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God damn the point of that last quote in the OP fucking rocketed over a lot of your heads didn't it?
Well he is wrong about that bit, nothing is off limits. He is right that political correctness is hurting comedy. I cringe when I hear comedians apologizing for the one person out of 5,000 that was whining and complaining.The problem with these pc gone mad people is they just want the freedom to offend without any consequences and this is a classic example of it. Why complain about political correctness in comedy and then say this is off limits. Hes basically destroying his own argument. His tragedy is off limits but others shouldnt be.
lmao oh stop. Mel Brooks is anything but. There was just a short documentary posted here recently that went in depth about Mel and Nazi jokes. There's a reason, and he nailed it.And we got ourselves another milkshake duck
God yes. So good to have Chappelle back, and I'm only just diving into Bill Burr's stuff. He's excellent.Thank God there's still people like Burr and Chappelle that don't give a fuck regardless of how many cries there are and tell the jokes they want to.
"Political correctness" is an incredibly loaded term that it loses all its context depending on interpretation and mostly misinterpretation.
I hate the phrase because it already becomes preloaded with whatever bias you have.
Old white guy misunderstands political correctness, news at 11.
Monty Python, the best comedy show ever created was largely intelligent humour with little to no easy jokes based on offensive crap.
Go home Mel.
Monty Python, the best comedy show ever created was largely intelligent humour with little to no easy jokes based on offensive crap.
Go home Mel.
Unless I'm misreading his comments he's saying that he wouldn't make a joke about concentration camps not that the idea of a joke about concentration camps should be off limits. I agree with the basic idea that nothing should be off limits in comedy.
Man reading is hard it seems
in this thread.
Politically correct comedy is an oxymoron
Yes, I came in here with the intent to link this video. Everyone should watch.A reading of his point I agree with is that nothing should be off limits but the actual human tragedy of the victims of oppression. The problem is that the term "political correctness" means fuck all at this point. When a term spans a band of "wild cotton shouldn't be sold as decor" to I just wanted to express my dissatisfaction by saying "let's lynch that n****" and how dare you to correct me, it truly has lost all meaning (even if you have a hard on for Schopenhauer).
A video that makes the point better than I ever will:
Mel Brooks, The Producers and the Ethics of Satire about Nazis
Ever heard of Life of Brian?Monty Python, the best comedy show ever created was largely intelligent humour with little to no easy jokes based on offensive crap.
Go home Mel.
It's almost as if different people finds different kinds of things funny 🤔Monty Python, the best comedy show ever created was largely intelligent humour with little to no easy jokes based on offensive crap.
Go home Mel.
And we got ourselves another milkshake duck
Opinion, Mine is it''s not anywhere near that funny. Thanks for telling us that that's the only correct way for comedy. I hope you have some other life lessons for all of us.Monty Python, the best comedy show ever created was largely intelligent humour with little to no easy jokes based on offensive crap.
Go home Mel.
I still need to see Chappell live :'( I'll do it one day, it will be a travesty if I miss out on his genius live. By the way, you ever listen to Billy boy's podcast? It's hilarious and comes out Mondays and Thursdays. Highly recommended...
God yes. So good to have Chappelle back, and I'm only just diving into Bill Burr's stuff. He's excellent.
Well he is wrong about that bit, nothing is off limits. He is right that political correctness is hurting comedy. I cringe when I hear comedians apologizing for the one person out of 5,000 that was whining and complaining.
Thank God there's still people like Burr and Chappelle that don't give a fuck regardless of how many cries there are and tell the jokes they want to.
Mel Brooks is highly critical of the movie Life is Beautiful because of its use of the Holocaust.
Brooks: You have to separate it. For example, Roberto Benigni's comedy “Life Is Beautiful” really annoyed me. A crazy film that even attempted to find comedy in a concentration camp. It showed the barracks in which Jews were kept like cattle, and it made jokes about it. The philosophy of the film is: people can get over anything. No, they can’t. They can’t get over a concentration camp.
SPIEGEL: But the film has deeply moved a lot of people.
Brooks: I always asked myself: Tell me, Roberto, are you nuts? You didn’t lose any relatives in the Holocaust, you’re not even Jewish. You really don’t understand what it’s all about. The Americans were incredibly thrilled to discover from him that it wasn’t all that bad in the concentration camps after all. And that’s why they immediately pressed an Oscar into his hand.
SPIEGEL: So there are limits to humor?
Brooks: Definitely. In 1974, I produced the western parody "Blazing Saddles," in which the word “nigger” was used constantly. But I would never have thought of the idea of showing how a black was lynched. It’s only funny when he escapes getting sent to the gallows. You can laugh at Hitler because you can cut him down to normal size.
THATS 👏 NOT 👏 WHAT 👏 HE 👏 SAIDJewish man doesn't think holocaust jokes are ok but sexuality and racism (as long as it's not about Jewish pepole) are ok. What a fucking moron.
THATS 👏 NOT 👏 WHAT 👏 HE 👏 SAID
The problem with these ”pc gone mad" people is they just want the freedom to offend without any consequences and this is a classic example of it. Why complain about political correctness in comedy and then say this is off limits. He's basically destroying his own argument. His tragedy is off limits but others shouldn't be.
I read that. And it's still not what he said. It's not that you can or cannot joke about those things, but it's in how you do it.But he did say it in another interview, as shown right before your post.
I'm still waiting for "Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money."It's going to kill me when Mel leaves us.
This is horseshit. When you have comedians not going to specific events due to people crying about nothing, or apologizing for doing comedic jokes, it is a problem. Even cases where comedians are trying new jokes before putting it out at comedy clubs where they specifically ask for no cameras (the joke is obviously rough).. then you have some twat recording it, posting it online and start a cry campaign to ask a comedian to apologize about a bit that's not even cleaned up yet.Where has comedy died, exactly? Comedy seems to be pushing the envelope more and more while also being more conscientious of the humor it puts out. Political correctness is a buzzword for a lot of people to refer to a movement that has always existed. The new generation that criticizes the old generation of comedy.
I literally don't understand the point of this. "I like a funny tv show." Ok?Like, I look at BoJack and I see a show made by someone who cares a lot about being PC while also seeing a show that makes me laugh my ass off and one that takes risks. What is the death of comedy, exactly? College students not paying to see Seinfeld?
But he did say it in another interview, as shown right before your post.
It's going to kill me when Mel leaves us.
Once again the statement should be read carefully. You'll notice he has a problem that the movie makes the concentration camps seem like they weren't all that bad. This is different and separate from, nobody must ever joke about concentration camps.Looked this up, and either his stance has changed, or he is a hypocrit. And to be fair, this interview was from 2006, so his stance very well could have changed.
http://m.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/a-406268.html
About Life is Beautiful:
And then immediately afterwards:
"I personally would never touch gas chambers or the death of children or Jews at the hands of the Nazis," he told the BBC's Radio 4's Today programme.
"Everything else is ok."
He didn't say that. You can go to far or handle a subject poorly, but that doesn't mean the subject is off limits, hes pretty clear about that.
You completely misread that.But he did say it in another interview, as shown right before your post.
Most people preaching what some call political correctness would almost certainly agree with that though. Political correctness at this point is simply a straw man.
Haha, for real? If that isn't a joke, he just undermined the entire point he was making.
Yeah what would that Jew know.Old white guy misunderstands political correctness, news at 11.
It's about not being a dick by smugly adding to other people's piles of misery when they already tower over your own.
It's about asking yourself "am I punching up or punching down?" before you open your mouth.