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Fave Mel Brooks Character

Posted: 9/16/04 at 4:54pm

What is your favorite character from a Mel Brooks film?

My Vote: Frau Bloucher (sp?) in Young Frankenstein

Roger DeBris from The Producers. When he stepped out from behind the thing and had a dress on...I was not expecting that. It was...it was great.

Now, Carmen from the movie...that's a whole 'nother story. That facial hair scares the hell out of me.

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Posted: 9/16/04 at 5:09pm

It's Lone Starr's half man/half dog sidekick, BARF. ("I'm my own best friend!")

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re: Fave Mel Brooks Character

Posted: 9/16/04 at 5:10pm

I always found Barf annoying and overly obnoxious.

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

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Posted: 9/16/04 at 5:16pm

The concierge lady from the Producers.

Concierge : Who d'ya want?

Leo Bloom : I beg your pardon?

Concierge : Who d'ya want? Nobody gets in the building unless I know who they want. I'm the "concierge". My husband used to be the "concierge", but he's dead. Now I'M the "concierge".

Max Bialystock : We are seeking Franz Liebkind.

Concierge : Oh... the Kraut! He's on the top floor, apartment 23.

Max Bialystock : Thank you...

Concierge : ...But you won't find him there... he's up on the roof with his boids. He keeps boids. Dirty... disgusting... filthy... lice-ridden boids. You used to be able to sit out on the stoop like a poyson. Not anymore! No, sir! Boids!... You get my drift?

Leo Bloom : We... uh... get your "drift". Thank you, madam.

Concierge : I'm not a "madam"! I'm a "concierge"!

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

re: Fave Mel Brooks Character

Posted: 9/16/04 at 5:21pm

Dark Helmet!!!!(*Now you will see that evil will always triumph...because good is DUMB...*)

And Carmen Ghia...Oh, dear lord...

"And now for something completely different..."

re: Fave Mel Brooks Character

Posted: 9/16/04 at 5:23pm

I am with lildogs on this one! Or maybe I-gor.

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

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Posted: 9/16/04 at 5:35pm

Lili Von Schtupp.

"A wed wose, how womantic!"

"I've been with thousands of men, again and again...
they all promise the moon.
They're always coming and going and going and coming...
and always too soon!"

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. - Nelson Mandela

Updated On: 9/16/04 at 05:35 PM

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Posted: 9/16/04 at 6:06pm

Margo...loved this minor character in the movie. I loved her pronunciation...'concee-urge'

My favorite Brooks character has to be Hedley Lamar in 'Blazinig Saddles', with a close second being Dr. Thorndyke in 'High Anxiety' and the bell boy in the same movie.

"Life is a lesson in humility"

#10

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Posted: 9/16/04 at 6:20pm

"Now, Carmen from the movie...that's a whole 'nother story. That facial hair scares the hell out of me..."

I just saw the movie last night. Have to agree with you about Carmen Ghia, scared the crap out of me the first time he appeared.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

#11

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Posted: 9/16/04 at 6:39pm

I think my favorite has to be the black sheriff from Blazing Saddles or "Princess Vespa"..or maybe Dot Matrix.

Vespa: "Who are you!?!"
Barf: "Barf!"
Dot Matrix: "not in here mister, this is a Mercedes!""

best blazing saddles line...

"what in the wide wide world of sports is-a goin on here?"

"Applause begets applause in the theatre, as laughter begets laughter and tears beget tears." CLAYTON HAMILTON, "Theory of the Theatre" "I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is." TOM STOPPARD

Updated On: 9/16/04 at 06:39 PM

#12

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Posted: 9/16/04 at 6:40pm

I'm with Curtain Up. Love Blazing Saddles.

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#13

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Posted: 9/16/04 at 6:59pm

I gotta go with Latrine (Tracey Ullman) in Robin Hood Men in Tights

"They changed your name TO Latrine?"

"Yeah. It used to be SH*Thouse."

LOL Classic

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#14

re: Fave Mel Brooks Character

Posted: 9/16/04 at 7:04pm

I think Achoo and Blinken were my faves in that movie

#15

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Posted: 9/16/04 at 8:15pm

Igor from Young Frankenstien and the Consierge from The Producers (movie not show)

#16

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Posted: 9/16/04 at 9:50pm

The 2000 Year Old Man Of Course!

#17

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Posted: 9/16/04 at 9:51pm

Ah, yes, the concierge lady. Wonder if they had a scene like that in early readings of the musical.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

#18

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Posted: 9/16/04 at 10:08pm

Carmen Ghia in the film of "The Producers":

"White white white is the color of our carpet!"

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#19

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Posted: 9/16/04 at 10:11pm

I hope they put the concee-urge back in fot the new movie. Maybe as a cameo for Ann Bancroft?

My favorite minor character in a Mel Brooks film is the blind hermit in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, played by Gene Hackman.

"Wait! Don't go! I was going to make espresso!"

#20

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Posted: 9/16/04 at 10:58pm

Love the Concierge, Lily Von Schtupp and Nurse Diesel.

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#21

re: Fave Mel Brooks Character

Posted: 9/17/04 at 5:58am

I originally thought you meant roles he himself has played....

Personally, I love Rabbi Tuckman (Robin Hood...)

What...fagelehs?

Otherwise, I'm partial to Hedley Lamar and Lily Von Schtupp (having seen it when I was very young, my mother had to explain to me why they were laughing at Lily's name...)

In History...Empress Nympho. If only for a specific scene of firm buttocks.

Oh, so many. I heart Mel Brooks. It's good to be da king.

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#22

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Posted: 9/17/04 at 10:34am

Anne Bancroft as the Concee-Urge in the film is a brilliant idea! I saw Mel and Anne coming out of Whole Foods in the new Time-Warner Center and it's been my best and most exciting celebrity sighting yet! Of course, I'm still waiting to see Woody Allen and Stephen Sondheim! Swoon!

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or

Can't you see that man is a ni?

#23

re: Fave Mel Brooks Character

Posted: 9/17/04 at 12:03pm

I also wanted to mention Madeline Kahn in "Young Frankenstein":

"Oh. Where you going?... Oh, you men are all alike. Seven or eight quick ones and then you're out with the boys to boast and brag. YOU BETTER KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. Oh... I think I love him."

Plus, Peter Boyle doing "PUTTIN' ON THE 'RIIIIII......" cracks me up every time.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

#24

re: Fave Mel Brooks Character

Posted: 9/17/04 at 1:07pm

Nurse Diesel will always be my favorite.

"Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup."

"Perhaps I've been a bit too haaaarsh..."

Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke : As I was saying, it came to my attention that just before Dr. Ashley's untimely death, he was planning to make some very big changes here at the institute. Do any of you know specifically what those changes might be?

Dr. Wentworth : Well, for one thing, he wanted to change...

Nurse Diesel : The drapes.

Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke : The drapes?

Nurse Diesel : The drapes. He wanted to change the drapes in the Psychotic Game Room.

Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke : That was the extent of the big change, the... drapes?

Nurse Diesel : Oh, yes. Dr. Ashley felt that color has a great deal to do with the well-being of the emotionally disturbed.

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#25

re: Fave Mel Brooks Character

Posted: 9/17/04 at 2:38pm

My favorite is Leo in The Producers, as done by Gene Wilder not MB.

My favorite line though is from The History of the World (not a great movie). Madeline Kahn as the Empress Nympho:[to her litter bearers] Could you *please* step on the same foot at the same time! My tits are falling off!

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