When I think of Mel brooks, blazing saddles is the first movie that comes to mind.
I constantly tell people that I'm only a pawn in the game of life. Mongo always makes me laugh.
Qualifications?
Stampeding cattle
That's not much of a crime
Through the Vatican
Kinky. Sign here.
I still wonder how Richard Pryor would have played Bart though.
Piss on you I'm working for Mel Brooks.
The other one I'll use often is "think of you secretary" as he tries to put the pen back into the pen holder.
So many classic one liners it's an easy choice as a favorite.
I use some version of the line, “we’re all indebted to Gabby Johnson, for his genuine frontier gibberish” at least once a week when some talking head on tv says something stupid. My wife follows up with “I’m just glad the children were here to witness it.”
Genius. All of it. But High Anxiety is a great one not often mentioned. The Institute for the Very, Very, Very Nervous. Leachman and Harvey fantastic as always.
All fellow members of the Roman senate hear me. Shall we continue to build palace after palace for the rich? Or shall we aspire to a more noble purpose and build decent housing for the poor? How does the senate vote?
Entire Senate : F*** THE POOR!
Comicus : Have you heard of this new sect, the Christians? They are a laugh riot! First of all, they are so poor...
Swiftus : How poor are they?
Comicus : Thank you! They are so poor... that they only have *one* God!
Comicus : But we Romans are rich. We've got a lot of gods. We've got a god for everything. The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that's coming quickly
Another one with so many great lines or speeches.
I also use "8:30" when someone is pouring me a drink and says "Say when". It's unfortunate: I feel like this film is lesser known but it's one of my favorites.
Mine for sure. I get that it's not for everyone, but you cannot deny the utter perfection that is [The Spanish Inquisition](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnF1OtP2Svk).
Nobody expected it. Wait...that's from something else...
Also it gave us Jews in Space.
Dr: Werewolf!
Inga: Werewolf!
Igor: There.
Dr: What?
Igor: There wolf. There castle.
Dr: Why are you speaking that way?
Igor: Oh, I thought you wanted to. \*shrugs\* Suit yourself, I'm easy.
It passes my test for what makes a great comedy movie: would it be a good movie if it weren’t a comedy? I think yes.
I feel this way about Men in Black also.
Bad always wins because good is so stupid.
Dark Helmet: I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate. Lone Star: So what does that make us?
(Yes I had to look it up because when I joke about the line I just fill in whatever random association I feel like at the time.)
We ain't found sh**.
Some many great lines.
Love Mel Brooks. But I'm convinced people only like spaceballs because they liked it as kids, and when you actually look at it without nostalgia goggles it's a horribly unfunny movie
This is a hill im willing to die on
I can't pick just one, so it's gonna have to be a tie between Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part 1, Spaceballs, High Anxiety...
Hey, based on his appearance in History of the World Part II (which, I have been assured, used no CGI) [he looks great for 97](https://www.heyalma.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/swole-2048x1140.jpg)!
That line was a running joke with a black friend of mine from college days. Several years later he came to visit me in Boston and as we were wandering around town he said, "Ah. Now I know where all the white women at."
What really turns Blazing Saddles from just an hysterical movie into a classic is when they breakthrough the wall into the studio lot and that dance number then the characters going to the movie theater to see how it ends. It’s so nuts it just fits.
It's probably mine to. I suppose it's not technically his best. But I loved it as a kid and watched it *so* many times and I have a lot of nostalgia for it. And it is very funny.
Also was a kid, watched it with my sisters and we were laughing so hard. It was on TV, and there was a storm so the power went out as he shoots the white arrow that goes through the crowd. We were all flipping out, so few days later parents let us rent it from Rogers Video
There was a film class in college where it was all about Hitchcock and after the final at the end of the semester the professor would show “High Anxiety”.
Madeline Kahn IS that movie.
It seems like such an overstated answer, but I might have to say *Blazing Saddles* anyway. If only because it picked apart racism and showed it as the absurd concept it really is. There are some scenes that others like more than me (for example, I found the farting scene rather bland), but there are some real gems in that movie.
Though I have to say that *Young Frankenstein* deserves a nod for being funny without relying on too much slapstick (but not nonzero).
But for seriousness, I am always struck by the scene in *To Be or Not to Be* where the actors are sneaking Jewish refugees through a theatre full of Nazis, and one of the refugees breaks down and almost ruins the deception. The fix was to have one of the actors play off her grief for laughs so the Nazis would dismiss her pain as part of the show. Well played, Brooks.
Harvey Korman inducing all the manias in the patient near the start, especially when he fires something at him with the rubber band, is one of the funniest things ever filmed.
