Comedy stopped existing in 2015

Tropic Thunder should never have been made in the first place. the 2 jokes from that movie is Robert Downie Jr playing a guy in blackface and the 1 ‘quotable’ line being “you never go full [extremely ableist slur]”. it’s not even ‘parody’ it’s just edgy

don’t forget the third joke: tom cruise in jewface

truly a piece of comedy gold we will never have again due to cancel culture -_-

I think you mean jewarms

isn’t the entire point of the character supposed to be a white guy doing blackface? I’ve never seen the movie lol

Yes; they also have an actual black character along to try and magnify it

yes, which makes it kinda worse honestly, Robet Downie JR chose to play a guy knowing doing a blackface bit

i would argue portraying yourself as black doing blackface unironicy is worse than doing it overtly ironically in a comedy film lol

im not pro black face or anything, but it is a movie that’s all about criticizing and satirizing Hollywood so idk, it makes sense to show a production so insane they have their lead actor in blackface.

to me it’s like criticizing Starship Troopers for making Fascism “sexy”

That’s where that quote comes from? Fuck.

Justin Trudeau went in blackface and he was re-elected Prime Minister of Canada. I don’t think it’s an issue.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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 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’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 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.

hell would be being stuck in 2015’s comedy landscape forever

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