Blazing Saddles RTE1

El_Duderino 09 · 28-07-2020 04:12PM

pixelburp wrote: »

Not quite farting, but one of the best scenes in Bridesmaids revolves around the desperate need for a toilet during a dress fitting. So I don't think scatalogical humour is dead, more perhaps that brief phase of gross-out films in the early 2000s made it less fashionable and seem a lazy path for comedy.

Hard to imagine it being high brow. Comedy seems to have been really poor back then but I suppose TV comedy was in its infancy. Anything got big laughs.

dublinman1990 · 28-07-2020 09:08PM

Blazing Saddles is one of the funniest films that I ever watched. As I did watch it once last year; I find the level of humour in it to be just brilliant.

How in the name of Jaysus do people not find this film to be funny?

If anyone else does not find the jokes to be hilarious. What else do they think is classed as funny in their opinion?

dasdog · 28-07-2020 09:20PM

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Yeah I suppose there's no accounting for taste.

The movie came out before/around the time you were born. So you probably saw it first as a teenager abd firmed your opinion of it then. I saw it first as a teenager too and thought it was funny because it has fart jokes and they say n*gger loads while parodying racism.

I get that you don't like this movie but insinuating people like it because they enjoyed it in their teenage years is a little silly. I never liked the fart scene myself - it was slightly funny the first time but that's about it. There are plenty of other comedies I saw in my teenage years I thought were utter muck by the time I hit college.

By your logic Young Frankenstein which was released in the same year by the same director and probably watched by the same teenagers who saw BS in their formative years falls in to the same category. These are two of the greatest and daftest and was alluded to earlier most quotable comedy movies. It's not just fart scenes or laughing at racism - they are packed with humour - a certain kind of humour.

El_Duderino 09 · 28-07-2020 10:24PM

dasdog wrote: »

I get that you don't like this movie but insinuating people like it because they enjoyed it in their teenage years is a little silly. I never liked the fart scene myself - it was slightly funny the first time but that's about it. There are plenty of other comedies I saw in my teenage years I thought were utter muck by the time I hit college.

By your logic Young Frankenstein which was released in the same year by the same director and probably watched by the same teenagers who saw BS in their formative years falls in to the same category. These are two of the greatest and daftest and was alluded to earlier most quotable comedy movies. It's not just fart scenes or laughing at racism - they are packed with humour - a certain kind of humour.

A certain kind of humour indeed... A lot of it is very childish and that's why it appealed to the people who first watched it as a teenager. The cross-eyed mayor talking to yer wan's tits... The scene whe the sheriff threatens to shoot himself "don't move or thr n*igger gets it". And of course, the fart scene (which plenty of posters seem to think is high comedy).

I haven't seen Young Frankenstei. Was it similar level of comedy and have I missed the boat by not watching it as a teenager?

What do you want me to say? That comedy never changes? That comedy aimed at children and teenagers isn't funny when you're not a child anymore? Or that a show which was culturally relevant once, isn't relevant anymore?

dasdog · 28-07-2020 11:18PM

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

A certain kind of humour indeed... A lot of it is very childish and that's why it appealed to the people who first watched it as a teenager. The cross-eyed mayor talking to yer wan's tits... The scene whe the sheriff threatens to shoot himself "don't move or thr n*igger gets it". And of course, the fart scene (which plenty of posters seem to think is high comedy).

I haven't seen Young Frankenstei. Was it similar level of comedy and have I missed the boat by not watching it as a teenager?

What do you want me to say? That comedy never changes? That comedy aimed at children and teenagers isn't funny when you're not a child anymore? Or that a show which was culturally relevant once, isn't relevant anymore?

There's a joke every 10-15 seconds in Blazing Saddles - not all are going to last the test of time and it's easy to cherry pick. Maybe give Young Frankenstein a watch - it's a slower pace.

fleet_admiral · 29-07-2020 12:24PM

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Perfectly reciting Gabby Johnsons 'authentic frontier gibberish' speech used to be my drunken party piece.
Had to look it up now sadly.

"I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin' bushwackin', hornswagglin' cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter. "

Now who can argue with that

take everything · 29-07-2020 01:23PM

I have a distinct memory of watching this for the first time when I was maybe ten or eleven with my brother when we were staying at our older, cooler cousin's house.

