Blazing Saddles * FIRST TIME WATCHING * REACTION & COMMENTARY * Millennial Movie Monday 

You’re so right

Correct. People just get triggered immediately when hearing words then stop listening to the context. So a warning was appropriate just in case. You never know, so better to over prepare people. I showed it at my house one time and didn’t prepare anyone, assuming they could handle it, but no, I had to shut it down.

@@awkwardashleigh "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." - "You know… morons." was an ad-lib, Cleavon Little's laugh was genuine.

Oh, and congratulations. And many more to come.

Exactly. You can't learn from the mistakes of the past, if you continually erase the past.

Richard Pryor also was a writer and was to play Clevon Little's part but Richard took off to Detroit one too many times and they went with him. Think it is better with Clevon.

@@timbrady3090 Richard was in Rehab and the studio would not insure him due to a issue with Cocaine.. I think I like Clevon's portrayal better he is more mello and laid back, Richard was a tighter string.

I had a discussion about that with a teenage employee of mine who didn’t understand the satire AT ALL.

It’s a shame we live in an era where we need to explain jokes. Ok this is Irony...

@@tomquimby6432 The main message of the movie is a satire on racism.

That's why Mel is a legend

I am Druish, and I approve this message.

You can't do this movie today because too many people would side with Headley.

@@RyanRichardsToby Funny... you don't look Druish

I finally got it.

slaps forehead. I'm old and I never got that before!

That was written by the late great Richard Pryor

I've seen numerous people react to this movie, and I think Ashleigh is the first one to get that joke.

Correct statement was when. LILLY Von Schtupe said is it true that you guys are gifted enter zipper sound here its true its true was written by the late great Richard Pryor he wrote all the black joke scenes like the smiling emoji face as with the kkk jokes too Richard Pryor went no hold bars on this movie which made this. A colt classic side note this was the first movie to poke fun at racism as a satire movie it also showed them pointing out how stupid the racists were and Mongo played by Former Nfl hall of fame star Alex Karras who also played in the 80s sitcom Webster great tv show too

I feel like anyone who calls it a racist movie totally miss the point of it. Hell Birth of a Nation is more of a racist movie.

ABOUT RACISM, Yes. Racist THough? It sure as hell isn't "Birth of a Nation" thats for Sure!

When you have the mind of a libturd, you see racism everywhere. Cause they can't think for themselves.

We live in a sad time. This movie is how a lot of TV and movies treated Racism and Bigotry. Go watch All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, etc. Go listen to Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy. These all were great and we all laughed. White, Black, Brown, Yellow, Red, etc. It didn't matter. All the stereotypes were addressed head-on and shown how dumb they were.

The only people who call this movie racist, are racists. They're mad because it makes people laugh at them. I've got a copy of it, seen it hundreds of times, still laugh until I cry every time. 😀😂😂🤣😭

Yes! - Do Young Frankenstein!

Also good for Halloween !!

This really is the best Mel Brookes. Plus its starring Gene Wilder

Throwing my vote down for Young Frankenstein, too!

It is Mel Brooks AND a spooky movie.

yes.........and this was happening during the time period of the movie (1874). So it's a historically accurate joke, not a "silly" one at all, even though it seems that way. In a way, it's the whole movie distilled in that one line.

As am Irish man I have always laughed at that part

I have always wondered what that irish part was about

My grandpa hated the Irish, kinda weird how recent all that was. (Including the racism against african americans)

Yes but only until the US started funding the IRA

My father fondly recalled several people actually getting up and leaving the theater during that scene. Apparently, it was kind of a big deal back then. Strange priorities by modern standards, given he recalls having difficulty watching the original Star Wars through the massive clouds of pot smoke floating through the theater.

When they played this at high school in the 80s, I lost it at this scene.

In fact farting was so taboo the actor that did the first fart almost didn't do it. When Mr. Brooks told him what was going to happen in the scene the actor almost walked off the set because he was sure he would be black balled from acting if he did the scene. It took some serious wrangling and negotiating to keep the actor on the set.

@@passingrando6457 Man, that must've been some top class shit everyone else was smoking.

If there had been as much methane as was suggested, that campfire would've gone up like Hiroshima.

Correct!

It's the kind of satire they just can't, or won't do anymore, but which wasn't that unusual back then. Imagine a show like The Jeffersons airing today, or All in the Family. Those shows both dealt with and mocked racial issues constantly.

@@Corn_Pone_Flicks Agreed. Humor is what bridges the gap between cultures. It's a real shame that our current culture has become so hypersensitive to Political Correctness. True comedy has been almost eradicated. Too many people these days would rather act like the offended victim or the virtue signalling savior of humanity. Shrug. Mark Twain: “Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it least.”

but at that time when the movie came out that was exactly the point of the movie. shining a light on laughing at the racists things people where failing to shine the big ole flash light on. then and aged well even now when its watched showing the same thing. when i was introduced to mel brooks by my parents this was a favorite movie we watched gives you prespective.

