Mel Brooks was once interviewed and asked if he thought Blazing Saddles could be made today, his response was “Are you kidding? We couldn’t make it back then. But we did it anyway.” And that’s the real key to beating this PC crap. Do it anyway. I think people are craving comedies like these and if Daily Wire made one, I think it would greatly help win the culture war.
The actors for Airplane were specifically chosen because all of them had been dramatic actors up to that point and the producers wanted the deadpan delivery of the jokes
That was a spoof on a serious movie called ZERO HOUR from 1957. I was accidentally watching it some time ago( I love old movies)and I couldn’t believe the lines and premise were basically the same…. people got sick from the meal etc. I never laughed so hard as when I saw AIRPLANE… except for BLAZING SADDLES. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN was also hilarious 😂
It’s completely lost on people today that Leslie Nielsen is a well accomplished dramatic actor, but he loved doing comedy so much after airplane that he stuck with it and the world was better for it
Yeah they'd have a fit over Ace exposing Captain Winky. Then all of the cops that worked with Finkle/Einhorn spitting and scrubbing their tongues. Not to mention the scene in the batbroom after Ace figured it out. That would make their heads explode.😂
@@RocStarr913 Yeah it was. But thats kind of the point. It was made and released, today that wouldnt be written in the same way. It would be flipped and Ace Ventura would be the cross dresser. I dont know if entirely the woke thing, I think that writers, producers and executives are just lazy. They just want remakes and cookie cutter movies that they think will guarantee X return (although this will change as it isnt working any more).
@@jerrybennett6034 I’m not convinced. There’s been little enthusiasm to go see movies in theaters that are not based on familiar intellectual properties. Hollywood has been trying currently to do more hardcore comedies again and the results commercially have been relatively mixed.
@faraboverubies1852 There are a couple of other really good ones. One of them I can't even write about in this PC era. If you saw the movie the scene about singing. The other one I can quote and do so from from time to time, "It's true!" Make sure you pronounce the R with a speech impediment. 😂😂
Monty Python's The Life of Brian definitely should have made the list. The Loretta scene is about the most iconic could not be made in today's day and age scene I have ever heard of
@@SlapMyBass3825 THree Amigos? Wasn't that just Chevy Chase, steve martin and martin short making silly faces to each other for two hours? at a certain point comedy devolved into silly face comedy, then another style of comedy would come about. I have a liking for the Farrelly Brother's comedies. for a while all teh comedies wrote in their style.
'Married With Children' is a 80's-90's TV-show that could never be done today. Making fun of fat people, plenty of hot women, mocking people on their appearance. Tons of humor. *BEST SHOW EVER!*
It was controversial even back then. A woman tried to launch a boycott campaign against the sitcom for the episode where Al Bundy tries to find a discontinued bra for his wife and many sponsors stopped running commercials for it at the time.
They play reruns on Logo channel because Marcy Darcy was played by a les who also wrote a lot of the jokes for the show. Logo is the lgbt channel if you didn’t know. Ironic
LOL so true! Could you imagine a "No Ma'am" club today? Al Bundy calling women "whales" in his shoe store? Woke viewers would have a stroke!! Also, I'd like to add In Living Color and Mad TV to the list. 😂
A fat woman came into the shoe store today... said she was a size 4 I asked: what about the rest of your toes? At which point she mased me and kicked me in the nay-nays. How was your day, Peggy? I was busy watching Oprah, and by the way, we're out of bonbons.
Not a movie, but a series: House M.D. would give this generation heart attacks on demand. That show was so filled with racist, sexist and all other "ist" jokes, it was tons of fun, because House actually respected the people who did not flinch on his behaviour. Not to mention the "wrong" messages on the show, like Foreman actually being proud to be out of the ghetto by studying hard and commiting to being a great doctor and not only never making his race a big part of his identity as a character, but actually suggesting that black people can succeed just like him if they work as hard as he did. Imagine that: a black guy who believes he can succeed despite his race. He would be the "new black face of white supremacy"
House is one of the greatest characters ever conceived on American TV. Every time I watch that show I am floored by Hugh Laurie's performance (with a pitch perfect American accent) and how unbelievably witty and hilarious his dialogue is in the show's comedic moments. His character has the expert level sarcasm I wish I could come up with.
I am re-re-re-binge-ing HOUSE MD at the moment and I agree 100% that the woke today will never see past his "-ists" to understand the complexity of his psychology.
@@Chris-dj5hy which part of being MADE today is hard to understand? House is an incredibly popular show because it was made and acclaimed in a time where people could still make jokes. Just like Friends today is still popular, but "problematic". You can't put the cat back in the bag, but if House was being made today it would be a totally different show. It's not that these movies and shows are not still around, it's that they got where they got because nobody felt the need to be offended all the time while they were being made, and that allowed them to be actually fun because they didn't feel the need to toll the line. And it's no wonder they still bring audiences, because that's exactly the point we're making: the need to censor everything that's deemed "offensive" by "modern audiences" is pretty fucking stupid, and when allowed to have fun in a really sincere way we can come up with pretty memorable movies and characters.
Lol we JUST rewatched Tropic Thunder recently while showing it to my sons Polish fiancé for the first time. She loved it and we laughed our asses off (just like every time). I own it and MANY movies because I KNOW it’s a matter of time before they get memory holed.
Just a reminder to my conservative family, we HAVE to make sure not to be filled with hate against the radical left or anyone. Pray for your enemies, and don't fret over the wicked. God will cut them down suddenly, and when we die, we won't remember any of the stuff going on here. Pray for them.
I watched Blazing Saddles with my grandparents, and according to my grandmother, I was nearly in the floor, I was laughing so hard. One of my favorite movies of all time, and it would never, in a million years, be made today. Which is really very sad, because it’s a great movie.
My dad and I were watching Rush Hour and I remember us cracking up at the scene where Jackie Chan said the N-word. We are all different and it's okay to use humor to celebrate it. I'm black, he's white. (He adopted me.)
I hate when people say n-word! We all know what it means right. Calling someone a nigger is racist as hell but using the word in conversation to make a point isn’t racist. Adults should know the difference. And every black comedian uses the word constantly. Just sayin’!
Woke movement has killed Rush Hour for me. All I notice now is the ubiquitous racial undertones, whereas as a kid I worshipped these movies and never once thought about the racial aspects of it. Woke virus
I haven't seen only Blazzing Saddles , Malibus Most Wanted once was on local TV but I don't remember match! So for me thoes 2x, I like Mel Brooks but never could get past first minutes of Blazing
@@SamuelClemente7718it's not about wealth, it's about no humor anymore because certain types get offended about everything now. Humor comes from making fun of others, a situation, an accent etc ..
Anthony Mackie said it some time ago that a movie like 48 hours would never ever get made again nowadays. As someone who grew up in the 80s this hits me way harder than those newer movies mentioned here. But I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment that it was a better time for the country. It was a better time for the whole world. In the late 80s to the mid 90s I really believed we have left all that behind us for good. Race and skin color I mean.
Nah, I disagree. Theres plenty of shows and television worse. The dictator for example. Harold and Kumar escape guantonimo bay. If you wanna go television, south park.
When Tarantino was on Joe Rogan's podcast he talked about this, when Joe said to him he thinks they wouldn't let some of these be made today he responded with "well who are 'they'?". And he goes on to say that back in the 80s there was similar political correctness but despite that he did what he wanted to do and all that pc nonsense stopped being a thing. So in essence, self censorship out of fear is what perpetuates the current narrative.
Holy cow!! That’s honestly the first time I’ve thought of that one, but you’re right. Good catch 👍 Everyone usually thinks of the easy ones first (Blazing Saddles, The Jerk, Airplane, etc)
@@kerim.peardon5551 Silence of the Lambs is often mentioned as a film that could never be made today, as people cite (incorrectly) that the serial killer Buffalo Bill was a homosexual (he wasn’t). The irony is that the director, now deceased Jonathan Demme, was EXTREMELY left wing.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective was critically derided when it was released. And even Jim Carrey didn’t deny at the time that Ace doing that was a display of homophobia.
