruceearl9686Ohh, I thought his name was Heddy Lamar😉🤣

There was an actress named Heddy Lamar who sued Brooks for $10,000 over the name heddly. Not a small sum back in the day Never went to court. When Brooks was told she was suing he said pay her, she deserves it.

I never caught the Black Bart reference until Mel mentioned it in a interview. Black Bart was the classic bad guy name in late 40's, early 50's westerns.

Yeah, Brooks did something similar with a certain plain-within-a-play in The Producers. Comedy deployed very effectively.

Well said.

This wasn't just Brooks here, for Blazing Saddles he collaborated heavily with the comedic genius Richard Pryor to write the script.

It's Brook using comedy for one of it's most important purposes: subversion. Racism is stupid, and sometimes the best way to illustrate how stupid it is, is to simply show how STUPID it is and LAUGH at it. Instead of creating speech codes and constantly bemoaning how bad it is or hushing all talk of it lest you offend someone, hold it up in all of its stupidity and simply laugh at it.

"Not with Wrath does one slay, but with laughter." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It's twue!! It's twue!! 🤣🤣

Yes! Great Suggestion

And don't forget who the lead writer with Mel Brooks was....Richard Pryor. It's been said that Pryor and Brooks, and a couple other contributors, sat down and made a list of ever ethnic, religious, and sexual orientation group, and then set about writing a script around making fun of each of them. The movie is absolutely terrific.

@@Mike-In-O-Town And he partnered with Gene Wilder a lot during this time … so that makes sense. I think he should do “Frisco Kid” with Gene Wilder as a Rabbi who becomes besties with a robber/cowboy played by Harrison Ford. I love that movie so much.

It's hard to beat "where the white women at?"

Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" from 1973 was ALSO funny. Funniest scene from THAT movie was when the young Frankenstein was singing "Puttin' on the Ritz", (with Gene Wilder)!

@@davidharrison3711 I LOVE Young Frankenstein! Such a wonderful, hilarious movie.

@@davidharrison3711 ah another great Mel Brooks film! I love Gene Wilder though, and young FRONKENSTEIN (if you get it you get it) definitely had its moments

@@AnimeGoddess65 ...FRONKENSTEIN..." Heh...I see what you did there, (and I get it). Great movie.

@@davidharrison3711 Actually, Young Frankenstein was Gene's baby and he did Blazing Saddles on the promise of Mel helping him do Young Frankenstein

Your dad was awesome.

Your dad weren't exactly wrong.

😂

😂😂😂😂

My parents corrupted me with it... And I corrupted my kids with it. My son's favorite is still Spaceballs.

in his autobiography mel brooks said he wanted Clevon to come in on ... FOREGROUND MUSIC instead of background music. 🤣That's why Basie is in the shot

@@JC-pp6rp Mel Brooks is a legend because of stuff like that and really this entire movie. He knew the easiest way to defeat hate and racism is to make it absolutely hilarious like this and defang the snake

Back then people didn't get there little feelings hurt like the cupcake's now "**Day's*" 😊😀😃😄😄😃😀

@@blairpenny1526 If only people now understood that.

I studied Count Basie a bit in college and I was very excited like your dad was and instantly recognized the music as him

My favorite line is when he says "Are we awake?" "Idk, are we black?" "Yes, yes we are." "Then we're awake, but we're VERY confused!" Shit always has me dying laughing! This movie never gets old and sometimes after seeing it like 20 times, I still manage to notice something new. Lmfao!

@@toolhousemafia You probably didn't notice anything new in this super short, super random edited reaction lol. Good thing some of us know the movie & everything that wasn't here :)

"Little bastard shot me in the ass" was also pretty great.

That line is actually from an episode of the Monkees. The line in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was different. It was more long winded. The Monkees of course were referencing it.

and this is why it stands the test of time. It's not funny because of racism, it's funny because it pokes fun at racists.

I was a shorty.. fox theater Hackensack NJ. ... best movie in the 70s .. 💯

I wasn't old enough but I snuck and watched it when it came on TV

I saw this and the Apple Dumpling Gang in the drive-inn theater with my parents and brothers. It's definitely funnier as an adult. lol

@@billysmith1797 oh my goodness!! I saw the Apple Dumpling Gang at the Drive In too!! 😂

Me too. Every single time. When I'm counting money or grab more than a couple dimes from my purse, I always think of it and laugh to myself.

All because they really could just ride around the thing, and instead, oh hey, we're gonna me morons and go back to get money for the tolls.

Delayed the bad guys and turned a nice profit, too. Dimes went a lot further in 1875

As a New Yorker, the fact that it's called the "Gov LePetomane Thuway" just hits in a certain way

Omg toll booths.... ugh lol

Literally my favorite line in the whole movie.

Yeah, they couldn't find Pryor when he was supposed to be at some big meeting, he had gone on a bender that weekend. Would have been interesting to have seen him in the role, but Cleavon Little was perfect.

