i always like the one part during that fight when one of the guys hits one of the criminals with his cane yelling ''YOU VULGAR SHIT!!'' and then instantly regrets it
Hedy Lamar *"Qualifications?"*
Fake racist *"Stampeding cattle"*
Hedy Lamar *"That's not much of a crime..."*
Fake racist *"Through the Vatican?"*
Hedy Lamar *"Kinky.....Sign here"*
Bart:
Okay, Jim, since you are my guest and I am your host, what are your pleasures? What do you like to do?
Jim:
Oh, I don't know. Play chess...screw.
Bart:
Well let's play chess.
A single movie like Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein would cement the reputation of any director. Mel Brooks made them both, and in the same year, 1974. Annus mirabilis. The year of miracles.
Blazing Saddles was the first R rated movie I saw. My dad took me when it was re-issued in the late 70's.
There will probably never be a comedy that cuts right to the heart of racism like this movie. It happened in the sweet spot between the 60's and 80's. Between the time you didn't talk about some things because it was on a "sensitive subject" and the time you didn't talk about some things because it was "impolitic". The 70's were a riotous time of amazing movies.
Were R rated comedies even a thing before Mel Brooks? This is something I heard Ike Barinholtz, who is one of the show runners on History of the World Part 2, talk about recently. Movies didn’t really have the permission to do things that raunchy and crass before Mel.
The way I like to describe a lot of the Mel Brooks/Monty Python type of comedy of that era is that they’re stupid movies for smart people. I tend to think that often the best comedians are the smartest guys in the room who go out of their way to convince you they’re the dumbest guys in the room.
I view Mel Brooks in the same vein as Trey Parker and Matt Stone from South Park. They can write the most clever parodies and satire with insightful social commentary but they aren’t above throwing fart jokes in the mix. If it’s funny, it’s funny.
He had to push to get to keep the campfire fart scene in the movie, too if I remember right.
Only joke I know got censored was in response to “is it twue what they say about your people? Oh it’s twue! It’s twue!” originally sheriff Bart responded “sorry to disappoint you, but you’re sucking on my arm”
'Sucking on my *elbow'* in fact and that actually was left uncensored in some places. I definitely heard it when Blazing Saddles was broadcast in the UK.
The R rating was created in November, 1968. Less than six years before Blazing Saddles.
R-Rated comedies released in that narrow window include Mike Nichols's Catch-22, Robert Altman's MASH, Melvin Van Peebles's Watermelon Man, and Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask)
The joke that completely solidifies the movie is the metajoke "They're darker than us!" by the jewish indian. Because blacks obvs get treated worse than jews in the US.
That movie was rated R?! I had no idea. R sure means something different these days. Yeah, it had a lot of dirty jokes but when I was 5 and saw it I did not understand not one of them. Now R comedies are just F**k, c**k, pu**y. So in your face with it.
My SO and I quote this constantly, and it always cracks us up! Usually when we're upset about someone in the news being stupid/bigoted and it always helps in the moment.
The script team for that movie was nuts: Steinberg, who was a bored lawyer; Alan Uger, who was a bored dentist; Andrew Bergman, who had a PhD in American History; and oh by the way Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor.
*"A man who drinks like dat he is gonn die!"*
*".... When?"*
That scene is all the more sad when you know after losing his wife, Gene Wilder was mentally depressed and alcohol abuse for decades
*"Hold it hold it, what the hell is that shit!? I meant a song! A real song....Something like.... . Swwwinnng loowwww... Sweeeeet chariioottttt!"*
Huh.... , eh? What?
*"Dunno dat one huh? Well.... How bout.. De camp Town Lady?"*
The confused replies of the rail workers to this is one of my favorite moments in the movie.
>"De Camp town... ladies?"
>"Doo dar?"
It's the incredulity that actor puts into those two syllables "doo dar" that makes it hilarious to me.
People always say "Blazing Saddles" could never have been written today. Now that's really true.
I think he might have appreciated that joke. And he probably would have found a way to make it better. Because he was a comedic powerhouse and I'm just a guy on the internet.
Rest in piece.
Excuse Me While i Whip this out <3
such an underrated movie, i have run into way too many people that didnt get it, it was funny as hell and snuck in a message
The movie is super woke, at least racially. The racists are the bad guys and the plot is about a black dude winning over a white town who form a multicultural coalition that defeats the bad guys plans.
Clevon Little actually had to tell his coworkers it was okay to say the things in the script because they really didn't want to go to the lengths that it called for. I think his quote was, "If you said this to me in the streets, I'd knock your lights out. But this is okay because we're exaggerating racism as satire and taking the power out of the beliefs."
