Care to share a favorite Mel Brooks?

The Brooksfilms produced remake of The Fly by corporial horror master David Cronenberg.

Ohhh…I don’t know that one, @SecondHandStoke. A treat!

Seriously!!

I’m SO jealous that you still have the opportunity to see it for the first time.

Possibly his best film.

STREAM IT NOW.

The Producers opening 10 minutes are hysterical.
I also adore the closing of My Favorite Year, which is produced by Brooks, and describes fictional events from when he, Carl Reiner, Woody Allen, and Neil Simon were writers on “Your Show Of Shows”.

Can’t stream, @SecondHandStoke. Even better, I’ll have BUY it somewhere. ANTICIPATION

The Producers, MFY…great choices, @filmfann.

I was looking for Hitler’s “Little Peace” number from “To Be or Not to Be”, but ran out of time.

Empress Nympho – from Mel Brooks’ The History of the World: Part One.

“Would you please step on the same foot at the same time? My tits are fallin’ off!”

She’s hilarious.

@ibstubro

I KNOW you’re gonna want to discuss it.

Hit me up.

Madeline Kahn in both Young Frankenstein & Blazing Saddles, fan-bloody-tastic.

Seeing Cloris Leachman as Nurse Diesel in the dominatrix outfit in High Anxiety as a kid changed my life.

Well that and seeing the beautiful Julie Andrews as the strict but loving Mary Poppins.

I need some alone time now…

Young Frankenstein is my personal favorite. It doesn’t hurt that it has a smoking hot Teri Garr in it.

@ucme . . . You take the blonde, I’ll take the one in the toibin.

@SecondHandStoke . . . Seeing Mary Popping flash her tits in S.O.B. had quite an impact on my puberty as well.

@Blondesjon

“Yes Mistress Poppins.” (CRACK!) “Thank you mistress…”

“Mistress is practically perfect in every way…”

Uuuunnngggg… Excuse me…

* googles *

Wow. Nice rack.

They’ve held up nicely.

Oh dear….

@Blondesjon Teri Garr is undeniably fuckable in that film, but i’d hump Kahn all fucking night long, when she was alive you understand.

^Word.

Young Frankenstein is jam packed with the genius of Mel Brooks. There are so many lines I could quote, but you may as well see the movie. Here is one token example:

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: You know, I’m a rather brilliant surgeon. Perhaps I can help you with that hump.

Igor: What hump?

All hail the comic genius that was Marty Feldman B-)

@filmfann My Favorite Year is one of my favourite films!

But I can’t think of Mel Brooks without thinking of the brilliant Blazing Saddles, the film that was pretty much my introduction to American race relations. :P

@ucme Walk this way… No. This way…
@glacial Howard Johnson is right…
@Blondesjon & @ucme Roll, roll, roll in zee hay…

@boffin So is Dr. Samuel Johnson. :)

@boffin You see, that line reminds me more of Stir Crazy when Wilder tells Pryor “am gittin bad!”
Another fine comedy, although not a Brooks film.

I should have waited for a day when I could MC. I stopped in and it’s killing me not to discuss the lovely and talented Nurse Diesel!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tD6A2WTW0wM

Several favorites actually:

Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Spaceballs
Robin Hood: Men in Tights

I really liked the movie High Anxiety, in which Mel Brooks stars as a psychiatrist with acrophobia. The whole movie is a spoof on Hitchcock movies. One of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. There are some scenes between Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman that are among my top ten funniest moments in movie history.

The Theme Song for the movie comes from a scene in which Mel Brooks finds himself in a nightclub and and he is reluctantly pulled on stage to sing a song. He finds his “inner Frank Sinatra” it is hilarious.

It’s thanks to my New York-born dad’s Jewish sense of humor that I got exposed to Brooks at a very early age. Sid Caesar’s weekly “Your Show of Shows” (and its later reincarnations) was a must-watch in our house, and a very young Brooks was one of its writers, as depicted in the wonderful movie “My Favorite Year” (the character Benjy Stone was Brooks). Later, I fell in love with Brooks’ and Carl Reiner’s “2000 year Old Man,” which still makes me laugh today. There have been a number of one-on-one interviews with Brooks in recent years. Don’t miss them when they’re on. Close to 90, he’s still as funny and energetic as always.