When I took sociology class in college, they suggested a movie night and my movie lazy saddles suggestion was taken. The teacher and faculty understood the jokes of the movie and what it was pointing out, but the students were appalled
There was a time...not that long ago, when Chappelle's Show was doing great work by playing on stereotypes and tropes of everybody, and in doing so created unity. Everybody loved it, and its ability to bring people together is the very reason why it was destroyed.
Chappelle ultimately felt that people were laughing at him and not with him and was a big part of why he didn’t continue the series. Plus, he felt that the popularity and workload of filming sketches grew to be too much for him. He was clearly burnt out from it when he ended it.
@@RocStarr913 That's not really what I heard. He didn't own the show despite it having his name and he wanted more control over it and they wouldn't let him. This was the real reason he left.
I was watching Pitch Perfect the other day, and told my wife, that the movie would NEVER have been made in 2022/23. I love the innuendoes in the movie, especially the first part. Quite funny.
@@SamuelClemente7718 Anything that needs to meet a race quota because people think they are "marginalized". I.e. the female remake of Ghostbusters because woketards think women are under appreciated or the new live action of The Little Mermaid because blacks are not free people even though they have been since the middle of the 20th century. But you wouldnt know woke if it hit you in the mangina.
@@SamuelClemente7718 Wokeism is weaponized personal grievances masquerading as a genuine social concern. It's defined by its fraudulent nature, as being distinct from legitimate social grievances.
It’s weird to me how many conservatives think that Life Of Brian would be hated by the “wokes” That movie was VERY controversial when it came out. Do you know who tried to get it cancelled at the time? Conservative Christians
Johnny Knoxville made a movie called the Ringer. He pretends to have a disability so he can fix the special Olympics. It's hilarious but could never be made today.
The last people that should ever lecture anyone on ethics or morals should be anyone from hollywood. The only exceptions are people that have proven themselves to not grow insane by the fame they have been presented with.
RDJ was the first celeb I thought of who fits the “proven themselves” exception. And I can’t recall him ever lecturing anyone on any of the woke crap Hollywood loves to bring up every chance they get.
@jcarp8471 agreed rdj has been through alot of things and I like that things are turning around for him =) and he's not letting Hollywood affect him too much
The woke modern movie audience of 2023…. Where a movie trying to expose child abductions is considered controversial, Barbie is considered philosophical, and disliking anything starring a woman or a black cast is considered sexism or racism. Good times 🎉
I didn't really like the Barbie movie. But it's only cuz I was kind of expecting it to be like Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse. I didn't hate it but I didn't like it either.
Barbie was sort of funny and the message could be interpreted positively by both sides depending on how you look at. Shapiro chose the pessimistic view on that one
@@autisticDementia yeah. He said that there were no jokes beyond the first however many minutes - than complained that the jokes throughout the movie were inappropriate for a kids movie - a kids mind you that is rated pg 13
@@feliciab5019if someone would go back in time and try to tell people 15 years ago what the world would be like they’d just think you were schizophrenic
Anything by CL couldn't be made today and he's brilliant! So funny S'mouse, Ricky Wong's "Tiger Mom" and Ja'mai for sure would never make the cut... and Jonah from Tonga. The S'mouse plot line had me on the floor in tears! Esp when his dad would reveal the truth about him. 😂😂😂
Married with Children is one of the funniest shows I've watched with some of the most offensive jokes I've seen 😂 How much the main character hates his Wife is so damn hilarious, but nowadays he'd be called abusive 💀
then you did not understand the whole series. he does not hate his wife, he actually loves her. there were couple jealous episodes and those were hilarious.
@@petermagdina9868 I didn't mean he LITERALLY hated her, as in didn't care about the marriage. It's just the jokes where he hates his Wife and kids are funny, I don't think the character himself hates them 😭
The whole family was dysfunctional. The joke is that all those sitcom families were always happy and seemed almost perfect so The Bundy's were supposed to be the opposite.
Tropic thunder is a masterpiece. I've recommended it to my friends many times and they all loved it. Also anything with Leslie Nielsen. All the Naked Gun series from the 90's It's crack me up every time. This is all gonna be mandatory viewing for my kids one day. True classics.
I remember growing up, and seeing movies and thinking "they could've never gotten away with this back in the day"... Funny how things change, eh? For forty years I watched lessening censorship and what was allowed in art grow by leaps and bounds. For the past ten, I've watched those liberties go by the wayside.
Vsauce “why are bad words bad” video talks a little about this. Things usually go through ebbs and flows of being taboo. But in the last 10 or so years everything has been put under an intense microscope.
It is very odd. Even growing up in the 90’s and early 2000’s up until like the 2010’s it felt like comedy was fair game for making fun of anything and now comedy is on life support.
The thing about both Blazing Saddles and Tropic Thunder is that they both did things that were considered unacceptable/taboo at the time. That was the whole point It’s not like blackface was socially acceptable in 2007 And it’s weird to me how you guys seem to want blackface to be socially acceptable
Tropic thunder is amazing becuz even in 2008 we all realized this can't happen again. And Robert Downey Jr deserved best supporting actor over heath ledger. Facts
My little brother also says “facts” after stating an opinion and I think it takes so much away from the statement because it shows the speaker doesn’t understand what a fact is. My little brother is 36.
@@Whatever122t no. I mean yea you can say it if you agree but you shouldn’t, because you’d still sound stupid, because agreeing with an opinion doesn’t turn it in to a fact. Only objective information can be a true fact. The minute subjectivity or feelings or opinions or feelings come in to the conversation, only an idiot would conclude their statement by saying “facts.” Facts.(not)
One of the funniest things about Blazing Saddles was actually after the film was made. It premiered at the Puck sick Drive-In in Burbank. The gimmick was that anyone who came riding or driving a horse could get in free. The only problem was that the horses recognized other horses on the screen and refused to leave regardless of what the rider/driver wanted
My mom is very conservative and this is one of her favorite movie franchises 9:49 she just doesnt take any of it seriously and laughs at whatever it happens on screen no matter how inapropiate it is.
The point of the scene in America Pie is that it backfires and Jim gets extremely embarrassed and it follows him throughout every other film. Plus all the guys learn something by the end of the film, especially Oz. People seem to focus on the build ups in this film and never the pay off.
That wasn’t very popular even at the time. And there was controversy at the time over how Muslims were portrayed in it, especially since it had been released right before Operation Desert Storm. It was made during a time when Muslim characters were a complete rarity in Hollywood movies.
Recently I watched the 1982 film “48 Hours” starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy (in his first major role), and there is a level of racial invective that comes out of Nolte’s mouth that would never fly today. 😳
John Cleese and Michael Palin were on some ancient British talk show where some “Sir” Bernie dude was telling them that the movie, which had just come out, was blasphemous. Michael Palin gave him an excellent rebuttal re: the Sermon on the Mount scene. He said that it was all done seriously with Jesus saying the right lines and then “ it pans to the back of the crowd where someone is yelling :’ I can’t hear you’. The talk show itself was funny as Hell
@@maureentrant5588 Yes. It's called 'Friday Night and Saturday Morning', with Tim Rice. Cleese and Palin were up against Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood.
I have 3 movies that would not be made today. One of them stars a very famous woman. 1) Kentucky Fried Movie, 1977- starring Donald Sutherland and Kieth Zucker 2) Hot Dog... The Movie, 1984 - starring Tracy Ann Smith 3) The Best Little Whore House in Texas, 1982 - starring Dolly Parton alongside huge celebrities like Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise
OMG… bringing back memories… probably the best scene in the movie - Danger Seeker, Rex Crammer… no way could that be made today, probably couldn’t be made back then but like Mel Brooks said - just do it anyway…
Hot Dog…The Movie. And, don’t forget their sibling, which is Hamburger The Motion Picture from 1986. That wouldn’t fly today, either. Almost every scene in that film would offend the modern audiences.