Too bad most of the population has lost the ability to tell the difference.

I always thought that was hilarious, that a black athlete won so many medals in nazi Germany.

You beat me to the reference. Good background info.

@@3DJapan how about the fact hitler showed him more respect than the american president did after he won.

@@christianbuczko1481 yeah Owens really.got screwed over by the head of the guy that ran the U.S. track program. Ruined his career.

@@3DJapan I don't think "hilarious" is the right term.

Getting mad at "racism" in this movie is like getting mad at them for robbing a bank in a heist movie. Just because something is shown does not mean they are advocating it.

One of the best lines in the whole frickin movie.

Owens said that Hitler was actually very pleasant to him. It was the journalists who made up the story that Hitler rejected him.

@@Eyes-of-Horus I can believe that. Makes sense really looking at it removed from those times, they were all in conflict after all, so of course there would be propaganda about it.

Mit Yelsob: Did you mean Jesse?

Let me get this straight: Mr. Owens effectively gave the rhetoric of white supremacy the middle finger just by out performing everyone. Despite this he probably got treated better by the f-ing NAZIS than his home country of the United States, who banned him from professional track and field after he refused to endorse the U.S. military during WWII.

@@jstrahan2 Yeah, I think s/he meant Jesse. And athlete. And Aryan.

"The fool's going to... I mean the sheriff's going to do it!"

@@geoffwilliams4478 Mongo like candy...

@@user-fh6mc9du5n **KA-BOOM** **Looney Tunes theme plays**

🐴💥🤛🏻

Modern censorship seems designed to deny younger generations of the in-your-face memes and ideas that made things like racism so laughably archaic and dumb.. but now with wokeists seemingly back in charge of political agendas we've got literal segregation of races and class at uinversity graduations in 2021, to give every group a separate 'safe space'. I keep expecting the back of the bus to make a comeback with Pelosi's lot in charge.

@@juliapigworthy Better wokeists than a bunch of inbred, knuckle-dragging nazis.

Keep the political stuff to yourself

My favrite story of him was back in WW2. He was a combat engineer for the U.S. army and during the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944 he was stuck having to listen to a German Propaganda speaker that was talking shit. So he wrangled up his own sound system of and blasted Jazz back at the Germans which they had made illegal due to it being to black. The guy trolled the fucking Nazis in one of the nastiest battles in U.S. history. What a legend.

I recently found out the man is 94 years old. 94!

Rita Moreno is another of that rare air.

Not actually..Richard Pryor also was a writer in this movie

Richard Pryor was a writer in this movie.

I've never caught that! Cool! He's also on stage with Lily Von Schtupp.

My favourite line

Gene Wilder’s deadpan delivery and demeanor truly doesn’t get enough credit.

I don't think he can juggle... or knit. Sooooooooooo there's that

I remember when he said that! I'm old...

He can't eat pork.

Mel could make a movie AGAINST RACISM without it being preachy woke victim garbage

@@zman8184 Most underrated comment ever. 🤣🤣🤣

That was always my favorite part.

And tweaking the Geemans by playing Al Jooson ovér a loudspeaker to them....

He was supposed to play the lead role, but the studio refused to allow him on screen in it.

Richard Prior actually gave the script a 'treatment' at Mel Brooks' request. That meant that he went over the script prior to it being sent to the studio. Close enough to writing it, though.

@@crash406 He was one of the writers of the first draft. There were later drafts that he did not work on. Perhaps then he was asked to review.

See no evil, hear no evil is an awesome film

Oh word ? I never knew that until reading this . That's crazy .

The original ROAD RAGE incident?

The Producers is an absolute classic, and another Mel Brooks/Gene Wilder collaboration.

I would agree that YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is a must watch. Beyond that, you can pretty much skip the rest of Brooks' work.

I LOVE History of the World Part 1. The original "It's good to be the king."

The next line "Too Jewish." to this day has me in stitches.

,,, and not ONE person was offended. So much for human progress.

