I think it was George Burns who said, "If you laugh a lot I'm a comedian. If you laugh a little bit, I'm a singer. If you don't laugh at all, I'm a satirist."
The only humor allowed in Hollywood these days is what CS Lewis called “flippancy”. No one has to go through the trouble of actually making a joke (something that requires wit and intelligence) Everton assumes the joke has already been made. So, Jimmy Fallon leans forward, spreads his hands and says, “Donald Trump, am I right?” And the audience knows they’re supposed to laugh, even though nobody actually made a joke. Everyone knows they’re simply supposed to find the topic ridiculous.
I agree, only comedy can save them. The problem is the only comedians who can create funny jokes anymore are all blacklisted from Hollywood for not being PC.
The recent good ones didnt help, the majority of their jokes are just attacking the people they dont like and empathizing with a side of the current culture war, in doing that they become part of the culture war. The majority of comedy besides stand-up used to be wholesome family fun that had a "no politics at the dinner table" attitude. People watch tv and go to stories to get away from all the nonsense, but since they offer no real reprieve there is no point.
It took me until I was 23 years old to fully realize the importance of comedy that can offend people without sounding too political. In very recent memory, 2 Broke Girls was a master of politically incorrect comedy that told funny, yet relatable storylines about Caroline and Max, the 2 broke girls in question, trying to start their own cupcake business to not stay broke for the rest of their lives. Whitney Cummings also created another situation comedy starring herself at the same time, but Whitney had a less successful run than 2 Broke Girl$ because Whitney Cummings was not good at being a funny lead actress like Beth Behrs and Kat Dennings in her other sitcom series to premiere in 2011. April 18, 2024, 1:37pm
Noway! Chevy Chase and young Bill Murray were the opposite of humility. Jim Carey wasn't humble. I think you mean people that are saints. Saints are never funny. Funny people are often bad people or people that are mischievous. Seinfeld and the gang weren't humble! Humility is good... but it isn;'t a recipe for funny... in fact it's a recipe to not be funny more so.
@@MicahMicahel Not humility on part of the comedian. Humility among the audience. Something like - "I am not a special snowflake, and I can absolutely be made fun of."
Comedy isn’t allowed anymore because a joke has to have a subject. And the subjects are too fragile to take a joke. It’s going to be a long while until comedy comes around again. Like flares. 👍👍👍
They have cis white men, which would suit their agenda just fine. But the writers don't have the skills to pull off a dramatic reboot, let alone something as artful as an original comedy.
Comedy requires the ability to make fun of obvious absurdities, tolerance for criticism, and self-awareness... Hollywood not only doesn't have any of these aspects anymore, but condemn them vehemently while calling people 'ists' and 'phobes.'
At last, it finally makes sense why right wingers & concervatives suck so hard at comedy. They have none of the attributes you listed. In fact, now that I think about it, not only do they not have said attributes, but they actually excell at just the exact opposite of them lol.
Reality tv did not kill sitcoms. Reality tv grew because of the volume of narcissistic people that were allowed inside the city walls. They were barbarians at the gates. Sitcoms died because the quality of writing in the age of narcissism declined. TV news today is dominated by narcissistic characters and it leached its way into production as well. It is now at the point were the opinion of the person is more important than the facts of a story.
I haven't watched reality TV since season 3 of Survivor. i.e. I haven't watched normie TV for a long time. I'll watch select shows and movies on streaming if I have it on good authority they are actually worth watching. A lot of those turn out to be Anime rather than Hollywood productions.
I'm a gay dude and was rarely offended by gay jokes in movies & TV in decades past -- and some were really damned funny. One of my all-time favorite shows was a short-lived 2001 sitcom called "Some of My Best Friends," centered on a macho straight guy from the Bronx and Jason Bateman as his uptight gay roommate. It was hilariously wrong, and it would never get made today. I'm WAY more offended by the so-called "representation" that modern Hollywood is shoving down our throats. We don't need wall-to-wall queer characters in every-friggin-thing.
@dennisrounds1996 Unfortunately I believe you MUST point out that the Sarkkk meant that QUITE literally with no shade of sarcasm or hyperbole. Peaceful Skies.
