Posted on 11/11/2022 3:55:18 PM PST by algore
The director of the off-color 1980 film Airplane! slammed Hollywood for killing comedy by being too woke.
David Zucker, 75, told PragerU that film executives were 'destroying comedy' because they are too afraid to upset a fraction of the population who 'don't have a sense of humor.'
The veteran funnyman, 82, told Fox News he does not believe comedians have the freedom to be funny anymore, blasting today's cancel culture as the 'death of creativity.'
The director's comments come just months after Monty Python icon John Cleese also called out Hollywood for neutering creativity with its woke crusade.
Zucker, who's films also include the Naked Gun series and a pair of Scary Movie films, said Hollywood was so sensitives that Airplane! could have been made today only if they removed all the jokes.
In July, John Cleese warned that wokeism was killing creativity not just in film, but in all of comedy.
LA-based writers Peter Kiefer and Peter Savodnik that woke agendas within Hollywood are causing audiences to distrust the motivations of moviemakers.
'The audience stops trusting us,' the source said. 'They begin to see us as a community twisting ourselves into a pretzel to make every movie as woke as possible, every relationship mixed racially, every character sexually fluid, and they decide that we are telling stories set in a fantasyland instead of a world they know and live in.'
In today's world, movies such as Wizard of Oz never would have seen the light of day, one director said.
'Munchkins? Forget it,' he said.
'A lot of comedians now are sitting there and when they think of something, they say something like, 'Can I get away with it? You see what I mean? And that's the death of creativity
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Now that is one hilarious statement!
Young people’s jaws drop, when they are shown films like Airplane, Blazing Saddles, etc.
They can’t believe such films were ever allowed to be made.
Depressing.
If you have a time machine that can take you back to 1977...
I’ll stick with classic tv and movie comedy.
Some of the vintage radio stuff such as Our Miss Brooks holds up.
No it isn’t. 75 or 82, which is it? Two ages are given.
(David Zucker, 75, told PragerU that film executives were ‘destroying comedy’ because they are too afraid to upset a fraction of the population who ‘don’t have a sense of humor.’
The veteran funnyman, 82, told Fox News)
75? 82? I say, let ‘em crash!
My Tubi service has 1950s Dragnet episodes (ones with Dennis Weaver and even Leonard Nimoy in early acting roles). Great entertainment.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit huffing glue!
Yep
I’d go back, at least Real People should be around.
RP used to be on Roku.
Bad editing, John Cheese is 82
He’s actually 75
Highway Patrol is another favorite of that era.
Dan Matthews kept the desert roads safe.
I kinda figured
That sounded right for Cleese
75, per IMDB. Born October 16, 1947 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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Judd Apatow destroyed film comedy.
Movie magic. Time and age are adjustable to suit the needs of the production.
Liberals are the most humorless people on the planet.
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