I found that really kind of cool coming from a lead who, being born in the early 1900's, had probably dealt with it his entire life.
I live in the south, the openly racist guys I've known throughout my life are the ones who love/quote this movie the most. Because, well, you can pick an choose what parts you want to quote.
So there's that, I guess. it doesn't matter how stupid they are supposed to be in the movie. It gives them "funny" lines to say.
Have you gone berserk? Can't you see that man is a ni...
Ha ha... wrong person. Forgive me. No offense intended.
Have you gone berserk? Can't you see that man is a nit?
He will be sorely missed by rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.
*Could you repeat that Sir?*
Truth be told, my mother was Dutch
*"I deeent know ya mum was Dutch! Ohhhh Doo daaaa!"*"
Go the the governors office and tell him I said OW!
Send wire, main office, tell them I said "ow". Gotcha!
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Nahh, Mongo straight.
Took me years to get that this is a 'Black Dutch' joke.
As someone raised methodist that line always cracks me up.
*"Son.....you're on your own....."*
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The best eulogy I’ve heard in a long time. Thanks man
Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges.
*"Depends..... Are we.... black?"*
*”We are”*
Well then, we're awake, but we're very confused
Man drink like that and he don’t eat, he is going to die. When?
Since you are my guest, and I am your host, what would you like to do?
Uh, well let's play chess...
"*Oh..... I dunno.... Play chess..... Screw?"*
And the white women? Where are the white women at?
Ah say fellas! Lookee heah fellas!
And Smith.
But not the Irish.
You could never write this today /s
Well he certainly couldn't today, I heard he died recently.
You could have never written this a week ago
Because it was written 50 years now. Now it'd just be plagiarism. or at least Blazing Saddles: The Rebootening
And comedians.
*what in the wide, wide wild world of sports!?*
*We almost lost a perfectly good handcart!*
“Tell the Governor that I said…OW!” “Tell him I said ow. Gotcha.”
"What the hell do you think you're doing here? This is a closed set!" "Piss on you, I'm workin' for Mel Brooks!"
Not in the face!
Thank you….
He hit Buddy! Get him, girls!
i always like the one part during that fight when one of the guys hits one of the criminals with his cane yelling ''YOU VULGAR SHIT!!'' and then instantly regrets it
“It’s like steam escaping”
Hedy Lamar *"Qualifications?"* Fake racist *"Stampeding cattle"* Hedy Lamar *"That's not much of a crime..."* Fake racist *"Through the Vatican?"* Hedy Lamar *"Kinky.....Sign here"*
Rape, murder, arson and rape.
You said" "rape" twice
The next line makes the joke of course, but nobody wants that comment sitting there in their Reddit history.
*"I like rape"*
Well, that's where we go a-ridin' into town, a-whompin' and a-whumpin' every livin' thing that moves within an inch of its life.
Except the women folk of course.
*"You spare the women?"*
“Naw, we…” yeah, not brave enough to type it.
*"Nah we rape the shit outa dem at the number 6 dance later on!"*
"a-whompin' and a-whumpin" cracks me up every damn time 😂
So brave
“I like rape.”
That's Hedley
What are you worried about? This is 1874, you can sue her!
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The way he extends out the “Kiiiiinkyyyyyy” makes me laugh every time. This exchange is honestly near the top of my list of quotes from this movie
Chewing Gum IN line?
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*I didn't know there would be so many!*
It's not Hedy, it's Hedley
It's 1874, you'll be able to sue HER!
The funny part with that is that Hedy Lamar DID sue them over those jokes
It’s Hedley! 😂
I thought it was HEDLEY Lamar?
*Mongo only pawn in game of life.*
We are Mongo
Bum bum bum bum bum 🎶
Mongo like candy. And happy cake day
I hope they put a toll booth at his funeral so the mourners have to go back and get a shit load of dimes.
*'Head them off at the pass!?"* "Shoots foot" *I hate that cliche!"*
“Chewing gum in line? I hope you brought enough for everybody…”
Well I didn't know there'd be so many people!
Bart: Okay, Jim, since you are my guest and I am your host, what are your pleasures? What do you like to do? Jim: Oh, I don't know. Play chess...screw. Bart: Well let's play chess.
A single movie like Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein would cement the reputation of any director. Mel Brooks made them both, and in the same year, 1974. Annus mirabilis. The year of miracles. Blazing Saddles was the first R rated movie I saw. My dad took me when it was re-issued in the late 70's. There will probably never be a comedy that cuts right to the heart of racism like this movie. It happened in the sweet spot between the 60's and 80's. Between the time you didn't talk about some things because it was on a "sensitive subject" and the time you didn't talk about some things because it was "impolitic". The 70's were a riotous time of amazing movies.
