My ex girlfriend had never heard of Blazing saddles somehow even though she was born in 1978. We watched it one night as I had really bragged it up as one of my favorites. She absolutely hated it, wouldn’t even finish the whole thing. That was a critical moment in our relationship that told me that we were not meant for each other. 🤣 she hated oh brother where art thou as well, yeah she just needed to go!
She sounds like the sort of person who would honestly believe that The Goodies are a bunch of 1970's Satan Worshippers. What an absolute ridiculous prude she is.
I've probably watched Blazing Saddles at least forty times. I couldn't imagine a different cast member than the ones used. One of my all time favorites. This movie and History of the World pt. 1 are two movies that could never be duplicated successfully. Mel is a genius at directing and a great actor as well.
Mine too ! Sadly they just don't make any films as good and as funny as this one was at the time because it was a true classic movie in its day !! 😞😞😞😞
This movie contains two of my boyfriend's favorite lines. One where Sheriff Bart, while he is presenting his paperwork from the the governor, "Excuse me while I whip this out." And the woman in the front screams and faints. The other best line is when Bart, and the kid are trying to infiltrate the bad guys, they come upon some KKK members and Bart says, "Where are the white women at?" My boyfriend of 33 1/2 years passed from a stroke 6 years ago. We both fully belly laughed at this movie everytime we saw it.
Be careful as with classic books are now changed to have words removed for being offensive. In Sweden there are now a sensitivity person who gets contacted for advice on what is appropriate to write or to show.
Mel is an absolute genius. Some of the best lines ever heard in a movie. 50 years old this year and still it stands the test of time. Watched this as a child with my parents and most went over my head. Watched as a teenager and it all came together. Solid laugh all the way through. "Where the white women at??" a saying I still say to this day....Absolutely brilliant!!
I owned the VHS and now the DVD. I've seen this so many times. It's a guaranteed laugh when I need it most. Most of what Mel Brooks created is fabulous. My other absolute favs are Young Frankenstein and High Anxiety.
I love how this film is echoed a year later in MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL: “Tell them I said . . . Ow!” becomes “the castle of . . . Aaargh.” “call me . . . Jim” becomes “call me . . . Tim.” “that man is a ni-” becomes “the knights who say . . . Ni.” A herring is mentioned in both films and both films end with an anachronistic motor vehicle.
Once watched this (for the 100th time) on the BBC, with the subtitles on, the campfire scene ffffrrrrrrppppptttt, I was laughing as hard at the subtitles
My dad made me watch this movie one night. I was like, the title even sounds stupid. One of my all time favorite movies. Thanks for the memories pops. Everytime i watch the camp fire scene. I look up and go i know dad. Your favorite scene. Lol😊
Well done Rocky well summed up and some really interesting facts. I love this film. I watch it over and over again. It’s funny and funnier each time we watch it brilliant film. 8:39
When it came out we saw it at the drive inn. My parents, 4 kids and my very modest grandmother. Some jokes went over my young head, but my grandmother giggled during some parts. She liked the movie. As I got older and watched it, I thought it was hilarious. My son watched it with his friends on cable. They were in Jr high. All 4 of them thought it was funny. Not just the campfire scene. A classic among classics.
Saw "Blazing Saddles" in the theater, way up in New Hampshire, when it was released. The campfire scene got a huge laugh from the audience, so Mel Brooks was right to turn up the sound. One of my buddies who went to the movie with me was very Irish, and proud of it, as he should have been, but when David Huddleston said "We'll take the Chinese and the Blacks, but we don't want the Irish", it got him pretty mad. He got over it. LOL.
@ 7:05 The name "Taggart" (Slim Pickens) in charge of building the railroad was based on the Taggart family of fictional characters who built the Taggart Transcontinental Railroad in Ayn Rand's 1957 novel "Atlas Shrugged."
Love this movie... funniest move ever. The bit about Hedy Lamar suing the production... that's why in the scene in the Governor's office Brooks says to Lamar when he corrects the gov about his name... "What are you worried about? This is 1874! You'll be able to sue her!"
