theHolyToast Show exactly I wonder how people reacted

theHolyToast Show Well, kind of more like making a comedy out of Osama Bin Laden.

Ok

Is that where south park got that joke where you have to wait 23 years for a serious thing to be joked about?

Bitbit I believe so

It’s not a jewish accent.

@@Teddingtin Well, it is a jew's voice. Specifically Mel Brook's.

😯😲😮😧

@@Teddingtin The Ashkenazi Jews stole it from the Germans

@@Teddingtin what is it?

lmfao yeah it has aged perfectly

Mel Brooks is a genius .

Indeed. It's why the Marx Brothers are still hilarious even decades after they've all passed away. Same for the Three Stooges. It's the personification of the phrase "Timeless Comedy."

No PC cops back then.

@@spliish While the material has aged perfectly I just can't stand this version. Now the more recent version with Lane and Broderick is excellent.

Unfortunately, they rarely show that sort of Buzby Berkeley dance film these days, so that particular aspect of the parody is fading.

Interestingly, that shot was cut when the BBC transmitted the film during the 1980s and 1990s.

@@gerardjlaw. So, they letting them win!

@@erikbihari3625 It's been shown in its complete form for a long time now.

@@gerardjlaw. So it was never cut out then?

Don't forget the Krauts

I didn't notice that.

I liked the beer outfit.

Mmmm, pretzels.

The phallic silhouettes kill me.

Only works when they are not in power.

How would that have worked in Auschwitz?

Yep.

@@mortallious1234 if you laugh hard enough youll cough up your lungs and then you cant breathe the gas

Doesn’t works, I laugh at my bully and he hit me even harder

This film "rises below vulgarity!" --Mel Brooks

Alan Johnson was the dance choreographer

What did these people expect from a show called "Springtime for Hitler."

Referring to comedy as "savage" is so fucking cringe

@@nectarinedreams7208 'Cringe'? What is that? You must be one of the newer folk. Or maybe just posh, delicate, or suffering from affectation. Also, I'm guessing your idea of comedy has maybe stalled at the level of the Mickey Mouse Club. The funniest comedy always has some bite to it, and the best bites really deep. Savagely, you might say.

I saw an interview where he said one of the best ways to fight evil is to make it ridiculous.

Mel Brooks had balls the size of Texas grapefruit.

@@kirklarson4536 Yeah, nazis and fascists are all about the image of strength and power, so when you make them look pathetic and as something to be laughed at, it’s quite effective

@@kirklarson4536 And only a Mel Brooks could carry it off. Not only because he is a creative genius, but a Jew and combat veteran of WWII as well.

Strangely enough, I never even thought about that aspect. To me, it was an old hilarious movie, I never contemplated that it was so close to the actual end of WW2, it was like a completely different world, where the wounds of the war and the trauma was much fresher and more present. For heaven's sake, it's not much different than 9/11 is to us nowadays. It's not just that Mel Brooks was a total genius for pulling this one off, he's also got massive cojones to even try with such a subject matter.

@@antikid1247 it's a movie the springtime for Hitler musical doesn't actually exist

@@antikid1247 if by shortly you mean 23 years after it ended.

they shot the horrified look thing separately, its not like they were watching the play

The actress to the left hand side of Franz Liebkind (the actor wearing the german helmet) looks like she's trying not to laugh

when a bad play as one fan, the fan is normally not assaulted. this is the most severe reaction to a review you disagree with.

The one guy is Franz Liebkind, the writer of the musical.

@@Sanchewich No, Franz is in the helmet. That is actualy Alan Johnson applauding at the end. He choreographed the whole thing, and Mel thought it would be a great gag to put him in, wildly applauding his own work. And having no one at all agree with him.

@@hoodatdondar2664 The guy in the helmet at 2:22 was silently agreeing with him.

I remember when this came out. Even making it at all was controversial, much less getting it released. And, TBH, only a comedic genius like Mel Brooks who was also Jewish could have ever managed to pull this off.

One would hope that if nothing else, they could glean that info from the actual context of the entire "The Producers" musical...

This was super controversial even then for that for that reason.

@FreedomMonkeyNews | Controversial I sincerely hope you are a bot trolling me, and not NAZI sympathizer. I have been to the death camps and Auschwitz. I have seen the Berlin Wall. I have read the stories of the gas Chambers, and talk to survivors in their old age. After compiling the real evidence, you cannot objectively tell me there should not have been a war against a tough Hitler and his cronies. The war that should have been fought, that was not, was the war against Joseph Stalin.