I'm a huge Mel Brooks fan & I say this about A LOT of his movies that they wouldn't be able to be made today because of how offended people would be. Even his new show on Hulu isn't compared to his older movies with the jokes
@insidebarrysmind for sure however South Park isn't as old & they have had to have pauses during seasons wondering if they'd be back on the air not saying South Park isn't offensive it's to each their own & you could comment under every Person & say this all you want I also think that South Park is stupid & again to each their own
@insidebarrysmind sure South Park has been on the air for 25yrs Mel Brooks's work has been on just as long or longer not all his work is offensive & the trend for what can or cannot be filmed has been flipped so not everything he did or what has been done couldn't be re done without being monetized hard core like his newer show😅
@@brittanyfox6703reading through this, im wondering what monetized has to do with the discussion? From what I saw it was about what could be done today because of so called cancel culture. Or am I wrong? I agree if south park can remain on the air, nothing is off limits. People are obviously watching it or it wouldn't be ongoing.
@@benjaminfields6181well I do think monetizing is happening more today as apart of Cancel culture & I was agreeing with the original discussion I don't think most of Mel Brooks's movies would be allowed to be made today just because of cancel culture & bringing South Park into this discussion isn't really an arguing point when they've been running on the same slogan of they don't really give any fucks about what the other people think so much they put a warning before every show of what to expect 😅 like you could argue the same for all adult cartoons but the ones that are still on air on major broadcasting have to "get approval" on certain jokes unless they want to get cancelled
Mel Brooks, Leslie Nielsen, and Police Academy movies were my childhood, and i loved them. i rewatched them when i got older and i found them funnier because then i understood the references that flew past my head as a kid. unfortunately i don't think we will ever get to see more of those kinds of movies the way things are going.
Ladybugs with Rodney Dangerfield and The Toy with Richard Pryor would be far more controversial today than the films on this list. Even crazier, Robert Downey Jr. stays in character during the commentary track of Tropic Thunder.
I am from Generation X and moderately conservative. I saw this video suggested on my feed - likely because I subscribe to Brett Cooper's channel. I watched the video and immediately recognized classic comedies. One more film you could add is "Back to School" by Rodney Dangerfield. I was a 17 year-old HS senior when I saw it in the late summer of 1986. I loved it because I was applying to many colleges that time and thought the movie brought a good context of humor. I remember when the audience roared with laughter at the scene when Sam Kinison's character, a history professor and Vietnam Veteran with PTSD, explodes at his class. He went on a diatribe about serving and fighting in the jungle. Then Rodney's character tries to calm him down but instead gets overheated himself about the Korean War. It could never get made today. As for films you noted, I also saw "Soul Man" in 1986 later that fall. I thought the film was fair in revealing the types of racism that can occur at an elite college town when the character was dressed in disguise. The film showed a fair amount of blatant racism, microaggressions, and colorism - far ahead of its time in potraying inner details of racism. But it could never be made today either. However, I like your point that affirmative action was outlawed. As a brown Apache Indian, I personally witnessed how AA destroyed a lot of promising minority STEM students by putting them in classes for which they were unprepared. For example, let's say a Navajo Indian got an ACT/SAT far below the mean but was accepted due to AA. More often than not, such an unprepared minority usually dropped out or got bad grades. What should have happened was (1) the student should have been denied admission and (2) gone to a community college for about 2.5 to 3 years to catch up to the more prepared students from high performing school districts (e.g. affluent areas of Phoenix or San Diego), then (3) transfer back to a major university as a junior. That pattern was common after 2000 in Florida when Jeb Bush outlawed AA. Minority graduation rates actually went up in FL after AA was outlawed because the mismatch problem identified by the Heritage Foundation and Dr. Richard Sanders of UCLA was eliminated. Sanders thoroughly analyzed the mismatch problem among law students and AA. Now, with AA outlawed, minorities who do get admitted will have credentials comparable to the rest of the class and are much more likely to do well. There will be far less minorities on campus but with far higher graduation rates. The non-admitted can just go to a community college or smaller four-year school with a proper match. In regards to the "Airplane" scene with ebonics, the two African American actors were willing participants and tried real hard to get the comedy perfected in timing with the late actress who played the "Cleaver" matriarch. They were actually honored to work with her since she had a solid reputation with her career in film. But today, it can't get made. And such African Actors from the past are viewed as "sellouts" or "traitors" to a racist hierarchy in film. But it wasn't like that if you watch the documentary and do research on the two who played the passengers. Lou Alcindor (Kareem of the LA Lakers) was in the film as well. I miss those films and TV series of the past. I watched "All in the Family" weekly. It was wildly popular even among minorities. My family and friends on the Apache Reservation watched it persisently for years. When it went into re-runs, the last time I watched it was in the early 1990s at a summer minority student gathering. I had a female Puerto Rican friend who loved it and said it was popular over there too. But today it can't even be made. I remember Archie's famous proverb "The Right Wing is called the Right Wing because they're right!!!" He was awesome. The 70s and 80s are long gone with great films, thanks for bringing back the memories. In TV, M.A.S.H. still holds the record for most watched sitcom episode. It could not be made today - a series where all the doctors were men and the jokes with nurses like Margaret would be cancelled immediately. From my memory, the show actually had many female fans. I knew a female coworker who told me at her college the women in the dorm would get together to watch M.A.S.H. weekly when it was live. Those days are gone. But I do miss Colonel Flagg.
M.A.S.H. was a movie before a series, with only Raidar being played by the same actor. The series could probably be made today (not the movie though) I thonk, but it wouldn't be the same with certain styles of comedy now taboo and it would need more DEI and representation to be greenlit. Probably would have MJR Houlihan be the lead and only compitit one fixing all the men's mistakes... despite being a strong female role at the time. She would also never be referred to as Hot Lipps.
@@dragonusa I'm glad you know of M.A.S.H. The younger generations seem to have missed out and are largely unfamiliar. Klinger as the Statue of Liberty or Flagg as the "wind that broke its leg" were just hilarious.
In 1986 Vincent D'Onofrio gained around seventy pounds for his role in Full Metal Jacket. He said that people definitely treated him differently and the girls wouldn't want to talk to him. The thing about Archie Bunker is he didn't realize he was racist. On the other hand, George Jefferson knew he was and didn't care. I'm sure Archie had a clue but I think he honestly thought he was only offensive to Meathead 😅
@@almostoily7541 One of the ironies of modern cancel culture dismissing "All in the Family" would be that the show actually spun off two successful black TV shows: "The Jeffersons" (George as the patriarch and black analog of Archie Bunker) and "Good Times" with Mr. Dynomite. Good Times was spun off of "Maude" which was spun off of "All in the Family". Go figure. As for "Full Metal Jacket", it was brutal with the raw depiction of boot camp and hazing. I know it was set to the "Tet Offensive" of 1968 at the Battle of Hue with the US Marines against a full force of NVA regular army. I studied Agent Orange in graduate school. It caused a lot of illnesses and birth defects in the war's aftermath.
Apparently Snow White is unmakeable today... or at least the abomination they were trying to make it into. Hopefully the pendulum is finally swinging back!
It doesn’t help that there are so many different iterations of Snow White that have already been made. It only actually helps Disney to do something different with their live-action remake.
Like Ben, I was born in 1984. And also like Ben, I agree that Airplane!, released in 1980, is soooooo good. If you've never seen it, seek it out. It's incredible.
AGHHHHH… My daughter was born in 1984! Saw AIRPLANE when it came out.. Hilarious… particularly when you had a buzz on( mandatory). PLANES, TRAINS and AUTOMOBILES was also Hysterical😂😂😂
The scene in American Pie wasn't quite so bad when you see that Jim is the one who ended up on camera and the entire school was watching. He did some *extremely* embarrassing things and it ruined him at school. He was hit with instant karma. Kind of a "do unto others" lesson in all of it.
It’s pretty bad. Definitely falls into the rare category of “yeah, okay, couldn’t get made and that’s probably a good thing… but was still hilarious in its era.”
Also let's not forget after he left her to change clothes she ended up masturbating on his bed, like she's the same pervert as the boys, why do they get all the blame
i've never seen any of the American pie movies from the start to end, only little pieces on tv, because even as a teenager in the 2000 i didn't find it funny just gross. When comedies died in 2015 i was glad that the american pie type disappeared.
Sitcom-wise, gotta go with "Sledge Hammer" from the mid-80's. Only 2 seasons, but loved it as a kid. Just a crazy, trigger happy cop with a Colt 45. A sledgehammer etched on an Ivory handle. Pure gold.
