A brief non scientific history of comedy movies
Mel Brooks, bless his heart, blew it all up with Blazing Saddles. It is tough today for a youth to look back and wonder why the fuck all these old guys love this shit so much. It was all we had and side splitting funny.
Then the National Lampoon guys got to Hollywood and we got Animal House and Caddyshack and even more inappropriate humor.
Airplane broke the bank and there was no turning back. Leslie Neilson was a B movie character actor who played SERIOUS roles like a doctor or a lawyer. His deadpan comedy was twice as funny because you knew that and did not expect anything like what we saw. Like Rodney Dangerfield, Neilson blew up as a superstar very late in his career. That led to Naked Gun which holds up better than any of these to this day and has the seminal performance of Orenthal James Simpson.
Frank Drebin as the umpire who realized that calling a strike got the crowd to cheer is hilarious to this day.
That opened the flood gates for the SNL crews to graduate from TV to the movies and all the inappropriate humor we have today like fucking a pie. You had to be there I guess
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The peak of comedy in cinema is right here and never has been surpassed. It's a right of passage as a young man to watch this with your old man for the first time.
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"How 'bout some more beans there, Mr. Taggart!"
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Monty Python and I had a good laugh at you're post
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At least someone got a laugh from themBearsWiin said:Monty Python and I had a good laugh at you're post
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Monty Python sucks and gets me triggered when old men say it’s funny.
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I don't necessarily like all Monty Python, all the time-but they had some funny bits.BearsWiin said:Monty Python and I had a good laugh at you're post
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And, for really old guys, this shit was fucking hilarious at the time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAaTp_WCREw
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Dr Strangelove was inspired stuff. Still bugs me I forgot to list it.
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And you were there for all of it. What was it like the first time you watched a movie with sound Race?RaceBannon said:In the 60's at the Saturday afternoon matinee at the Capital Theater in Olympia we were still getting Bob Hope movies with Elke Summer where the poster was hotter than anything in the movie. Very tame stuff
Mel Brooks, bless his heart, blew it all up with Blazing Saddles. It is tough today for a youth to look back and wonder why the fuck all these old guys love this shit so much. It was all we had and side splitting funny.
Then the National Lampoon guys got to Hollywood and we got Animal House and Caddyshack and even more inappropriate humor.
Airplane broke the bank and there was no turning back. Leslie Neilson was a B movie character actor who played SERIOUS roles like a doctor or a lawyer. His deadpan comedy was twice as funny because you knew that and did not expect anything like what we saw. Like Rodney Dangerfield, Neilson blew up as a superstar very late in his career. That led to Naked Gun which holds up better than any of these to this day and has the seminal performance of Orenthal James Simpson.
Frank Drebin as the umpire who realized that calling a strike got the crowd to cheer is hilarious to this day.
That opened the flood gates for the SNL crews to graduate from TV to the movies and all the inappropriate humor we have today like fucking a pie. You had to be there I guesshttp://youtu.be/x-S-eeInJVk -
I actually never really got it either.RoadDawg55 said:Monty Python sucks and gets me triggered when old men say it’s funny.
When it comes to comedy, I'm not terribly sophisticated. Steve Martin is as fancy as I get. I love Will Farrell and loved Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor and that whole crowd. I liked Sam Kinison and Dice Clay when their comedy was original ... probably not as timeless as the greats, but I liked their shit then.
As with my tastes in music, I don't want shit that makes me work for it to much. I want it easy. When I want to exercise my brain, I read or watch a good movie. Comedy and music are my cheap thrills.
