Gene Wilder

One of them, and this seems like it's probably the oldest joke in the world, and I'm not sure.

Oh, dear.

I think you know the walk this way joke?

No.

Why don't you describe how it happens in the movie, and tell me if it's something that you and Brooks came up with, or whether this joke has a long previous life, because it seems like, I don't know I ever heard it before the movie, but it seems like it should have been around forever.

Do you know what I mean?

I had never heard of it before, and while we were filming outdoors on location, Mel says to Marty Feldman, Marty... Who's playing the doctor's assistant.

Igor.

Your assistant, yeah.

Or Igor.

He says, bend over and say to Gene, walk this way, and then crouch down and walk away.

And I said, Mel, what does that mean?

He said, I'll tell you later.

I'll tell you later.

Just do it for now.

And so I took the cane, and I followed Marty after the camera started rolling, and I walked this funny walk, and everyone laughed afterwards.

And I said, now will you tell me what it means?

A man has a terrible case of hemorrhoids.

He goes into a drugstore and he says, have you got some talcum powder for me?

I've got terrible hemorrhoids.