@@johnnypresberg4515 No, but coincidentally very close, both released in 1986. The show was basically a Dirty Harry parody. Despite people and critics generally liking the first episode, it never really found its audience due to being bounced around the schedule and was dumped after 41 episodes.
Mel Brooks was once interviewed and asked if he thought Blazing Saddles could be made today, his response was “Are you kidding? We couldn’t make it back then. But we did it anyway.” And that’s the real key to beating this PC crap. Do it anyway. I think people are craving comedies like these and if Daily Wire made one, I think it would greatly help win the culture war.
Seriously, it would be so easy to make a Mel Brooks-style satire film of woke Hollywood. There's a mountain of money waiting to be made off of that.
It's highlighted with History Of The World PT 1, great film. They made a series last year and it was abysmal
The South Park strategy.
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Police Academy is another classic that could never be made
Yea for the Blue Oyster scene alone 🤣
@@RiFFxxx Exactly what I was thinking
@@RiFFxxx That tune played in my head as soon as I read Police Academy lol
And Top Secret!
Just because a movie is old doesn’t mean it’s a classic. Police Academy is shit
Ace Ventura Pet Detective… that scene when ace (jim) realized that he had kissed a man then went to the most hilarious melt down. 😂😂😂
Mrs. Doubtfire definitely wouldn’t be made today, but it’s a classic
If it was he'd just be a dad becoming trans, divorcing his wife and his wife and kids would have to be ecstatic he identifies as a 65 yr old lady.
Agree with Mrs. Doubtfire
There were a lot of subliminals in that movie that would be the major plot points now!
Totally agree.
I remember seeing it in the theater and dying 🤣🤣🤣
Oo, that's a good one. Totally wouldn't get a chance today.
The actors for Airplane were specifically chosen because all of them had been dramatic actors up to that point and the producers wanted the deadpan delivery of the jokes
It was also a nearly shot for shot remake of some older serious disaster movie. That's a fun detail.
@@nateschultz8973 Zero Hour was the movie, they used most of the same script too.
That was a spoof on a serious movie called ZERO HOUR from 1957. I was accidentally watching it some time ago( I love old movies)and I couldn’t believe the lines and premise were basically the same…. people got sick from the meal etc. I never laughed so hard as when I saw AIRPLANE… except for BLAZING SADDLES. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN was also hilarious 😂
@@maureentrant5588 Never heard of Zero Hour, I'm going to look it up.
Thanks!
It’s completely lost on people today that Leslie Nielsen is a well accomplished dramatic actor, but he loved doing comedy so much after airplane that he stuck with it and the world was better for it
Revenge of the Nerds is one movie I believe couldn't be made today.
It's turning 40 this year!
That just doesn't seem right 😂
Wonderful flick.
The good ole days when jokes were jokes and no one got offended because everyone was subject to a joke.
Tropic Thunder 2023:
I know who I am! I'm a dude playing a chick disguised as another dude!
@@Not_Of_This_World868 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Dean Martin comedy roasts were great!! Today? Kids would be affected for people who weren’t.
The problem is, everyone takes joke way too seriously. We could never have a comedy that anyone takes everything personally.
When you start excluding groups of people from comedy because they're offended, it turns woke.
Ace Ventura. No way you could get away with the scene of exposing the cross dresser villain tucking. The LGBTFreaks would riot over it
They would just have to change the ending so all the cops hug him instead of spitting. 😄
Yeah they'd have a fit over Ace exposing Captain Winky. Then all of the cops that worked with Finkle/Einhorn spitting and scrubbing their tongues. Not to mention the scene in the batbroom after Ace figured it out. That would make their heads explode.😂
That scene was controversial even back then.
yeah because the cross dresser would need to be the hero not the villain.
@@RocStarr913 Yeah it was. But thats kind of the point. It was made and released, today that wouldnt be written in the same way.
It would be flipped and Ace Ventura would be the cross dresser.
I dont know if entirely the woke thing, I think that writers, producers and executives are just lazy. They just want remakes and cookie cutter movies that they think will guarantee X return (although this will change as it isnt working any more).
When the Simpsons visited Australia, they portrayed us as drunk idiots and a bunch of convicts. I couldn’t stop laughing the whole episode.
Couldn’t make The Simpsons nowadays SMH…
Unfortunately, not. Too many sensitive, or should I say closet racists, folk nowadays
These type of movies are exactly what needs to be made nowadays .
They have to be hits and they can’t be damaging to the brands of the studios.
If they did remake them, they would be very successful. Just imagine all the free advertising they would get from the Left meltdown.
@@jerrybennett6034 I’m not convinced. There’s been little enthusiasm to go see movies in theaters that are not based on familiar intellectual properties. Hollywood has been trying currently to do more hardcore comedies again and the results commercially have been relatively mixed.
@@jerrybennett6034just like all the free advertising the Barbie movie got from the right’s meltdown…
No
20 years ago "If you dont like it dont watch it" Today "I dont like it so I'm going to make sure nobody can watch it"
True.
ikr
WRONG
NOT TRUE
@@Mark_Vegan_Canada_73Not true
6:41 GOAT'ed editors right there 🐐
I feel like even Wall-E could be sketchy to make today, considering the "fat liberation" movement.
You're right. And a handful of scenes where the fat people are physically unable to do some simple things would cause outrage.
@@quiteknight50 I always got a kick out of the pool scene. Where they're like "we have a pool?!"
And they were lazy too. Fat and lazy on their iPads in their chairs.
@@Galloway278 it's like they're being the robots while the robots were the only ones "living life"
And saving it. 🤔
“Hey, where the white women at?” has got to be one of the funniest lines every performed in any movie!!
My uncle quotes this on a daily basis! lol
@faraboverubies1852
There are a couple of other really good ones. One of them I can't even write about in this PC era. If you saw the movie the scene about singing. The other one I can quote and do so from from time to time, "It's true!" Make sure you pronounce the R with a speech impediment. 😂😂
canada and austria?
I had never seen this before and when he said it I laughed really hard. That was so friggin' funny!!!
This is my son's favorite quote!
Thankyou Ben! I’m 59 and the world was so much better when we could all joke about stuff.
Monty Python's The Life of Brian definitely should have made the list. The Loretta scene is about the most iconic could not be made in today's day and age scene I have ever heard of
@@londonlion5179 Yes they would 🤣🤣 That's what makes it gold
another classic!
Ben addressed that particular scene on his show about a month ago, but yes I am surprised a little it didn’t make it.
@@cameronkehler9361 Ahh, now that you mention it I remember that 🤣
"You haven't got a womb, Where's the fetus gonna gestate, you gonna keep it in a box?" "Don't you oppress me" 😂😂😂
Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places, Caddyshack, The Three Amigos, The Jerk, National Lampoon's Vacation... The list goes on, sadly.
All absolute classics.
For sure The Jerk could make this list! Lol
Don’t forget:
Bad News Bears, Gran Torino, Falling Down, Big, Mrs. Doubtfire, the Dirty Harry movies, & virtually any John Wayne movie.
Comedy is truly dead.
@@SlapMyBass3825 THree Amigos? Wasn't that just Chevy Chase, steve martin and martin short making silly faces to each other for two hours?
at a certain point comedy devolved into silly face comedy, then another style of comedy would come about.
I have a liking for the Farrelly Brother's comedies. for a while all teh comedies wrote in their style.
Blazing Saddles and Airplane are amazing... I LOVE these movies.
'Married With Children' is a 80's-90's TV-show that could never be done today.
Making fun of fat people, plenty of hot women, mocking people on their appearance. Tons of humor. *BEST SHOW EVER!*
It was controversial even back then. A woman tried to launch a boycott campaign against the sitcom for the episode where Al Bundy tries to find a discontinued bra for his wife and many sponsors stopped running commercials for it at the time.
They play reruns on Logo channel because Marcy Darcy was played by a les who also wrote a lot of the jokes for the show. Logo is the lgbt channel if you didn’t know. Ironic
LOL so true! Could you imagine a "No Ma'am" club today? Al Bundy calling women "whales" in his shoe store? Woke viewers would have a stroke!!
Also, I'd like to add In Living Color and Mad TV to the list. 😂
@@VrythosI always thought it was so funny that Jefferson could have had any woman and married Marcy. 😆
A fat woman came into the shoe store today... said she was a size 4
I asked: what about the rest of your toes?