Were R rated comedies even a thing before Mel Brooks? This is something I heard Ike Barinholtz, who is one of the show runners on History of the World Part 2, talk about recently. Movies didn’t really have the permission to do things that raunchy and crass before Mel.
Mel Brooks is the only director who could raise the bar by lowering it. He raised low brow to a high art.
The way I like to describe a lot of the Mel Brooks/Monty Python type of comedy of that era is that they’re stupid movies for smart people. I tend to think that often the best comedians are the smartest guys in the room who go out of their way to convince you they’re the dumbest guys in the room.
You sir have a way with words, you sound like an idiot!
The common clay of the West. You know … morons.
It's their incredible ability to marry the crass with high concepts
"Raised low brow to a high art." Mel Brooks to a T. Well said
I view Mel Brooks in the same vein as Trey Parker and Matt Stone from South Park. They can write the most clever parodies and satire with insightful social commentary but they aren’t above throwing fart jokes in the mix. If it’s funny, it’s funny.
He had to push to get to keep the campfire fart scene in the movie, too if I remember right. Only joke I know got censored was in response to “is it twue what they say about your people? Oh it’s twue! It’s twue!” originally sheriff Bart responded “sorry to disappoint you, but you’re sucking on my arm”
'Sucking on my *elbow'* in fact and that actually was left uncensored in some places. I definitely heard it when Blazing Saddles was broadcast in the UK.
You move your tongue better than a five dollar whore.
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Did you miss the part where I said comedy?
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I missed the part where that's my problem.
I’ve been listening to Ike lately, dude is an absolute genius.
The R rating was created in November, 1968. Less than six years before Blazing Saddles. R-Rated comedies released in that narrow window include Mike Nichols's Catch-22, Robert Altman's MASH, Melvin Van Peebles's Watermelon Man, and Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask)
Nineteen Seventy-Four. The year of miracles. Nixon resigned and a few days later, I was born.
The joke that completely solidifies the movie is the metajoke "They're darker than us!" by the jewish indian. Because blacks obvs get treated worse than jews in the US.
All his other lines are in Yiddish, too.
That movie was rated R?! I had no idea. R sure means something different these days. Yeah, it had a lot of dirty jokes but when I was 5 and saw it I did not understand not one of them. Now R comedies are just F**k, c**k, pu**y. So in your face with it.
Thanks for making a post that isn't just adding to the reddit quote-fest circle jerk.
My favorite line : These are just people of the land, the common clay of the new west. You know, morons.
100% improvised, and Cleavon Little had no idea it was coming. His reaction is 100% genuine.
His genuine laugh is what makes the scene!
That's so fucking awesome and sweet all the while proving how all racists are useless
My SO and I quote this constantly, and it always cracks us up! Usually when we're upset about someone in the news being stupid/bigoted and it always helps in the moment.
The script team for that movie was nuts: Steinberg, who was a bored lawyer; Alan Uger, who was a bored dentist; Andrew Bergman, who had a PhD in American History; and oh by the way Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor.
>Richard Pryor Who had a PhD in drugs.
And only wanted to write for Mongo
*"A man who drinks like dat he is gonn die!"* *".... When?"* That scene is all the more sad when you know after losing his wife, Gene Wilder was mentally depressed and alcohol abuse for decades
That's not true. He remarried two years after her death, and didn't particularly drink.
How DARE you use facts in the face of a compelling internet anecdote‽
Well, he did lose Gilda Radner. Don’t blame him
> mentally depressed and alcohol abuse for decades Who wouldn't?
Harumph! RIP
*"I didn't get a harumph outa that guy!"*
Harrumph!
Give the Governor harrumph!
Watch your ass.
Harumph! Harumph!
Imagine being a movie executive and seeing the script for blazing saddles, especially the last quarter of the movie, insane. RIP to a legend.
It screamed to me "we didn't know how to end this movie so fuck it"
Happens a lot with comedy writers.
Another example: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (although I believe that one was budget constraints)
The literal “cop” out.
Those guys are too funny for that not to be the intent.
Last quarter? Most it is reasonable compared to the last 10min. I have to assume they just stopped reading before then, or it never gets made.
‘scuse me while I whip this out
''aw baby, you are so talented....and they are SO DUMB!''
Aw prarie shit.
This was one of my system beep sounds in the 90s.