A movie theater nearby where I lived at, played Blazing Saddles in the summer 2016. It was around a month after Gene Wilder and David Huddleson passed away. There was around 50 people and we all laughed at the funniest bits and moments.
My spouse is from Belgium, and I told her about this film 10 years ago. She was skeptical, but when she watched it, she literally fell off the couch laughing......
At 7:20 in the video I totally reject the premise that Slim Pickens needed any kind of encouragement or effort to get in the mindset of a tough cowboy. He was a natural! I loved him as Taggart.
The great thing about him in Dr. Strangelove is that Kubrick told him to play the part straight as if it was a serious movie, and he did. Slim Pickens may have played only one type of character, but he did it well.
Slim WAS a real cowboy. He was a rodeo rider and clown, owned a ranch and rode his own horses on the set of Blazing Saddles. Acting was his second job.
I first saw Blazing Saddles in the cinema. I'd never seen anything so funny in my life. I clearly remember sinking to the floor, almost unable to breathe. I laughed so hard, the cinema management actually asked me to leave! I told them to sod off and carried on.
8:25. HOLD UP!!!!! The dude who wrote the awesome World War Z is MEL BROOKS' SON???? I had no idea! Huh. You learn something new every day. That book is on my list of top favourites. Edit: Yeah, it was made into a film of the same name, but let's be clear, the *only* thing similar between the book and the film is the name. The zombies even *move* differently in the film vs the book. And the book had an awesome soundtrack built in - kills me they didn't use it. I SO wanted to hear Avalon sung from Scripps.
Interestingly, when I first saw this movie (and this was years after it's release, I was an 80's baby) I honestly took no offense to anything I saw on screen because I heard it all before in the movies and shows I have seen, but I can understand given the time and period it was made in that there might have been some reasons to fear for the higher-ups at Warner Bros. Also until I saw this video I never knew they were considering a TV series about Bart, props man :)
Blazing Saddles is one of my all time favorite movies. Mel Brooks once said "Stupidly politically correct society is the death of comedy'", and he's right. People who find Blazing Saddles offensive don't understand the point of the movie and are too stupid see what it's trying to parody. One of the much lesser known things people probably didn't realize is that the scene where the Indians stop Bart's family's wagon is a bit of a parody on Jews seeing themselves as "Members of the tribe" It's appropriate that this band of Indians is lead by Brooks himself and his native tongue is Yiddish. Absolutely classic Mel Brooks writing! This is one of the great classic movies, like The Princess Bride, that Hollywood should never attempt to duplicate.
I picked up an un edited copy of this for 5 bucks at the local DVD shop. Played to my two daughter's who were 28 and 25 at the time, and they honestly couldnt believe what they were seeing. 😂
I remember watching an uncensored version when I was young. Liberal Holland didn't censor back then. Also quite sure it would get bad ratings if it came out in the 2020's Good stuff. Almost as good as History of the World part 1
love that explanation of Bart's Alcoholism especially the thing with his hand see this hand holds hand steady lifts other hand shaking this is the one i shoot with
4:44 To clarify: Brooks had a condition stipulated that a sequel could not be made without a TV version being made first. He presumed that protected against studio hubris. Experienced and smart as he was, Brooks was somewhat foxed: The studio produced a TV series titled Black Bart which was *never* intended to air - for THREE years. The tiddle their lawyers had found is the clause did not state the show had to *broadcast*. So the network spent $ for 3 yrs to make a weekly series NO ONE was supposed to ever see in order to leave themselves a sequel loophole. SMH in amazement at corporate mentality.
Gene Wilder wasn’t actually available, he had already committed to a theater gig over seas and was supposed to fly out the day after Mel called him. So he had to make a choice.
There is way more to the Black Bart pilot other than Ït wasnt picked up" Due to a clause in Mel Brooks contact Warner Brothers retained the rights to make Blazing Saddles sequels as long as they were producing something under the banner even if it never aired. Mel efused to do a seque so they shot four 6 episode seasons to keep the rights. Mel Brooks didnt even know about it until the 80s
4:50 how you failed to mention the Governor's line "What the hell are you worried about? This is 1874. You'll be able to sue *her*" for this part is beyond me.
