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-Great Cultural Revolution
‘Airplane!' director David Zucker says woke Hollywood is ‘destroying comedy'
2022-11-11
[NYP] "Airplane!" director David Zucker doesn’t think the jokes in the 1980 comedy would fly today.

When asked if his Leslie Nielsen-led flick could be made in 2022, the 75-year-old filmmaker said yes, but "without the jokes."

"We could be as offensive as we liked," Zucker told the conservative group PragerU about his movies, which also include "Scary Movie 3" and "Scary Movie 4."

"We went where the laughs were. We never thought that we were offending anyone, but if we were offending people, we knew we were on the right track. As time went on, it got to be the ’90s and the 2000s and it did change ... We never worried about any of this stuff with the ’Naked Gun’ or ’Scary Movie’ films," he added in the video posted online this week.

Critics say "Airplane!" has not aged well. Racist bits are woven into the script, such as when two black passengers talk with each other on the plane as English subtitles appear on the screen to translate their "jive."
"Critics" can blow me
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  More of these, not less.

Was trying to come up with the last "breaking taboos comedy" to be released and decent - Tropic Thunder?

Recent movies are so bland, Cruella and Space Jam: Snooze Legacy are considered comedies.

Young man I know was super excited to go watch the new Black Panther this weekend. Didn't have the heart to tell him the advertising has all the trappings of a bad movie (seriously what happened to Marvel's CGI department? Looks like 2010 ScyFi crap)....then came across the movie review link over at Ace's. I'm going to let him make the mistake and hopefully learn, but oh my.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-11-11 15:47  

#4  I remember seeing Don Rickles recommend electrolysis to a woman in the audience to the delight of the crowd. He wouldn’t last 30 seconds on a stage today unless he was opening for Chappel.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-11-11 14:31  

#3  And in the 1990s the same people complaining about racism classified "Ebonics" as a distinct dialect of English.
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811   2022-11-11 11:38  

#2  'Has'. Has destroyed.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2022-11-11 11:19  

#1  'destroying comedy'

Along with everything else.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-11-11 08:26  

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