I only saw it for the first time about 5 years ago, and I found it engaging and funny the whole way through. I don’t remember being bored or anything by it. Then again, I did enjoy Lost in Translation and 2001, two other movies that often get picked on for slow pace or nothing much happening, though I really don’t think The Graduate is anywhere in that circle.
Blazing Saddles is hands down the funnier movie compared to Airplane.
Funny, those of us willing to comment are running about 2 to 1 Blazing Saddles but the poll is almost 2 to 1 for Airplane. So Blazing Saddles inspires more passionate fans but less overall?
Or Airplane! fans are functionally illiterate.
Damn, no love for Airplane!? I mean to me it is below Blazing Saddles but still one of the “funniest” movies ever.
I also prefer Young Frankenstein to Blazing Saddles, but that wasn’t the topic of this thread. I’ve never seen High Anxiety, so I can’t comment on it.
I also watched High Anxiety recently. It takes all the bad overacting from BS and stops there.
Oh, I love Airplane! But against BS? This isn’t a three-way. I’ll dance with the one what brung me.
Besides, BS has Randolph Scott.
Randolph Scott!
It’s surprising how often situations come up in real life where I think “Hand these out in lieu of pay.”
Airplane! is good. Young Frankenstein is better.
And Fire Bad
That’s because Airplane! fans are just simple farmers. People of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.
Well, I don’t think Some Like it Hot has dated.
DAPHNE!
You’re over 70 though, aren’t you?
Love both, but I nevr did like the ending of BS and the non-verbal gags (like the prop plane noises every time they cue to an exterior shot of the plane) I found more amusing.
Judging by past threads:
The comedy Airplane! was released 30 years ago! Surely you can’t be serious! (over three hundred posts of quoting gag lines and responding to them)
Dopers of Color: Was “Blazing Saddles” offensive? (which quickly devolved to posting gag lines, but fizzled before reaching a hundred posts)
Surely, Airplane! is broadly funnier. /straightline
Tough one. Both had me in tears, when I first saw them. I have rewatched Blazing Saddles, but never Airplane, so I’ll go with Mel’s magnum opus.
Blazing Saddles’ humor is a little more complicated, too. I mean, yes, there are fart jokes. But to really understand the humor behind “Hey! Where da white wimmen at?”, or the black railroad hands singing Cole Porter, you have to have some awareness of race, racism, and racial stereotypes. Airplane was brilliant, but a lot of the humor was puns - the “smoking ticket” that was actually smoking, the truck dumping lamps on the runway after Lloyd Bridges said he wanted every light available poured onto the field. Even as brilliant a line as “And don’t call me Shirley” is wordplay.
He didn’t need to. Farts are funny. Always have been - the oldest recorded joke in human history is a fart joke.
Even beyond that, though, that scene was playing with movie conventions. Brooks wrote that to point out the absurdity of scenes in Western movies of the time that showed cowboys eating beans and coffee around a campfire, but no one ever passing gas.
Airplane! is indeed sillier, but I think Blazing Saddles is funnier. I can watch BS several times a year and not get tired of it, but Airplane! is harder to rewatch.
That said, Airplane (and Police Squad!) are some of my favorite comedies.
The thing that puts BS over the top for me is the last scene (not the second-to-last scene), with the two riding off on horses and leaving in a limo, while the very sincere theme song plays. I kind of gets me “right here” - I feel kind of sad that the movie is ending, thinking about the characters that I’ve met and what life lessons were learned. OK, maybe it’s not funnier, but at the end, more touching.
I’m actually 120 years old, and I played in Chicago jazz bands during the 1920s. I guess I just identify with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. Also, I like to dress up as a lady.
DAPHNE!!!
No, it’s because those who voted for Blazing Saddles deep down know they’re wrong and need to justify themselves 
Airplane! is the funniest movie ever made (don’t @ me) and it’s not even close.