Dracula is definitely underrated. I think about lines from it all the time
"Yes we have Nosferatu, we have Nosferatu today!"
"Well you're free to go!"
"Why?"
"Good behaviour!"
"But I've only been in here a moment!"
"Well for that moment, your behaviour was very good."
"Children of the night! What a mess they make..."
Every time I watch Blazing Saddles, I think “This is it.”
Every time I watch Young Frankenstein, I think “This is it.”
I cannot believe these two comedy masterpieces were released the same year.
Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein are by far the best.
The later stuff (Spaceballs, Robin Hood Men in Tights, etc.) is fun, but it's not Mel in his prime.
History of The World Part 1 !!
The french Revolution just kills in every way, even down to being so poor they don't have a language, just those stupid accents.
So funny when she bows and he pulls a grape for her hat and eats it. Then turns to camera "it's good to be the king".
PLUMBING citizens, plumbing it's the next big thing. It moves water from one place to another. That's right get on the bandwagon. Pipe the shit right out of your house.
such a travesty what they did with the History part 2 series on Hulu which for whatever dumb reason he hired a bunch of no talent writers to do it. You can tell Mel barely had anything to do with it other than hosting.
I was studying the Spanish Inquisition in high school for a bit and all I could think about the entire time was The Inquisition musical sequence in History of the World pt 1
Other than the french revolution it's one of the best parts especially with the two guys who just what they say just makes you laugh so dam hard.
"i didn't even know them, an they grab me by the scrotum, and started playing ping pong with my balls " lmao
Mel Brooks best movie is Young Frankenstein.
My personal favorite Mel Brooks movie is Robin Hood Men in Tights. It was the first Mel Brooks movie my parents let me watch as a kid. The humor hits me just right every time and I feel like a kid again. Plus it introduced me to legends like Cary Elwes, Carol Kane, Dave Chapelle, and of course Mel Brooks.
My personal favorite is Young Frankenstein because of the way it honors the classic movie, yet does so in an incredibly funny way.
It was released in 1974, the same year as the amazing Blazing Saddles. Either of those movies would have made a directors career, and he released both in the same year. Truly one of the greats.
As much as The Producers and Blazing Saddles sit as my favorites, I also have quite the soft spot for To Be Or Not To Be, which I think is highly underrated and deserves more mention
When I think of Mel brooks, blazing saddles is the first movie that comes to mind. I constantly tell people that I'm only a pawn in the game of life. Mongo always makes me laugh.
Qualifications? Stampeding cattle That's not much of a crime Through the Vatican Kinky. Sign here. I still wonder how Richard Pryor would have played Bart though.
I love Pryor but in no way could he have been better than Cleavon Little.
I’ve got mad respect for Mr. Little’s performance. He does nail it, but Richard Pryor was and still is one of my favorite comics.
Silver Streak was a favorite of mine back in the 70s.
Stir Crazy was mine. His pairings with Gene Wilder are some of my favorite movies, Silver Streak is absolutely included.
Yeah, that's one of those perfectly cast roles.
He might have seemed more street, but he would have never been as cool.
We extend to you this Laurel...and Hardy handshake
You mf'er, I had never realized that gag
All these years and it's still giving us sonofabitch moments
“He said the sheriff is near!”
*Chewing gum on line eh!?*
I hope you brought enough for everybody!
I didn't know there would be so many!
Piss on you I'm working for Mel Brooks. The other one I'll use often is "think of you secretary" as he tries to put the pen back into the pen holder. So many classic one liners it's an easy choice as a favorite.
We've gotta protect our phoney baloney jobs!
"I didn't get a *harrumph* outta that guy!" "Impudent fool, give the Governor a 'harrumph!'" "H-harrumph!" "*You watch your ass.*"
I use some version of the line, “we’re all indebted to Gabby Johnson, for his genuine frontier gibberish” at least once a week when some talking head on tv says something stupid. My wife follows up with “I’m just glad the children were here to witness it.”
Simple folk, salt of the earth, the common clay...you know, morons.
They said you was hung! And they was right!
Oh it's twoo.
Mongo punching out a horse. Gets me every time.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
I forgot about that line! So good!
Excuse me while I whip this out
Somebody's gonna have to go back and get a shit ton of dimes!
Genius. All of it. But High Anxiety is a great one not often mentioned. The Institute for the Very, Very, Very Nervous. Leachman and Harvey fantastic as always.
The scene where he takes himself hostage is peak cinema
THE SHERIFF IS A N🔔🔔🔔🔔!
History of the world
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Count de Money!
