“Is it true how zey say zat you people are… gifted?”
ziiiiiiip
“Oh. It’s twue. It’s twue. It’s twue, it’s twue!”
And the line that was cut, but you can find on the DVD…
“Excuse me, ma’am, but you’re suckin’ on my arm.”
I will grant that Madeline Khan in Blazing Saddles > Madeline Khan in Young Frankenstein. Funnier, sexier. But she alone can’t sway the vote for me (especially because Teri Garr in Young Frankenstein > Madeline Khan in -or out of- anything).
Hedley Lamarr was much the one trick pony joke that reoccurred in Count DeMoney History of the World Part One. Yes, yes, a mixed up name that insults you (funny that Young Frankenstein’s Frahnk-en-steen doesn’t hit me the same way. Maybe because it’s part of the character arc that Freddie accepts his ancestral name).
Don’t get me wrong. If I catch Blazing Saddles on TV, it’s staying on until the end (or damn well near it). And I’ll sit and laugh. A lot. But to lay claim to the funniest movie ever? Nope.
…Baby, I’m not from Havana!..
Yeah, but with Silent Movie it ain’t all that tough.
“Work, work, work. Hello, boys. Did you miss me?”
"You’ve gotta remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land, the common clay of the New West.
You know.
Morons."
Oh Christ, if I had a dime for every time I’ve said that line to my wife’s tits, I’d be rich.
I tend to shout out “Howard Johnson is right!” at odd times.
Definitely one of the top 5 funniest movies ever.
lmao true…
“No!”
I don’t think BS is really that funny a movie on the whole, but ‘Nobody move, or the nigger gets it’ is a priceless scene.
Well, I think Blazing Saddles is funny, but I can not imagine myself seeing it as much and laughing each time like I have done with Love and Death. There is something quotable every minute in Love and Death while being a situational comedy, where Blazing Saddles has high moments spread out over a hillarious premise.
Case in point:
“I even contemplated suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian”
“I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If he was a carpenter, I wondered what he charged for bookshelves.”
“In addition to our summer and winter estate, he owned a valuable piece of land. True, it was a small piece, but he carried it with him wherever he went.”
Etc. It has my vote.
Blazing Saddles, along with 48 Hours failed to do anything for me (in terms of humor.) I suspect that growing up without ever experiencing prejudice (on either side) just makes the “Oh my god!” factor go too far down.
Young Frankenstein though, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. MmMmMmMmMmMmMmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. 
You just made a yummy sound!
Young Frankenstein is the funniest modern movie, but The Marx Brothers still have me rolling on the floor. They are a scream!
Funniest movie ever: tie between Spinal Tap and Glen or Glenda?
p.s.,
Speaking of Mel Brooks, after being told by everyone, all my life, that The Producers is among the funniest movies ever, I finally sat down and watched it a few weeks ago…and was shocked at how completely unfunny it was to me…
This might be absolute bollocks, but someone once told me that the sound effects from the eating-beans-around-the-camp-fire sceme were cut from the version shown somewhere in Scandanavia (you can show explicit sex to a 12-year old but not the sound of farts?). My poor old mum couldn’t watch that bit without killing herself laughing.
I never liked it. :o
Im willing to put “Super Troopers” up against all above mentioned movies. No matter how many times I see it I still laugh.
Just don’t kill the mood by watching Club Dread.
I would say the ‘play in a play’ scene in midsummer nights dream, pretty much anything from the Marx Brothers, or Bugs Bunny are all the ones that you can still watch and find gut-splittingly funny.
I came in here just to quote this. I know Blazing Saddles by heart, and I know exactly how this scene is going to play out every time, and yet it never fails to leave me dying. Gene Wilder’s timing is just impeccable.
Young Frankenstein is my favorite comedy ever. Way better than Blazing Saddles.
I just LOVE the inside joke about the Governor being named Lepetomaine and how everybody refers to him as an asshole