Real humor…
Real humor… don’t you miss it?
(Gene Wilder and Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles)
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And this was Mel Brooks at his very best, and it still shows that humor is always a hit-or-miss proposition that’s more about trying things to see what you can get away with. We haven’t lost all our comic geniuses yet, thankfully.
“What did you expect? “Welcome sonny,” “Make yourself at home,” “Marry my daughter.” 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 my favourite films of all times
One of the best lines!
“Raise your right hand.” The German Army soldiers all give the Nazi Party salute. Hedley LaMarr shouts “No I said your RIGHT hand”.
BEST PART EVER!!!
Oh Blazing Saddles. How I adore thee.
While it was a funny movie, I’d hardly say it was the epitome of high humor. There were still plenty of d!ck jokes.
That’s what makes it so great. It proved that no-brow humor can be funny. Kinda shows what a disappointment modern stupid humor is.
Gotta thank the gf for introducing me to this one. Love that movie.
I just watched this last night on amc!
And they butcher the living crap out of it, just like TBS has sliced up “The Fifth Element”.
Get the DVD. See what you’re missing.
I have it on DVD… have seen the unedited film about a zillion times… and could recite every line from every character verbatim, with the same cadence, no less… but what do you expect? It’s still a cable network governed by the FCC. Can’t really blame amc or any other network for chopping it up beyond recognition, blame the gubmint.
I do! *wails* Cable used to be fairly unrestricted, once upon a time. With modern technology, you can block what you don’t want access to. I call for the removal of all restrictions on the airways! Take responsibility for your own lives, you frickin’ sheep!
Sorry, sometimes I rant…
You’re exactly right Robert! If you’ve got a problem with a show or a film dont watch it and dont let your kids watch it! You dont have to f@#k things up for everyone else too!
It’s on my Netflix list but I keep bumping it down. Is it really funny?
You’ll never know unless you watch it.
Bump it to the top. You’ll be glad you did. When this came out I had to go see it twice to pick up the stuff I missed while laughing the first time. Keep in mind the time of release (mid 70s)….but I will tell you I still laugh even having seen it close to 100 times. Do NOT watch it on regular TV….they ruin it.
After that….do Young Frankenstein if you haven’t already. Same deal.
Amen to that!
When I was 12, I hated it, even though I’d never really sat down to watch it. My uncle watched Blazing Saddles and the Airplane! movies every weekend, without fail.
I watched it again when I was 19, and was so, so very sad that I’d never given it a chance before. Its amazingly funny. Still not my favorite Mel Brooks film, but its DEFINITELY worth it!
Blazing Saddles and Airplane? Your uncle sounds like my dad.
Funniest movies of all time:
Blazing Saddles
Airplane
Caddyshack
His Girl Friday
Porky’s
I wasn’t terribly fond of it. I love Gene Wilder, though, and tried my best to enjoy it. Definitely wasn’t “Young Frankenstein”, which, in my opinion, far outshone “Blazing Saddles”.
It might be the funniest movie of all time. It’s certainly fairly high on the list.
Yeah, see I never got the Mel Brooks humour. I think it’s an American thing.
I don’t know where you are from but I think Mel Brooks is like Benny Hill but better…in my opinion.
Hmmm… Benny Hill not so much either.
Guess I like a bit of subtlety and wit, rather than a hit you in your face, obvious, comes with a laugh track type of thing.
I agree with you, BUT sometimes it’s OK to have some mindless humor. Sometimes…………
Knowing some basic Yiddish helps in understanding the jokes. For example, take Lilli von Schtupp. “Schtupp” is Yiddish for sexual intercourse. There’s all sorts of other Yiddishkeit bits as well.
Richard Pryor was one of the scriptwriters, and a lot of the race jokes are subtle inversions of stereotype. The work gang in the beginning that sings Cole Porter is a prime example. Wonderfully funny movie.
Blazing Saddles 2008: Bart for President
YES!
*Sigh* Intelligent humour has gone the way of the Dodo.
No, intelligent humour has evolved. It’s fart joke humour, like Blazing Saddles, that’s Dodoesque. (Having said that, there’s not a single “comedy” movie made in the Hollywood system that I’ve even chortled slightly at in the last 10 years.)
