Mel Brooks made some genuinely funny movies. I just made the argument to a friend that Blazing Saddles could not be made today. My friend was a young Republican when I was an anarchist punk lefty. He's now a mainstream lefty and I'm basically an authoritarian. It's just odd to me that in this argument that an authoritarian was mourning the loss of freedom of expression and what passes for a mainstream liberal took the position "why do you need to offend to be funny". This country is so fucked up right now. I agree with Brooks and miss his honest brand of comedy. The world was so much better when people would quote Spaceballs instead of whatever shit Will Ferrel movie is out right now.
Connor Thompson
People quote Will Ferrell movies?
Logan Morgan
Don't quote me, nigger.
Cameron Ward
Shake and bake
Thomas Thompson
Dear baby jesus
Nolan Brown
Shut up chip or I'll go ape shit on yer ass
Colton Hughes
This wedding is horse shit
Brayden Fisher
i hate carl reiner
Christopher Flores
When in Rome . .
Logan Green
You aint first you're last
Isaiah Adams
Amen, Brother!! I personally am on a quest to MAFA Make America Funny Again Fuck that crybaby shit.
Cooper Wilson
Moment of honesty... my dog is named Ricky Bobby
John Lopez
>The director said he could find comedy in almost everything but conceded there were areas even he would not mine for material. >"I personally would never touch gas chambers or the death of children or Jews at the hands of the Nazis," he told the BBC's Radio 4's Today programme. >"Everything else is ok."
As long as he accepts that others might try and find humor in that I don't mind it. As otherwise it's not really honest "Comedy should have no limits" but rather "I want my limits instead of theirs".
But he's right, look at how a lot of comedians today are just propagandists and political activists, not comedians.
Thomas Miller
This old kike is right.
Noah Sullivan
>mainstream liberal took the position "why do you need to offend to be funny"
Is this a pisstake? After literally decades of celebrating comedians that had edge and stuck it to the man, to religion, to convention, to tradition, now an average lefty will take the position held by stodgy religious conservatives just 20 years ago?
>Hurr durr you can't make fun of Jesus, because he was the perfect man!
This was supposed to be what lefties were against?
On another note comedy that's completely inoffensive is the kind we make for kids. It's puns and knock knock jokes and fart jokes. I'm not saying you can't enjoy it, it's just never been regarded as quality comedy. In fact we see the left denigrate the right for using inoffensive or low brow comedy even today.
I'm not sure they even know what the fuck they're advocating at this stage.
Alexander Carter
If a comedian feels the need to be politically correct for fear of backlash or to maintain an audience then it's 100% chance they were never funny in the first place.
People like Doug Stanhope won't pander to their bullshit and will say what they want because they're real comedians.
Adrian Phillips
I actually hear a surprising amount of liberals expressing this view. But then they turn around and talk about how important it is that Hillary get elected. I'm not sure how they can reconcile the two in their brain.
Jacob Hill
Mel gets saved from the chambers. Too funny. Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld too. We just castrate them
Benjamin Williams
Hi Gavin
Christian Ortiz
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Jaxson Allen
Could this even be made today? In just 30 years we went from laughing at the idea of a black man in Middle England to people unironically claiming blacks were always in England and being cast dramatically as fucking Lancelot. Fuck this gay Earth.
Kevin Torres
What Sup Forums, the alt-right and Trump had that all the Media, Hillary and the SJWs didnt have was laughter. Sure, they had a few titters, but it was all irecognizethatrefrence.bmp, while we have epic amounts of KeK. Hilldawg will never be as funny as Pepe.
>It's good to be the king! What would the outrage be like if this gag was made today?
Also post some of your favorite Mels
Logan Morgan
degeneracy aside, i kinda hope brazzers does a high-production value version of that human chess rape
Jacob Price
>emperor of the jews tells goyim to stop being so stuck up /ourkike/
William Ross
i hate the writers on that website so much
Logan Bennett
Milk was a bad choice
Dominic Cook
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Oliver Cook
>"It's not good for comedy. Comedy has to walk a thin line, take risks," he said. This is what made South Park funny and popular. It's also why it's dying a slow death.
Isaac Brooks
>It's also why it's dying a slow death. i dont' think so
As a leftist I couldn't agree more. Comedy needs to be offensive and to be perceived as dangerous by the élite. That's also why good comedians are shunned by their peers. Mel Brooks is that funny because even in his less political movies he tried to be moderately offensive while appealing to everybody.
John Torres
I told you. I told you Darlene if I caught that blue gum nigger around you again I'd kill you both. Gator gonna kill a bitch.