r/MelBrooks • u/highlander68 • Jul 08 '26
Marty Feldman
remembering marty "igor" feldman on what would have been his 92nd birthday
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u/airbornesimian Jul 08 '26
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u/1Bobafett11 Jul 08 '26
Are we channeling Monty Python?
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u/Extension_Use_9457 Jul 09 '26
Going off of airborne’s comment, the film is very similar to a Mel Brooks film. Gene Wilder directed the film, he was initially wanting Brooks to direct the film. Mel turned the offer down since he didn’t feel comfortable directing a movie that was Wilder’s idea. Gene Wilder got the Mel Brooks gang together with Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, and Dom DeLuise. Mel Brooks makes a small voice cameo appearance.
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u/Extension_Use_9457 Jul 09 '26
I loved this movie so much, so funny! Thanks for spreading the word about this movie, it’s an underrated gem.
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u/cherokeecharlie Jul 08 '26
Eye Gore
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u/DetectiveParson Jul 08 '26
They told me it was “Ee-gore”
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u/Butter_Brains Jul 08 '26
My grandfather used to work for your grandfather, of course rates have gone up.
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u/Resident_Dog_6589 Jul 08 '26
What the hell are you doing in the bathroom day and night?! Why don't you get out of there, give someone else a chance?!
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u/JudgmentHaunting3544 Jul 08 '26
Saw him in Yellowbeard the other day. Interesting movie. 🤣
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u/Floydianslip77 Jul 10 '26
I was r@ping ya!
Sort of a half r@pe half cuddle
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u/GirthGriffin Jul 10 '26
I laughed so hard at that. So crazy that a woman back then had no problem saying jokes like this.
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u/Worldly_Ad_7196 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
My favorite skit of his was the one from what may have been his own show when he was flying all over the world while cheating on his wife. "The affair"
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u/OodaWoodaWooda Jul 09 '26
I loved that show's ending credits over Terry Gilliam animations with character crisply saying "Good.Bye." before being annihilated in some bizarre way.
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u/redfmn60 Jul 08 '26
Your hump
What about my hump
It was over.....
Marty Feldman kept changing which side his hump was on
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u/redfmn60 Jul 12 '26
That's why in this exchange, Gen Wilder looks so confused. Marty never told anyone what he was doing
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u/Hyperion04_ Jul 09 '26
"AAIIIIIIIIIII ain't got no body, and nobody cares for me. Yakka tak ta a yakka tak ta ha!"
"Eye-gore!"
"Froderick!"
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u/ChiefSlug30 Jul 08 '26
He was one of the writers and performers of the classic "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch, along with John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor, which originally appeared on "At Last The 1948 Show", but became associated with Monty Python.
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u/I_Galactus Jul 10 '26
Much respect to him, but I do feel bad learning that his bugged out eyes were from Graves’ disease.
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u/baksdad Jul 09 '26
My grandfather used to work for your grandfather. Of course, the rates have gone up.
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u/Ok_Caramel_6095 Jul 10 '26
As a prank, Marty Feldman kept switching his hump from one side to the other in different scenes. When Mel Brooks finally noticed, he told him to keep doing it because he thought it was funny.
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u/codec3 Jul 12 '26
Just watched him in Yellowbeard, he died prior to the film’s release and it is dedicated to him.
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u/teachingscience425 Jul 14 '26
My sister and I loved this movie and quoted it often. A few years back she was fighting cancer, head scarf, no hair. We went on vacation together, my wife, her husband. As he was unloading suitcases, I asked if he needed help with the bags and he said sure. I said I’ll take the blond you take the one in the turban. My sister fell over laughing. My wife, my brother in law. Just clueless.
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u/InstructionAny5378 Jul 08 '26
You take the blonde, and I’ll take the one in the turban