@VinnieRattolle Laughing at ourselves was part of it all. These people look back and remember our shells were cracked and our eggs were scrambled by all this meanspirited funnystuff. In reality most people were good eggs who could take a little bit of having our yolks broken.
But Uncle Chato, how can I as a member of the WEF continue the good work of making everybody miserable and be completely demoralized unless I remove all of the laughs out of the room! If the proles start laughing again in the Oceanic districts of Airstrip 1!? How else is anybody going to take us seriously at the Ministry of Truth if everybody starts laughing at us!? Continuously!?
All the CO2 emissions from our laughter will detrimentally impact the environment, not to mention that comedy is white privilege and could lead to the deaths of trans youth!
George Carlin was part of the problem. He pulled that same stunt that far too many standup comedians pull where they pretend they're just an average schlub despite making millions. Riddle me this, do you think Carlin wasn't in the club?
I watched a UA-cam review recently that pointed out that every. Single. Scene. in Holy Grail is not only funny but quotable and iconic. That movie doesn't have a slow part or a single joke that doesn't land. It's a damned masterpiece.
@@MrWhipple42 It was terrible. It was horrid. It was slow and puerile! ...... Oh I've just received a missive.... ***mumble mumble mumble*** (the sound of a revolver being cocked offscreen) Well then.... ***AHEM*** It was ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT and everyone involved was a genius! ( I do so miss that flavor of humor) Peaceful Skies.
This is why folks are watching TV shows from years ago and movies from 20 years ago ..Blazing Saddles ..Airplane ...Naked Gun...most of which would not get made today....thanks goodness for DVDs..
Ted Turner has done a marvelous job preserving and restoring a lot of the old movies but they're still locked in their TCM cable channel format. A lot of the new generation just aren't watching media that way anymore and they aren't learning about those classics as a result. I really wish Netflix or one of the other streaming services would add that content or it could slowly fade away.
The scene of Grant pushing her down to the floor alone, would be enough to get it banned! But in this age, if they remade it, the roles would be reversed so that a "independent boss babe" could do the pushing.
If memory serves, i recall a TV movie called "The Las Comedian," where not only was Comedy outlawed, but any Comedian was to be executed. These days, they are just "cancelled."
I miss that feeling about being excited for a movie to come out in the cinema or VHS/DVD. When SE7EN was in the cinema I couldn't see it, I was too young. When it was released on VHS, it took me 3 months to get a copy and the wait was well worth it!! Now a movie gets released, you watch it and forget about it. Streaming killed the excitement of actually waiting for something. The joy of finally seeing something was both frustrating and amazing. The industry has turned into disposable diapers. You use it once and throw it away.
Not only has streaming killed everything but its own model kills itself. I mean creating endless shows with the intent of only bringing new subscribers and then ending those shows 2 or 3 seasons later. This makes the shows as you said, disposable diapers. They don't matter and ultimately are nothing but a footnote. It's sad that this is allowed to continue because you're not going to get people rewatching any of these shows. I LOVED Mindhunter but I'll never go back to watch its short two season run. Oh and I think there was like 2 or 3 years between season 1 and 2. Absolute madness this industry has turned into.
British comedy legend, Graham Lineham, writer of Father Ted, Black Books, the IT Crowd to name a few great shows, was cancelled from the Edinburgh Comedy Festival because he doesn't agree with puberty blockers etc for minors. 'Woke comedy' is an oxymoron; the true believers are killing comedy, along with so much more.
I find myself watching movies and shows of yesteryear all the time. If I could buy a time machine, I'd go back to the 1950s when families were a thing.
Don't doubt yourself. We're not allowed to be happy, we have to be kept in a constant state of anxiety and anger. No escapism no joy no love, no laughter. "Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves." O'BRIAN 1984
I haven’t seen “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” in years. Zero Mostel, Buster Keaton, Jack Gilford, Phil Silvers…what an amazing group of funny men.
It really is all in Aykroyd's delivery, isn't it? His descending vocal register just sells it. Imagine if just yelled it out in terror; all the humor would be drained from the line.