Actually, Brookes did remove 1 line from the original script. The part where Lilly wanted to find out if what they said about black men was true. She says "It's twue, it's twue!" Bart then was supposed to say, "Lady, why are you sucking on my arm?" lol That was in an interview with Mel himself.
Brooks was asked what lines the censors wouldn't allow. He stated that in the scene with Madeline Khan and Bart, when the lights went out, she asked, (with slurping sound effects) "Is it twoo what they say about you bwack men? It's twoo, it's twoo!". To which Bart stated, "Sorry mam, that's my elbow you're sucking on."
My husband and I saw this on our first date. 47 years later the laughs have never stopped.
What a lovely memory. I hope you've both spent the intervening years with laughter!
I'm happy for you both
My ex girlfriend had never heard of Blazing saddles somehow even though she was born in 1978. We watched it one night as I had really bragged it up as one of my favorites. She absolutely hated it, wouldn’t even finish the whole thing. That was a critical moment in our relationship that told me that we were not meant for each other. 🤣 she hated oh brother where art thou as well, yeah she just needed to go!
She sounds like the sort of person who would honestly believe that The Goodies are a bunch of 1970's Satan Worshippers. What an absolute ridiculous prude she is.
You dodged a bullet sir.
Absolutely! Humor is the greatest test of a relationship. If you don’t laugh at the same things, it’s doomed.
Yep, you were a lucky man to get away from her.
Run Luke Run!
One of the best comedies ever.
most excellent comedy ever, Mel brookes is a comedic genius
An absolute must see!
It makes fun of EVERYBODY!
We need that again.
That was the beauty of the movie, no one was spared from copping it. Can't be discrimination when everyone was the target.
@@wetsox278 Correct!
I've probably watched Blazing Saddles at least forty times. I couldn't imagine a different cast member than the ones used. One of my all time favorites. This movie and History of the World pt. 1 are two movies that could never be duplicated successfully. Mel is a genius at directing and a great actor as well.
A stand up philosopher, oh you mean a bullsh!t artist!
One of my absolute FAVORITE, movies of all time
Me too. Along with Airplane! and Porkys among others.
Mine too ! Sadly they just don't make any films as good and as funny as this one was at the time because it was a true classic movie in its day !!
😞😞😞😞
Still is,,, i have 4 copies just in case they try to completely erase it, so i can play it on the side of buildings! 😂
Greatest comedy ever.
I'm so glad I've seen it the way it should, without censorship. Mel Brooks is a true legend and I have been raised with his movies
In my humble opinion, Blazing Saddles is not just the funniest movie ever made, but the funniest movie that will ever be made.
In my opinion the first half of the movie I agree with you, the second half not so much.
I put it right beside Animal House. It's a coin toss for me. 😊
Actually I think Airplane! is the funniest movie ever, but I give Blazing Saddles a close second.
Second that. Funniest movie ever made.
This movie contains two of my boyfriend's favorite lines. One where Sheriff Bart, while he is presenting his paperwork from the the governor, "Excuse me while I whip this out." And the woman in the front screams and faints. The other best line is when Bart, and the kid are trying to infiltrate the bad guys, they come upon some KKK members and Bart says, "Where are the white women at?" My boyfriend of 33 1/2 years passed from a stroke 6 years ago. We both fully belly laughed at this movie everytime we saw it.
"Mongo just pawn in game of Life"
@@BELCAN57 Oh baby, you are so talented. And they're so dumb.
Correct!
@@mikehughes4969 What did you expect? These are simple folk. People of the land. The common clay of the new west. You know... morons.
One of the best lines.😄
@@Nooziterp1 and he still managed to misquote it 😂
What's great about "Blazing Saddles" is that because of its humor and language no one will ever be able to make a successful remake of it.
Hollywood will not touch that film again
Be careful as with classic books are now changed to have words removed for being offensive. In Sweden there are now a sensitivity person who gets contacted for advice on what is appropriate to write or to show.
Yes! I hate when they remake classic movies.
You're right there. Any remake will have to have so much cut there will be very little left.