For real humour, you have to mine the internet now… Commercial release movies are so expensive to make that to keep shareholders happy all risk and surprise is stripped out of them, leaving nothing but predictability and schmaltz. And snide cynicism. *Yawn*
Oh I take that back. Fight Club was the wittiest, most insightful movie in the last decade or so. More of that, less of the schlock.
Do you ever find it difficult to live with that huge stick up your ass?
Yeah, I take that back about intelligent humour evolving. As Sigmund so elequently demonstrated.
Why don’t they still do “Burn-of-the-Week”? The banter between Zeli and Sigmund is priceless.
Blazing Saddles is one of Mel Brooks best movies. Certainly one of MY favorites.
Ain’t it a looovely morning’?
And in this PC world I cannot really quote the reply to that line….
Amazing how much Brooks go away with in that movie
‘Scuse me while I whip dis out!
I like the part where they are trying to get the black guys to sing a nice song, and instead they all burst out singing about cocaine! XD awsome!
“I get a Kick out of You” is a Cole Porter song.
Didn’t Sinatra do a version of it, also?
Indeed – my husband and I have both said more than once that you would NEVER be able to get this movie made today….
To be fair, you would never have seen it made back then, either.
If the studio had paid the least bit of attention, it wouldn’t have gotten made. Even when it was done, they refused to release it.
The world hasn’t changed that much – we just like to think it has.
I agree, if you consider “real humor” an endless stream of racial slurs and fart jokes “real.”
The fart jokes are funny enough, but do bear in mind that the racial slurs are not meant to be funny as jokes in their own right.
One bit I really find funny on so many levels is the Jewish Indian Chief. Played, of course, by Mel Brooks himself.
Thanks, Chuckles. Well put.
I was feeling out on a limb there for a moment! Glad I’m not the only one noticing the emporer’s lack of attire.
Ah well, at the end of the day we all laugh at different things. It is impossible to discuss such matters as taste or humour. Some love the movie and some don’t.
It bugged me too…until I noticed that most of the “racial slurs” were made by the Bad Guys (the townspeople eventually stopped).
Ya, the racial slurs that were part of a bigger joke and thus social commentary in and of themselves… Thus making fun of racial slurs.
Egad, PC has made people dense to the past…
It’s not the PC part of it at all. It’s just not my cup of tea.
Alright, this always gets me to laugh.
“All right… we’ll give some land to the n’s and the c’s. But we don’t want the Irish!
Heeeeeeeeeey! We Irish have feelings too ya know.
love this flick – hilarious.
“Well my real name is Jim but most of my friends just call me…………………………………………………. Jim.”
Fair enough, apologies. Friday being too long has made me crankier than you deserved.
Whether biting satire is Chuckles’ cup of tea or not, you’re absolutely right DWN, the dark god of Political Correctness has, in fact, made people dumb as a bag of hammers less the bag. I weep for society.
it’s sad, because today people can’t take a joke and laugh at themselves. PC promotes thin skinned, whinny, little bitches, that complain about things that they assume offend other people.
suck it up and realize that words only hurt you if you let them
Wish I’d said that. Thank you.
amen hallelujah we need to revert to humor that didn’t require obscene vocabulary in order to succeed at being funny.
YES
BART:(in klan robes)…stampeding cattle
HEDLEY: That doesn’t sound so bad
BART: Through the Vatican
HEDLEY: KIIIINNNNKY!!
Why Rhett! I told you to wash your hands after weekly cross-burnin’! See, it’s coming off.
But you have to put the precursor to that.
“Hey boys, lookee what I found!” “Where da white wimmin’ at?”
<3
yes
This also applies when the “joke” is that some people are fat, are old, have disabilities, have vaginas, aren’t white, don’t speak English, etc.
More than you know. More than….you….know…
Lili Von Shtupp: [singing] I’ve been with thousands of men/again and again/they promise the moon/they’re always coming and going and going and coming… and always too soon. Right, girls?!
Mel Brooks is my hero.
“Blazing Saddles” and “History of the World, Part I” are my favorite 2 Mel Brooks flicks.