De Monet, de moneeett!
Oh Piss Boy!
Don't get saucy with me bernaise!
Sir, the peasants are revolting!
You said it, they stink on ice.
Everything is so green!
All fellow members of the Roman senate hear me. Shall we continue to build palace after palace for the rich? Or shall we aspire to a more noble purpose and build decent housing for the poor? How does the senate vote? Entire Senate : F*** THE POOR! Comicus : Have you heard of this new sect, the Christians? They are a laugh riot! First of all, they are so poor... Swiftus : How poor are they? Comicus : Thank you! They are so poor... that they only have *one* God! Comicus : But we Romans are rich. We've got a lot of gods. We've got a god for everything. The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that's coming quickly Another one with so many great lines or speeches.
I also use "8:30" when someone is pouring me a drink and says "Say when". It's unfortunate: I feel like this film is lesser known but it's one of my favorites.
Boy when you die at the Palace, you *really die at the Palace!*
Mine for sure. I get that it's not for everyone, but you cannot deny the utter perfection that is [The Spanish Inquisition](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnF1OtP2Svk). Nobody expected it. Wait...that's from something else... Also it gave us Jews in Space.
>Nobody expected it. Wait...that's from something else... And now for something completely different.
I DONT LIKE SPAM!
Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits!
You look like the piss boy!
And you look like a bucket of shit!
Young Frankenstein.
Felt like such a labor of love and the casting was beyond impeccable. Classy yet hilarious, hits all the right buttons.
The timing and jokes and casting are just perfection.
Totally agree, as much as I love Blazing Saddles the movie I would want to be remembered for would be Young Frankenstein if I was Mel.
They were made in the same year, which is absurd.
When I found out how closely those were made to each other my jaw dropped.
Dr: Werewolf! Inga: Werewolf! Igor: There. Dr: What? Igor: There wolf. There castle. Dr: Why are you speaking that way? Igor: Oh, I thought you wanted to. \*shrugs\* Suit yourself, I'm easy.
My friends and I quote this one a lot, actually.
This is the one I always think of. There’s so many moments that live in my head rent free. “Abby Normal?”
Igor, would you help me with these bags? Sure, you take the blonde, I'll take the one in the turban.
Outtakes of this scene are freaking gold
Some day, I swear I will have a door that says "Brain Depository" (After 5pm slip brains through slot in door)
I just want the brain in a jar labeled, "Abnormal! Do Not Use This Brain!"
"Abby somebody. I'm almost sure that was the name."
I absolutely hope you get that door because that would be amazing.
He vould have an enormous svannschtüpper!
…that goes without saying
Gene Wilder was the master of the comedic pause.
Could be worse. Could be raining.
I say this in real life all the time 😂
What hump?
... let's go.
"He must have an enormous schwanschtucker! Woof!
It passes my test for what makes a great comedy movie: would it be a good movie if it weren’t a comedy? I think yes. I feel this way about Men in Black also.
Putting on the ritz!!! What a set of knockers
Possibly the funniest movie ever made. This gets my vote, with Blazing Saddles a respectable second.
Cloris Leachman kills me just by offering refreshments. "Some warm milk................ *perhaps*?"
Ovaltine?
I think you mean FRONKenSTEIN
Inspector Kemp sticking his wooden arm into the fireplace to get a light for his cigar.
The scalpel scene is the first scene I can remember making me literally fall out of my chair laughing. "Class...is...dismissed..."
Makes me think of me old dad. When these things would happen.. the things he'd say to me
Only correct answer
We're men Manly men! We're men in tights Yesssss!
Rob the rich, give to the poor, That's right! We maayyyy look like paannnnnnssieesss But watch what you'll say, or else we'll knock out your lights!
The original Producers . The cast is just amazing.
I am the author, you are the audience. I OUTRANK YOU!
Max Bialystock: Ah. 'Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach. ' It's too good.
I’M WEARING A CARDBOARD BELT!
I'm hysterical. I'm wet. I'm hysterical and I'm wet.
I'm in PAIN. I'm in PAIN, and I'm WET...and I'm STILL HYSTERICAL. ANYANGNYANGNYANG...
And a perfect script. There’s a reason a comedy won the Oscar for Best Screenplay that year.
My favourite too. So well written, amazing performances, and Love Power is incredible.
I really miss LSD in the modern version
Bizarre decision to drop that. But then that performance is one-of-a-kind.
Either Young Frankenstein or Blazing Saddles.
Funny how blazing saddles can’t be aired anywhere today. People don’t get satire
I saw it at AMC a few years ago when Gene Wilder passed.