BIG JIM SLADE Why would anyone be concerned that nobody was offended? It’s a comedy first, a parody second, and (I don’t even know what to call this concoction of social commentary and extreme satire; I don’t think the english language has that in one word yet) third, a satire of the worst our culture has experienced- including racism. Since everybody has become so woke (sic) they judge things without context. So they draw the wrong conclusions far to often. The “new sheriff bit” for example: does anyone under 35 even get the laurel and hardy reference, the telescope, etc. etc. etc. Nobody was offended in 1974 because it was watched and taken at face value in context. In 2020 people add meaning and assign values to things based on a word or a stereotype they assume they are seeing with the spin of their own 2020 context and dichotomy; things that didn’t exist in the minds or intents of the audience, much less in the minds and hearts of the actors and producers. In this case anyway... That’s also what’s wrong with BLM: they want to live in 1961-1968 repeatedly instead of embracing the progress and potential of white and black america since Dr. King was assassinated. They want to lens 1965 from 2020’s context instead of recognizing and building on the successes by viewing 2020 in 1965’s context. That Blazing Saddles has become so controversial is a conundrum when you consider what it actually is, a). And b), when you consider how profoundly it - being satire- ridicules racism, the gentility, and makes a laughingstock of the elite intellectuals (sic) we have today and had nearly 50 years ago. The difference today, of course, is these dogmatic elite intellectuals see (and instruct the public to see) prejudice hiding behind every door and a racist in every high income job. I’m proud to say I’ve never ‘blessed’ anyone with the “n” word (it actually isn’t a big deal; it takes no effort) but I also have to say Blazing Saddles doesn’t offend me because I take it for what it is: I don’t add meaning (that didn’t exist then) 46 years after it’s production.

@half a rasher raytown And as a blackman I agree. My mom is 76 and she loves it 😂😂

fishhuntadventure the word you’re looking for is irreverence! The closest thing these younger generations have to it is south park.

"I'm so tiiiiiiiiiired....sick...and tired of love...." She kills me.

Madeline Kahn is her name.

Some people think they are being PC when they are just being stupid. I know people who actually think All In The Family is racist just because it's got racist people in it.

I just want to add that it doesn't seem Ashleigh has fallen into this trap.it's ok to think a show is racist if everyone is telling her it is before she sees it, but by the end she definitely got the point.

One of my all time favorites. Also "Sheriff of Fractured Jaw"

There actually is historical context for this joke as well. During the Great Famine of the 19th century, thousands of Irish emigrants fled to America and faced harsh discrimination. Many businesses even put signs up saying “Irish keep out.”

This is a good writeup of why the Irish were so despised during later part of the 1800s www.history.com/news/when-america-despised-the-irish-the-19th-centurys-refugee-crisis

To that point, the reason it makes sense is the Irish immigrants to America during the famine in the 1840s were treated as less than human and deeply discriminated against by the American people of the time. It was Brooks acknowledging that American heritage has shown hate to many minority groups not just Blacks, Jews, etc.

It's also true, though, that there is a lot of historical discrimination against the Irish.

The Irish were also discriminated against being considered a lower race comparable to Black people.

The line that makes the line before it funny.

Lol yes! The documentary has Mel explaining that very thing.

Wasn’t it his elbow?

BAHAHAHAHA!

That’s weird why that one of all things

The way I've heard it, Wilder kept using a different word in place of "morons" with every take, and Little cracked up every time. They wound up using the one where he cracked up the *least.*

"Morons" was not the word that was said in the original film. It was dubbed in later for TV.

@@knucklesdragon4040 yes, morons was in the original movie...i know, because i saw this movie in the theater

it was an add lib that was kept. and in the original move. the only thing that Mel actually cut was when Lilly Marlena was saying "it is , it is" Little said thats my forearm. that line was cut but - was put back in for the directors cut

It's. a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is pretty good also.

@@haroldhenderson2824 As is History of the World: Part I

Also known as 'the fastest man alive' for quite a while

Also important to note, the 1936 Olympics was held in Berlin. A black man won 4 gold medals while Hitler was trying to showcase the superiority of the Aryan race.

Absolutely! Great point

@@havok6280 And yet, it wasn't Hitler that snubbed Owens, it was Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Jacob Nissen actually Hitler did snub Owens. He also refused to meet with him.

This movie wouldn’t have been made then if he didn’t defy the studio executives. They told him to cut out several scenes including the “fart” scene. He only got permission to leave it as is after a preview showing with normal audience.

Mel Brooks is famously on record as saying - in reply to this question - that "We couldn't make this film THEN!", that the studio executives only released this movie in theaters because it was already booked to open.

Funny, that was my first thought - "she has to watch Young Frankenstein" next.

We got the Aerosmith song walk this way from that movie.

Yes! And History of the World, Part 1

Agreed, you need to see Gene Wilder's "Young Dr. Frankenstein" next (and yes, that movie is in black and white on purpose)

But not before watching the original 60s version of 'The Producers' - see Gene Wilder in his first movie and Mel Brooks directing his first movie.

Yeah, he competed in the 1936 Olympics. In Berlin. In front of Hitler. Incredible he could run at all with balls that big.

And since neither mentioned it and she didn't know the reference, Jesse Owens was black. Having a black man best Hitler's chosen athletes is definitely a highlight of the Olympics throughout history.

