DjangoStonereaver: The man is not just a national treasure, he's a world treasure.

I love that guy so much. As far as I'm concerned he holds 3 of the 'top 5 comedy' slots of all time. (I will not denigrate any of them by trying to compare them against each other; they are simply 'top 5,' not 'funniest ever,' etc. In no particular order: History of the world pt 1, blazing saddles, and Young Frankenstein.

President_Skroob: I'm still holding out for "Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money".

I'm still waiting for
JEWS IN SPACE
JEWS IN SPACE
JEWS IN SPACE

Still remember how stunned I was to find out that Max Brooks, the author of WWZ, is his son.

/thanks for the laughs and frights, Father & Son Brooks

urban.derelict: DjangoStonereaver: The man is not just a national treasure, he's a world treasure.

I love that guy so much. As far as I'm concerned he holds 3 of the 'top 5 comedy' slots of all time. (I will not denigrate any of them by trying to compare them against each other; they are simply 'top 5,' not 'funniest ever,' etc. In no particular order: History of the world pt 1, blazing saddles, and Young Frankenstein.

President_Skroob: I'm still holding out for "Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money".

I'm still waiting for
JEWS IN SPACE
JEWS IN SPACE
JEWS IN SPACE

I thought that WAS Spaceballs?

/may the shwartz be with you

Meh. Third rate cornball schtick.

doctor wu: Meh. Third rate cornball schtick.

Guess what, the people you do find funny think you're an idiot.

StoPPeRmobile: urban.derelict: DjangoStonereaver: The man is not just a national treasure, he's a world treasure.

I love that guy so much. As far as I'm concerned he holds 3 of the 'top 5 comedy' slots of all time. (I will not denigrate any of them by trying to compare them against each other; they are simply 'top 5,' not 'funniest ever,' etc. In no particular order: History of the world pt 1, blazing saddles, and Young Frankenstein.

President_Skroob: I'm still holding out for "Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money".

I'm still waiting for
JEWS IN SPACE
JEWS IN SPACE
JEWS IN SPACE

I thought that WAS Spaceballs?

/may the shwartz be with you

They were druish in Spaceballs...

doctor wu: Meh. Third rate cornball schtick.

Let me guess, your favorite comedy is something no one else is heard of...

My favorite Jew!

For me, this is the best explanation of why the farting scene in Blazing Saddles is genius, while most other fart jokes in movies are sophomoric.

A: You know, I hate to pat myself on the back, but cowboys used to swill black coffee and beans. They used to scrape those beans from a tin plate. And we know all about beans and black coffee-that lethal combination. And that's why it works. Farting scenes do not usually work because they're not indigenous.

Pentaxian: IMHO Madeline Kahn was one of the sexiest women ever. Not only good looking, but smart, and funny, and great voice.

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/"O sweet mystery of life i have found you"

You... I like you. You and I can get along.

Brooks has phenomenal taste in women. Seriously, damn near all the women in his movies were fantastically sexy

Great interview! I love that Brooks mentions one of my all-time favorite movies, The Palm Beach Story.

AbiNormal: The jig is up!

And gone!

I would love to meet him and ask him one question: Did the agent numbers for Maxwell Smart and 99 come from the Old Testament?

Jim from Saint Paul: My vote for the funniest scene in movie history.

/when I started reading the headline I thought he would be dead
//*phew*

Excuse me while I whip this out

I had him autograph a railroad spike for me. Seemed like a weird thing at the time but it is kinda cool.

Why the fark did I think Mel Brooks was dead? I'm not sure why. He is awesome so I am glad he is still kicking.

mjones73: Excuse me while I whip this out

Up yours, n*gger!

/sorry about the 'up yours, n*gger,' here's this pie'

Ooba Tooba: I was 9 when "history of the world pt1" came out, and i loved it then, and more so now. Even as a child i could see how much fun they were having. I haven't heard anything on Brooks in a while, and wondered if he was now possibly just very old, and lonely. Thank you subby!

They interviewed him and his son maybe 5 or 8 years ago in an issue of Men's Health; I don't know how much that can help you but -- I wish I could personally thank him for making Blazing Saddles cuz he'd never be able to make a movie like that today.

The last time it was on TV they edited out all the farts and overdubbed horse winnies, and it... made no sense.

And then I bought the book from suburra.com ("You Will Die: the Burden of Modern Taboos") and he mentions in the book (talk about research) the last time Blazing Saddles was on broadcast tv -- something like 1982 or 83 when i was a kid -- and I'd watched it, I remember it very well -- it wasn't funny with the horse whinnies.

/thank FSM for dvds, bittorrent
//don't steal
///'borrow indefinitely'
//you can't take it with you

mjones73: Jim from Saint Paul: My vote for the funniest scene in movie history.

/when I started reading the headline I thought he would be dead
//*phew*

Excuse me while I whip this out

They said you was hung.

/totally forgot

AbiNormal: The jig is up!

fark you
that was a tear jerker

Lemme reference one of my favorite films of his that doesn't get enough love: To Be or Not To Be. A little confusing but funny as all get out, and a nice "Fark the Nazis" thing to it.

Mel Brooks inspired me to become a stand-up philosopher.

Brooks' Rule: The optimum length of a film comedy is 100 minutes because that's when the audience's Raisinettes run out.

NuttierThanEver: Basily Gourt: FTA-

Q: Blazing Saddles also makes frequent use of the "N-word." Could you get away with that today?

A: Never. If they did a remake of Blazing Saddles today, they would leave out the N-word. And then, you've got no movie. And I wouldn't have used it so much if I didn't have Richard Pryor with me on the set as one of my writers. And Cleavon Little [as Sheriff Bart] was great. Even though it was allowed, I kept asking Cleavon, 'Is that all right there? Is that too much there? Am I pushing this?' and he'd say, 'No, no, no, it's perfect there.'

That right there is all you need to know about society today. We've turned into a collection of quivering pantywaists, afraid to say anything even midly offensive, lest some PC asshole gets the vapors.

I wish Mel could have gotten with Dave Chappell before he lost his mind to write a sequel. Not just because I enjoy a good N-ear joke but because I would love to see them have Sherrif Bart get elected Governor. I think it would be humorous to see how a conservative white population would react to a man of color in executive office.

"All right... we'll give some land to the nxxxxrs and the chxxks. But we don't want the Irish!"

Candygram for Mongo: Mel Brooks inspired me to become a stand-up philosopher.

Have you bullshiatted today?

Piss on you! I'm working for Mel Brooks!

Let's end this thread on a high note.

beerrun: Piss on you! I'm working for Mel Brooks!

Not in the face, not in the face!

/he almost missed one of his roles -- HOTW was filmed concurrently with Johnny Dangerously where he plays the pope, filmed in different locations, flights involved
//"everyboddy knows, except your mother, and your brother..."
/marilou hennerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

saturn badger: The blind man scene is YF was great.

/saw the play. it was most excellent.

I saw YF:TM on Broadway with Roger Bart (Carmen Ghia in the 2005 version of The Producers), Megan Mullaly, and Andrea Martin as the Wilder, Kahn, and Leachman roles... I nearly peed myself laughing, it was so good.

/I'm still hoping that the finale comes true, and that Brooks does a Blazing Saddles musical.
//Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease

Crewmannumber6: Sounds like steam escaping

Now *stomp*watch *stomp*me *stomp*fxxxxots.