“Oh we’re Jews. We’re Jews in Space………….”
My, aren’t we in a bad mood! Better fire one up and watch a Mel Brooks movie.
Eh. Not a big fan.
Spaceballs!
See I honestly have to say that Spaceballs is probably one of my least favorite Me Brooks movies. I still like it on occasion, but I can’t watch it often. Maybe its because I’m not a real big Star Wars fan.
Though I do often refer to using the Schwartz and Pizza the Hut.
Still, History of the World Part I is a FAR better movie, imho.
I don’t have to watch Blazing Saddles to laugh; I laugh just remembering. I don’t know how many times I have gone over in my mind the “sing a work song” scene. I don’t want to engage in a debate about yesterday’s funny being better than today’s, but today’s “funny” tends toward the cringe-worthy, as on the Office, or to the man-as-doofus/woman-as-ditz variety. I have not seen Tyler Perry’s movies, but the medea books have made me laugh until I cried. And his humor tells the truth. So I guess there are some laughs left out there…I’m looking forward to them.
Just a little point, do you mean the original “The Office”, or the american remake?
‘Cos I thought the remake removed every last vestige of Gervais’ subtle, gentle humour – and I’ll admit that it took a couple of watches of the original before it sunk in and the lightbulb went on and I went “Oh NOW I get it!!!!”
Reverend Johnson: Oh Lord, give us a sign. Are we here to accomplish great things, or are we just jerking off? (approximation of quote, Someone borrowed my complete mel brooks collection.)
Ooh, quick reference for all you film junkies out there-the church seen in Blazing Saddles seems to be a satire of the church seen in High Noon. Watch them both again.
Nice analysis, Velvet!
I sooo agree, especially aboutr the “couldn’t be bothered thinking” bit.
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How can anyone say that Blazing Saddles is fart humor? LOL. That statement alone makes me laugh. It’s full of wit and subtlety as well as some things that you don’t have to think about to get! That’s what makes it so funny, and ‘Real Humor’. Yes, I do miss it. Very much so. Hardly any other ‘modern’ movie encompasses the whole spectrum from subtle to gross as well as this one does. Humor today is just of a different type. No less funny than something like this, but just different. Nobody really goes for satire anymore.
I want rustlers, cut-throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, indian agents, mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornshwaglers, horse theives, bulldyk*s, trainrobbers, bank robbers, *sskickers, sh*tkickers, and METHODISTS!
Could you repeat that sir?
“Rape, murder, arson, and rape.” “You said rape twice…” “I like rape.”
The people that only see the fart jokes and n-words in “Blazing Saddles” are missing the entire point of the movie.
Yes, those jokes are in there, but they’re part of a much more subtle parody of everything from other films in the Western genre to then entire American culture.
Rappers and comedians today talk about blacks using the n-word as a means of “taking it back” from the white man.
“Blazing Saddles” beat all of them to it by about 15 years.
I knew my husband and I were fated for one another when, on our first Valentine’s Day, just a month into our relationship, we each surprised the other with flowers at work — and we both quoted Blazing Saddles on the card. Mutual comedic references and a shared sense of humor — the basis of a lasting, happy marriage!
God, I gotta stop reading this forum. I swear I read, ” I knew when my husband and I were FARTED for one another…”
I’m so with you, earlier, someone said Dodo and I read it as Dildo…. I’m going back to bed, somebody help me please……please….ples…pl
LETS PLAY CHESS!!! XD XD XD XD
“See this hand?” “Steady as a rock” “I shoot with this one”
You can whine that you don’t like it all you want…but it doesn’t make the point any less true. We used to have Blazing Saddles, Ghostbusters, Mafia! for god’s sake. Now, we have Borat. Somewhere, the world took a turn to the lowbrow and ridiculous, and I’d like to see a little wit in a movie once in a while.
black people need to be lynched
Just recently saw this movie for the first time…it’s up there with “History of the World (Part 1)” for sure, and “Robin Hood: Men in Tights.”
*sob* Real humor, come back! Where are you, boy? *whistles*
I miss it so much ;_;
What about “The Producers”? Surely this ranks as a Mel Brooks masterpiece.