We don't need a remake
Blazing Saddles is a definite 😮Classic! And people who get offended! Is absolutely sad! And sucks to be them!
that would mostly MAGA tards
Mel is an absolute genius. Some of the best lines ever heard in a movie. 50 years old this year and still it stands the test of time. Watched this as a child with my parents and most went over my head.
Watched as a teenager and it all came together. Solid laugh all the way through.
"Where the white women at??" a saying I still say to this day....Absolutely brilliant!!
I've seen it a hundred times!!!! I Love you Clevon!!!
I owned the VHS and now the DVD. I've seen this so many times. It's a guaranteed laugh when I need it most. Most of what Mel Brooks created is fabulous. My other absolute favs are Young Frankenstein and High Anxiety.
Where the white woman at.
The single, funniest line in movie history!
Clevon delivered it perfectly!!
LMAO over and over.
*women.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
LOL LOL LOL 😂😆😅😂😂🤣🤣🤣😄🤣😅
That's my son's message notification sound.😂
I love how this film is echoed a year later in MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL:
“Tell them I said . . . Ow!” becomes “the castle of . . . Aaargh.”
“call me . . . Jim” becomes “call me . . . Tim.”
“that man is a ni-” becomes “the knights who say . . . Ni.”
A herring is mentioned in both films and both films end with an anachronistic motor vehicle.
THANK YOU MEL..GREATEST WESTERN EVER!!! ..WE LOVE YOU!!
It can't be remade or unmade- because it's perfect as it is.
Thanks Rocky. One of my all time favorite movies!
I have an uncut DVD of Blazing Saddles. I appreciate the humor of Mel Brooks.
Same. I hate the edited version.
My absolute favorite movie. Mel Brooks is a genius.
Nice insights, thanks. A truly wonderful film that seems as fresh today as it did back then and that is the true mark of excellence.
Thank God cable channel IFC still shows this movie unedited
I have the DVD, no edits!
At work we quote this film almost every day! Along with Withnail And I.
Once watched this (for the 100th time) on the BBC, with the subtitles on, the campfire scene ffffrrrrrrppppptttt, I was laughing as hard at the subtitles
0:15 Wish they still made films like this. Absolute masterpiece!
My dad made me watch this movie one night. I was like, the title even sounds stupid. One of my all time favorite movies. Thanks for the memories pops. Everytime i watch the camp fire scene. I look up and go i know dad. Your favorite scene. Lol😊
"They said you was hung!!"
"......and they was right"
another schnitzengruben
3 is my limit baby
Not just one of the best comedies of all time, but one of the best movies of all time! 👍🏿👍🏿
I never get tired of this movie.
Well done Rocky well summed up and some really interesting facts. I love this film. I watch it over and over again. It’s funny and funnier each time we watch it brilliant film. 8:39
When it came out we saw it at the drive inn. My parents, 4 kids and my very modest grandmother. Some jokes went over my young head, but my grandmother giggled during some parts. She liked the movie. As I got older and watched it, I thought it was hilarious. My son watched it with his friends on cable. They were in Jr high. All 4 of them thought it was funny. Not just the campfire scene. A classic among classics.
As funny now as when I first saw it back in 74.
Best comedy ever!!! I consider myself a general trivia aficionado, but I only knew 3 of these facts!
Saw "Blazing Saddles" in the theater, way up in New Hampshire, when it was released. The campfire scene got a huge laugh from the audience, so Mel Brooks was right to turn up the sound. One of my buddies who went to the movie with me was very Irish, and proud of it, as he should have been, but when David Huddleston said "We'll take the Chinese and the Blacks, but we don't want the Irish", it got him pretty mad. He got over it. LOL.
@ 7:05 The name "Taggart" (Slim Pickens) in charge of building the railroad was based on the Taggart family of fictional characters who built the Taggart Transcontinental Railroad in Ayn Rand's 1957 novel "Atlas Shrugged."
That was close,,,darned near lost a $400 handcart
You earned a subscription!
Blazing Saddles is a fabulously comical film and am glad it didn't become a TV series or musical.
Love this movie... funniest move ever.
The bit about Hedy Lamar suing the production... that's why in the scene in the Governor's office Brooks says to Lamar when he corrects the gov about his name...
