he killed it , he and LSD are the best parts of this movie

_Quelle dommage_ 😏

Never realised what this meant… until I got older and read about gay people going ‘cruising’ in some parts of london… 😂😂

​@@schechter01I still say that! 😂

He was brilliant. I couldn't see anybody else in Hollywood doing that part. Cal dumage 🤣

Voutsinas was also romantically involved with Jane Fonda in the early 60's. You wouldn't know it by how convincingly he played Carmen Ghia 😆😆

@@eightinches3671 yes when I pulled up a bio on him a short while back I read that and I think he and her were an acting classes together or something like that. The producers is my go-to movie when I need a good laugh. It's brilliant. 😁

@@chriskroll4166 Quite possibly Mel Brooks best movie. The remake, imo, was terrible.

@@eightinches3671 that and blazing saddles. I actually have the remake because I saw it for fifty cents somewhere and I bought it and I didn't think it was that bad but we both know the original can never be topped. I thought Matthew Broderick was a good choice to play Gene Wilder's part but that's a matter of opinion. Springtime for Hitler and Germany 🤣🤣

Carmen Ghia was a type of Volkswagen

​@larrycoldwater1964 😂😂😂😂

Agreed.

Mel brooks I am sure knew whom he wanted.

Yah, instead of the obvious declaration: “we have company!” .....cracks me up everytime.

😂😂😂😂😂

I use it all the time

Cause Heaven Knows They Will Two Three Kick Turn

@@jonathanbennaman6753 that gets me every time

@@johnstairs LOL I was going to say that too!

"Where do you keep your wallet?" 🤣 Roger was so hurt by this. Max had to jump in with a quick compliment to save the situation.

I would die if I met Gene Wilder. 🙋

That is the brilliant Christopher Hewitt who played Lawrence the Butler on the last season of Fantasy Island and Mr. Belvedere on the eponymous sitcom.

That's just as well, because the actor playing Roger on Broadway won a Tony for his performance.

I second that😊❤

"Love it"

"No kidding!!!"

Will love this movie for an eternity.

When Roger came out from behind the curtain in a dress, that's one of the funniest thing I've ever seen in a movie. Most people would not expect to see a man with a dress on. What made it even more funny was that he still looked so masculine, even with that dress on. Carmen Ghia looks more feminine in pants than Roger in the dress.

And he’s so unexpectedly tall that his first appearance kind of startled you, which adds a lot of humor.

​​@@saanzacs Zero Mostel is sublime

Yeah I saw the remake first, and was blown away with how much funnier the original was.

@@jamesboulger8705 The original is utter perfection. But when I saw the original broadway musical with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick that was so damned near perfection it might as well have been.

@@CaptainLumpyDog I may have overstated myself. I am not in the camp where remakes are automatically bad. There were elements I likes better in both, and obviously Nathan Lane was perfect for that role.

@@jamesboulger8705 I understood you completely :)

''oh quel dommage''.............🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

Zero Mostel in a bit of off camera improv, grabbed Carmen's crotch during the elevator ride.

I like the way Carmen inspects the statue of Hermes for damage after it gets a little "manhandling"

​@@SirPaulMuaddib😂😂😂😂

​@@simonjones7727😂😂😂😂😂😮

😂😂😂😂😂😂

As hetero, I actually felt a little guilty about it, particularly Mostel's behind-the-back mocking (which, to me, really isn't funny). But it is undeniably funny as hell. And the remake is even more over the top

As a Gay man who hates you LGBT don't talk for us all when you're so blind to reality, he was mocking us the us way he did to everyone. He made us laugh at the stupidity that we are and didn't do anything of what you said lmmfao he was laughing at you, like most of us 😂🤣

@@Meg_Lovegood With all due respect, I think it's you who's a little blind - If Mel Brooks actually felt that way about gay people he wouldn't be such good friends with people like Nathan Lane and Gary Beach

William Craig , oh for Christ sakes, it’s a movie. Everybody has to analyze to make themselves sound smart. It’s a funny movie, PERIOD.. .

let's concentrate on the performance 🎭 instead of the PC stuff here , keep it gay !

And the one he did manage to finally light looked so wilty and sad!

@@Brandibb That happens to all men

To be replayed decades later in Stir Crazy ...with Richard Pryor trying to light the match and the other prisoner grabbing his wrist to bring the flame to him.

