and mel brooks rings it. you can t make a successful comedy that doesn t say something about the system. about the social structure. about prejudice. about people, about behavior. blazing saddles is all about racial prejudice. it s about the hypocritical west [ bleep ] over a black sheriff and wanting him dead. and now for my next impression, jesse owens. seize them. satire is something that touches the heart of everyone. we can go, this is a problem that our society has. blazing saddles is an indictment of racism. they re darker than us. and showing its absurdity in this great parody of american genre. life. life, do you hear me? there is a certain grammar to those old movies and mel brooks stuck to the form of them. he just twisted it a little bit here and there and it s brilliant. you see his love of cinema in
it doesn t matter if it s fresh or canned eat it eat it eat it is weird al s most successful parody to date. as you can see, it is a have you hadio southwest a musical parody of michael jackson s work. i did a parody of every single shot of that video because people were so familiar with it. they knew every little detail. all i had to do was tweak everything a little bit and it became funny. most of our lives living in an amish paradise weird al yan yankovic when he does a parody did, it s a song he has to admit on one level, it is a good song but i can have some fun with it. when he did the song perform this way he asked lady gaga and she said, that song is very important. i d rather you not. her fans said, you let weird al do like, they got oh, sorry, didn t know. never mind, go ahead. i m sure my granny will say it s a grotesque display they can fight me, baby, i perform this way
experience in that rock n roll world, and that to me is the best comedy. the comedy that connects with real experience. people said, oh, this is so new and then you say, well, no, you could take that back to woody allen s take the money and run. . woody allen was a precursor but spinal tap was the one that really became a huge, critical success. now mchugh mentory is a style that has infiltrated not just cinema but television. that herky-jerky camera motion on modern family. christopher guest s whoa trajectory has been mocumentary. hey, judge. look at me. his stuff is very specific. it s in the crate. where is it? it s in the crate. the fact it was improvised, that became a style of story telling. midnight at the oasis any time you introduce something that is effective and nothing like everything else
roll wrong. so the real drive of the project was, it s not that hard. let s get it right. my baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo i like to sink her with my pink torpedo big bottom it helps to like something enough to pay close attention so when it comes time to parodize it comes naturally. that s not parodize lost. is that in the film? no. it will be in the sequel. how much more black can it be? and the answer is, none. none. is that good? rock n roll! we made this movie and the guy who was shooting it, i hired him because he shot all these rock n roll documentaries and i thought, he ll be perfect. hello, cleveland! hello, cleveland! he s watching this and he says, what s funny about this? this isn t funny. this is exactly what goes on. but to me that was a great compliment because it was saying, we re capturing real life, what people actually
it would feature early mike judge cartoons. okay, but i m going to set the building on fire. lupo, the butcher, a gory cartoon. spike & mike had taboo things you wouldn t see in normal cartoons, like gore, lie violence, like sex. before the internet, they were critical, they were connecting people with an audience that they just otherwise wouldn t have had. all of us who are working in that business, we would try to slip something in that s funny or pitch a show that was funny. so when new opportunities came along to work on something that we thought could blossom into actually a funny animated show we were always eager to jump at that. there we are. it may be an channel, but the simpsons are on tv. y weathe