At which point she mased me and kicked me in the nay-nays.
How was your day, Peggy?
I was busy watching Oprah, and by the way, we're out of bonbons.
"Airplane" is still my favorite comedy movie. Filmed almost a year earlier, in August 1979, hence all the '70s cultural references.
That and The Jerk are the funniest quotable movies.
Blazing Saddles is my favorite on this list.
'Scuse me while I whip this out."😊
Not a movie, but a series: House M.D. would give this generation heart attacks on demand. That show was so filled with racist, sexist and all other "ist" jokes, it was tons of fun, because House actually respected the people who did not flinch on his behaviour. Not to mention the "wrong" messages on the show, like Foreman actually being proud to be out of the ghetto by studying hard and commiting to being a great doctor and not only never making his race a big part of his identity as a character, but actually suggesting that black people can succeed just like him if they work as hard as he did. Imagine that: a black guy who believes he can succeed despite his race. He would be the "new black face of white supremacy"
House is one of the greatest characters ever conceived on American TV. Every time I watch that show I am floored by Hugh Laurie's performance (with a pitch perfect American accent) and how unbelievably witty and hilarious his dialogue is in the show's comedic moments. His character has the expert level sarcasm I wish I could come up with.
I am re-re-re-binge-ing HOUSE MD at the moment and I agree 100% that the woke today will never see past his "-ists" to understand the complexity of his psychology.
House is an amazing show
Sorry but House is still a pretty popular show. It's on nearly every streaming service. You're exaggerating
@@Chris-dj5hy which part of being MADE today is hard to understand? House is an incredibly popular show because it was made and acclaimed in a time where people could still make jokes. Just like Friends today is still popular, but "problematic". You can't put the cat back in the bag, but if House was being made today it would be a totally different show. It's not that these movies and shows are not still around, it's that they got where they got because nobody felt the need to be offended all the time while they were being made, and that allowed them to be actually fun because they didn't feel the need to toll the line. And it's no wonder they still bring audiences, because that's exactly the point we're making: the need to censor everything that's deemed "offensive" by "modern audiences" is pretty fucking stupid, and when allowed to have fun in a really sincere way we can come up with pretty memorable movies and characters.
The inclusion of your production staff in the video made it incredible. More please!
I'm surprised Ace Ventura didn't make the cut, especially with the Rey Finkle twist at the end and the hilarious strip down of Sean Young.
Lol we JUST rewatched Tropic Thunder recently while showing it to my sons Polish fiancé for the first time. She loved it and we laughed our asses off (just like every time). I own it and MANY movies because I KNOW it’s a matter of time before they get memory holed.
My dad made me watch blazing saddles like 10 years ago and I absolutely loved it! It was so funny and made fun of racism in a very hilarious way.
Anyone who doesn't like Mel Brooks is probably a lizard person 😂
Folks are so sensitive these days, that they'll fail to realize that the film is a satire.
Just a reminder to my conservative family, we HAVE to make sure not to be filled with hate against the radical left or anyone. Pray for your enemies, and don't fret over the wicked. God will cut them down suddenly, and when we die, we won't remember any of the stuff going on here. Pray for them.
@@Çerūlean9007What do you do when your enemies are demonic? Some major disdain is definitely in order here.
Then You got Mel Brook's whole point the first time. Racism is worth nothing but ridicule.
I watched Blazing Saddles with my grandparents, and according to my grandmother, I was nearly in the floor, I was laughing so hard. One of my favorite movies of all time, and it would never, in a million years, be made today. Which is really very sad, because it’s a great movie.
Why do you think that very woke movie would never be made today?
black hawk down
Yes. It would be made today.
Yes it would be made today.
My dad and I were watching Rush Hour and I remember us cracking up at the scene where Jackie Chan said the N-word. We are all different and it's okay to use humor to celebrate it. I'm black, he's white. (He adopted me.)
Man I want a Rush Hour 4 so bad. It would make bank just for the nostalgia of it.
I remember when a Chinese was speaking French and Tucker screamed, you're Asian. Stop embarrassing yourself.
I hate when people say n-word! We all know what it means right. Calling someone a nigger is racist as hell but using the word in conversation to make a point isn’t racist. Adults should know the difference. And every black comedian uses the word constantly. Just sayin’!
@@destined4purgatory643That’s still very possible.
Woke movement has killed Rush Hour for me. All I notice now is the ubiquitous racial undertones, whereas as a kid I worshipped these movies and never once thought about the racial aspects of it. Woke virus
Updating my watchlist.
Thanks Shapiro for the movie recommendations 😂
😂 this has been a Ben Shapiro public service announcement...
Exactly what I was thinking too. Searching for those movies right now.
BOTH AIRPLANE MOVIES
ARE GREAT...👈🤣
I haven't seen only Blazzing Saddles , Malibus Most Wanted once was on local TV but I don't remember match! So for me thoes 2x, I like Mel Brooks but never could get past first minutes of Blazing
Damn you haven't seen some of these awesome movies?! You are missing out. You can probably skip every American Pie though
Ok, I have to watch Blazing Saddles & Airplane again!
Proof that we're not progressing. We're regressing.
May you are homie. My wealth has Tripple
Wr😢
WRONG
@@SamuelClemente7718it's not about wealth, it's about no humor anymore because certain types get offended about everything now. Humor comes from making fun of others, a situation, an accent etc ..
Anthony Mackie said it some time ago that a movie like 48 hours would never ever get made again nowadays. As someone who grew up in the 80s this hits me way harder than those newer movies mentioned here. But I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment that it was a better time for the country. It was a better time for the whole world. In the late 80s to the mid 90s I really believed we have left all that behind us for good. Race and skin color I mean.
It just was easier to sweep racism under the rug because of a lack of Internet and smartphones and social media.
Nah, I disagree. Theres plenty of shows and television worse. The dictator for example. Harold and Kumar escape guantonimo bay. If you wanna go television, south park.
When Tarantino was on Joe Rogan's podcast he talked about this, when Joe said to him he thinks they wouldn't let some of these be made today he responded with "well who are 'they'?". And he goes on to say that back in the 80s there was similar political correctness but despite that he did what he wanted to do and all that pc nonsense stopped being a thing. So in essence, self censorship out of fear is what perpetuates the current narrative.
The only cure for fear is fighting back, being brave, pushing back.
You forgot to add a all time classic Ace Ventura when they Implied you were mentally unstable if a male dressed and acting as a woman 😅😂
"Einhorn is a man!!!! OMG her gun was pushing into my hip!"
Holy cow!! That’s honestly the first time I’ve thought of that one, but you’re right. Good catch 👍
Everyone usually thinks of the easy ones first (Blazing Saddles, The Jerk, Airplane, etc)
What about Silence of the Lambs and the serial killer wanting to wear a woman suit?
@@kerim.peardon5551
Silence of the Lambs is often mentioned as a film that could never be made today, as people cite (incorrectly) that the serial killer Buffalo Bill was a homosexual (he wasn’t). The irony is that the director, now deceased Jonathan Demme, was EXTREMELY left wing.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective was critically derided when it was released. And even Jim Carrey didn’t deny at the time that Ace doing that was a display of homophobia.
All In The Family and Married With Children are 2 great TV shows that could never be made today.
House MD could never be made today either.
@@indepthmike5578wait what. What’s wrong with House?
@@indepthmike5578Right!? I used to love that show when I had cable.
Even the office a lot of there episodes
MWC should have made a spinoff continuing the progress of No MA'AM
Having grown up quoting Airplane! and Blazing Saddles, mostly Jonny’s and Lloyd’s lines, never gets old.
'And don't call me Shirley!
When I took sociology class in college, they suggested a movie night and my movie lazy saddles suggestion was taken. The teacher and faculty understood the jokes of the movie and what it was pointing out, but the students were appalled
Lol
*blazing saddles
There was a time...not that long ago, when Chappelle's Show was doing great work by playing on stereotypes and tropes of everybody, and in doing so created unity. Everybody loved it, and its ability to bring people together is the very reason why it was destroyed.