@@JoeyMcNelis I remember reading that pryor himself said he was too "coffee" to play the sheriff and that he suggested Cleavon Little

@@JoeyMcNelis The insurance company wouldn't cover Pryor to star, so they hired him as a writer and his main responsibility was to make sure every use of the N-word worked within the context of the film.

didnt know that, liked way they did it though

Yep that line was written by Richard Pryor who collaborated with Brooks on the movie.

I know a couple more bits of trivia: When Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little) cracks up and laughs after Jim (Gene Wilder) says the line "You know, morons"- he wasn't acting. Gene Wilder ad-libbed that line and it totally caught Cleavon Little off guard. Burton Gilliam, who played Taggart's henchman Lyle, was good friends with Cleavon Little and was uncomfortable saying the "n word" around him, but Little took him aside and assured him that it was okay, since they were just acting.

"my grandfather's work was doodoo!!"

Huge parts of my adulthood 😳🤩

Mel Brooks was a comedic genius!

+1 For Men in Tights

Dont forget History of the World part 1! All time favorite.

There was an inside joke in that as well, as the studios often had Jewish actors & extras playing the Indians, as they were easier to find in Hollywood...

@@chemech One for the Mormons as well, with their concept of Native Americans as the Lost Tribes of Israel 😂

I got to see this in theatres as an anniversary thing too, and the theatre was packed - mostly Millennials and younger. So I don’t think it’s a “young people are too easily offended” thing. This is a movie that makes racists the butt of every joke. That’s fucking hilarious. (If I remember right, I think there were a few times Mel Brooks had to get reassurance from Pryor and Little that they weren’t using too many racial slurs, which makes me laugh I love the idea of one of the greatest comedy writers ever just going “….guys. We still cool?” every so often.)

Another cool story. Mel advertised in Variety for a 'Frankie Lane' style singer to do the opening, never expecting that Frankie Lane himself would apply. Mel didn't tell him it was a comedy for fear he would back out.

I watched Young Frankenstien a lot when I was a kid, love it!!! Became a huge Gene WIlder fan because of it. For some reason I never saw WIlly Wonka until I was an adult. And "The Producers" is my other favorite Mel Brooks movie that I did not see until I was an adult. I think The Producers is relevant for some of the stuff going on today...

You missed out The Producers!

@@jerry2357 Truth! totally oversight on my part.

They're making a History of the World Part 2 tv show for Hulu.

Cant forget the classic Silent Movie

That ending took me by shock and I was laughing so hard. It’s in my top ten favorite movies of all time list 😂😂😂

Specifically, from the movie "Destry Rides Again". Not a comedy, but one of the great early Westerns.

Don't forget her "No/Yes" song from History of the World!

That explains how she nailed those notes in young Frankenstein

@@anthonycurby4606 That's Frahnkensteen!

@@ericharris3379 it's pronounced korby

Dear Universe, please bubble wrap Mel Brooks. I'm still a little angry about the last couple of years.

@@lalalevej2478 He's the hero we need, now more than ever.

@@choalithikanthe2422 - We'll save him, and we'll all get FERSCHNICKERED!!

The tv show F Troop did the same thing; all the Indian chiefs were Jewish Borscht Belt comics. I have a sneaking feeling there's a 10th tribe joke in there somewhere...

Not to mention Brooks often made Jewish jokes in his movies.

All of Mel Brooks' films are hillarious I recommend anything from his catalog.

Its the same reason I choose to laugh at one of the most controversial episodes in the "our gang show"(little rascals). Despite the episode having a black native wild man being put on display like they did the bearded lady in the circus. It had black kid actors in it and they were paid really well. The jokes were not especially racist. It was a form of satire and jokes that people could not understand today. That was even back in the 1920s. They had a kid crushing on his teacher mrs. Crab tree and all kinds of jokes you see today. The reason being it was a show about kids acting like kids. 1 of the black actors stymie was one of my favorite kids in the group. Stymie was paid a lot too for being a black child actor. The show gave respect to all its kids and I loved it. I may be in my 20s but I love a lot of black and white comedy shows. Idk maybe it was because i was exposed to it as a kid I never really had any racial biased thoughts against anyone.

born in 75 i can remember watching this as a child on tv as well city TV toronto didnt care, they played anything

@@flubber1557 I liked all the Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, and Three Stooges stuff I got to see as a kid. I thought all the humor was wonderful, still do. I still watch a lot of the old cartoons as well.

@@Uncultured_Barbarian465 same! Although I wasnt around when they aired. I had gotten the whole 3 stooges collection as a gift from my father for my birthday 1 year. Did you know laurel and hardy mentored spanky from our gang a little bit. I found that out on youtube but I knew of both shows before hand. I had a few our gang vhs tapes as a kid so I saw them growing up. I still have them I believe. 1 of which just happens to be that controversial episode. I loved old cartoons too like looney toons, popeye, betty boop, and yes even the old mickey mouse. I will cherish some of these vhs tapes even if I cannot watch them anymore. Another old timey show I enjoyed was beverly hillbilly. Granny: Dang nabbit Jack i saw a 7 foot jack rabbit and I will prove it!! Jack: I think youd best stay out of that jugg or im gonna have to hide it granny. I even got into watching little house in the prairie while I was in college for some reason. I got out of highschool in like fall 2015 and started college in 2016. I got into all this old stuff while still liking the stuff my own age too. It honestly suprises me just thinking about it compared to kids today.