That background picture is Zero Mostel, Buster Keaton, and Jack Gilford, from A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. I just love the song Bring Me My Bride.
@@CallMeChato I had a commanding officer who apparently played Miles Gloriosus in a play when he was in college. He had a great singing voice and sang Bring Me My Bride from rote memory. He had us all laughing, especially when he trumpeted, "I am my ideal."
Besides the most excellent hamming and singing of Miles, the antics of his hapless legion trying their best to follow him through the congested streets of Rome all the while the citizenry pelt them with produce....it doesn't get much better than that! Haven't seen the movie? Please pull up the UA-cam clip of the scene and see how it's done!
And don't forget that "everybody ought to have a maid... everyone should have a working girl..." A long time ago I recommended this to some conservative relatives and they... freaked... out! Great, great musical! I doubt we shall ever see it's like again. What's the matter with kids... these days? I shall covet my DVD of it till my day's end.
I agree with you. If nothing else, good comedy makes you laugh at yourself. And some people really seem to need that. And smart comedy makes you think about things in new ways . Also something we could use some of.
there were three Newhart shows! so there were a lot of episodes. each series was kind of the same but with a different group. everyone but Bob was an idiot.
I like the episode of "Keeping up Appearances" when Hyacinth tries to go out of her way to impress somebody who doesn't care about her, and her sister Daisey and her husband, Onslow, somehow get involved, and ruin all of Hyacinth's plans. Did you ever see that one?
Hello Chato: Thank you very much for mentioning "Some Like it Hot". It is my definition of a well made film. I first saw it when I was a child on Saturday afternoon tv. Now, I have a completely different understanding of that film. With it's incredibly light touch, "Some Like it Hot", raised issues which Western societies are still struggling with. Have a lovely day.
I definitely got the “joy tingles”. Thank you for mentioning “The Goon Show”. I was born in the late 50’s and grew up listening to reruns on Saturdays on ABC radio in Australia. And yes, 50+ years later I can still hear “He’s fallen in the water…” in my head.
*Law & Order,* the comedy of Jerry Orbach and Jessie L. Martin. A year of comedy only ... that would be neat. Sort of like the old film _Death Takes a Holiday._
My youngest has a big thing for anything Lucille Ball, also anything Paul Henning (Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres). She's an adult Gen Z.
One of the most joyously silly things I ever saw was the BBC's _'Allo 'Allo!,_ a smutty sitcom set in occupied France with an ensemble of camp German soldiers, sexy Resistance girls, absurd British airmen and so on, all orbiting around the main character, a cowardly but likeably roguish French cafe owner. I suspect it would be impossible for many scriptwriters to think, let alone write, such a thing now.
"Do you believe in the hereafter....then you know what I'm here after... owwww". Thank you Rowan and Martin's Laugh In. A Boot to the Head is never boring either.
When I was a kid, they used to show Animal House, Porkies, etc, on TV -- edited, of course -- and that's where my love of comedy started. One day, my aunt said 'you boys want to see funny?' and showed us Up in Smoke. I was around 10 years old. They'd probably try to throw her in prison today.
The biggest roadblock to creativity is fear. And the people making decisions aren't the people with talent, they're the business men with money - who fear not making more money (or worse, losing money). I have to speculate that there was a time when actual talented people were brought into consult before making major decisions in the entertainment industry.
I get you, and I believe that's essentially true. But how do we account for Disney's debacle, where they insist on making films and series that lose money?
I think all the "writers" have painted themselves into a corner by trying to write a "dark, gritty sitcom for a new audience". They are all too hatefull. Look at "Velma" ffs.
Grumpy old men :D I still watch those movies with my kids. Man it would be so funny if 'Married with Children' was broadcast now, man I love that show...
@@earlsmith7428 I enjoyed that series, but it got to be too repetitious, too predictable comedy. However, I really laughed my head off when they used "THE CONE OF SILENCE"!!!
I do believe that comedians of the stand up variety are the last defenders of free speech. And JKR too! Some reporter asked Jerry Seinfeld what if their comedy offended someone. His response is golden..."then be offended!" Thanks for sticking up for free speech, Paul!
