It is so bizarre because his performance was so over the top, that I literally never even noticed the soup can around his neck.

@@SirPaulMuaddib I know. I didn't notice it until now and I saw this movie decades ago and half a dozen times since then, at least.

You are already thinking that the dude is out there somewhere and then the camera pulls bacl and OMG... masterful direction.

My mom Wanted those boots bad!

I wonder where those boots are now?

As a Civil Servant in the UK, I often get looks of amazement in the selection panels I take part in when I describe the best candidate as "That's Our Hitler!"

he was also so hilarious in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

I am glad I read your comment, I was questioning myself if it was a young Harvey Korman.

@@theotherwalt There's not enough LSD in the world to make Harvey Korman that good.

@@Mute_Nostril_Agony lol

One of the best punch lines ever

Love is the flower that is mine.

The bit that gets me is the columns falling down into the battleship Bismarck guns and firing over the heads of the stunned and shocked audience, agape, aghast.

I was on an interview panel once. After the best applicant left the room, I yelled, “THAT’s OUR HITLER !!!” I was given a severe talking to by personnel

Sucks they faded out the audio over it.

Kind of looks like adolf to

His satisfied expression just before he got to start singing was brilliant.

Kills me every time

Looks like he was at the Oliver Hardy audition!

Between him and Norm MacDonald, in heaven they’re laughing their asses off at their last jokes

It was mostly a well-deserved blow against Hitler. The other stuff was window dressing and a framing device.

And even displayed and made fun of Warhol's $17 milli0n dollar soup can.

Not to mention making light of the Third Reich so, SO soon after WWII, which was in insanely ballsy move. It probably didn't hurt his credibility that he was a Jewish veteran of the war himself, but still, it was no small feat

@@webkid4567 Tbf, that was already standard comedic fare, in the US and in Europe. Hogan's Heroes tv series was already a few years old ('65), for instance, and the stage musical Cabaret ('66), but Britain was well into satirizing Hitler since early in the war. What's rather more telling is that we suddenly find ourselves in a state of affairs that accepts this as hard to comprehend. Satire of any and all public persona and/or issues is normal, whereas the current increasing suppression of such satire is what is Not normal, and which is quite troubling, tstl.

@@barbarakauppi9915 "Cabaret" isn't really comic, though.

Imagine if Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, and Zero Mostel are three of the many main players in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", that would've been more hilarious.

It's tragic that some people know the premises of this movie through the abomination with Broderick.

Absolutely! It's so great, an absolute crack up! (I also think it's great having Jewish writers like Mel Brooks using what was such a tragedy like this! Basically turning Hitler into a fool He really must have been a great guest at parties 😅)

I'm the concierge!! I'm husband was the concierge, but he's dead! Now I'm the concierge! Lol

@@connormcginnis8420 Madam?

@@ringwe agreed, awful remake. Original was perfect

"A true nod to the genius of Andy Warhol"? If you like. However, it's a brilliant film that spends most of its time nodding truly at almost anything but genius.

@@neilhales4693 Sarcasm is lost on you perhaps. I was joking.

Dude. If the Germans had won WW2 Warhol would have been doing silk screen representations of the Nazi leadership.

@@davidlong1786 If you like....

And I am still paying with. Laugh mirth.

Actually I don't have words. Vocabulary.

Oh Yeah! She's Cute as all get out!

@@edwardlacorte6357 WHO IS SHE?

+1 for your username.

Like an ogre

And it makes you want to cry! :-D

I saw Dick Shawn at the Yale Cabaret 1971, Fall

Andy Warhol reference.

:)

2 years later and he’s still kicking it!

I did not need to know that. I refuse to research the event, I am happy thinking it is some joke or myth I might have heard about twenty years ago.

@@theunknowngamer5477 I will look up Dick Shawn, though.

He also played Sylvestooooorrrr in "It's a mad mad mad mad world" The guy was a genius.

Honestly even though I know this was before his time he is who I thought of too

Come to think of it, if LSD was kept for the Broadway musical, Robin could've played him in the 2005 film.

@@tysargent9647 The 2005 remake would have been so much better if would have been a straight remake of the 1968 original and not the pile of feces that it was.

@@paulkersey9553 Hell, I would've taken a combination of the 1968 film and the 2001 Broadway show.

I said this before even going to the comments to my dad and he said "no maybe because of his movement" and then I saw this. Thank you.

Yes, yes! It's uncanny. Also a bit of - can't quite place it. Who Is this guy, though?

@@cockeyedoptimista Lorenzo Saint Depois. But his friends call him LSD babay!!

@@cockeyedoptimista This is the great Dick Shawn. He influenced Robin Williams and many others. Robin couldn't do what he did without Dick Shawn.

It almost sounds like The Doors....

Love Is Blue

I came here to say this

It is isn't it?

A hint of Kim Fowley too. Something great too about how Dick Shawn does not get even the hippie look quite right (wrong hair, wrong sort of earring, wrong boots). Seriously hip of Mel Brooks to be riffing on VU too.

Jackson Rushing I like Gary beach’s portrayal too

The guy with the funny name in Jojo Rabbit!! One of the best films of 2019.

LSD wins it for me!

taika waiti in jojo rabbit

You forgot Charlie Chaplin in the great Dictator mate

..and his charming neck chain and tin of beans. 😄

Critics hated it. It was called IIRC "amateurish and crude." I think it won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay that year. 😀

@@jcortese3300 ; The critics were right. I've seen this film twice over the years, and the one time I laughed out loud was when they tried to blow up the theater and Kenneth Mars's character realizes too late that he used the quick fuse ("ka-blooie!"). Brooks didn't start making real money until he started doing films with a lot of R-rated toilet humor and T and A humor, which by the time the 1970's rolled around was hard to lose money on.

Saw this in Philadelphia when I was a student there . Was some what stoned . Literally almost died laughing , the rest of the audience , not so much . Possibly the funniest movie ever made .

We thought it was very funny.

But this was a very realistic con, people would sell 16 twelfths of an oil well,and try to drill a dry hole. I'm sure they did it in movies as well.

Thankgod somebody else noticed the obvious Jim Morrison/Doors lampoon..! I was beginning to think it’d totally gone over everyone’s head. (unless I’m just really old). 🤔😀

They cut out the part where Jim auditioned to play Hitler.

They did

@ReaktorLeak In my opinion it was funnier with the gay Hitler than with the hippie one. And also makes more sense storywise, to create and arc with an existing character, instead of introducing more small characters. That worked better for the Broadway musical.

There was one in 2005.

Lol!? The Little Wooden Boy??? Hey all you dads out there, keep your boys AWAY from him!! Lol

Director: THANK YOU!

Feel bad for this guy,he looked so enthusiastic about having a chance to play Hitler.

He was so...so...OILY!