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Hey guys! Excuse the thumbnail LOL but I finally watched Blazing Saddles for the first time and LEMME TELL YA... I WAS SURPRISED... It was actually hilarious and by the end of the film I loved how it ended up and how all those dumb people became accepting (yay!)

the acting was great, writing, story and comedy was as well - I'm really surprised I've never seen it before actually since I've heard some of the jokes before!!

I hope you guys enjoy, have a great day!! :) 

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Andrew T

It's rare to hear V swear, so I was pleasantly surprised to hear the s-word no more than 3:30 minutes into the movie.

Adam Grunther

I absolutely love this movie. Harvey Korman steals the show as Hedy Lamarr (HEDLEY!).

Thomas Yanez

Looks like you might have started doubting yourself about whether or not that was Mel Brooks as the Governor and the Chieftain. It was.

Anonymous

What is going on in this thumbnail?

Noby

This was an absolute joy to watch today. :) And love Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn.

TJ Bigelow

"Is that Willy Wonka?" smh, lol. Getting too old for this content, lol. That is the national treasure known as Gene Wilder. Little insider nugget. Gene Wilder, bestest of buds with Richard Pryor, hates foul language. Considers it beneath him but he will actor the living shit out of sailor if he had to, lol. Brilliant stage actor and dancer. And Madeline Kahn was great but I don't feel this was her best role and it really gave a bad example of her singing voice, which is heaven on ice. Most of the big actors that Mel Brooks uses in his films are "theater" (pronounced in the fancy way) actors. Harvey Korman (Hedy/Hedley) and Dom DeLuise (the irate director of the gay dance number) are common faces you'll see in Mel Brooks films too. Mel Brooks loves plays and musicals and stages and dance numbers; very classic style of film maker too, that happens to love breaking the fourth wall. He sees the ridiculousness in society and shows that in his films and plays. The history of comedy throughout the ages is very fascinating. In Ancient Rome, stand-up comedians were called "Truth Tellers" or "Truth Sayers" and they would stand on small stages big enough for 1 or 2 people off the side of the market and entertain like street performers. I don't know so much about how the seventies was wild for comedy you can't do today. Things were way more restricted from the 40's to 70's than today. Many comedians during these decades would get arrested after being on stage for "indecency" when in reality they are pushing boundaries. Lenny Bruce is famously known for getting arrested a lot after his stand-up acts. Richard Pryor got in a lot of trouble, often. Sam Kinnison, a preacher turned foul mouthed comedian. Today, it is more political and cancelled culture, true, but comedy will always be on the frontlines of culture and society wars. It always has been. Comedy is about taking something bad in the current society, making fun of it so that people are able to de-stress about it and acknowledge it, then normalizing making fun of the bad quality in society, thus shaming those in society that continue to do it. So its not so much about 'what you could away with back then versus today' but about what comedy was trying to confront at the time. We may call them comedians today, but they still are "telling the truth" just like they did in Ancient Rome. Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Lucille Ball, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Sam Kinnison, Joan Rivers, Dave Chappelle, Sarah Silverman, just a handful of the rock n' roll, bad ass truth tellers :) Think about it. Every time a comedian gets into trouble, publicly, for something they tweeted or said on stage, it becomes what everyone is talking about. Thus confronting the topic that people have been ignoring, lately. Creating a conversation. Its not about comparing then to now but understanding what people were letting happen in society then, and what people are letting happen in society today.

Daniel Goldberg

Now that you’ve seen this one you must watch Young Frankenstein, the movie that Mel brooks did with Gene Wilder after Blazing Saddles and was released later the same year. As you may have guessed it is a comedic version of the Frankenstein story. These two movies are widely considered to be amongst the funniest of all time. Interesting side note and my favorite Mel Brooks quote about Blazing Saddles - I read an interview with Mel Brooks many, many years after the movie came out where the interviewer commented that you couldn’t make a movie like that today and Mel Brooks said that you couldn’t make a movie like that then. Anyway, great reaction, I really enjoyed it.

jeremykg14

This one is a joy to watch, they truly don't make them like this anymore. As others have said, Young Frankenstein should be next on your watch list. It was actually released in the same year and I think I may like it even more than Blazing Saddles.

Robert Reichle

As everyone else is saying, Young Frankenstein is a MUST. Gene Wilder really shows off what he can do in that movie. Brilliant comedy performance.

Anonymous

So there are some inside jokes that are worth knowing. Mel decided to name Kormann Hedley Lamarr and Hedy Lamarr sued. Mel did not contest the suit because he revered her so much. She was an amazing genius who happened to be an alluring woman and actress. (I recommend looking her up.) Also Richard Pryor really wanted to get Mel to say the N-word, Mel would not. You'll notice he really avoids finishing the word. Gene, who I love, was a last minute pinch hitter for the movie and refers to Bart as an "Urbanite" (because he speaks like a 1974 resident of Harlem in the 1800s). Gene's drop in line about his character's kill rate makes fun of Cecil B DeMille, a well known taskmaster, who demanded his actors take dangerous risks and known for epic battle scenes with thousands of extras. Old Hollywood joke: "How are we going to pay all of DeMille's extras?" "We won't have to. We'll use real bullets." And Marvelous Madeline Kahn (who I had a total crush on her real singing voice) almost didn't do the part because Mel almost failed to explain the "Stupp" role and needed her to pose like Marlene Dietrich in a previous movie. She thought he was demanding she sleep with him at first. Thank God, she gave him the chance to explain. She deserved her Oscar nomination for that role because no one could have done the job better. I love this movie because the intent is as poignant today as it was then.

vkunia

Honestly didn't even realize so it feels weird rewatching it myself 😭

Anonymous

Well.... this reaction did not disappoint. I was laughing more at Vee's reactions to the movie and also was not expecting you to say the s word. Glad you enjoyed the movie, something like this could not be made today. Mel Brooks is a comedy genius. Check out Young Frankenstein and History of the world part 1, another Mel Brooks comedy.

Anonymous

Its crazy obviously i have heard of this movie but never gave it a shot until now that i watched it with you.lol Did not know Mel Brooks directed this film. Robin Hood Men in tights is one of my favorite films of his besides Space balls. Watching this had that humor. Loved it. And Gene Wilder kept thinking of Willy Wonka hahaha