Chappelle ultimately felt that people were laughing at him and not with him and was a big part of why he didn’t continue the series. Plus, he felt that the popularity and workload of filming sketches grew to be too much for him. He was clearly burnt out from it when he ended it.
@@RocStarr913 That's not really what I heard. He didn't own the show despite it having his name and he wanted more control over it and they wouldn't let him. This was the real reason he left.
@@noless That could have been a factor, too.
I was watching Pitch Perfect the other day, and told my wife, that the movie would NEVER have been made in 2022/23.
I love the innuendoes in the movie, especially the first part. Quite funny.
My favorite part of Airplane was Mrs Cleaver saying I speaking jive.
I saw an interview where they said the 3 actors wrote the dialogue together. How fun would that have been to witness!
Any of these shows are better than the woke crap that’s produced today! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Define woke?
@@SamuelClemente7718 Anything that needs to meet a race quota because people think they are "marginalized". I.e. the female remake of Ghostbusters because woketards think women are under appreciated or the new live action of The Little Mermaid because blacks are not free people even though they have been since the middle of the 20th century. But you wouldnt know woke if it hit you in the mangina.
Truth!
@@SamuelClemente7718 Wokeism is weaponized personal grievances masquerading as a genuine social concern. It's defined by its fraudulent nature, as being distinct from legitimate social grievances.
@@SamuelClemente7718you, since you had to ask
Blazing Saddles is a great funny movie with an amazing theme song.
Tropic thunder is hilarious! All the movies listed are great comedies for those with a love for sense of humor.
Ben my husband and I weren’t sure what to watch this weekend. Thank you for providing a list 😂😂😂❤
Trying to make Life of Brian today would send producer, director and writer straight to the courthouse
It’s weird to me how many conservatives think that Life Of Brian would be hated by the “wokes”
That movie was VERY controversial when it came out. Do you know who tried to get it cancelled at the time? Conservative Christians
The line in Tropic Thunder that was most controversial is "Never go full..."
Notice Ben didn't mention Simple Jack
still wasn't as controversial or more talked about than RDJ playing a black guy.
RDJ said on Joe Rogan the simple Jack character got more flak then his at the time
Johnny Knoxville made a movie called the Ringer. He pretends to have a disability so he can fix the special Olympics. It's hilarious but could never be made today.
The fact his character makes up the name Jeffy Dahmer is even funnier.
The best part is the actual handicapped actors stole the entire movie. They were hilarious
Roger Ebert panned "A Fish Called Wanda" because of the stuttering character. He also didn't like "Arthur" because "alcoholism is not funny."
The last people that should ever lecture anyone on ethics or morals should be anyone from hollywood. The only exceptions are people that have proven themselves to not grow insane by the fame they have been presented with.
indeed, i would actually make it illegal to star in more than 1 movie to prevent celebrity worship
RDJ was the first celeb I thought of who fits the “proven themselves” exception. And I can’t recall him ever lecturing anyone on any of the woke crap Hollywood loves to bring up every chance they get.
@jcarp8471 agreed rdj has been through alot of things and I like that things are turning around for him =) and he's not letting Hollywood affect him too much
The woke modern movie audience of 2023….
Where a movie trying to expose child abductions is considered controversial, Barbie is considered philosophical, and disliking anything starring a woman or a black cast is considered sexism or racism.
Good times 🎉
Ben Shapiro made a 43 minute video about Barbie crying about it not being PG, even though it’s rated PG 13 , seems pretty snow flakey to me
@Steph-nq6ho Did u even watch the video?
My sister and mom made me go with her I agreed with everyone single point made in the video
I didn't really like the Barbie movie. But it's only cuz I was kind of expecting it to be like Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse.
I didn't hate it but I didn't like it either.
Barbie was sort of funny and the message could be interpreted positively by both sides depending on how you look at. Shapiro chose the pessimistic view on that one
@@autisticDementia yeah. He said that there were no jokes beyond the first however many minutes - than complained that the jokes throughout the movie were inappropriate for a kids movie - a kids mind you that is rated pg 13
3:45 omg this was also referenced in Star Wars. When Luke and Han take the Stormtroopers suits
Who could've guessed that the movie Juwanna Man would become a reality, and men would pretend to be women so that they can dominate women's sports.
If anyone told me this years ago I never would’ve believed it. Shows what I “understood”. Lol
Another one is Idiocracy.. never thought it would come true
@@feliciab5019if someone would go back in time and try to tell people 15 years ago what the world would be like they’d just think you were schizophrenic
Did this movie have an unintended consequence? Like a how to pamphlet.
One of the best lines of Tropic Thunder “I’m a dude playing the dude disguised as another dude”
"What do YOU mean, you people?"
"HUH!?"
@@sirg-had8821 🤣
Loved the spoof trailers/ads at the start too.
@@Alan_Connor Booty Sweat & Bust-a-Nut Bars! 😆
I'm not sure this would count, but Australian Impressionist Chris Lilley's "Angry Boys" which is brilliant!
Anything by CL couldn't be made today and he's brilliant! So funny S'mouse, Ricky Wong's "Tiger Mom" and Ja'mai for sure would never make the cut... and Jonah from Tonga.
The S'mouse plot line had me on the floor in tears! Esp when his dad would reveal the truth about him. 😂😂😂
Married with Children is one of the funniest shows I've watched with some of the most offensive jokes I've seen 😂 How much the main character hates his Wife is so damn hilarious, but nowadays he'd be called abusive 💀
then you did not understand the whole series. he does not hate his wife, he actually loves her. there were couple jealous episodes and those were hilarious.
@@petermagdina9868 I didn't mean he LITERALLY hated her, as in didn't care about the marriage. It's just the jokes where he hates his Wife and kids are funny, I don't think the character himself hates them 😭
@@ilikebeanies3499 it was very funny many times how the whole family look after each other. Especially how Al treated pumpkins boyfriends.
The whole family was dysfunctional. The joke is that all those sitcom families were always happy and seemed almost perfect so The Bundy's were supposed to be the opposite.
Tropic thunder is a masterpiece. I've recommended it to my friends many times and they all loved it.
Also anything with Leslie Nielsen. All the Naked Gun series from the 90's It's crack me up every time.
This is all gonna be mandatory viewing for my kids one day. True classics.
Blazing Saddles is one of my all time favs.. Anything Mel Brooks does is super.
Did you know that Blazing Saddles is a very woke movie made by liberals that offended conservatives at the time it came out?
I know it’s not a movie but Married With Children should be on this list!
Airplane is still funnier than any comedy that’s come out in the last 14 years
Yes so is the Naked Gun.
Surely you can't be serious.
@@Ya_Mosura
I just want to wish you good luck; we’re all counting on you.
@@patrickc3419 A hospital, what is it?
@@Ya_Mosura
It’s a big building with doctors & patients, but that’s not important right now.
Steve Martin in The Jerk. Last scene on the porch😂😂😂
Add just about every black and white movie where the guy main character slaps a hysterical woman to get her to calm down.
WRONG
Mr Green does that to Mrs Peacock in "Clue" (1985)
They did that in Airplane too!
I remember growing up, and seeing movies and thinking "they could've never gotten away with this back in the day"... Funny how things change, eh? For forty years I watched lessening censorship and what was allowed in art grow by leaps and bounds. For the past ten, I've watched those liberties go by the wayside.
Vsauce “why are bad words bad” video talks a little about this. Things usually go through ebbs and flows of being taboo. But in the last 10 or so years everything has been put under an intense microscope.
It is very odd. Even growing up in the 90’s and early 2000’s up until like the 2010’s it felt like comedy was fair game for making fun of anything and now comedy is on life support.
Blazing Saddles and Tropic Thunder at the top of the list! Never heard of Malibu's Most Wanted until now - thanks for the tip!
The thing about both Blazing Saddles and Tropic Thunder is that they both did things that were considered unacceptable/taboo at the time. That was the whole point
It’s not like blackface was socially acceptable in 2007
And it’s weird to me how you guys seem to want blackface to be socially acceptable
Team America World Police should definitely be on the Next List. As well as the Scary Movie Franchise (But mainly 1 and 2)
Trey Parker and Matt Stone really don’t give a shit and would easily make another (if they so desired). More so even as a big 🖕
And Lobo.