😂😂😂😂😂

And for me, this movie is perfect and the musical that came later is unwatchable.

@@loge10 unwatchable? I never seen the new movie version. I just didn't think anything would top this movie of perfection though it's dated it's still fantastic gets you laughing every time thanks to Mel Brooks genius and going beyond The pale

If you like something, but more than one version of it exists, the version you experienced first will often be the defining one for you. My first encounter with Monty Python's Parrot Sketch was an audio recording of a stage performance where John Cleese just went wildly, hilariously, over the top. When I saw the original from the TV series I still thought it was funny, but it seemed kind of sedate by comparison.

My fam quotes that all the time. It's a surprising panacea once you start using it.

This is a Mel Brooks film. It only stars Gene.

The scene wouldn't have been written as no one would believe someone had seen a man in a dress before. This scene is intended to show Leo naivete. If had been in the business longer he would have become accustomed to eccentric homosexuals. I don't think it offends gay people as much as remind them how the world has changed, and at least here they are out of the closet which is better than being invisible.

@@kenlieberman4215 you know, i dont think it offends me, as much as its just boring. Maybe (dont think so tho) it was something fresh, but the same old joke of "haha gay prople talk funny and dress feminine" has gotten really old, over those 50odd years

I had to look it up, lol, but yes you're right.

I KNEW IT! I was trying to place him.

Yes it is!

Ah. PC for thee, but not for me. Got it.

Yes, the two films you mentioned get all the attention, but for me this is Brooks' best film and one of my all-time favorites. This film has the funniest opening credits I've ever seen ("Hold me! Touch me!"), plus it won Mel the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. I think it's worth mentioning Dick Shawn, Kenneth Mars and Lee Meredith, too. All amazing, just not featured in this clip. I'm sure you know this already, but I'll mention it here just in case someone gets drunk and wanders into this comment section: Dustin Hoffman was originally cast as the Nazi, but some long-forgotten film called "The Graduate" was also casting at the time. When Hoffman got the role of Ben Braddock, Brooks allowed him to drop out of this film. And now all of the comment-lurkers know...😉 I've only seen the three Brooks films already mentioned. I did enjoy all of them. I've had people personally recommend "History of the World, Pt. 1", but I've honestly never read anything good about it (not that the critics carry any weight around here), and it's worth noting that a "History of the World, Pt. 2" never appeared. 🙃 "Spaceballs" has a following. As for the rest, well, the decline sets in. It sets in for virtually every artist that hangs around long enough. Except for The Beatles. The Beatles didn't decline, at least not when they were together as a group. Even their worst album is good. How did The Beatles get in here? 🤔

@@WidescreenJunkie The Beatles get everywhere. That's why they are still the bests! 😂No, I didn't know that Dustin Hoffman was scheduled for the role. It's a fact that the following Brooks movies are pretty bad, except maybe "Silent Movie". Brooks did a lot of things, maybe too much. This may explain that between shows, television, cinema, production and his participation as an actor, he was going in the wrong direction for his films. In any case, he was a great entertainer et there is always something funny, even good in his worst films.

@@WidescreenJunkie There was never going to be a History of the World Part 2, that's part of the joke

I liked the new Producers because of updates to scenes like this one, but Ferris Bueller didn’t hold a candle to Gene Wilder.

they were much more subtle here than in the musical

So you're saying minorities should just accept your unsubstantiated bullshit because it makes your life easier? Interesting, and so have you got a diagnosis for Narcissistic personality disorder or are you avoiding it being document?

White, white, white is the color of our carpets! 🤣

Also, there is no question but that Carmen and Roger have the upper hand here. They are not pitiable characters; they look like they have a lot of fun.

thanks for alerting us to that, i don't think any of us would have caught on without your generous assistance.

@@sliceserve234 please excuse me for stating the obvious. But that's what this comments section is all about. If i had a penny for each of the absolutely useless comments in all these sections . . . i'd be a billionaire many times over.

@@piehound irony isn't dead

@@sliceserve234I bet you’re a real hoot at parties

A line lifted from A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.

That's your actual French, as Kenneth Williams would have said.

@@simonjones7727 Stop messin about...😂

Matches his eyes too...

Lol

Anythng else?

How much later?

One of those rare films that gets funnier with each viewing. Thanks for watching!

That’s actually a great idea. I’d like it to be more like this one, not filled with show tunes like the Broadway play and newer film

So long as he doesn't shoot anyone