​@realfreedomnews72 He was Jewish you nonce.

Based on what I heard, the movie was pretty much what he was out to make. The thing he was forced to change was just the title of the movie. He didn't invent the whole fraud plot to sate a studio.

Fun story somewhere overseas still used the springtime for Hitler title and even used the naming scheme for most movies

well now that just makes me wanna see the movie he originally wanted to do. but now we'll never get to >:(

Basically what JoJo rabbit is.

@@timewarriorsaga Sweden. Here it’s called “springtime for hitler”, And his other films are named “springtime for Frankenstein”, etc.

He also took out a full page with his own money, which is amazing as Sellers was a known miser, asking people to go see the movie, calling it a work of genius.

Props to Sellers, never knew he got it out of limbo.

There's six million of those.

Good memories

🤣

Let's not forget those ridiculous costumes the models wear, particulary the one with the pretzels for a bra.

It's pure genius. 🤩🤩😂😂

😮 / 😧 / 😨 / etc.

note the audience member wearing the german army helmet at 2:24 or so.

@@jobob47 that person is the one who wrote the play! LOL Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder sought him out. Kenneth Mars is the actor. He’s hilarious and has been in a few of Mel Brooks’ films.

Brad Parker it’s like calling Ben Shapiro a nazi

@Brad Parker he barely got away with it then! They had to get Peter Seller's endorsement...like Mel.Brooks and Gene Wilder weren't.Jewish enough!

@Brad Parker Dude what the hell are you talking about? This would be tame by today's standards. Have you ever heard of a movie called Jojo Rabbit? The comedy about a young boy with Hitler for a wacky imaginary friend? Yeah, that got nominated for an Oscar, and it came out in 2019. Not everyone is a twitter snowflake-the majority of people, and in fact the majority of liberals, are more okay with this stuff than you think. In fact, people were WAY more uptight back when this film was made, as evidenced by how controversial it became when today it wouldn't be that controversial at all.

@@Kira1Lawliet Jojo Rabbit only got away with it BECAUSE of comparisons with The Producers. If it had to be made without reference to it, it couldn't have been made by Hollywoke.

@@Nonamearisto I don't think you know what you're talking about. Jojo Rabbit had almost nothing to do with The Producers, and few people were comparing one with the other. Further, you're contradicting your own point. If today's filmmakers were so hypersensitive that a movie like the Producers would never be made today, then how does it makes sense for a movie that, at least in your mind, builds off of something like the Producers and goes even further with that kind of tone, to be not only made but critically and commercially successful? Maybe you're just espousing a rosy view of the past and telling yourself that people are just more sensitive today than they were then. In reality, people then were more sensitive (they actually had and enforced obscenity laws that could land you in jail for using crude language in public settings, which, as much as you might harp against modern social media culture, is nonetheless far more totalitarian than what we have today). The only difference is in what they were sensitive towards. People then were just as sensitive in favor of conservative sensibilities as people today are in favor of liberal ones. The cultural position of the sensitivity has changed, and in terms of it changing by degree, it's actually considerably softer now than it was back then.

"We're March" ...ing = Wehrmacht

@@Fete_Fatale damn! Yes. How did I not hear that all this time?

@@NoahSpurrier Lol ... I suppose it's one of Mel's "hidden in plain sight" jokes. If it's any consolation, it also took me years to spot it :)

I agree, as soon as I saw the pretzel pastries, I lost it!!!!

Pasties, not pastries

Same here. Blazing Saddles ftw

Same except my dad was my history teacher at the time and he showed it to the whole class and we were all little middle schoolers who didn’t get it but the song was catchy so off we pranced to recess singing “springtime for hitler.” Boy did my dad get some weird looks

You had an awesome father.

My parents let me watch Blazing Saddles when I was 12 too, with a warning not to use the N word (which I already knew was a particularly bad racial slur).

I think that he should have expressed the same amount of gratitude for Dick Shawn's performance. Gene Wilder did what was expected. He's in almost every scene, so he had to be good, or this film would have dragged down and flopped, but Dick Shawn is the bright and brilliant light of this film. His way of playing his part was original and hilarious. He showed just the right amount of energy, for an in-the-clouds peace and love counter-culture person. Did not go for slapstick or broad, attention getting comedy. He was brilliant and wonderful, in the audition, and as a counter-culture peace and love Hitler.

@@ceceliaclarke I would also add Kenneth Mars for his hysterical portrayal of the unreformed Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind. The scene where he's comparing Churchill and Hitler is side splitting. It's done very subtly and skillfully by a great character actor. He steals almost every scene he's in.

