If zoomers want to see what boomers or The Critical Thinker think is “funny”, go check out some clips of Tim Allen’s standup from the 90s. Probably the biggest standup comedian of that decade, or at worst #2 after Jerry Seinfeld.
If you can get through 5 minutes of it I will grant you this site’s Order of Lenin. It’s just so painfully bad and cringe. Tim Allen would only be so lucky to get canceled. His standup is so bad I would rather it stay out there for everyone to see and then dunk on.
This man just puts out long critiques that idiots mistake for deep
Modern comedy is bad, but that’s because they think swearing is funny in and of itself. Also funny movies have to turn a massive profit, which I think works against comedy. Every film has to capture all the money in the world because like 6 studios make everything, but comedy is better when someone can make a relatively cheap film and see whether it lands or not. Most of the young comedians today also just can’t get jobs in hollywood or never bothered because it’s easier and better for them to be funny on youtube or twitch or wherever else on the internet. but chuds wanna say that comedy is worse because we don’t get a straight white man throwing up because he realised he was attracted to a trans woman.
The only thing this is relevant for is Blazing Saddles (maybe) and Dr Strange love (definitely), and that’s because they make fun of whities and capitalism too hard
You could easily make Blazing Saddles today, no one would care but you could do it.
the whites would throw a fit, but probably yeah. Strange love just wouldn’t get past the DoD though
the whites would throw a fit, but probably yeah.
Half the reason it would suck would be people scrabbling to find the exact demographic its supposed to be “for”. Then you’d need to cram it full of giffable moments and product placement.
Blazing Saddles from the producers of Mac & Me.
Strangelove wouldn’t get past the DoD then either, you don’t need their permission to make movies, just to use their stuff in your movies. Blazing saddles would just be dated.
Gene Wilder’s famous comment punching down on poor whites, “you know…morons” was not in the script and ad-libbed by Wilder on the set.
