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

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

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.

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

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 RU-vid where he discusses his work on Blazing Saddles and the reasons why he feels he was never offered starring roles later on

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. 🤣

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.

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."

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.

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

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

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.

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?"

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.

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

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

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! 😂

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 🤣🤣🤣.

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

"They've hit every faux pas". No, give it a minute, we haven't reached religion and sexual harassment yet.

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. 🤞💯✌

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.

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."

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.

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.....

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.

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".

I'm surprised this film hasn't been banned I'm 2023 ,with today's generation being so easily offended. Is it completely inappropriate? Yes! That's why it's funny!

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

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.

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.

"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. 😁😁

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.

Love this movie. And note that special care is taken that all the racists in the movie are represented as literal morons.

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

You guys totally miss the point. Early 70's Vietnam was almost over. The civil unrest of the 60's had settled down. There wasn't this racial divide that we have know. Back then we were starting to accept each other AND OUR DIFFERENCES. We didn't have daily melt downs and whinners. WE EVEN LAUGHED ABOUT OUR DIFFERENCES!! That's why this movie worked.

Jaby's reaction was great. Steph's...not so much.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please watch spaceballs next

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

The greatest comedy ever. Period

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.

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

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.

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).

Love his movie! Long live Mel Brooks.

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.

Well Done! Great reaction & good understanding of what Mel Brooks trying was to say. Here's some tidbits that may or may not be of interest to you &/or others too young to know. A Laurel and Hardy welcome? - 'Laurel and Hardy' are comedy legends The Wide Wide World of Sports - Was a TV show that ran from 1961 to 1998 Hedy Lamarr - One of the most beautiful & famous actresses in the world sued them for this. I Get a Kick Out of You - sung by Cleavon Little wasn't released until 1934 Count Basie - One of the great bandleaders, and composers. Farts - If I recall correctly it's the 1st time a fart was in a movie, they told Mel Brooks he couldn't have one on the big screen. (Bad move) Ok, I'll put in 50. They thought he was kidding. Fondling the statue - No... He's raping Justice. Horse punched - Trained horse, the horse did well. Randolph Scott - A great Western film actor that always saved the day Harvey Korman "whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor." He did not get a nomination...However Madeline Kahn was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Did not win. & I'm only missing about 5,000 other things 🤣 Have a wonderful time exploring Mel Brooks. He's one of a kind.

A laurel and hardy handshake - laurel and hardy - old early sound movie comedy stars. We don't need no stinking badges - famous old quote from Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Use of Noel Coward songs - (considered a sophisticated urbane song writer) - first with Bart and the workers singing at the beginning contrasting the simple and crude railroad gang bosses and then later quotes from another of his songs by Hedley - that voodoo that you do so well. Also Brooks was sued and settled with the old movie actress Hedy Lamar for what she said was the unauthorized use of her name in the movie. Also Hedley's speech to his hired gang as they go out to attack Rock Ridge paraphrases Eishenhower's famous speech on the eve of the D-Day landings on Normandy in WW2. Lilly Von Stumph - last name stumph was yiddish slang for sexual intercourse. The cattle in the bar, church, and movie theater were a reference to the old Hollywood practice of hiring a lot of crowd extras - called a cattle call. The quote - I'm not from Havana baby - was a reference to an infamous Cuban live sex show in the 50's pre-Castro. And the reference that Steph got to Jessie Owens the famous black olympic athelete who dominated in track in the games held in pre-war Nazi Germany. And there are more but those are some of the ones that stick out for me.

Mel Brooks wanted to show the stupidity of racism without preaching but making people laugh. First off well done getting the Jesse Owens joke. Most people your aga ask "who?" The Headly LaMar running gag was because Brooks was sued by Hedy Lamarr a famous film actress for using her name. Brooks said "of I'm going to pay that much im.going to use as much as I can" When everyone runs out to the street from the studio. There's a guy with an ice cream looking around with a " WTF is going on" look. That because he was not an actor. He was just a bystander who was waiting to cross the street. Randolph Scott was an actor who was famous for westerns. He had retired in 1962. He was the John Wyane of his time. If you really want to see a great Mel Brooks production. Watch Young Frankenstein. But before you do watch the movie it parodies first for better reference Frankenstein 1931

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...

Neither Clevon Little nor Gene Wilder were first cast in their roles. Little replaced Pryor (Pryor and Wilder went on to do several movies together, including Stir Crazy) and Pryor stayed as a co-writer. Wilder replaced the first Jim, who took his role as a drunken gunslinger too much to heart and showed up for shootibg drunk out of his gourd. Personally, I think it worked. Pryor is too kinetic, too manic, for a role that plays so well calm and smooth, Little brings the slick, cool manner. Pryor is gold in Stir Crazy, in a role better suited for his bounce-of-the-wall persona.

I can see by the reactions of the chick with you, that she has been completely indoctrinated in political correctness, and white guilt. Have a sense of humor already. Even the actors in the movie had a Ball making it. Mel Brooks is Jewish and suffered some horrible acts of discrimination as a kid and he said, "If you can't laugh at it, then you'll just be depressed and cry a lot." This movie wasn't about celebrating racism and bigotry but exposing it with humor. Mel Brooks was a comedic genius.

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.

Lots of old Hollywood references that fewer and fewer people get anymore. And everyone in this movie is dead...except good ol' Mel. And he was going on 48 when this came out 49 years ago. (I was 15.)

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."

If you like slim Pickens, in this, you should watch 1984, which was a comedy directed by Steven Spielberg

Cleavon Little did not have much of a film career. He was better known for his stage work and won the Tony and the Drama Critics Award in 1970 for his role in “Purlie”.

Brilliant movie..would never get made today. One of the writers was Richard Pryor. He was originally slated to be the Sheriff, but his drug use was the factor in his not getting the role. So, Clevon Little get the role and hit it out of the park

This is what is wrong with the world today. One of the funniest movies of all times and look at her face 95% because of the time looking at how to turn the comedy into a racist negativity or any other negativity. All they speak of is racism. When this movie came out all races laughed just as hard. It's a shame that this age and younger are programed to think to put complete negativity with race, gender and other things into what they see. No wonder they are soo unhappy

The intent was to make you laugh....so its ok to laugh. So, its a shame that there are a number of ridiculous sensitive people that would have an issue with this kind of comedy in today's movies....but there are many more that wouldn't.

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

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.

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

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

Remember to be kind and rewind your movies... Got this one already taken care of for you guys :. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9P8KzF-xxGo.html

You have to throw out the 2023 overly PC stuff when watching this movie and most past comedies.

"Airplane" movie reaction please

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

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...! 😁😁

Don't "woke" the movie by hitting mute on words that are there for a reason. Learn about comedy.

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

Randolph, Scott..hahaha

Gene Wilder had the popcorn in the end because they went into the movie theater to watch the end of the movie.

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

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

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

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

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

Fantastic film! You should check out the producers. Brilliantly done

Neither of you are capable of appreciating this.

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.

The only other Cleavon Little film I can remember is Once Bitten, with Lauren Hutton and a very young Jim Carrey. He played a gay vampire.

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.

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

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. "

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).

Back before META was a thing, there was Blazing Saddles

Please oh please do "high anxiety"

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

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

Harvey Corman, who played Hedley, was a member of 'The Carol Burnett Show'....think SNL, but actually GOOD. I think you'll like that, and it's TV series spin off, "Mama's family".

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!