What a wonderful evening that must have been and what a great anniversary gift!
Coincidentally Mel Brooks is doing a voice-over for the upcoming animated movie Blazing Samurai, 2017, and has a couple of films in the pipeline, Pizzaman and Spaceballs: The Search For More Money.
Love that last title. Classic Mel Brooks!
It’s a fart joke.
About suppressing farts.
Maybe later we can have one about suppressing the urge to explain jokes…
My wife and I attended a similar evening a few months back. As you said the man’s energy is amazing, but it was also so much fun to watch Blazing Saddles in a theater full of fans.
There really wasn’t a joke that wasn’t anticipated and appreciated. Even more since you were sharing it.
I couldn’t agree more. I always try to go watch classic films when they show them at the theater. A few years back I went to an outdoor showing of a film I’ve seen a hundred times, Caddyshack, and found myself laughing out loud at jokes I could recite in my sleep.
And if he had posted that the movie would be oppressed, it would be a Monty Python joke.
Lucky you. I just did a search and found that he’s doing a show at Radio City Music Hall on September 1. NY is close enough to me that I may go see it. It’s billed as “Mel Brooks: Back In The Saddle Again!” which sounds like it’s probably the same show you saw.
If I live to be 90 or anything remotely close I hope I keep my wits like he has.
Did he tell any stories about To Be Or Not To Be? Or about Howard Morris?
One of my favorite stories I’ve ever heard him tell on interview shows is being applauded by Nazi soldiers when he serenaded them with “Too-too-Tootsie” across the lines one night.
Maybe posters are confusing it with Brooks’ earlier work, from the silent (but deadly) era.
Nope, nothing about that stuff. Nor his WW II experiences. He only had about 75 minutes, after all . . .
If you get the chance, see Mel Brooks Live At The Geffen, which was a recorded version of his monologuing about his life and answering questions from the audience. He did it in 2015 and I saw it on Netflix, but it’s not there now. Maybe it’ll be back. Hope for the best…
Correction: checking around for it, I found it was on HBO. I must have seen it during a Free Preview weekend.
In the late 70s when I was a teen, my mom and step-dad were members of a cinema society in Los Angeles and as part of that they got to preview films. They were going to see the world premier of High Anxiety but my step-dad couldn’t make it so I got to go. Brooks was set to speak and take questions at the end but it was a school night so my mom made it a point to tell me that we could stay for a little bit of the talk but then we would have to go.
A couple of people left the theater early and Brooks mercilessly savaged them as they were walking out. We stayed until the end. 
Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast, I would catch it.
Your people don’t have metaphors, do they?