It’s been a long time since I say HOTWorld, @Seek_Kolinahr. TOO long! :)

I agree @ucme, that Madeline Kahn did everything BUT steal the show. Mel has a way of bringing out the best in hilarious women. Like @SecondHandStoke, Cloris Leachman was Nurse Diesel was a milestone in my life. The first time I saw the movie, I’m not even sure I was able to laugh, I was so astounded.

@Blondesjon YF was hilarious. The local radio station actually played that version of “Puttin on the Ritz” this past Halloween. Thanks for the quote, @Skylight !

@glacial Gourd forbid, we should neglect “Blazing Saddles”. A movie (like most of Mels’ work) where, if you’ve only seen it once or twice, you’ve missed something.

Very cool, @boffin. OBVIOUSLY a huge fan! Thanks.

@Bluefreedom “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” is another excellent film. Not that “Spaceballs” isn’t pee in your pants funny, but it’s a little lower on my personal list.

@Kardamom “High Anxiety” is one of my favorite movies. When I was in college the theater manager (of one of those huge old big-as-a-barn theaters) gave a dozen or so of us a private showing an let is party. Ah, the memories… BTW, did you read my details? ;-)

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room I’d love to see Mel live. I was so, so sad when Anne Bancroft died. Not only did the world loose one of it’s most beautiful and talented women, but Mel lost his love. Seriously, I put Anne and Natalie Wood on the top 10 (I’m being liberal there) Most Beautiful Women Ever.

Fro those of you who have never heard this, you’re in for a treat:

The 2,000 Year Old Man

I agree with the Pachyderm, some of Mel’s best work.

There was a proposal for Spaceballs III, The Search For Spaceballs II.

@ibstubro, I so agree about Bancroft. I adored her. There’s a scene from “To Have and Have Not” that breaks my heart it’s so good. It’s Mel and Anne dancing and singing to “Sweet Georgie Brown”—IN POLISH. This clip is is recreation for TV—you gotta see the film version.

@SecondHandStoke Spaceballs III, The Search For Spaceballs II

May the farce be with us!

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room I LOVE THAT MOVIE. I tried to find the clip for Hitler singing “All I Want is Peace” for the details, and failed. High Anxiety is the only Brooks film that I’ve seem more times than “To Be or Not to Be”.

Thanks for the clip! If their life together was ¼ as good as they make it appear, it was a heck of a life! It kills me to think of the blow to Mel when she passed.

Blazing Saddles was (I’m pretty sure) the first major motion picture to feature farting, and very BLATANT farting, as long as they were at it.

I bought the DVD a few years ago and had forgotten about the hilarious moment when the new sheriff was telling in flashback about his family moving Out West as part of a covered-wagon train (their wagon had to travel about a half-mile behind the others).

A band of Indians attack the other covered wagons, but merely ride slowly up to the black family’s wagon. It is Mel Brooks in full Indian headdress with a few braves riding with him. He stops his horse, stares at the family for a few seconds, then just says:

“Schvartzes !!”

^^ chuckle

Have you ever watched Blazing Saddles on TV?

They edited out the farting!

In place of the fart sounds, you have a bunch of stoned Natives laughing insanely at the mooing of cows.

This is why I bought the DVD.

As you well know, SK, some movies should never be viewed on regular TV, and ‘Blazing Saddles’ is certainly one of them…

@ibstubro

Kinda the same for me about Nurse/Mistress Diesel:

I was too young to know what was going on but something about her just felt right.

Whenever I have a hard time getting a screw to line up with a hole or any other action that requires something to go into something else I always repeat the line from Blazing Saddles when Brooks is sitting at his desk and can’t get his pen into the pen holder and Harvey Korman says “just think of your secretary, sir” and of course the pen slides right in.

lol @Sueanne_Tremendous

I do a lot of moving/hauling stuff, and I’m constantly reminded of “I got it. I GOT it. I GOT it. I aint got it.” from High Anxiety.

Blazing Saddled is my favourite. Gene Wilder rocks.

@OneBadApple Blazing Saddles was (I’m pretty sure) the first major motion picture to feature farting

That would be The Private Life of Henry VIII, to the best of my knowledge. 1933.

Man, those wheels are always turnin’, aren’t they….

“Gene Wilder rocks”…I didn’t know he had Parkinsons, so sad.

@ucme

My father has it. Fortunately it’s so mild doctors say the meds could make it worse, for now.

Q What does the Fox say?

A Where’s my Parkinson’s meds.

@SecondHandStoke Yeah, my Uncle has it too, likens it to James Bond’s Martini…shaken not stirred.