They aren't. Standup comedians live in such an insular ecosystem that all it takes is unintentionally offending a single audience member who just so happens to a friend, or related to, the club owner.
PREACH! I was a teen/college age in the early 2000s and I desperately miss even mediocre comedies like Dodgeball and Old School. People still say "that's a bold move Cotton let's see how it works out..." The impact comedies make is tremendous
There is no more comedy because most millenials (and those who came after) cannot laugh, they can only be offended. And I say this because I'm unfortunate to be one of them.
Agree with this 100%, comedy makes everything around it better, problem is that comedy is hard and modern writers now are easyminded and have no depth.
Well, I would quote the one line I remember from Tropic Thunder, as it's relevant to what modern Hollywood is doing, but I'm pretty sure UA-cam won't let me...
I fully agree and I approve this message. I watched Porky's at the theater and laughed my butt off. Didn't understand one word as the audience never stopped laughing. It was fun. Also loved Revenge of the Nerds.
Agreed! One thing that scares me is Todd Philips (who directed comedies like the Hangover, Starsky & Hutch, Due Date, Old School) said comedies aren't viable anymore so he ended up doing dramas like Joker instead. I mean, Joker was a good film, but I love comedies too much. Best we get nowadays are a few sparse romantic comedies
The Joker was well made and crafted but was a horrible movie. It was the sort of thing that should have been going straight to video or late night tv horror special. Not a nice movie and so dark it damages the soul for 24 hours.
Could you imagine the outrage... Married with Children, The Honeymooners, Benny Hill, (why was I watching these) even Me myself and Irene, I showed it to my teens and they agreed, we could not have these on tv today. I'm so grateful for the 80's, You're so right. The could just do reruns and it will be much better.
Comedy really is an under appreciated genre. Writing a decent comedy is a lot harder than it looks, because it’s hard to be funny. And as the “Fred the Movie” trilogy taught me during my formative years, nobody wants to sit through a bad comedy.
You forgot one, I Married a Witch. The comedies of the silent era, '30s, and '40s were some of the best comedies of all time and still an influence. Arsenic and Old Lace is one of my all time favorites. Thank you for mentioning it. Gen X was lucky to get to watch all these plus more growing up watching OTA TV.
I think it was George Burns who said, "If you laugh a lot I'm a comedian. If you laugh a little bit, I'm a singer. If you don't laugh at all, I'm a satirist."
That's more clever than anything written in Hollywood in the last decade.
Maybe a pilot section on Netflix where they could post the pilots and find real responses
Or a politician
@@patrickshannon4854 Exactly!
@@patrickshannon4854 Politicians laugh all the time, except they do it in private and are Laughing at US. Think about that.
Comedy is now a micro aggression
You nailed it, better than an entire book.
good one
I disagree. Comedy is seen as outright deadly aggression. The Marxists morons see nothing micro about criticism of their delusional stupidity.
@tykotate9346 HOW DARE YOU! ***clutches pearls VERY hard***
Micro Aggression, The end of Western civilization
Comedy requires intelligence, wit and a certain amount of self awareness, a rare commodity in modern Hollywood.
Haha, I didn't read this comment until after I posted mine... You're absolutely right, though.
Hollywood is so worried about hitting down that they don't hit anything.
Amen
110%.
Truth.
Hard to make a comedy in Hollywood when their current political bent allows for almost NO sense of humor
But where's the push back? Married With Children didn't make it to tv without resistance but Ron Levitt and Michale Moye fought for it.
Enjoying yourself has become the 8th sin
They don't want you to be happy. THEY aren't happy... and they want to "share" that with you.
The only humor allowed in Hollywood these days is what CS Lewis called “flippancy”. No one has to go through the trouble of actually making a joke (something that requires wit and intelligence) Everton assumes the joke has already been made.
So, Jimmy Fallon leans forward, spreads his hands and says, “Donald Trump, am I right?” And the audience knows they’re supposed to laugh, even though nobody actually made a joke. Everyone knows they’re simply supposed to find the topic ridiculous.
Most of the modern audience think one of the Marx brothers was named Karl who also wrote political manifestos.
