"Blazing Saddles" Wouldn't Exist in Today's PC Culture, says Mel Brooks

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For sure. One reason – many of us seem to have lost the ability to laugh at ourselves.

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Comedy that attacks others has taken over. No more giggling. All mocking.
It’s hard to find comics that are truly laugh out loud funny.
 
Actually all art and comedy are having a hard time existing in a world where 7 BILLION people are constantly recording and taking pictures of everything, and being plugged into anonymous online commenting 24/7. More than the culture, it is a direct result of technology and addiction to it.
 
A few people make a living off of it, but not too many. It’s not easy to do, especially with Silicon Valley’s left-wing PC censorship police budding.

A big reason why they are more successful is because people no longer trust traditional media (nor should they) or they aren’t getting what they want from it to put it as mildly as I can.
 
This is more about censorship and free speech than technology addiction.
 
Glad to see this from Mel Brooks. Hopefully the entertainment industry can learn to laugh again - though it has been awhile since much of anything genuinely good has come out of Hollywood - comedy or otherwise. I say this not really even liking the film Blazing Saddles but, yes, I recognize it is a work of comedy. When and how will we crush this PC nonsense. We need more sound bites likes this from within the industry.
 
… and on the other hand, wide exposure has shown us that talent is much more widespread than we might have once believed … and that many talented performers have very little status.
 
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He’s right. I think Norman Lear has commented that All in the Family would never make it to the air today.
 
Yes, Archie clearly loves his “little girl” Gloria. And even though he could be horribly mean to Edith, the scene where he’s holding her slipper and talking to her after her death is heartbreaking.
 
Yes. I think I only saw that one time. I think by then he mellowed out a great deal. They were raising Edith’s niece by then. She was a cute little girl, but I’m not sure she continued acting.
 
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He’s right. I think Norman Lear has commented that All in the Family would never make it to the air today.
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Or Jackie Gleason (Ralph Kramden “abusive husband” ["…to the moon, Alice!"]; or in his other show (June Taylor dancers - “sexist!” ; then there were his “drunk” characters - all “offensive and insensitive” today). Or “I Love Lucy” - “Offensive portrayal of women.” Or Red Skelton - he had some “drunk” routines also. And in an era when apparently we’ve seen the last of “Gone With the Wind,” you don’t even want to think about John Wayne battling Indians.
 
Don’t forget Philadelphia Story - Cary Grant pushes Katharine Hepburn violently to the ground after she breaks his golf club and throws the rest of them in the bag out the front door.
 
Which would be interesting, considering that other parts of the world were Christian before Europe was.
 
I find ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ pretty funny and also un-PC at times. Maybe Brooks would say it’s the exception that proves the rule? I think what is really damaging to comedy is the overabundance of ‘gross out’ humor like that seen in a movie such as ‘Bridesmaids’ where it’s all about diarrhea and farting and other bodily functions gone awry. From my vantage point that describes 95% of what passes for comedy these days; true comedy is hard to find.
 
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