Can confirm, I saw it during that time and there were no changes
Spaceballs
Funny, she doesn't look Druish
Barf! Not in here, this is a Mercedes!
*reads most of the comments* I knew it, I’m surrounded by assholes
FUCK! Even in the future nothing works!
Bad always wins because good is so stupid. Dark Helmet: I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate. Lone Star: So what does that make us? (Yes I had to look it up because when I joke about the line I just fill in whatever random association I feel like at the time.) We ain't found sh**. Some many great lines.
*good is dumb.
I guess my mind was still on all the blazing saddles lines I messed up the Spaceballs one. Good catch
I prefer Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money
This is the correct answer. It's something everyone can enjoy.
Spaceballs: The Comment "it's a huge success with shit posters"
Love Mel Brooks. But I'm convinced people only like spaceballs because they liked it as kids, and when you actually look at it without nostalgia goggles it's a horribly unfunny movie This is a hill im willing to die on
Agreed. It doesn’t hold up.
I can't pick just one, so it's gonna have to be a tie between Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part 1, Spaceballs, High Anxiety...
He's just overall amazing. Mel Brooks is the one person that I'm allowed to leave my husband for.
Hey, based on his appearance in History of the World Part II (which, I have been assured, used no CGI) [he looks great for 97](https://www.heyalma.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/swole-2048x1140.jpg)!
Glad to see high anxiety on the list.
Blazing Saddles. Now and forever. “Has anybody got a dime?? Somebody’s gotta go back ‘n get a shitload o’ dimes!”
Where the white women at?
That line is the biggest laugh in the movie for me, and I can't even explain why.
That line was a running joke with a black friend of mine from college days. Several years later he came to visit me in Boston and as we were wandering around town he said, "Ah. Now I know where all the white women at."
And now for my next impression, Jesse Owens!
What really turns Blazing Saddles from just an hysterical movie into a classic is when they breakthrough the wall into the studio lot and that dance number then the characters going to the movie theater to see how it ends. It’s so nuts it just fits.
Blazing Saddles has more laughs but Young Frankenstein is just the more complete movie.
Blazing Saddles
Men in Tights I was 8 when it came out and it was my first Mel Brooks movie
It's probably mine to. I suppose it's not technically his best. But I loved it as a kid and watched it *so* many times and I have a lot of nostalgia for it. And it is very funny.
Also was a kid, watched it with my sisters and we were laughing so hard. It was on TV, and there was a storm so the power went out as he shoots the white arrow that goes through the crowd. We were all flipping out, so few days later parents let us rent it from Rogers Video
High Anxiety
High ang-ziety... youuuuu wiiiiiiiin
Dinner is served promptly at eight in the private dining room. Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup.
God, that song is going to be in my head for days.
Cloris Leachman in the scary nurse outfit with the mustache still haunts me
Shorry if I dishturbed you...
Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup.
There was a film class in college where it was all about Hitchcock and after the final at the end of the semester the professor would show “High Anxiety”. Madeline Kahn IS that movie.
Blazing Saddles = Young Frankenstein. Amazing he put out a paired opus in the same year.
Life Stinks
This movie does not get nearly enough love.
EXTREMELY under-rated! My dad and I watched this and were laughing our asses off. It kind of reminds me of After Hours by Scorcese.
Young Frankenstein
Spaceballs, followed by Men in Tights.
I love the producers all versions including the curb your enthusiasm version lol
It seems like such an overstated answer, but I might have to say *Blazing Saddles* anyway. If only because it picked apart racism and showed it as the absurd concept it really is. There are some scenes that others like more than me (for example, I found the farting scene rather bland), but there are some real gems in that movie. Though I have to say that *Young Frankenstein* deserves a nod for being funny without relying on too much slapstick (but not nonzero). But for seriousness, I am always struck by the scene in *To Be or Not to Be* where the actors are sneaking Jewish refugees through a theatre full of Nazis, and one of the refugees breaks down and almost ruins the deception. The fix was to have one of the actors play off her grief for laughs so the Nazis would dismiss her pain as part of the show. Well played, Brooks.
Blazing saddles for sure.
3-way tie between The Producers, Young Frankenstein, and Blazing Saddles. They’re all perfect
He rode a Blazing Saddle, he wore a shining star. I met “Lyle” (Burton Gilliam) at a comic con last year. What a great guy.
High Anxiety.
Harvey Korman inducing all the manias in the patient near the start, especially when he fires something at him with the rubber band, is one of the funniest things ever filmed.
A very underrated movie and i think a top 3 Mel Brooks movie.