I agree, only comedy can save them. The problem is the only comedians who can create funny jokes anymore are all blacklisted from Hollywood for not being PC.
The recent good ones didnt help, the majority of their jokes are just attacking the people they dont like and empathizing with a side of the current culture war, in doing that they become part of the culture war.
The majority of comedy besides stand-up used to be wholesome family fun that had a "no politics at the dinner table" attitude. People watch tv and go to stories to get away from all the nonsense, but since they offer no real reprieve there is no point.
It took me until I was 23 years old to fully realize the importance of comedy that can offend people without sounding too political. In very recent memory, 2 Broke Girls was a master of politically incorrect comedy that told funny, yet relatable storylines about Caroline and Max, the 2 broke girls in question, trying to start their own cupcake business to not stay broke for the rest of their lives. Whitney Cummings also created another situation comedy starring herself at the same time, but Whitney had a less successful run than 2 Broke Girl$ because Whitney Cummings was not good at being a funny lead actress like Beth Behrs and Kat Dennings in her other sitcom series to premiere in 2011. April 18, 2024, 1:37pm
YES
BILL BURR is in their face, Dave Chapel even more than Big Burr
What was the funniest movie this year? Ricky Stanicky?? The comedy genre is truly dead
Comedy requires HUMILITY. Thats why it's basically dead in Hollywood. They're lost up their own asses.
THIS. We are all human. Poking fun is poking fun at yourself. You can't make yourself exempt. It's an antropologival impossibilty.
Noway! Chevy Chase and young Bill Murray were the opposite of humility. Jim Carey wasn't humble. I think you mean people that are saints. Saints are never funny. Funny people are often bad people or people that are mischievous. Seinfeld and the gang weren't humble! Humility is good... but it isn;'t a recipe for funny... in fact it's a recipe to not be funny more so.
@@MicahMicahel Not humility on part of the comedian. Humility among the audience. Something like - "I am not a special snowflake, and I can absolutely be made fun of."
Comedy isn’t allowed anymore because a joke has to have a subject. And the subjects are too fragile to take a joke. It’s going to be a long while until comedy comes around again. Like flares. 👍👍👍
It'll come around. I hope I live to see it.
They have cis white men, which would suit their agenda just fine. But the writers don't have the skills to pull off a dramatic reboot, let alone something as artful as an original comedy.
A safe world is not a funny world. Comedy mocks life and death and everything in between.
bring back bell bottoms
They need to exercise the walk mine virus and we know they can't and will not do this 🤔
Comedy requires the ability to make fun of obvious absurdities, tolerance for criticism, and self-awareness...
Hollywood not only doesn't have any of these aspects anymore, but condemn them vehemently while calling people 'ists' and 'phobes.'
Amen
At last, it finally makes sense why right wingers & concervatives suck so hard at comedy. They have none of the attributes you listed. In fact, now that I think about it, not only do they not have said attributes, but they actually excell at just the exact opposite of them lol.
And lest we forget - what killed the sitcom? Reality TV. Cheaper to make, no writers needed, almost endless supply.
Reality tv did not kill sitcoms. Reality tv grew because of the volume of narcissistic people that were allowed inside the city walls. They were barbarians at the gates. Sitcoms died because the quality of writing in the age of narcissism declined. TV news today is dominated by narcissistic characters and it leached its way into production as well. It is now at the point were the opinion of the person is more important than the facts of a story.
Reality TV also paved the way for fake news by conditioning people to accept fiction presented as fact.
Reality TV came about because of the writers strike. And that was a soft blow compared to the recent strike.
I haven't watched reality TV since season 3 of Survivor. i.e. I haven't watched normie TV for a long time. I'll watch select shows and movies on streaming if I have it on good authority they are actually worth watching. A lot of those turn out to be Anime rather than Hollywood productions.
UA-cam vlogs are killing reality TV
Comedy was about punching up, not punching down...and no group was safe... equal opportunity for all.
Not punching. I call it inclusion.
We used to laugh at ourselves …and one another .
Now as Anna Sarkkesian said “Everything’s sexist, everything’s racist, everything’s homophobic”.
