most of todays comedy ... as in the case of the "gentleman" whos visage appears below.... simply unintentional ..
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Posted on 05/11/2014 4:46:18 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In an interview with Yahoo News surrounding the 40th anniversary of his comedic masterpiece "Blazing Saddles," co-writer/director Mel Brooks blasted present-day political correctness and says he was "lucky" to have made the film in the days when he still could:
"They can't make that movie today because everybody's so politically correct. You know, the NAACP would stop a great movie that would do such a great service to black people because of the N-word," says Brooks. "You've got to really examine these things and see what's right and what's wrong. Politically correct is absolutely wrong. Because it inhibits the freedom of thought. I'm so lucky that they weren't so strong then and that the people that let things happen on the screen weren't so powerful then. I was very lucky."
In the comment sections and on Twitter, I caught all kinds of entertaining hell (Kos is especially perturbed) for my review of the new 40th Anniversary Bluray of "Blazing Saddles" and for a follow-up piece, both of which stated the obvious: That today's Left has become a bunch of insufferable, joy-killing, censorious, fascist Church Ladies who would never allow "Blazing Saddles" to be made today and that they will someday try to have the film banned.
It looks as though Mr. Brooks agrees with my first point. That's because Mel Brooks is a free-thinking liberal, not a freedom-stifling, controlling, free speech-hating leftist....
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And they say that now in Paris, France, even as we speak, Louis Pasteur has devised a new vaccine that will obliterate anthrax once and for all.
never mind that $h!t...here comes Mongo!!!
Damn, damn, damn.... Beat me to the schnitzengruben punch....
Well, “baby I am not from Havana! “
He went into his act with you? Was he selling something?
One of the guys I grew up with was built like Mongo.
We were on a softball team together and the coach pulled him out of the game for some reason or another. He came walking back to the dugout and looked at me and said “Mongo just pawn in great game of life”.
He also couldn’t have gotten away with “The Producers” though he did turn it into an all gay-ness Broadway musical.
"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons."
I don’t think the N-word has anything to do with what’s politically incorrect about Blazing Saddles. All the white people who use it are buffoon characters. The parts that wouldn’t be made are the gay scene and the line up of desparados that includes Arabs.
Yep, them bed scenes we watched as kids were really bad for our little minds. I remember asking mom and dad why they didn’t sleep in single beds with one foot on the floor like in the movies. All I got was a “you’re too young to know” and “now go to bed”.
LOL, that’s the scene!
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Yes, it’s the little things one picks out (some only visual) upon watching the movie multiple times. The humor never stops.
Like the governors backlogged executioner trying to work in a “quickie” while the horse is waiting to be hung.
Cowhand: “you want some beans, Mr Taggart?”
Taggart: “I’d say you’ve had enough!”
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Perfect movie quote for that picture: “what in the wide world of sports is goin’ on here??”
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Loved The Producers for Springtime For Hitler alone.
Look at what has to pass for funny nowadays. Comedy has suffered because the left has made people so sensitive about what comes out of their mouths or what goes into their ears...which is, after all, their goal.
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