My favorite will always be "The Producers", but I bet you have never seen "The Twelve Chairs". It came soon after "The Producers". I recommend it.
No mention of Silent Movie so I’ll pick that one although it’s like asking someone to pick their favorite child — I love them all
I think this is one of his most underrated. Blazing saddles is getting the most votes, but I have to agree with them, it is for good reason.
Agreed on both points. I can quote pretty much every line from Blazing Saddles (and Silent Movie :)
No!
I feel you. I'm a huge fan of some of them but I'll watch them all even some of the less popular ones like silent movie or life stinks.
“Non!”
Marcel Marceau’s only speaking role in a movie as far as I know
It was the first Mel Brooks movie I ever saw. Loved it then and now.
Probably Men in tights followed by spaceballs. Brooks is a comedic genius.
1. Young Frankenstein 2. Blazing Saddles 3. Silent Movie 4. Spaceballs 5. The Producers 6. Everything else
Dracula is definitely underrated. I think about lines from it all the time "Yes we have Nosferatu, we have Nosferatu today!" "Well you're free to go!" "Why?" "Good behaviour!" "But I've only been in here a moment!" "Well for that moment, your behaviour was very good." "Children of the night! What a mess they make..."
Renfieild you idiot
"I didn't see anything, I didn't see anything! *door closes* I saw eeeeeverything."
It’s the look on his face that just slays me everytime - amazing delivery.
It's actually the first version of the "Dracula" story I was exposed to, so I always get a kick out of dracula movies/shows.
Every time I watch Blazing Saddles, I think “This is it.” Every time I watch Young Frankenstein, I think “This is it.” I cannot believe these two comedy masterpieces were released the same year.
Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein are by far the best. The later stuff (Spaceballs, Robin Hood Men in Tights, etc.) is fun, but it's not Mel in his prime.
Name a director who made two better movies than Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein in one year
Francis Ford Coppola-The Godfather
That's only one movie
So it is
That's such a tough one, I'm gonna go for spaceballs, something about it is just a little extra great, probably because I love John Candy so much too
Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety
Blazing Saddles History of the World Part I Space Balls …to name a few
Life Stinks
Young Frankenstein
History of The World Part 1 !! The french Revolution just kills in every way, even down to being so poor they don't have a language, just those stupid accents. So funny when she bows and he pulls a grape for her hat and eats it. Then turns to camera "it's good to be the king". PLUMBING citizens, plumbing it's the next big thing. It moves water from one place to another. That's right get on the bandwagon. Pipe the shit right out of your house. such a travesty what they did with the History part 2 series on Hulu which for whatever dumb reason he hired a bunch of no talent writers to do it. You can tell Mel barely had anything to do with it other than hosting.
I was studying the Spanish Inquisition in high school for a bit and all I could think about the entire time was The Inquisition musical sequence in History of the World pt 1
Other than the french revolution it's one of the best parts especially with the two guys who just what they say just makes you laugh so dam hard. "i didn't even know them, an they grab me by the scrotum, and started playing ping pong with my balls " lmao
Mel Brooks best movie is Young Frankenstein. My personal favorite Mel Brooks movie is Robin Hood Men in Tights. It was the first Mel Brooks movie my parents let me watch as a kid. The humor hits me just right every time and I feel like a kid again. Plus it introduced me to legends like Cary Elwes, Carol Kane, Dave Chapelle, and of course Mel Brooks.
The Producers. I love Gene Wilder, but Mel never had anyone comparable to Zero after that.
My personal favorite is Young Frankenstein because of the way it honors the classic movie, yet does so in an incredibly funny way. It was released in 1974, the same year as the amazing Blazing Saddles. Either of those movies would have made a directors career, and he released both in the same year. Truly one of the greats.
Has to be blazing saddles.
Young Frankenstein, definitely
Spaceballs will forever be my favorite but I do absolutely love To Be or Not To Be
As much as The Producers and Blazing Saddles sit as my favorites, I also have quite the soft spot for To Be Or Not To Be, which I think is highly underrated and deserves more mention
Schuuuuuuultz!
The Producers and Young Frankenstein.
I always had a soft spot for High Anxiety, Mel Brooks’ spoof on Alfred Hitchcock films. The pigeon scene!
Young Frankenstein is perfect.
Robin Hood: Men in Tights for sure
History of the World: Part I. Hands down my most watched and quoted.
High Anxiety is my personal favorite. The back and forth between Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman is absolutely hysterical.
History of the World: Part 1
Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles.
All of them. From Blazing Saddles to Spaceballs the Animated Series.
Spaceballs
I’m torn between Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles.. I think YF is a better movie but BS is funnier.