@@normalgamergal Especially when you remember that the German athlete, Luz Long, gave Jesse Owens some advice on where to start the long jump so he wouldn't be disqualified from the finals and was the first to congratulate him afterwards. Luz and Jesse wrote to each other afterwards till Luz was killed during WW2. Safe to say that Jesse and Luz were both better examples of men than all the full-blown Nazis in the audience that day.

That, and she goes from quiet and soft-spoken to blasting out loud enough to be heard in the nosebleed section.

I love the part where she shouts out and everybody flinches. Makes me laugh every time.

That's not even the biggest gag in that scene, look at the sign of all the townspeople's names. Johnson.

@@devinfaux6987 I wonder if Marion Ramsey (Hooks From The Police Academy Movies.) used her for inspiration?

Auf wiedersehn!

They darker than us!

@@SamuelBlack84 🤪😂

Never noticed that before but yeah he is🤣🤣

Matt Stone and Trey Parker did a similar gag for Cannibal the Musical, but in that case they were Japanese

Dracula Dead and Loving it also

Exactly what I was thinking! And that movie is way funny too.

Yep Young Frankenstein is one of the funniest movies ever! 💪 😁

Frau Blücher! lol

Honestly, it's his best movie. It's far more consistent throughout the movie compared to Blazing Saddles, which bounces around between genius and scenes which don't quite work. Whereas EVERY SCENE in Young Frankenstein works.

It’s coming!!

Hell Yes!! 😂😂😂

@@awkwardashleigh Heck yeah, that's a treat. Not perhaps for you, but us. :D

It's good to be the King

@@awkwardashleigh That's what she said. And Gene Wilder is in it too For a scary movie, Trick r Treat

Also known as Big Deal At Dodge City (that might have been the UK title).

@@Krzyszczynski Not on UK terrestrial TV it wasn't.

And he went to Ohio State. Go Bucks!

He defeated all the Nazis track athletes too and embarrassed Hitler too (1936 Olympic Games were in Germany)!

Leigh Foulkes pissed of hitler

But sadly he was snubbed by his own president for being black, but not by Hitler.

@@leighfoulkes7297 Suddenly, that joke makes even more sense. There's no time where Mel Brooks isn't gleefully wiggling his ass at the nazi party.

and Star wars (1977) and close encounters (1977) were 80's films??? Just sayin'

@@Leon-wz1js - I never claimed all the movies reviewed were from the 80's.

It’s coming Bill and Ted Face the Music

And on top of that, fought in WW II

He along with buck Henry created get smart and was a writer on your show if shows and Caesar’s hour where he also played the thousand year old man.

They call those individuals EGOTs. Aubrey Hepburn, Whoopi Goldberg, some lesser known award winning producers. 15 official EGOTs currently.

I did, above. But I agree with others... With Halloween imminent, she should definitely watch Young Frankenstein!

It doesn't rank with Young Frankenstein or Blazing Saddles but it has some funny parts.

But note - the law of diminishing returns - like many comedies, the sequels are really pretty poor compared to the original movies

Surely you can't be serious.

@@williewilliams6571 "and don't call me Shirley!"

*Forming a line to slap the crap out of the hysterical woman*

Nice Beaver!

This observation made me laugh out loud, I got this joke at age 12 but half the others went over my head until I was older.

@@patm4899 When It Comes To "Over My Head", I Got You Beat. About 70% Of The Innuendo In The Carry On Movies Escaped Me Until My Early 20's, I'll Be 50 In Roughly 18 Months!

This.

Frau Blücher! lol

@@firebugjohnnypyro "NEEIIGHH\NEEIIGHGH"

IT'S FRANK-ENSTEIN!

"BLOUCHER!"

Gone but never forgotten. Legends.

...and David Huddleston. "Oh, blow it out your ass, Howard."

And Dom DeLuise.

And of course Cleavon Little...

And Gene Wilder.

" Walk this way. "

Thank you!

I could almost hear Patrick in my mind saying, "you said number eleven!"

Spammy Dagger The Jerk would be a wonderful choice!

I also think she would like another Martin film, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.

@@matth1589 That's a terrific film too. Quite high concept and pulled off brilliantly. "Cleaning woman, cleaning woman!"

All I need is this lamp, this lamp and this ashtray thats all I need...and this chair. This lamp, this ashtray and the chair

Brooks also does a voiceover in the town hall scene in YF

TERRI GAR is so funny in it and MADALEN KAHN RULES!

I forgot about the town hall! Lol

Also Mel totally opposed Gene Wilder's idea of making the monster tap dance, they were very good friends and Gene said that was the only time they had an argument. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U3MqONAYz8E.html

Mel Brooks did provide the meow in the dart throwing scene.

Agreed, YF was the best

Have you watched "Trading Places" ?

@@herbertbielefelder341 If I have, I don't remember it.

Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Charlie is the remake.