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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I love that movie, “Demolition Man”
My wife still kids me about my crush on a young Sandra Bullock!
You can’t make super silly fun comedies like Airplane! anymore.
Clearance Clarence. It is still funny.
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I love Monty Python but Cleese has been spouting the leftist thought for years. I hope he enjoys what he supported. I know I don’t.
Extreme …but fair
Leslie Nielson got the best “kick start” on a movie career ever with “Airplane”.
The other Police Squad stuff is not bad.
Now to watch Forbidden Planet Ann Francis pretty
She was cute in that film.
Still cute.
I saw Airplane with my 10 year old nephew in the theater when it first came out. I hadn’t laughed that hare since Jimmy Durante kicked the bucket in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World which I saw in the special “Cinerama” theater in Boston. Cinerama was a super wide screen with three synchronized reels on a curved screen that happened in the early 60s.
I suppose it was the same, pun based, comedy that the Zuckers brought to Airplane. Monty Python was the same sort of comedy.
I prefer to call her - “Elaine”
If you have a time machine that can take you back to 1977...
Or so,…..”Jane, you ignorant slut!…..”
Amen.
Can’t disagree lol
Because they are actually commies.
1975 would be better for me (if you can get that time machine going).
and then I’m gonna STAY back there!
Liberals are the most humorless people on the planet.
And their singular goal is equal misery for all, except themselves.
I’d trade worlds with Mr. Douglas.
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