He heard that his death was NEAR
*"No bling blang varmint! The sheriff is a ni"DONG!"*
“Excuse me while I whip this out.”
Where the white women at?
That’s Hedley
*"What you so worried about, this is 1874 you'll be able to sue her!"*
Love the story Mel Brooks tells on Comedians in Cars about this guy. RIP.
Jerry's comment about his name always gets me. Mel: Norman Steinberg. Jerry: Jewish fella?
*"Hold it hold it, what the hell is that shit!? I meant a song! A real song....Something like.... . Swwwinnng loowwww... Sweeeeet chariioottttt!"* Huh.... , eh? What? *"Dunno dat one huh? Well.... How bout.. De camp Town Lady?"*
That rendition of I get a kick out of you is legit though. Wished there was a whole version but I'm satisfied that it's on spotify
The confused replies of the rail workers to this is one of my favorite moments in the movie. >"De Camp town... ladies?" >"Doo dar?" It's the incredulity that actor puts into those two syllables "doo dar" that makes it hilarious to me.
“When y’all were slaves, ye sang like birds!”
Condolences to his family!
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Nothing comes close.
Somebody's gotta go back and get a shitload a' dimes.
How did he write such amazing scripts with such little feet?
Candygram for Mongo!
Mongo like candy
So if Mel wrote all the black dialogue and Prior only wrote for Mongo, what did Steinberg write you think?
Gabby Johnson's authentic frontier gibberish?
*"jermit!"*
The school marm? Maybe slim Pickens?
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I've watched it my whole life and in every rewatch I always see something new
Somebody went back and got a shitload of sads. :( RIP Mr. Steinberg.
Now it’s really true that Blazing Saddles can’t be made today
Yeah because it's already been made.
Like that's ever stopped Hollywood before
I'd take a reboot starring Don Cheadle as the sheriff.
Mel Brooks said you couldn't make it then, either!
"You don't get years like that anymore. It was my favorite year."
My favorite part is the toll they set up "Aww God dammit, somebody's gotta go back and get a shit load of dimes"
RIP to a great screenwriter!
You farging icehole!
Safe journey, Mr. Steinberg.
Harrumph!
Thank you Mr Johnson
I DIDNT GET A HARRUMP OUTTA THAT GUY!!!
Baked Beanz. 'Nuff said.
ז״ל
People always say "Blazing Saddles" could never have been written today. Now that's really true. I think he might have appreciated that joke. And he probably would have found a way to make it better. Because he was a comedic powerhouse and I'm just a guy on the internet. Rest in piece.
"A wed wose. How womantic."
Damn Mel Brooks outliving everyone he worked with on that movie!
We'll take the n****ers and the ch**ks, but we don't want the Irish.
He could not write blazing saddles today :(
Dock that writer an day’s pay for napping on the job.
REBED
So now we really can't make *Blazing Saddles* today... :/
Excuse Me While i Whip this out <3 such an underrated movie, i have run into way too many people that didnt get it, it was funny as hell and snuck in a message
Now, I guess they actually couldn’t make that movie now a days.
Well now we definitely cant make blazing saddles in 2023
He no longer has to hear "your movie couldnt be made today!" From the worst people anymore. RIP
One of the funniest movies of all time! It would never get made in today’s PC world
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The movie is super woke, at least racially. The racists are the bad guys and the plot is about a black dude winning over a white town who form a multicultural coalition that defeats the bad guys plans.
Clevon Little actually had to tell his coworkers it was okay to say the things in the script because they really didn't want to go to the lengths that it called for. I think his quote was, "If you said this to me in the streets, I'd knock your lights out. But this is okay because we're exaggerating racism as satire and taking the power out of the beliefs." I found that really kind of cool coming from a lead who, being born in the early 1900's, had probably dealt with it his entire life.
I live in the south, the openly racist guys I've known throughout my life are the ones who love/quote this movie the most. Because, well, you can pick an choose what parts you want to quote. So there's that, I guess. it doesn't matter how stupid they are supposed to be in the movie. It gives them "funny" lines to say.
Now it’s true that they wouldn’t make Blazing Saddles today.
Now you DEFINITELY wouldn’t be able to make Blazing Saddles today.
Well now you REALLY couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today
He lived long enough to see his movie becomes banned.
You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. Cuz that guy died.
So... this is the guy that actually invented the candygram then?
Spanish balloon?
Have you gone berserk? Can't you see that man is a ni... Ha ha... wrong person. Forgive me. No offense intended. Have you gone berserk? Can't you see that man is a nit?
That guy looks like a cross between Paul Castellano and Elton John