A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) - Comedy Tonight Scene (1/10)

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Comedy Tonight: Pseudolus (Zero Mostel) introduces the setting and characters of the story through song.
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This screen adaptation of the stage musical of the same name finds the Roman slave Pseudolus (Zero Mostel) scheming his way to freedom by playing matchmaker for his master's son, Hero, who is smitten with the blonde and beautiful Philia. However, things don't go at all according to plan. The complications that ensue involve blackmail, funny disguises and long-lost children, while Pseudolus desperately tries to keep up with his end of the bargain.
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Cast: Buster Keaton, Leon Greene, Michael Hordern, Phil Silvers, Zero Mostel
Screenwriter: Melvin Frank, Michael Pertwee
Director: Richard Lester
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@CarltonGLong 4 жыл бұрын

My high school Latin teacher used this movie as a fun way to wrap up our unit on the plays of Plautus. Best 2 days of class that year.

@noahlol4771 4 жыл бұрын

bruh same

@LordMaryland 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@keycia927 3 жыл бұрын

My teacher used the same script. 1982

@coryberg4304 3 жыл бұрын

In his high school years, my brother was a technician for a play based on this movie. Ahh, memories!

@mal-leegong3913 3 жыл бұрын

I showed this movie at the conclusion of THEATRUM, Unit 1, of the Latin Course from Cambridge University Press.

@Historyandlegends789 3 жыл бұрын

Something interesting is that this is probably the most accurate depiction of the life in Ancient Rome. It was wild, noisy, restless, full of sales, and most importantly colorful

@Jpdt19 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. It took until HBO's Rome to give an authentic depiction of the ancient world after this from my studies

@jits8767 3 жыл бұрын

only thing is that i feel like this opening number includes an enormous amount of white men, i feel like rome was more diverse in ethnicities but idk

@SyrupBuccaneer 3 жыл бұрын

@@jits8767 Just a consequence of 1966 filmmaking. The very foundation of Rome's portrayal and the research done in support were fantastic and are still played today globally with many races and ethnicities playing the parts.

@rodrikofharlaw6848 2 жыл бұрын

@@jits8767 Youre damn right you dont know Im tired of all this BS about rome being muti ethinic. Complete BS. They were meds or gauls.

@ariandynas 2 жыл бұрын

@@rodrikofharlaw6848 ... and conqured North Africa, Iberia, the Middle East and Egypt, with visitors, travellers, tourists and slaves from throughout the ancient world. Rome was diverse.

@GJSTK50 4 жыл бұрын

The last movie of Buster Keaton (1:17) before his passing that same year... RIP, Thankyou for all these funny movies you've left behind.

@JMoruzzi 2 жыл бұрын

RIP Sondheim! This is a terrific tune. Surprising that the staging of it here is so clunky, though I like the way Lester is filming Roman streetlife in a verite style.

@reelgriff 2 жыл бұрын

Larry Gelbert (MASH TV Show, among others) helped write the book of the original play. When interviewed about his career, he was asked about this film, and said very disparagingly, "I could have lived without that being done." The musical is very funny, much more fun than the filmed version. Was revived a few years ago on Broadway.

@julistarling8382 2 жыл бұрын

I like both. Seemed like they had a lot of fun in the movie version too. I like to watch them having fun. ^___^

@winonafrog Жыл бұрын

@@reelgriffHa! Cant remember much of it but did see David Alan Grier in that role on Broadway, ‘96 or ‘97.

@TitanicHorseRacingLover 2 жыл бұрын

RIP Stephen Sondheim who wrote these awesome lyrics. He passed away today at 91.

@michaellemick4193 2 жыл бұрын

I first saw this movie in an English language theater in Rome when I was there on a foreign studies program in 1971. I'd never laughed so hard in my life.

@Sueb18631 2 жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: The actor playing Senex's son Hero is Michael Crawford, (1:48) who would later go on to musical fame as the original Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera".

@WillScarlet16 2 жыл бұрын

I know - and he's so spindly and nerdy and adorable here;

@richardupton3323 2 жыл бұрын

and in some mothers do ave em, definatly worth a look that show he did all his own stunts in that show (and in all his films and theatre plays).

@k.robertrichardson6779 2 жыл бұрын

A face-covering role was certainly a better fit.

@amandalynn4979 Жыл бұрын

He was also Cornelius in 'Hello Dolly!'

@pdpd7269 11 ай бұрын

More power to him

@frankrossi6972 2 жыл бұрын

I gotta believe this film inspired Mel Brooks' conception of the Roman segment in "History of the World: Part 1," but both are awesome in their own right.

