Comedy stopped existing in 2015

Comedy made today would never be made in the past. You couldn’t even curse on TV. Rick and Morty wouldn’t have existed in the 90s because of the gore. The Simpsons was considered an Adults Only show, it’s now rated PG.

What they really mean is they’re aren’t allowed to be fucking racist douchebags without people calling them out. What a bunch of snowflakes.

I’ll never understand why my parents deemed Simpsons inappropriate while NG:E was just fine

They didn’t get the intense sexual pathology in NG:E, whereas The Simpsons had some tame sex jokes they got.

It might have been the child abuse? In early seasons it was a running gag for Homer to fucking strangle Bart.

Boomer humour, folks.

Edit: Oh wait Eva had ton’s of child abuse in it too… in that case I have no idea.

I am old enough to to have physically been present when kids were being told to turn their Bart Simpson T-shirts inside out

Rick and Morty wouldn’t have existed in the 90s because of the gore.

Bullshit. Robot Chicken got made and that was full of gore.

Same with South Park. Ren & Stimpy was aired on children’s fucking television.

:shrug-outta-hecks: You got me there. They were weird with censorship back then, Ren and Stimpy somehow got aired but Southpark had to bleep curse words until later.

These guys were saying this in 2015 about films from 2010. They were saying this in 2010 about films from 1995. They were saying this in 1995 about

Athenians be like: Η Ιλιάδα δεν θα είχε γραφτεί αυτές τις μέρες!

Wow, wonderfully stated! Why is this such a common phenomenon? Does it seem to happen to people who reach a certain age like 30 or so who just try and press pause on the world? Is it fear of new things? Its fucking weird and in some contexts insanely harmful

DAE THINK WE COULD NEVER MAKE BLAZING SABBLES TODAY? YOUNGER PEOPLE ARE SNOWFLAKES

Kids would watch the movie and be like “I have no context for the genre of films and TV that this is parodying.”

Gotta love ignoring the fact that Blazing saddles was about institutional racism, white flight, and block-busting as it was happening in the 1970s, and just using it as an example of the hilarious use of slurs.

Also the :bean: scene

The bean scene is a deconstruction of the noble cowboy surviving out on the range.

By portraying these figures as prone to flatulence due to their diet it demystifies them.

:brace-cowboy: toot

I don’t agree with that take at all - it could be made today and released in theaters. Django Unchained is mostly a serious film, but if the Coen brothers or Keenen Ivory Wayans were given the same cast and rough outline it would have ended up being looked at as a modern Blazing Saddles.

The KKK scene in Django could’ve been lifted directly from Blazing Saddles

Great point, I’ll bring that up next time someone tells me it couldn’t get made now.

I love both, but I always felt the Tarantino stuff like long scenes of people talking and the spectacular violence sets it apart from Blazing Saddles a lot. Their version of violence is cartoon explosions, lol.

This would be a fun movie, but instead the last major cowboy comedy we got was from Adam Sandler.

No way. Coen brothers made sympathetic KKK characters in O Brother Where Art Thou. They had an entire movie to punch and punch hard at the racist Southern population, and they completely whiffed. It can only be concluded that this was intentional.

The guy running for office that got booed out of the hall at the end or the violent robber bible salesman?

I can definitely see this. I was mostly making a joke parroting talking points on comedy from :reddit-logo: but I can’t argue with your logic at a glance.

Someone should make blabbing sediments 2 and watch the chuds go off about how it’s white genocide or something

I’ve seen one good video about why you couldn’t make blazing saddles today. And it’s because the movie fucking killed the thing it was making fun of. There would be no point in making it. Even my father who unironiclly made the you couldn’t make it today found the video interesting.

Video here

I love blazing saddles. Taught me how stupid racism is and introduced me to Mel Brooks at an early age. My comedy has since grown from there

I mean, it wouldn’t be the most successful film of the year if it came out today, but neither would any comedy. It can sit proud of doing it back in 1974 and let Disney take that race.

I fucking hate these shitty hack reviewers on YouTube.

They are literally talentless frauds who are the YouTube equivalent of that one guy who won’t shut the fuck up during a movie to point out a “mistake” or “plot hole”, which are usually very easily explainable or excusable. Weird how surface-level criticisms of media seem to come from dumb reactionaries.

And this guy’s the worst tbh. Used to watch his shit.

Now he like goes out of his way to claim idpol and media hates straight white men or whatever. Could be like a fucking Adam Sandler movie and he’d stretch it into another cog in the white genocide machine.

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

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.

No wonder Cleavon Little breaks character and starts to crack up when he says that.

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

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.

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.

You couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today. If you brought the script for Blazing Saddles to a movie studio and showed it to a producer, they’d say “We can’t make this. This is Blazing Saddles. It’s already a movie.”

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