Grrrr…

Posted on by July 20, 2020

Interwebz is down again…

Back in the day, humor was humor…

Can you imagine Blazing Saddles being made today?

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Grrrr… — 10 Comments

  1. Not just Blazing Saddles, but most Mel Brooks films would not be made. He’s one of the least politically correct directors there is and that’s a big reason I like him.

    • I saw an interview with Mr. Brooks that was done sometime in the late ’80s or early ’90s. He was talking about they could make that film in 1974, and the viewers would all laugh together, but now no studio would have touched it.

      So the PoCo rot was setting in at least that long ago… I wonder how many other movies he pitched, that ran headlong into that and were never made.

  3. We watched the pilot of All in the Family in one of my film/tv media classes in college (forget which one), this was about…. 10 years ago at least.

    Most of my classmates were HORRIFIED. Nearly all were offended, and I think one or two filed complaints with the administration about it.

    Nowadays, that prof would’ve definitely been fired. But knowing that prof, he was already a hardcore lefty and (before I blocked him on FB, at least) went completely off the deep end shortly after I graduated, so he’d never even dream of showing that in class now.

  4. We don’t buy cable or Amazon Prime or Netflix, mostly because I grew up on ad-supported no-fee TV, and I’m sticking with that model or just skimming YouTube with the AdBlock plug in. (You get 5-10sec of blank silence instead of the ads.)

    But we can find hilarious Russian and Eastern European comedies that are CLEAN and aren’t trying to ram social justice messaging or *extraneous,* pro-se “diversity” down your throat.

  5. Ah, the 70s – back when people still had a sense of humor.

  7. Yeah; I guess they tried to reheat All In The Family a while back; a live TV “event…” It wasn’t funny at all. How could it be, after being “cleaned up” for a “modern” audience?

    Remember that TV “comedy” show that was always playing in the movie “Robocop,” where the guy would say “I’ll buy THAT for a dollar!,” and everyone would laugh? You, the viewer would say “There’s nothing funny about that.” That’s EXACTLY where we are right now…

  8. Blazing Saddles would only be about 20 seconds long if it was filmed today.