@jw24878 16 күн бұрын

If it wasn't, I'd be honestly surprised

@bp39047 2 жыл бұрын

Superior comedy. Best line: "Was one a year" when Zero was checking out a wine. Last role for Buster Keaton. Wish Zero could have starred in the film "Fiddler on the Roof" that he played on Broadway. Zero's greatest movie, IMHO, was the 1968 The Producers.

@Case2_0 2 жыл бұрын

I watched it last night and thought he said “was 1 a good year”

@iloveprivacy8167 3 жыл бұрын

Such an underrated movie - thanks, Dad, for sitting me down & insisting I watch it!

@kurentbellsringing4306 2 жыл бұрын

My dad flew with him on a trip. Thanks for the memory he shared because he heard this.

@justoutofframemoviereviews656 2 жыл бұрын

RIP Stephen Sondheim 91 yrs. Thanks especially for THIS!

@davidkennedy6251 2 жыл бұрын

I had a question on this in the film music round of my church quiz last night. I am so sad that the wonderful Stephen Sondheim has died. What a gracious man and what an amazing legacy of music and words.

@Mrneonsean 4 жыл бұрын

*Wow I love this! It feels so real because there’s no CGI just real people and real sets*

@wandering_star_7777 4 жыл бұрын

Why are YOU here, Moldy Shorts? Shouldn't you be obsessing over 11 year old boy's and hugging the son of that one blonde guy that kisses your feet every meeting?

@Case2_0 2 жыл бұрын

@@wandering_star_7777 I assume they changed their name from Voldemort

@julistarling8382 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, they used to do that back then. Long, long years ago. Back before they even *had* CGI.

@Madbandit77 2 жыл бұрын

RIP Stephen Sondheim, you beautiful soul.

@simonwalker2128 3 жыл бұрын

How good is Zero Mostel!? Saw this back in the 1970's on British tv & loved it. To my knowledge it has not been televised on terrestial tv so much as once more in the 40 odd years since on UK telly

@jackiehamilton2738 3 жыл бұрын

It has been broadcast at least once since the 1970s because I remember watching it.

@ruthcrumpton3393 3 жыл бұрын

@@jackiehamilton2738 and me. Donkeys years ago, late at night on C4 but I do know I saw it, and it wasn't in the 70s because I was well into my teens so that makes it around 1990 I'd reckon.

@terrypussypower 2 жыл бұрын

They used to show this film on the BBC almost every Christmas when I was a kid back the early 70’s!

@terrypussypower 2 жыл бұрын

@@ruthcrumpton3393 They defo showed it on the BBC in the 90’s!

@whispperson 4 жыл бұрын

Always loved this incredible song.loved the movie.

@joecoupon8299 3 жыл бұрын

This song MADE the musical. The original script didn't have it. The opening of the show wasn't going well. When they change the line up and added Comedy Tonight at the beginning, it became a raging success.

@julistarling8382 2 жыл бұрын

Good. ^____^

@larrylow7452 Жыл бұрын

Saw the play in the 60s. It is a great comedy which I still enjoy. Great opening.

@nicolebragg1171 3 жыл бұрын

My highschool Latin teacher showed us this, we loved it. Such a funny movie.

@thomaseinstein9074 Жыл бұрын

As a senior student I remember my fine arts teacher making us watch this movie like a couple months ago LMAO!!!😂😂😂

@Lurker1979 4 жыл бұрын

He was such a talented man.

@benjiboy1245 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if this is right, but this beginning scene feels like it really draws from how it must have been for the Romans. Like I can kinda imagine some chorus like this being performed in front of the public 2,000 years ago. Would be really cool to travel back in time and see how this really went down

@ariandynas 2 жыл бұрын

That was the idea. They wanted to write a comedy like those that the great Roman playwrights would have. I'd say they succeeded.

@julistarling8382 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I could too. I know they didn't sing/speak in English back then, but some things about the performance style were likely similar. The tradition of having 3 different buildings/houses in the stage set is a real Roman tradition and was also used in Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors which is based on/inspired by some of the same traditions. Forum is based on ancient Roman plays with plots similar to Forum (but I don't think they ever had all of this all in one play before until Forum came along!). Plays where father takes son to brothel for the first time were apparently fairly common in Rome. And there would be several male characters of different ages including an old man named Senex, which really just means, old man. ^___^

@julistarling8382 2 жыл бұрын

@ariandynas: They did what they set out to do, I'd say. ^___^ They wrote a great play in a similar style. ^____^ Cool. 😎

@spadinnerxylaphone2622 3 жыл бұрын

This movie is basically a Roman theatre textbook.

@Talik13 Жыл бұрын

Gosh, I saw this before I even knew who Stephen Sondheim was. What a man. What a great musical!

@seantlewis376 2 жыл бұрын

Sondheim defined Broadway for his era, a very long era.

@dogfishrulez 4 жыл бұрын

I mean proof that comedy is nothing new. Something crafted in 190 BC is still funny to us today!

