Posted on 12/12/2019 10:26:23 AM PST by billorites
Brooks one of the funniest and most talented people on earth has given us so many hours of laughter and fun. Uplifting. Helps immensely to overcome the depression of the daily “news”
The man is a genius, a legend.
Could he Make It TODAY..?
Not a chance in hell.
How many new Mel Brooks are being crushed now..?
We’ll never know.
I was at the racetrack one day eating lunch and I turned and Mel Brooks was at the table right next to me. He is one of the few celebrities that I would get up and walk over to and shake his hand. I didn’t. I just let him finish his lunch in peace. But I had to acknowledge that on that day I was in the presence of greatness.
Stuff you can’t do in film now:
1. Punch a horse
2. Use the N word
3. Hint about black men being gifted in a certain place
4. Joke about the Holocaust
5. Joke about slaves singing
6. Mince around like a total homo
7. Joke about a king shooting a peasant in the head w/shotgun
Those are just a few examples I thought of in 30 seconds
ALL OF IT WAS INNOCENT and hilarious.
The censors will be hard at work, “editing” out the funny stuff in the years to come.
Get one of the video collections—it will be a collector’s item in a decade or so.
Exactly. There are even established comedians (Leno, Seinfeld, Rock....) who have pulled back especially from doing college gigs. They have been silenced.
Whatever else I think of him he did make some funny stuff.
Also served in the Army in WWII.
Ha ha! Yes indeed. Blazing Saddles. Funnnnny!
And he was wise to include Richard Pryor as a writer on Blazing Saddles.
Even some of Richard Pryor’s stuff today would be considered anti-PC.
Apparently telling the truth is somehow "mean" in McGilligan's world.
He said he was Combat Engineer, saying that he despised both Combat and Engineers.
I’ve got to watch that movie again.
I think he actually said “Combat and Engineering”.
Was going to watch Blazing Saddles last Weekend and i can’t remember why i didn’t..try again this weekend. :)
Comedy is critique:
People —especially powerful ones— get their ox gored. Sacred cows get slaughtered.
Hey, what happens when the hard-working, creative group that owns comedy climbs all the way up the totem pole..?
I mean what happens when they’re the center of the center column, what happens when they OWN that sacred cow..?
Well, then the comedians transform into CENSORS.
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