@@donpietruk1517 Yes. He is a perennial favorite. There is just quite a bit of slapstick and broad comedy to his portrayal. I prefer the more understated approach of Dick Shawn. Zero Mostel is low key, dead-pan and understated like this, and I think that this is why he's so memorably wonderful in this. Gene Wilder is a little over the top with his acting, in my opinion. He does not really give the impression of a mild-mannered, soft-voiced accountant. I do understand your appreciation of Kenneth Mars in this film. Someone in this story had to be frenetic and out of control, to balance Dick Shawn's peace -loving stoner character, and Zero Mostel's jaded, cynical, seen-it-all-before charracter. Kenneth Mars was also very wonderful. Thank you for your comment.

​@@donpietruk1517Churchill was not a painter! Hitler could paint an entire room in an afternoon!

I’ve seen better movies from the 60’s

Dr. Strangelove holds up well as a comedy in the same macabre vein.

Absolutely. What is silly is how some people try to claim “It is not a remake. It is the film version of the musical” !! It IS a remake no matter how one slices it. Some of the scenes are almost exact copies except for the inferior actors. Will Ferrell was completely miscast and lousy.

In an interview Mel Brooks said he got the idea for the Zero Mostel character from some of the producers he knew when he started in show business.

I LOVED the 2005 one!!! This one - eh....

@@elizabethcarpenter4313 Let me guess - you saw the remake first and had no idea it was a remake? Then after many years you finally learned there was an original movie but since you're one of those "first-impressions-are-stuck-forever-in-my-mind" kind of people the original became the remake for you. But never mind what you and I think, let's see what the *audience* thinks. First let's see the IMDB rating for the original: 7,6. And for the remake? 6,3. But let's also have a look what the *professional critics* think. On Rottentomatoes the original has a 90% rating (and a 85% audience rating), whereas the remake has a 51% (rotten) rating (63% audience rating). And when it comes to commercial success, well, the remake only made $38,075,318 worldwide from a $45,000,000 budget. Ouch. That spells a flop. So if you loved the 2005 one. Good for you. The Imdb (audience scores), Rottentomatoes (professional critic score) and the commercial flop of the 2005 version all speak against you. If you're even serious to begin with. It's always wise to suspect that somebody who posts something silly only does it for the sake of online littering.

@@jamesshunt5123 I agree that the original is better but why get so offended if somebody likes the remake better? It’s really not that serious, lmao. Let them have their opinion and you can have yours. It’s just a movie, why bring up what _others_ think by showing them the rating? It’s not like it would change their mind once they find out other people didn’t think it was as good. There is no right or wrong when talking about opinions, especially on trivial matters.

Making fun of nazis, a time honored tradition since Charlie Chaplin

Almost certainly 😆

I Couldn't agree with you more

Jewish humor is great.

it was a crime to remove the Dick Shawn character. baby.

I loved the Lane & Broderick version……..

The contrast is especially interesting considering the War was only 23 years in the past in '68.

The one Jew who came out of the Holocaust with his sense of Humor intact.

What about Jo Jo Rabbit?

​@@gillianbrown8502 The joke is you can't make the same film twice

I was rolling on the floor the first time I saw this.

@@FFM0594 I am sorry, but if you have read Primo Levi's "If this is a man" you will realise that there are some things too horrific to be transformed by comedy.

@@dominique2693 Found the humor nazi.

@@dominique2693 I have, he’s wrong. But it is a reasonable thing to think, won’t post a long essay. But will note that Mel himself said that there are things here to which a reasonable person could take offence. Incidentally, Edgar Allan Poe agreed with you. From ‘The Masque of the Red Death”, when the company see the Masque: “There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made. The whole company, indeed, seemed now deeply to feel that in the costume and bearing of the stranger neither wit nor propriety existed” And the debate goes on.

P.S. In 1942, Ernst Lubitsch released a Jack Benny comedy about the Nazi occupation of Poland. It makes this look tame. I still don’t quite see how the hell he made it work. Called “ To Be or Not to Be”. Mel Brooks tried a remake in 1983. Like calls to like, I guess. Incidentally, the 1983 director was Alan Johnson, who appears in this clip as the only member of the audience at the end who claps.

You're a good sport!!!

And BTW the war was a long time ago. The hatchet is buried. I am a big fan of German culture and music.

How can this be hilarious for you ? 🤦‍♂️

@@erfannadernezhad190 Some people aren’t so easily offended maybe?