@keeganowens8949 4 жыл бұрын

@Howard Kornblum It was based on the plots of several plays, either Greek or Roman, I can't remember which.

@rickfoley5596 4 жыл бұрын

@Howard KornblumThe entire plot of the movie was basically lifted from 3 or 4 of Titus Maccius Plautus early Roman comedic plays and put together. The comedy was basically written a couple of thousand years ago and still holds up over two thousand years later

@MisterSynyster 3 жыл бұрын

And he's always running!

@MisterSynyster 3 жыл бұрын

@@rickfoley5596 worked for Aristophanes!

@tearoses9940 2 жыл бұрын

Human beings have always been human beings :)

@maddoxtolliver 3 жыл бұрын

*i have no idea why this song's been in my head all day. hope watching this cures it.*

@piehound 2 жыл бұрын

If this doesn't snap me out of my COVID depression . . .

@EricCampbellUAV 2 ай бұрын

“tragedy tomorrow”

@piehound 2 ай бұрын

@@EricCampbellUAV comedy tonight ???

@backupbackup490 4 жыл бұрын

Something for everyone!

@nmarrero357 4 жыл бұрын

A comedy tonight!

@TheGreekPianist 4 жыл бұрын

“No no no no no no no no no no no no!” -Cartman

@deathmetal271 4 жыл бұрын

You only need one, fatboy!

@BMeister22 3 жыл бұрын

Was looking for this comment. :)

@MagetaTheLionHeart 2 жыл бұрын

The approach of FU** it, we're gonna laugh.

@Finderskeeper98763 4 жыл бұрын

I cracked up over this movie

@GabyGibson Жыл бұрын

One of the best works that Sondheim did. Freaking hilarious!

@KittyStarlight Жыл бұрын

Oh too true. And bravo. 👏👏👏

@hanschristianbrando5588 10 ай бұрын

A great opening to an underappreciated movie.

@lavalampluva55401 2 жыл бұрын

A less fashionable suburb of Rome is an a**. I love the subtle humor. lol

@julistarling8382 2 жыл бұрын

Honestly it's beyond me how most people involved with the stage play seem to think the movie is so bad. It's really not *that* bad. I ended up far preferring the stage play of Brigadoon to the movie but still like the movie of it anyway. We all have our own favorites. Live and let live. ^____^ Either way, I think we are all agreed that neither the play nor the movie would ever have been anything like as good without this song. ^____^

@philthai99 2 жыл бұрын

A truly classic movie.

@julistarling8382 2 жыл бұрын

Pseudalus: "I play the part." Classic. And it's in both versions. ^____^ Oh, and also classical. 😉 Don't know though if they had that line in ancient Rome. Of course it would have been in ancient Latin if they did have it, not modern English.

@stebaer 9 ай бұрын

I recall first seeing this in The Summer of 1983 and before watching it how my older Brother saw the ad for and recommended it too.Then I watched it and enjoyed it later on that night.

@WolfieboyYT 3 жыл бұрын

“No no no no no no no no” - Eric Cartman, 2000

@ratkid6859 3 жыл бұрын

Didn’t Stephen Sondheim also do Sweeney Todd?? That’s so cool they’re such different pieces lol

@owenwilliams7475 3 жыл бұрын

Also did the lyrics for West Side Story, dude is a straight GOAT

@ratkid6859 3 жыл бұрын

@@owenwilliams7475 ahh him & Andrew Lloyd Webber are my favorites

@a_rocknrolladdict.0312 3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Into the Woods, Company, and A Little Night Music, as well as lyrics for Gypsy. Man's the greatest force in all of musical theatre imo

@ViolentGeekGAMER 4 жыл бұрын

*COMEDY TONIGHT*

@shenysys 5 ай бұрын

I noticed screenplay by Michael Pertwee. He is the brother of Jon Pertwee (3rd doctor - Doctor Who) also play Worzel Gummage.

@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882 Ай бұрын

This is Right Up There With DUDES (1985) a true Cinema Classic.

@anonymousanonymous7250 2 жыл бұрын

RIP Stephen Sondheim

@eargasm1072 3 жыл бұрын

Makes a good double bill w/Mel Brooks "History of the World", but this is the better movie overall

@julistarling8382 2 жыл бұрын

"That's for those of you who have absolutely no interest in pirates." ^_____^

@lizwaters5988 2 жыл бұрын

My very favorite comedy

@annm861 2 жыл бұрын

I remember singing this at acting camp back in 2013.. sheesh

@heliotrope3345 Жыл бұрын

This song was meant for Zero, no one does it better!

@rae-raetheturtledemon. 2 жыл бұрын

Something familiar. Something particular. Something for everyone on tonight.

@Quinntus79 3 жыл бұрын

Takes me back to Freshman year theater class.