"What are you worried about? This is 1874! You'll be able to sue her!"
Hey Mel!!: I'm still waiting for History of the World part 2!!
There’s an 8 episode streaming series on Hulu.
A total Classic!
Excellent. Thank you.
watching yt cuz of being at a loss of what to watch. Too late tonight, but tomorrow, I know what I'm watching!
I made my three daughters watch this,
and they loved it.
Some people take life a little too seriously. It's a comedy.
A movie theater nearby where I lived at, played Blazing Saddles in the summer 2016. It was around a month after Gene Wilder and David Huddleson passed away. There was around 50 people and we all laughed at the funniest bits and moments.
My spouse is from Belgium, and I told her about this film 10 years ago. She was skeptical, but when she watched it, she literally fell off the couch laughing......
At 7:20 in the video I totally reject the premise that Slim Pickens needed any kind of encouragement or effort to get in the mindset of a tough cowboy. He was a natural! I loved him as Taggart.
The great thing about him in Dr. Strangelove is that Kubrick told him to play the part straight as if it was a serious movie, and he did. Slim Pickens may have played only one type of character, but he did it well.
Slim WAS a real cowboy. He was a rodeo rider and clown, owned a ranch and rode his own horses on the set of Blazing Saddles. Acting was his second job.
"What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is a-goin' on here?" I use that line when the occasion calls for it.
I love watching this movie
Unfortunately, you cannot make that film today. I really loved that film and I watch it over and over again.
In a weird way that's good, because you know it'll never be remade as it's absolutely perfect!👍🏿
Judging by most remakes that is a good thing.
Still funny 50 years later
All you need to know Mel Brooks is great entertainment
Great movie!
I first saw Blazing Saddles in the cinema. I'd never seen anything so funny in my life. I clearly remember sinking to the floor, almost unable to breathe. I laughed so hard, the cinema management actually asked me to leave! I told them to sod off and carried on.
I wish I could have seen it in the cinema at that time, unfortunately I wasn't old enough 😊
My mom and dad took my sister and I to see this at the drive in theater on Ford Road, Dearborn, MI in the 70’s. Good times!
Yes, they would never get away with this today. The “let’s find something to complain about” brigade would have a field day.
If Mel Brooks wasn't a jew,They would've took all it's popularity off the air,Just like the offending series of the dukes of hazzard,😂😂😂😂
8:25. HOLD UP!!!!!
The dude who wrote the awesome World War Z is MEL BROOKS' SON????
I had no idea! Huh. You learn something new every day.
That book is on my list of top favourites.
Edit: Yeah, it was made into a film of the same name, but let's be clear, the *only* thing similar between the book and the film is the name. The zombies even *move* differently in the film vs the book. And the book had an awesome soundtrack built in - kills me they didn't use it. I SO wanted to hear Avalon sung from Scripps.
Classic 📽️
EXCELLENT ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Interestingly, when I first saw this movie (and this was years after it's release, I was an 80's baby) I honestly took no offense to anything I saw on screen because I heard it all before in the movies and shows I have seen, but I can understand given the time and period it was made in that there might have been some reasons to fear for the higher-ups at Warner Bros. Also until I saw this video I never knew they were considering a TV series about Bart, props man :)
Blazing Saddles is one of my all time favorite movies. Mel Brooks once said "Stupidly politically correct society is the death of comedy'", and he's right. People who find Blazing Saddles offensive don't understand the point of the movie and are too stupid see what it's trying to parody.
One of the much lesser known things people probably didn't realize is that the scene where the Indians stop Bart's family's wagon is a bit of a parody on Jews seeing themselves as "Members of the tribe" It's appropriate that this band of Indians is lead by Brooks himself and his native tongue is Yiddish. Absolutely classic Mel Brooks writing!
This is one of the great classic movies, like The Princess Bride, that Hollywood should never attempt to duplicate.
I never knew we almost got the Duke in Blazing Saddles, I wonder what role he was considered for.
There were actually a few of these that I did not know.
The movie just wouldn't have been the same without Gene Wilder, I am so glad he got the final casting in it.