You have to watch the whole thing.

Race and heritage are important, not meaningless. Discrimination based on race is bad. But that does not make race meaningless. History and culture and race all have value.

@@johnchestnut5340 Human Race. Historical hatred of what is different, be it a few shades of color difference, or vocal chords. Those of us who take a person, not at how they look, but how they act, react, and personify themselves, and treat them accordingly, are ahead. Those who cry "race! RACE! RACE!" are missing important things. I will treat two people from the exact same place, looks and all, differently. Take Martin Luther King Jr and Al Sharpton. Two black men. I respect Martin Luther King Jr and his legacy because his words are NOT divisive, but I dislike Al Sharpton because his are. Both are political figures, but one did his for the GOOD of mankind, and the other does his works for his own personal gains.

@@lightbriareos Try reading my comment. Also consider that the word race has many meanings. There is a human race. There are distinct races of humans. There are kinsmen which could be a race. There are even sporting events called races. Humans are human. People are people. Humans are people. People are human. Need I continue? Or you could simply have read my initial comment.

@@johnchestnut5340 I won't try to speak for anyone else but, that said, I believe that the point the OP was making is that the movie taught him/her that "...Discrimination based on race is bad..." which makes sense because that's exactly the point/idea that the movie itself was trying to get across, quite aside from making fun of all the @$$hole r*cists who perpetuate said discrimination.

Only Humphrey Bogart had the acting chops to make 2 movies where he loses his mind. The other being "The Caine Mutiny"

That's the title. I thought it was High Sierra.

Umm look up Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

My fell-out-of-my-chair moment was when Jon Lovitz brings his family to the Barbie Museum. "... and three time... ballroom dancing champion."

He's also in the end scene where the townsfolk are waving the Sheriff goodbye

@@alankenny4335 He's also in the line of bad-guys queuing to sign up... the one with the leather jacket and flying goggles.

@@wizendrew6369 instead of “ Where’s Waldo” … it has become “where’s Mel” LOL

He doesn't dub for one of the backing troupe, he is one of the backing troupe.

He was also the guy in the dark theater that Harvey Korman steps on! "Hey, watch were you're going.

I used to show "Christmas Vacation" every year the week before Christmas break. None of my 9th graders wanted to do work that week but watching the movie and catching every science related thing was great, paid attention to the movie was part of my curriculum if one of my bosses came in.

Geez… how sheltered and dignified can you be? You’re missing many of the subtlest, funniest lines because you lack the historic film and cultural references. Well mannered, polite, proper and classy, certainly, but all of the repeated lines are unneeded.

Good to hear... it was in that time of Hollywood after all.

Way to cause panic, referring to Mell Brooks as 'was' made me worry I'd missed an announcement and had to check, and he's still around.

I saw a documentary on this, and I don’t know what it was about it, but seeing the campfire scene with the fart noises edited out had me in tears from laughing so hard.

In fact, it was so heavily edited for television that they had to insert an outtake to make it long enough. If you watch it on tv, there is an additional scene with Bart and Mongo where Mongo plays one of those arcade games where you have outdraw the cowboy. "On the count of three! One...two.." a cannon comes out of the cowboy's chest and shoots Mongo. And then we see Bart behind the cowboy with a megaphone saying..."three!"

Even better, Madeline Kahn was actually a very talented singer.

It's twue, it's twue!

The No badges thing was also parodied in Weird Al’ movie UHF, in that movie badges was replaced with badgers.

I had to ask my parents who Randolph Scott was - no Internet in the 70s - because that name went over my head.

​@@RedRanger1138 My assumption was that he remembers it from when Danny Trejo referenced the fact that he played this role in Bubble Boy. "Patches? I could USE some stinking patches!"

@@ccggenius ----This movie was made in the 1970s.

@@michaelj.beglinjr.2804 I guess I've been misinformed. It just sounded like the kind of thing that would be true... I stand by the fact that Bubble Boy might've been why the line sounded familiar though.

Get your shit right, that is Cleavon little. Richard Pryor was one of five writers who worked on Blazing Saddles. Mel Brooks wanted him for the lead but the studio said no.

@@sanpat8760 I never said Richard Pryor was in Blazing Saddles. I know he was one of the writers that was involved.

I agree that movie was up there with this one in being Hilariously Funny!! The scene with the "COWS, COWS" cracks me up to this day!

I learnt the same thing. He is a youngin, seems old beyond his age. :)

I've seen lots of reactions 50 minutes, an hour or more... this is the shortest I've ever seen. Glad I know the movie very well!!

He was Super Soul in the original Vanidhing Point.