Its not one of the classic scenes, but the bit where Gene Wilder's character talks about being shot in the ass by a kid had us howling with laughter, quoting the lines ("I limped to the nearest saloon", "little bastard shot me in the ass") and replaying it over and over.

Probably because it was the first time we heard cursing in a film. Still though, pretty funny.

And the farting scene.

Anyway, great film.

oleras · 03-08-2020 10:11AM

What a classic, my fav comedy film ever.

Doubt you would get away with it now though, different times etc.

2020 remake...Hedley wants to p1ss off a town...lets throw a trans sheriff in, that will learn them good !!

The Sheriff is a tranny !
What did he say?
The sheriff has a fanny!

NIMAN · 03-08-2020 01:55PM

oleras wrote: »

What a classic, my fav comedy film ever.

Doubt you would get away with it now though, different times etc.

2020 remake...Hedley wants to p1ss off a town...lets throw a trans sheriff in, that will learn them good !!

The Sheriff is a tranny !
What did he say?
The sheriff has a fanny!

I'm even surprised any channel actually shows it.

I appreciate that its an 'anti-the-racist' film, but it still uses the N word as they call it, and in this day and age channel chiefs could easily never show it again.

El_Duderino 09 · 03-08-2020 02:29PM

oleras wrote: »

What a classic, my fav comedy film ever.

Doubt you would get away with it now though, different times etc.

2020 remake...Hedley wants to p1ss off a town...lets throw a trans sheriff in, that will learn them good !!

The Sheriff is a tranny !
What did he say?
The sheriff has a fanny!

Fair analogy. If it was a pro-trans movie it would annoy the same cohort of people the original movie annoyed in the first place and for mostly the same reasons - PC gone mad.

cml387 · 03-08-2020 03:50PM

Just to note, this film was released in Ireland way back as a double bill with...Monty Python And The Holy Grail.

A friend of mine (who loved both and can quote most of the films verbatim) said that some his friends who watched both didn't find Holy Grail funny at all, but loved Blazing Saddles. Just am observation on what people find funny is very much down to personal choice.

And the wonderful Madeline Kahn:

Lili Von Shtupp:
Hello, cowboy. Wha's your name?

Tex:
Tex, Ma'am.

Lili Von Shtupp:
Texmam? Well, tell me Texmam, are you in show business?

Tex:
Well, no, ma'am.

Lilly von Schtupp:
Then why don't you get your fwiggin' feet off o' the stage.

_Kaiser_ · 03-08-2020 05:02PM

The main thing this thread has done is inspire me to watch the film again - which I did earlier

Still brilliant!

brian_t · 07-08-2020 01:40AM

BBC1 are showing Young Frankenstein on Saturday week, just after midnight.

dasdog · 07-08-2020 05:10PM

brian_t wrote: »

BBC1 are showing Young Frankenstein on Saturday week, just after midnight.

That's Fronkenstein :pac:

CastorTroy · 07-08-2020 07:08PM

Fronkensteen!

trashcan · 08-08-2020 10:58PM

dublinman1990 wrote: »

Blazing Saddles is one of the funniest films that I ever watched. As I did watch it once last year; I find the level of humour in it to be just brilliant.

How in the name of Jaysus do people not find this film to be funny?

If anyone else does not find the jokes to be hilarious. What else do they think is classed as funny in their opinion?

Indeed. Dismissing it as just fart jokes and using the N word is seriously doing it a disservice. So much more to it.

human 19 · 09-08-2020 12:36AM

Yeah, like beating up old women. "Oh, have you ever seen such cruelty?" It's like he was testing the audience to see how much bad taste they could handle.

I'm no fan of fart jokes but that was a fart joke ad absurdum. It lasted so long it became funny. And Slim comes out of the tent and they ask for more beans "I'd say you've had enough beans. " Love it

Regarding the racial content, in the DVD commentary he said they screened it to a black audience, I think in Harlem, and they said the audience were howling with laughter. This was or during the blaxploitation parody era, so it didnt come out of nowhere.

Check out Eddie Murphy in the film Dolemite for more of an idea of Blaxploitation spoofs (is on Netflix)

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