I picked up an un edited copy of this for 5 bucks at the local DVD shop. Played to my two daughter's who were 28 and 25 at the time, and they honestly couldnt believe what they were seeing. 😂
It’s twue, it’s twue.
I remember watching an uncensored version when I was young. Liberal Holland didn't censor back then.
Also quite sure it would get bad ratings if it came out in the 2020's
Good stuff.
Almost as good as History of the World part 1
film institute wouldn’t touch it today for fear of being cancelled and labeled racist..
8:24 I would say his even better book, and far more useful, was the Zombie Zurvival Guide.
Way to go Mel.
...."little bastard shot me in my ass!" Always gets me.. lol
love that explanation of Bart's Alcoholism
especially the thing with his hand
see this hand holds hand steady
lifts other hand shaking this is the one i shoot with
4:44 To clarify: Brooks had a condition stipulated that a sequel could not be made without a TV version being made first. He presumed that protected against studio hubris. Experienced and smart as he was, Brooks was somewhat foxed: The studio produced a TV series titled Black Bart which was *never* intended to air - for THREE years. The tiddle their lawyers had found is the clause did not state the show had to *broadcast*. So the network spent $ for 3 yrs to make a weekly series NO ONE was supposed to ever see in order to leave themselves a sequel loophole. SMH in amazement at corporate mentality.
Epic movie. Not possible today.
Mel was a genius!
"Oh, what a nice guy" - Lilli Von Shtupp
Please don’t forget the great job Alex Karras did in Victor Victoria!🌝
Yes but on their list above it they have tootsie! annie hall and duck sup so dont know comedy!
Annie Hall is the most overrated movie of all time.
Gene Wilder wasn’t actually available, he had already committed to a theater gig over seas and was supposed to fly out the day after Mel called him. So he had to make a choice.
There is way more to the Black Bart pilot other than Ït wasnt picked up" Due to a clause in Mel Brooks contact Warner Brothers retained the rights to make Blazing Saddles sequels as long as they were producing something under the banner even if it never aired. Mel efused to do a seque so they shot four 6 episode seasons to keep the rights. Mel Brooks didnt even know about it until the 80s
4:50 how you failed to mention the Governor's line "What the hell are you worried about? This is 1874. You'll be able to sue *her*" for this part is beyond me.
It's *Cinematic perfection.*
What's better than parodying 1874 in 1974?
Blazing Saddles would not have been a cult classic if those other actors would have taken the roles.
Great movie…Top 50😎
I saw it at the drive in, after a hit of very good LSD. I laughed so hard I cried.
..THE SHERIFF IS A (BOOONNNGGG).... wHat'd he say?? ,,,Says,, the SHERIFF iS NEAR
no no i said the Sheriff is a [BOOONNGGGG]
Actually, Brookes did remove 1 line from the original script. The part where Lilly wanted to find out if what they said about black men was true. She says "It's twue, it's twue!" Bart then was supposed to say, "Lady, why are you sucking on my arm?" lol
That was in an interview with Mel himself.
My ringtone is Littles line, " where the white women at". I live in New Orleans. It makes people ... all people laugh.
try using the upitty n word line or the sherrif is a n line
Too bad almost everyone in this movie is dead now. Some of the greatest comedic actors of my time.
Excuse while I whip this out. Lol
They soon shut up about cutting the movie when it started raking in the millions.
Brooks was asked what lines the censors wouldn't allow. He stated that in the scene with Madeline Khan and Bart, when the lights went out, she asked, (with slurping sound effects) "Is it twoo what they say about you bwack men? It's twoo, it's twoo!". To which Bart stated, "Sorry mam, that's my elbow you're sucking on."
Throw out your hands. Stick out your tush. Hands on your hips, give it a push. Look at you now you’re doing the French mistake
waaaah laaaaaa
piss on you i work for Mel Brooks
Warner execs didn't have a sense of humor. One of the funniest movies ever made.
Additional Fact: Blazing Saddles was remade as a family friendly animated movie called Paws of Fury.
which was originally titled Blazing Samuari
The sheriff is near.
Unfortunately Wilder was available? You mean fortunately.