"And we must point it ALL out."
And Ana was a loud part of it.
I'm a gay dude and was rarely offended by gay jokes in movies & TV in decades past -- and some were really damned funny. One of my all-time favorite shows was a short-lived 2001 sitcom called "Some of My Best Friends," centered on a macho straight guy from the Bronx and Jason Bateman as his uptight gay roommate. It was hilariously wrong, and it would never get made today. I'm WAY more offended by the so-called "representation" that modern Hollywood is shoving down our throats. We don't need wall-to-wall queer characters in every-friggin-thing.
@dennisrounds1996 Unfortunately I believe you MUST point out that the Sarkkk meant that QUITE literally with no shade of sarcasm or hyperbole.
Peaceful Skies.
@VinnieRattolle Laughing at ourselves was part of it all. These people look back and remember our shells were cracked and our eggs were scrambled by all this meanspirited funnystuff. In reality most people were good eggs who could take a little bit of having our yolks broken.
But Uncle Chato, how can I as a member of the WEF continue the good work of making everybody miserable and be completely demoralized unless I remove all of the laughs out of the room! If the proles start laughing again in the Oceanic districts of Airstrip 1!? How else is anybody going to take us seriously at the Ministry of Truth if everybody starts laughing at us!? Continuously!?
All the CO2 emissions from our laughter will detrimentally impact the environment, not to mention that comedy is white privilege and could lead to the deaths of trans youth!
The Two Minute Hate isn't going to invent itself, after all. It takes everybody's participation, voluntary or otherwise.
Stop taking the Soma and you'll be OK.
Jon Ronson looked into the WEF. It turns out that they've don't live up to the hype.
Hollywood is too preoccupied with self-insert tragedy to give people an honest comedy
For every George Carlin there are a 1,000 Stephen Colbert's dancing in front of vaccine needles.
George Carlin was part of the problem. He pulled that same stunt that far too many standup comedians pull where they pretend they're just an average schlub despite making millions. Riddle me this, do you think Carlin wasn't in the club?
I was born a poor, black child, then I turned it up to 11... NIII!!!
In the whole world agenda, humor is outlawed
1 million extra likes for Buster Keaton in the background!
In his final role. And he's killing it every time he's on screen.
Ah, that was the man in the middle. He looked familiar but I couldn't remember his name.
"We're still quoting Airplane" Surely you can't be serious!
The opening credits of in search of the holy Grail.
Still kills me. They've all been sacked
Llamas did it.
I watched a UA-cam review recently that pointed out that every. Single. Scene. in Holy Grail is not only funny but quotable and iconic. That movie doesn't have a slow part or a single joke that doesn't land. It's a damned masterpiece.
@@MrWhipple42 It was terrible. It was horrid. It was slow and puerile! ...... Oh I've just received a missive.... ***mumble mumble mumble*** (the sound of a revolver being cocked offscreen)
Well then.... ***AHEM*** It was ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT and everyone involved was a genius! ( I do so miss that flavor of humor)
Peaceful Skies.
Or The Crimson Assurance from The Meaning of Life. "...It's fun to charter an accountant. And sail the wild accountancy..."
Or have they? 🤔
This is why folks are watching TV shows from years ago and movies from 20 years ago ..Blazing Saddles ..Airplane ...Naked Gun...most of which would not get made today....thanks goodness for DVDs..
Comedy died out in 2010's, if I want a laugh I'll stick a DVD on.
Agreed.
I’m 58 and I feel all of what you shared, Paul.
The Philadelphia Story for cryin out loud!!
Classic stuff!
Just watched it last week.
Ted Turner has done a marvelous job preserving and restoring a lot of the old movies but they're still locked in their TCM cable channel format. A lot of the new generation just aren't watching media that way anymore and they aren't learning about those classics as a result. I really wish Netflix or one of the other streaming services would add that content or it could slowly fade away.
Its a favorite
The scene of Grant pushing her down to the floor alone, would be enough to get it banned! But in this age, if they remade it, the roles would be reversed so that a "independent boss babe" could do the pushing.