@douglasknitz3595 6 ай бұрын

What Great Memories From My Childhood 😂

@pyramidhead138 4 жыл бұрын

2:06 this is one big pile of cocaine

@willwalker24601 3 жыл бұрын

Who else likes the stage version more than the movie?

@booksteer7057 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone. The movie flopped.

@user-ii1sg9cq3w 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

@mortimerlivan557 Ай бұрын

"Something for dinner, Stovetop tonight."

@caronstout354 3 жыл бұрын

"Smartly done!"

@williamcurtin5692 2 жыл бұрын

RIP Sondheim, dum vivet Plautus

@Cybertoy00 4 жыл бұрын

Is there a a soundtrack with this version of Comedy tonight? I like the tempo. Also, check out the imagery when we get near the end. VERY appropriate!

@benjsmithproductions 3 ай бұрын

I can't believe most of my life I thought the lyrics to this tune were: No no no no no...

@theunknowngamer5477 2 жыл бұрын

Dear Mrs. Say, The name of the actor playing Pseudolus, is Zero Mostel. His name IS NOT Nero Mowdel. Never was...nope, not, nowhere else I can find or have been told so by anyone else.... THANK YOU for the nightmare of your High School English class I still live in fear from experiencing. I can only imagine the monsters your children became and the horrors your legacy inflicts upon the Public school system.

@pammajidy9487 4 жыл бұрын

This film is greato

@lucyhogan7172 3 жыл бұрын

We saw this in school too this is so funny

@Dave-tx1um 4 жыл бұрын

*"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the MOON"*

@Nerdynate253 2 жыл бұрын

I hear Cartman singing, "no, no, no, no, no"🎶

@youngmasterzhi 2 жыл бұрын

But you only need one!

@booksteer7057 3 жыл бұрын

What a weird way to open a comedy: a montage depicting ancient Roman poverty mixed with clips from the movie we're about to see.

@judehutchinson8355 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, if you’re going to do opening credits at least make them fun

@booksteer7057 3 жыл бұрын

@@judehutchinson8355 I can't tell if you're agreeing with me or disagreeing with me. I think the basic problem is that the purpose of the song is to indicate that we're about to see A PLAY. It's explicitly asking us to suspend our disbelief regarding the nonsense to come. This opening does the exact opposite. It emphasizes that we're really in Rome and that these events could really take place. "Henry V" does the same thing. Laurence Olivier handled that movie right.

@SaundersE5 2 жыл бұрын

What a great film!

@powercatproductions5960 3 жыл бұрын

Weirdest episode of IClaudius ever

@panowa8319 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if this movie inspired Mel Brooks to write "History of the World, Part I"?

@jasminnemcdonald94A 2 ай бұрын

This is my first time seeing this.

@Tomcruise-e4j 11 ай бұрын

I was there in spirit

@nedludd7622 10 ай бұрын

You should listen to the parody by Roy Zimmerman "Hannity Tonight".

@jamesbowman8138 2 жыл бұрын

0 Mostel a legend

@Demille40 Ай бұрын

Boy, the golden age of Broadway. Now we get SpongeBob. 🤦‍♂️

@Dan-vt3nk Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@Bell2323 Жыл бұрын

Cartman: 🎵 "No-no no-no-no..." (South Park S4E6 - "Cherokee Hair Tampons.")

@cariboubearmalachy1174 Жыл бұрын

Some surprisingly big stunts. 2:05 looks particularly hazardous.

@alyh3721 4 ай бұрын

I forgot about the scene! LOL 2:32

@pardyhardly 3 жыл бұрын

2:45 Christopher Lloyd

@joselysylva9455 2 жыл бұрын

Forum musica tatui cidade das canções!!!!!!

@EduardoMendez-vm3yu Жыл бұрын

AVENA QUAKER.....UNO DE LOS ALIMENTOS MAS COMPLETOS DE LA NATURALEZA.....

@mousepariah3884 4 жыл бұрын

Um at 2:30.....pretty sure there's nothing under that tunic...

@Musicalfantastic 4 жыл бұрын

He is wearing a skin-colored loincloth

@EricCampbellUAV 2 ай бұрын

all i heard was “tragedy tomorrow”

@remydaitch9815 2 жыл бұрын

A Comdey Tonight!

@lelanddthompsonlll8560 Жыл бұрын

Zero Mostel!

@denimjacketsandjorts8254 2 жыл бұрын

“no-no, no-no, no, no-no, no-no, no, no-no, no-noo-nono-no nonono no-no”

@hobbesthegoblin Жыл бұрын

0:35 I wonder if that guy was Maester Aemon on Game of Thrones. 0:56 I wonder if that guy was Maester Aemon on Game of Thrones. 1:01 I wonder if that guy was Maester Aemon on Game of Thrones