Kung Pow
When I saw Scary Movie II in the theatre, there was an incident playing out during coming attractions similar to the opening theatre scene.
Team America would be made, because it was made by the south park guys
I was having a bad day today. Watching this got my mind off everything and remembering how much fun I had watching all these movies. Thanks Ben 😂
“Airplane” is the best.
I like it 😅
Tropic thunder is amazing becuz even in 2008 we all realized this can't happen again. And Robert Downey Jr deserved best supporting actor over heath ledger. Facts
My little brother also says “facts” after stating an opinion and I think it takes so much away from the statement because it shows the speaker doesn’t understand what a fact is.
My little brother is 36.
@@matmclelland4701Facts... Wait, can I say that if I agree with you?
@@Whatever122t no. I mean yea you can say it if you agree but you shouldn’t, because you’d still sound stupid, because agreeing with an opinion doesn’t turn it in to a fact. Only objective information can be a true fact. The minute subjectivity or feelings or opinions or feelings come in to the conversation, only an idiot would conclude their statement by saying “facts.”
Facts.(not)
@@matmclelland4701 Facts
@@Whatever122t true
One of the funniest things about Blazing Saddles was actually after the film was made. It premiered at the Puck sick Drive-In in Burbank. The gimmick was that anyone who came riding or driving a horse could get in free. The only problem was that the horses recognized other horses on the screen and refused to leave regardless of what the rider/driver wanted
"Driving a horse"? How does one do that?
@@colinswartz6022 buggy, wagon, cart, sulky
@@lauranolastnamegiven3385, I thought one drove a buggy and rode a horse.
My mom is very conservative and this is one of her favorite movie franchises 9:49 she just doesnt take any of it seriously and laughs at whatever it happens on screen no matter how inapropiate it is.
It seems like most of the movies I loved in the 80s and 90s cannot be made today. Which is really tragic because they were some great movies.
The point of the scene in America Pie is that it backfires and Jim gets extremely embarrassed and it follows him throughout every other film. Plus all the guys learn something by the end of the film, especially Oz. People seem to focus on the build ups in this film and never the pay off.
Don't forget "Not without my Daughter" with Sally Field
It's a very serious drama but you can bet it wouldn't be made today!
Would True Lies get made Today?
I Seriously Doubt It.
@@generalursus-7224
Agree with Not Without My Daughter; what objection would they have with True Lies??
That was based on a true story, and given that the US, or the public anyway, hates Iran I think it might. Maybe a TV movie instead.
That wasn’t very popular even at the time. And there was controversy at the time over how Muslims were portrayed in it, especially since it had been released right before Operation Desert Storm. It was made during a time when Muslim characters were a complete rarity in Hollywood movies.
Recently I watched the 1982 film “48 Hours” starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy (in his first major role), and there is a level of racial invective that comes out of Nolte’s mouth that would never fly today. 😳
For sure. His character multiple times calls Eddie’s character “Watermelon”.
😳😳😳
It's a brilliant film, we watch it at least once per year.
The Hot Chick and White Chicks is hilarious.
You opened up a nostalgia attic I never knew I had😂😂😂 all of these are amazing movies💪🏾💪🏾
Dave Chappelle was great. He made us laugh at all forms of people and situations.
Airplane had a few scenes with the pilot doing all sorts of crazy stuff like once he says what a day to stop sniffing glue lol.
I'm surprised Monty Python's Life of Brian didn't get a mention because of its 'fighting for a man's right to have babies' scene.
Only because the left would be like "why is that funny that is a real problem".
Oh, the woke dorks recently tried to have that movie cancelled for that exact reason. John Cleese let ‘em have it. Look for the story.
John Cleese and Michael Palin were on some ancient British talk show where some “Sir” Bernie dude was telling them that the movie, which had just come out, was blasphemous. Michael Palin gave him an excellent rebuttal re: the Sermon on the Mount scene. He said that it was all done seriously with Jesus saying the right lines and then “ it pans to the back of the crowd where someone is yelling :’ I can’t hear you’. The talk show itself was funny as Hell
@@maureentrant5588 Yes. It's called 'Friday Night and Saturday Morning', with Tim Rice. Cleese and Palin were up against Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood.
Loreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetta!
They need to be made.
I have 3 movies that would not be made today. One of them stars a very famous woman.
1) Kentucky Fried Movie, 1977- starring Donald Sutherland and Kieth Zucker
2) Hot Dog... The Movie, 1984 - starring Tracy Ann Smith
3) The Best Little Whore House in Texas, 1982 - starring Dolly Parton alongside huge celebrities like Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise
OMG… bringing back memories… probably the best scene in the movie - Danger Seeker, Rex Crammer… no way could that be made today, probably couldn’t be made back then but like Mel Brooks said - just do it anyway…
Hot Dog…The Movie. And, don’t forget their sibling, which is Hamburger The Motion Picture from 1986. That wouldn’t fly today, either. Almost every scene in that film would offend the modern audiences.
@@ThomasDrish Nothing's quite like the top of the hill! Loved Hot Dog.
@@ThomasDrishwhat the f*ck is a Chinese downhill?
I'm a huge Mel Brooks fan & I say this about A LOT of his movies that they wouldn't be able to be made today because of how offended people would be. Even his new show on Hulu isn't compared to his older movies with the jokes
History of the World part 2 was amusing but definitely used modern humor as opposed to edgy humor.
@insidebarrysmind for sure however South Park isn't as old & they have had to have pauses during seasons wondering if they'd be back on the air not saying South Park isn't offensive it's to each their own & you could comment under every Person & say this all you want I also think that South Park is stupid & again to each their own
@insidebarrysmind sure South Park has been on the air for 25yrs Mel Brooks's work has been on just as long or longer not all his work is offensive & the trend for what can or cannot be filmed has been flipped so not everything he did or what has been done couldn't be re done without being monetized hard core like his newer show😅
@@brittanyfox6703reading through this, im wondering what monetized has to do with the discussion? From what I saw it was about what could be done today because of so called cancel culture. Or am I wrong?
I agree if south park can remain on the air, nothing is off limits. People are obviously watching it or it wouldn't be ongoing.
@@benjaminfields6181well I do think monetizing is happening more today as apart of Cancel culture & I was agreeing with the original discussion I don't think most of Mel Brooks's movies would be allowed to be made today just because of cancel culture & bringing South Park into this discussion isn't really an arguing point when they've been running on the same slogan of they don't really give any fucks about what the other people think so much they put a warning before every show of what to expect 😅 like you could argue the same for all adult cartoons but the ones that are still on air on major broadcasting have to "get approval" on certain jokes unless they want to get cancelled
You forgot "Simple Jack" in Tropic Thunder. That's the other thing in the movie which would also cause such a firestorm today!
The Ringer with Johnny Knoxville
Wrong but so so funny 😂😂
Mel Brooks, Leslie Nielsen, and Police Academy movies were my childhood, and i loved them. i rewatched them when i got older and i found them funnier because then i understood the references that flew past my head as a kid. unfortunately i don't think we will ever get to see more of those kinds of movies the way things are going.
Ladybugs with Rodney Dangerfield and The Toy with Richard Pryor would be far more controversial today than the films on this list. Even crazier, Robert Downey Jr. stays in character during the commentary track of Tropic Thunder.
LOL! Ladybugs was great!! RIP Jonathan Brandis. You were awesome as Matthew playing Martha!
I am from Generation X and moderately conservative. I saw this video suggested on my feed - likely because I subscribe to Brett Cooper's channel. I watched the video and immediately recognized classic comedies. One more film you could add is "Back to School" by Rodney Dangerfield. I was a 17 year-old HS senior when I saw it in the late summer of 1986. I loved it because I was applying to many colleges that time and thought the movie brought a good context of humor. I remember when the audience roared with laughter at the scene when Sam Kinison's character, a history professor and Vietnam Veteran with PTSD, explodes at his class. He went on a diatribe about serving and fighting in the jungle. Then Rodney's character tries to calm him down but instead gets overheated himself about the Korean War. It could never get made today.