You can't have comedy, it might offend someone
If memory serves, i recall a TV movie called "The Las Comedian," where not only was Comedy outlawed, but any Comedian was to be executed. These days, they are just "cancelled."
I miss that feeling about being excited for a movie to come out in the cinema or VHS/DVD. When SE7EN was in the cinema I couldn't see it, I was too young. When it was released on VHS, it took me 3 months to get a copy and the wait was well worth it!! Now a movie gets released, you watch it and forget about it. Streaming killed the excitement of actually waiting for something. The joy of finally seeing something was both frustrating and amazing. The industry has turned into disposable diapers. You use it once and throw it away.
Anticipation was important
Not only has streaming killed everything but its own model kills itself. I mean creating endless shows with the intent of only bringing new subscribers and then ending those shows 2 or 3 seasons later. This makes the shows as you said, disposable diapers. They don't matter and ultimately are nothing but a footnote. It's sad that this is allowed to continue because you're not going to get people rewatching any of these shows. I LOVED Mindhunter but I'll never go back to watch its short two season run. Oh and I think there was like 2 or 3 years between season 1 and 2. Absolute madness this industry has turned into.
SE7EN was an amazing film. Saw it in the theater on my 18th birthday. Just watched it with my daughter last year. She dug it as well.
@@osaji922not to mention only 10 episode seasons.
@markmunroe-hz8rf I am rewatching Star Trek Voyager and there was between 24 and 26 episodes per season. I miss those days
By Grabthar's Hammer the death of comedies shall be avenged
And once it has been done, we'll all cheer how Captain Taggart has avenged them.
British comedy legend, Graham Lineham, writer of Father Ted, Black Books, the IT Crowd to name a few great shows, was cancelled from the Edinburgh Comedy Festival because he doesn't agree with puberty blockers etc for minors. 'Woke comedy' is an oxymoron; the true believers are killing comedy, along with so much more.
Yes, it's always someone else's fault, isn't it? 🙄
The IT crowd is awesome! Chris O'Dowd is my favorite male actor. Erm, guess this didn't have much to do with the topic.
I find myself watching movies and shows of yesteryear all the time. If I could buy a time machine, I'd go back to the 1950s when families were a thing.
Ditto
They weren't a thing in the 1990s?
@@SirBlackReeds Thats about the time it started to change. They kicked the man out of the house with Title IV-D.
Don't doubt yourself. We're not allowed to be happy, we have to be kept in a constant state of anxiety and anger.
No escapism no joy no love, no laughter.
"Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves." O'BRIAN 1984
I haven’t seen “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” in years. Zero Mostel, Buster Keaton, Jack Gilford, Phil Silvers…what an amazing group of funny men.
Comedy has migrated from Hollywood to the Internet. I'm talking about MEMES. By gar, they fill the hole in my heart The Far Side left behind.
Chato. You are a man of mirth and merriment with such a memory for jocularity and jest. Truly a man for our times!!
Death Of Stalin is the best comedy movie of the last twenty years.
"A Funny thing happened on the way to the forum", great film
Something for everyone
Starring Buster Keaton!
Morals tomorrow, comedy tonight!
How can you think of comedy when the current thing is happening!?
I'm outraged!
Memorable lines: "Its the StayPuft Marshmallow Man" Best delivery ever.
Also, from the Dirty Dozen: "Never heard of it"
It really is all in Aykroyd's delivery, isn't it? His descending vocal register just sells it. Imagine if just yelled it out in terror; all the humor would be drained from the line.
Zero, Buster and Jack. Chef's Kiss. Does anybody remember laughter?
That background picture is Zero Mostel, Buster Keaton, and Jack Gilford, from A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum.
I just love the song Bring Me My Bride.
It’s a great picture
@@CallMeChato I had a commanding officer who apparently played Miles Gloriosus in a play when he was in college. He had a great singing voice and sang Bring Me My Bride from rote memory. He had us all laughing, especially when he trumpeted, "I am my ideal."
Thank you. I recognized Keaton and agree: Forum was wonderful.
