Gene Wilder
 

No he's not dead (he is 81 years old)...but I was watching Young Frankenstein and thought about all the great movies he was in..

My all time favs are Blazing Saddles and Stir Crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezfVc5MGmIU

Silver Streak.. Wonka.. The Producers..

I forgot how funny Silver Streak was....

http://www.reelz.com/trailer-clips/4...r-streak-clip/

Geez, you scared me!

Me too....Young Frankenstein....masterful :D

Well, that thread title scared me first thing in the morning. Kind of how Willy Wonka scared me when I was little (in my home, the remake never happened).

love mel brooks movies with a passion! and gene wilder was fantastic in them. blazing saddles is one of my all time favorite movies, and no way it would have been as good without gene.

and GR, same here. never have seen that remake.

My favs..all 5 stars..

Young Frankenstein...still have VCR copy..watched many times:)
"i can fix that hump on your back Igor"..Igor "What hump?"

Blazing Saddles

History of the world Part 1
Bea Arthur -unemployment clerk.."What work do you do"..Brooks "i'm a standup philosopher"..Bea.."you mean your a bullshitter"

Silver Streak

On the top of my list too...I remember the first time I watched this scene from BS and I almost pissed myself because I had no idea of the punch line. Still laugh aloud to it today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzcgyk62cHU

i don't know how often we use lines from that movie-especially the 'are we awake' one when i still had kids at home.


and i love history of the world, high anxiety....me's awesome. he had asked john wayne to be in blazing saddles! wayne turned him down, said he couldn't be in it-but he'd be first in line to go see it!!

He was in a movie with Harrison Ford called The Frisco Kid. A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way he is nearly burnt at the stake by Indians and almost killed by outlaws.

This is one of my all time favorite movies. So hilarious!!:zz::{>: All the Jews here have to see this movie. Make sure you have a box of tissues with you for the laughs you'll be crying so hard. And if your not Jewish, it's still hilarious.

I highly recommend the movie.

Would also like to mention Gilda Radner here. Gene and Gilda were married when Gilda passed away from cancer. What a great comic she was.

A Mrs. Richard Feder of Fort Lee, New Jersey writes in and says, "Dear Roseanne Roseannadanna: :tro:

she was fabulous.

trackrat, i remember that movie. ah, good times.

In High Anxiety, what was the name of the institute where Mel Brooks worked? It was the "Institute for the Very, Very Nervous".

The Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous

And his very funny costar, Madeleine Kahn....

:D Made me laugh out loud. It was always Mrs. Richard Feder of Fort Lee, New Jersey . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py8gZ6-eR2Q
:)

I miss her!
oh, sweet mystery of life at last I've found you....

My husband and I once entertained ourselves on a three hour train ride quoting that song. Oh lord, she was a funny, funny performer.

I still remember this one.....

Jane Curtin: This past Thursday was the Great American Smoke Out, a day that everyone in America was encouraged to stop smoking cigarettes for a twenty-four hour period. Here to comment further is Update health correspondent, Roseanne Roseannadanna.

Roseanne Roseannadanna: Thanks a lot, Jane! Thanks a lot! A Mr. Richard Feder from Fort Lee, New Jersey writes in and says: "Dear Roseanne Roseannadanna, Last Thursday, I quit smokin'. Now, I'm depressed, I gained weight, my face broke out, I'm nauseous, I'm constipated, my feet swelled, my gums are bleedin', my sinuses are clogged, I got heartburn, I'm cranky and I have gas. ... What should I do?" ... Mr. Feder, you sound like a real attractive guy! ... You belong in New Jersey! ...

i love the 'no no no no yes' from history of the world...
and of course..

'say when'
'8:30'
we have used that a million times.

her bit about sitting with walter cronkite, the chair making a noise, and her trying to make it make that noise again to prove she hadn't farted...oh, man!

Roseanne Roseanna Dana.."Like my mother usta say"..

Harvey Korman as Hedly Lamarr in BS..everyone called him Hedy Lamar the actress..It's HEDLY he yelled:)

In History of world he was Count de Monay...they called him Count the Money and he corrected them:)..

He and Tim Conway in the funniest skit of all time..Korman lost it..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk92O0SEjXc


Madeline Kahn in the scene with the black sheriff ..'it's true, it's true':D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9JqbCH4aVw

hedy sued....
hell, she's probably better known for that movie than anything she ever did.

Hedy Lamarr co-invented technology for spread spectrum and frequency hopping that was deemed critical to the war effort. It's also the basis for today's cell phone technology.

She might presently be best known as a punch line but that's unfortanate. She's worth a Google.

i saw that story about her on a science program not long ago-fascinating stuff!

another that caught me by surprise-mike nesmith of the monkees...his mom invented white out for 3m.

Walk this way... LOL