The gang continues their month of Slapstick with the legendary Mel Brook's Blazing Saddles.


Brian’s Wacky News Corner:

News: 

• Cast of Community doing a virtual table read 5/18 (https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/community-table-read-dan-harmon-donald-glover-joel-mchale-1234601209/)

Movies:

• Alice (virtual theaters) 5/15
• Leaving Netflix this month (Austin Powers trilogy, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Naked Gun & sequel)

Music:

• Van Weezer - Weezer 5/15

Podcasts: 

• Wind of Change (Spotify) 5/11

Quick Hits

Chris

• Bob’s Burgers (Hulu)
• Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (Movie)

Brian

• The Fall (MUBI)
• Ultrasonic - Field Works (album)

Christian

• I watched every Predator movie in the last 2 weeks ( https://youtu.be/InyKZ0F-fVU ) “Patrick Willems PREDATOR: The Smartest Genre Mash-Up Ever? Probably!”

Weekly Poll:

• Poll Results! 

Blazing Saddles (1974) 

Directed by: Mel Brooks
Written by: Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and Al Uger
Score by: John Morris
Songs by: Mel Brooks
Budget: $2.6 million
Grossed: $119.6 million

Cast:

• Cleavon Little as Sheriff Bart
• Gene Wilder as Jim, "The Waco Kid"
• Slim Pickens as Taggart
• Harvey Korman as Hedley Lamarr
• Madeline Kahn as Lili von Shtüpp, "The Teutonic Titwillow"
• Mel Brooks as Gov. William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
• Burton Gilliam as Lyle
• Alex Karras as Mongo
• David Huddleston as Olson Johnson
• Liam Dunn as Reverend Johnson
• John Hillerman as Howard Johnson
• George Furth as Van Johnson
• Claude Ennis Starrett Jr. as Gabby Johnson
• Carol Arthur as Harriet Johnson
• Richard Collier as Dr. Samuel Johnson
• Charles McGregor as Charlie
• Robyn Hilton as Miss Stein, the governor's secretary
• Dom DeLuise as Buddy Bizarre, director of "The French Mistake"
• John Alderson as Gum chewer[2]
• Don Megowan as man who confronts Lili onstage[2]
• Rodney Allen Rippy as young Bart
• Robert Ridgely as Boris, the hangman
• Ralph Manza as man dressed as Hitler

Next EP: 

• Airplane

Extra Stuff: 

• “You Couldn't Make Blazing Saddles Today!”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzMFoNZeZm0&list=WL&index=32 

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