@@erfannadernezhad190 Not are Germans are Nazis?

I haven't seen the remake (I'd either forgotten or didn't know there was one), but just can't help wondering: why make one?

@@G6JPG Totally agree with you. Why? Someone thinks they can improve on the original? I thought the same thing when they decided to remake Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Blasphemous!

It was made to be laughed at.

Funniest part is no one in the audience can actually see it

Don't be stupid, be a smarty...🙉

It was a reference to the June Taylor Dancers, who opened the Jackie Gleason Show in that era and whose routine always included an overhead shot. The number also includes homages to the Ziegfeld Follies and Busby Berkeley (who is also spoofed in the final scene, with Dom DeLuise, of "Blazing Saddles").

@@morganalabeille5004 I bet the people in the nosebleeds could see it. I'm sure there's an analogy in there somewhere. The poor knew what was coming, but the rich were too close to the action to see the big picture.

Dr. Harold Pontiff Coomer Don’t be stupid be a smarty Come and join the nazi party

I voz born in Passau.......

Don't be stupid, be a smartie! Come and join the nazi party!

dont be stupid be a smartie come und join the nazi party

@@amadeodante That line was dubbed by Mel Brooks himself.

Susan Strohman directed and choreographed the play and the film. A lady of incredible talent. I agree the 1968 film made me laugh at the top of my lungs.

Didn't care to much for the remake tbh. Though it was cool to see. Matthew Broderick & Nathan Lane. Share screen time again. For the first time since Lion King🙂

I prefer the remake

I do just to piss people off

I played it in cod voice chat every one in the lobby left i dont know if ill make it out with my life if i said it in a public park

@snowy the snowman that's pretty interesting

@snowy the snowman The fact that there isn't greater co-operation between the UN, NATO and the EU always seemed ridiculous to me. But I guess a lot of people already see the E.U. as some kind of Imperial Government rather than as a trade union, so I guess it makes sense that people would oppose merging all of those things into basically a world government.

@snowy the snowman HANG ON where you implying something there

@snowy the snowman yeah France is nationalist as hell are you surprised lmao

@@moonshinei Yeah, the French think they‘re the only ones who are important. Which is ridiculous since Americans know WE are the only ones who are important.

Sometimes. After 1941, they never tried to remake “The Maltese Falcon”.

He's the playwright of "Springtime for Hitler". He likes this part but later in the movie, he gets really mad about the way Hitler is portrayed--as a hippy dude.

And it never will. This is timeless satire.

My guy you commented this when i was 7

You know the one in the helmet is Franz Lincoln

The one with the helmet is Franz Liebkind, who wrote the play, and the one in the orange dress is Roger DeBris, a drag queen and the play's director.

Mel Brooks is the only man alive that could deliver the line "Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Nazi party" and get a laugh!

Because it doesn't hit the same. The humor could only come in the 60s

Big big fan of Kenny Mars. Every other Franz liebken is an amateur compared to him.

Me too! 😂

The modern version, even though it was made by Mel Brooks himself, couldn't hold a candle to this one.

@@jezebeljones659 I like the modern version but this one does such a better job at showing how absolutely offensive the material was and that they almost got away with their plot

What were the other two?

@@cufflink44 1. The Dexter Lake Club scene in "Animal House." At the end, the fat guy, Dorfman, shouts "The Negroes took our dates!" 2. The scene in "Airplane" where the singing nun kneels before the two black passengers and sings "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" (one of them promptly throws up).

You’re moving at a faster pace!

For me, it's a toss-up between this and "Life of Brian."

I’d throw in Young Frankenstein to the list.

History of the World: Part 1

Spaceballs was also pretty amazing. That movie is so quotable.

His run from Producers to Spaceballs is real good. From then on his parodies and satires were spotty. But Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World and Spaceballs still stand up as rewatchable multiple times.

Мы тоже веселились, - кино прекрасное, и даже римэйк... Но... Веселились, веселились, а у видели нынешнюю реальность нацизма, и, - прослезились...

I love JoJo Rabbit! Even funnier seeing a New Zealand Maori playing Hitler...a comic genius!

Yeah, and about 27 million Russians who died defeating the Nazis.

Not gonna last. Piss on all leftist whiners. A new age begins in comedy and movie making.

@@bretthess6376 Obviously a blood relation. See you NT.

The only 'sad' aspect is you and other Fascist scrotes making such comments. The stage version has run for many years.

Too bad they left. When they found out later it was so funny they probably figured, "Let's get tickets to see the rest of it."