As for films you noted, I also saw "Soul Man" in 1986 later that fall. I thought the film was fair in revealing the types of racism that can occur at an elite college town when the character was dressed in disguise. The film showed a fair amount of blatant racism, microaggressions, and colorism - far ahead of its time in potraying inner details of racism. But it could never be made today either. However, I like your point that affirmative action was outlawed. As a brown Apache Indian, I personally witnessed how AA destroyed a lot of promising minority STEM students by putting them in classes for which they were unprepared. For example, let's say a Navajo Indian got an ACT/SAT far below the mean but was accepted due to AA. More often than not, such an unprepared minority usually dropped out or got bad grades. What should have happened was (1) the student should have been denied admission and (2) gone to a community college for about 2.5 to 3 years to catch up to the more prepared students from high performing school districts (e.g. affluent areas of Phoenix or San Diego), then (3) transfer back to a major university as a junior. That pattern was common after 2000 in Florida when Jeb Bush outlawed AA. Minority graduation rates actually went up in FL after AA was outlawed because the mismatch problem identified by the Heritage Foundation and Dr. Richard Sanders of UCLA was eliminated. Sanders thoroughly analyzed the mismatch problem among law students and AA. Now, with AA outlawed, minorities who do get admitted will have credentials comparable to the rest of the class and are much more likely to do well. There will be far less minorities on campus but with far higher graduation rates. The non-admitted can just go to a community college or smaller four-year school with a proper match.
In regards to the "Airplane" scene with ebonics, the two African American actors were willing participants and tried real hard to get the comedy perfected in timing with the late actress who played the "Cleaver" matriarch. They were actually honored to work with her since she had a solid reputation with her career in film. But today, it can't get made. And such African Actors from the past are viewed as "sellouts" or "traitors" to a racist hierarchy in film. But it wasn't like that if you watch the documentary and do research on the two who played the passengers. Lou Alcindor (Kareem of the LA Lakers) was in the film as well.
I miss those films and TV series of the past. I watched "All in the Family" weekly. It was wildly popular even among minorities. My family and friends on the Apache Reservation watched it persisently for years. When it went into re-runs, the last time I watched it was in the early 1990s at a summer minority student gathering. I had a female Puerto Rican friend who loved it and said it was popular over there too. But today it can't even be made. I remember Archie's famous proverb "The Right Wing is called the Right Wing because they're right!!!" He was awesome.
The 70s and 80s are long gone with great films, thanks for bringing back the memories. In TV, M.A.S.H. still holds the record for most watched sitcom episode. It could not be made today - a series where all the doctors were men and the jokes with nurses like Margaret would be cancelled immediately. From my memory, the show actually had many female fans. I knew a female coworker who told me at her college the women in the dorm would get together to watch M.A.S.H. weekly when it was live. Those days are gone. But I do miss Colonel Flagg.
Zzzz..... 😴
M.A.S.H. was a movie before a series, with only Raidar being played by the same actor. The series could probably be made today (not the movie though) I thonk, but it wouldn't be the same with certain styles of comedy now taboo and it would need more DEI and representation to be greenlit. Probably would have MJR Houlihan be the lead and only compitit one fixing all the men's mistakes... despite being a strong female role at the time. She would also never be referred to as Hot Lipps.
@@dragonusa I'm glad you know of M.A.S.H. The younger generations seem to have missed out and are largely unfamiliar. Klinger as the Statue of Liberty or Flagg as the "wind that broke its leg" were just hilarious.
In 1986 Vincent D'Onofrio gained around seventy pounds for his role in Full Metal Jacket. He said that people definitely treated him differently and the girls wouldn't want to talk to him.
The thing about Archie Bunker is he didn't realize he was racist. On the other hand, George Jefferson knew he was and didn't care.
I'm sure Archie had a clue but I think he honestly thought he was only offensive to Meathead 😅
@@almostoily7541 One of the ironies of modern cancel culture dismissing "All in the Family" would be that the show actually spun off two successful black TV shows: "The Jeffersons" (George as the patriarch and black analog of Archie Bunker) and "Good Times" with Mr. Dynomite. Good Times was spun off of "Maude" which was spun off of "All in the Family". Go figure.
As for "Full Metal Jacket", it was brutal with the raw depiction of boot camp and hazing. I know it was set to the "Tet Offensive" of 1968 at the Battle of Hue with the US Marines against a full force of NVA regular army. I studied Agent Orange in graduate school. It caused a lot of illnesses and birth defects in the war's aftermath.
Apparently Snow White is unmakeable today... or at least the abomination they were trying to make it into. Hopefully the pendulum is finally swinging back!
It doesn’t help that there are so many different iterations of Snow White that have already been made. It only actually helps Disney to do something different with their live-action remake.
Like Ben, I was born in 1984. And also like Ben, I agree that Airplane!, released in 1980, is soooooo good. If you've never seen it, seek it out. It's incredible.
AGHHHHH… My daughter was born in 1984! Saw AIRPLANE when it came out.. Hilarious… particularly when you had a buzz on( mandatory). PLANES, TRAINS and AUTOMOBILES was also Hysterical😂😂😂
"Surely, you can't be serious!"
"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley!" 😅🤣😂
When Shapiro said “STFU”🫡🤣🤣😂
The scene in American Pie wasn't quite so bad when you see that Jim is the one who ended up on camera and the entire school was watching. He did some *extremely* embarrassing things and it ruined him at school. He was hit with instant karma. Kind of a "do unto others" lesson in all of it.
It’s pretty bad. Definitely falls into the rare category of “yeah, okay, couldn’t get made and that’s probably a good thing… but was still hilarious in its era.”
Also let's not forget after he left her to change clothes she ended up masturbating on his bed, like she's the same pervert as the boys, why do they get all the blame
i've never seen any of the American pie movies from the start to end, only little pieces on tv, because even as a teenager in the 2000 i didn't find it funny just gross. When comedies died in 2015 i was glad that the american pie type disappeared.
elizabeth shannons character still tries to get with him in AP2 even when she was sent back to her country after the incident.
Exactly. That’s really what made it hilarious, the whole thing failing spectacularly. :)
I would love to see Ben do a reaction to old TV shows like All in the Family and Married with Children.
All in the Family was created by television's biggest lefty in history, Norman Lear. It was almost entirely written to mock Republicans.
Don't forget the office, their were things in the office that they wouldn't get away with now. Same with Home Improvement.
MwC proved Norman Lear was the weak link in every Norman Lear show because he was long gone from Embassy when it began.
@@kevinfish7081remember that holocaust vs slavry 😂😂😂
Tropic Thunder deserves to be at the #1 spot, Just saying, it was an absolute masterpiece! I watched it a couple nights ago 😎
Most of what comes to mind for me are TV shows like the original Night Court, All in the Family, and Married with Children.
I agree with the latter two; what would the objection to Night Court be??
@@patrickc3419How much of a horndog the character of Dan Fielding, played by John Larroquette, became on the series.
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Gotcha.
Very funny show I enjoyed watching.
@@patrickc3419 I recommend the sequel Night Court series as well. Its basic premise still works remarkably well enough today.
@@RocStarr913She-Hulk is basically superhero Night Court, and it had it’s own Dan type character.
That is definitely true. Jumping off subject, as far as TV shows, I think the Little Rascals would be a show that could never be made today.
If American Pie makes the list, then surely Police Academy and Revenge of the Nerds needs to be there 🤣🤣
Porky's, Porky's 2 and American Pie are hands down the funniest movies ever
Sitcom-wise, gotta go with "Sledge Hammer" from the mid-80's. Only 2 seasons, but loved it as a kid. Just a crazy, trigger happy cop with a Colt 45. A sledgehammer etched on an Ivory handle. Pure gold.
Did it have anything to do with Peter Gabriel's hit from So, 'Sledgehammer'?
@@johnnypresberg4515 No, but coincidentally very close, both released in 1986. The show was basically a Dirty Harry parody. Despite people and critics generally liking the first episode, it never really found its audience due to being bounced around the schedule and was dumped after 41 episodes.
@@kev3d look at the chat got right here. Thanks for filling in the details.
"Trust me. I know what I'm doing."
Lmao. Loved the finale.
Tropic Thunder has to be Tom Cruise's BEST performance
Any movie from the past that doesn’t suck probably couldn’t be made today.
I’m surprised “The Toy” from 1982 wasn’t on this list. It definitely couldn’t be made today.