| TV/MOVIES/MUSIC The Genius of Mel Brooks

[bama alum]

Young Frankenstein

Blazing Saddles

History of the World, Part I

Spaceballs

We're packing for our vacation between commercials of Spaceballs. This movie cracks me up every. single. time, but when I think of it in terms of Brooks's other marvels...Well, where do they rank with you?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I agree Spaceballs brings up the rear. I would nestle The Producers in just after Blazing Saddles. Springtime for Hitler…

 

[rick4bama]

I agree Spaceballs brings up the rear. I would nestle The Producers in just after Blazing Saddles. Springtime for Hitler…

The first one is the best.

 

[Sid Youngleman]

1. Blazing Saddles, a period-piece whose racial jokes might make it impossible (or at least inadvisable) to market in the Age of Woke.

2. Young Frankenstein

3. High Anxiety, an extended (and also now dated) parody of Alfred Hitchcock films, with which an audience has to be thoroughly familiar in order to "get it." Brooks's scene as a Sinatra-esque lounge singer is especially memorable.

4. The Producers, for the component ITE cites above.

5. History of the World, Part I, which introduced us to the concept of the stand-up philosopher.

 

[Rsedge72]

1) blazing saddles
2) spaceballs
3) young Frankenstein
4) high anxiety

 

[Hardkore]

My faves.. not necessarily in this order…

Spaceballs
Robin Hood:Men in Tights
Young Frankenstein
Silent Movie