Besides the most excellent hamming and singing of Miles, the antics of his hapless legion trying their best to follow him through the congested streets of Rome all the while the citizenry pelt them with produce....it doesn't get much better than that! Haven't seen the movie? Please pull up the UA-cam clip of the scene and see how it's done!
And don't forget that "everybody ought to have a maid... everyone should have a working girl..."
A long time ago I recommended this to some conservative relatives and they... freaked... out!
Great, great musical! I doubt we shall ever see it's like again.
What's the matter with kids... these days?
I shall covet my DVD of it till my day's end.
close captioning says "Hello Dennis of the Internet" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Is your name not Dennis?
We're all Dennis
"You could...hear the cigarette smoke." Now that's craftsmanship.
I agree with you. If nothing else, good comedy makes you laugh at yourself. And some people really seem to need that.
And smart comedy makes you think about things in new ways . Also something we could use some of.
I really miss Newheart. I wish there were more episodes. Also Faulty Towers. So many of the old comedies had me in stitches.
I remember watching that final episode of Newhart and the whole twist at the end. It was quite possibly the perfect ending to any show ever.
Yes, please both shows!!!!
there were three Newhart shows! so there were a lot of episodes. each series was kind of the same but with a different group. everyone but Bob was an idiot.
"You're arms off!" "Have at you, you fairy!"😂😂😂😮😮😮
Props for mentioning “Dave” - that’s a hidden gem
"He has the power / that's why he's in the shower." 🎶
FACT.
My Favorite Year. Peter Otoole
Yup. We haven’t been allowed to laugh about the circus for many years, and it started before 2016.
it was always a circus.....they just hid it better before....
What's this "we" crap?
@@SirBlackReeds there is only crap...there is no we crap lol
As crude as 1970’s humor could be it is infinitely better than what we get on screen now
I like the episode of "Keeping up Appearances" when Hyacinth tries to go out of her way to impress somebody who doesn't care about her, and her sister Daisey and her husband, Onslow, somehow get involved, and ruin all of Hyacinth's plans. Did you ever see that one?
I think Hyacinth is in charge of the entertainment industry right now. She's hoping riparian entertainments will replace the demand for comedy.
Hello Chato: Thank you very much for mentioning "Some Like it Hot". It is my definition of a well made film. I first saw it when I was a child on Saturday afternoon tv. Now, I have a completely different understanding of that film. With it's incredibly light touch, "Some Like it Hot", raised issues which Western societies are still struggling with. Have a lovely day.
Irrelevant, but: I love that the predictive closed captioning says “Hello Dennis of the internet”
Dennis is the main target audience!
Sounds like a "modern, relevant" reboot of "Dennis the Menace." 😂
I definitely got the “joy tingles”. Thank you for mentioning “The Goon Show”. I was born in the late 50’s and grew up listening to reruns on Saturdays on ABC radio in Australia. And yes, 50+ years later I can still hear “He’s fallen in the water…” in my head.
*Law & Order,* the comedy of Jerry Orbach and Jessie L. Martin.
A year of comedy only ... that would be neat. Sort of like the old film _Death Takes a Holiday._
Bing Crosby & Bob Hope Road To... movies. Brilliant.
Anecdotal ray of sunshine. I was chatting with the kid of a friend who LOVES old sitcoms and comedies. 3 Stooges, Lucille Ball, etc
My youngest has a big thing for anything Lucille Ball, also anything Paul Henning (Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres). She's an adult Gen Z.
Excellent! Well said! Makes way too much sense. They'll never do it.
One of the most joyously silly things I ever saw was the BBC's _'Allo 'Allo!,_ a smutty sitcom set in occupied France with an ensemble of camp German soldiers, sexy Resistance girls, absurd British airmen and so on, all orbiting around the main character, a cowardly but likeably roguish French cafe owner. I suspect it would be impossible for many scriptwriters to think, let alone write, such a thing now.
"Do you believe in the hereafter....then you know what I'm here after... owwww". Thank you Rowan and Martin's Laugh In. A Boot to the Head is never boring either.
I quite enjoyed your Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire' style of rant, but with comedy movies.
There's no basement in the Alamo!
The Blues Brothers.
One of the greatest comedies of all time. And the car chase scene is so gloriously over the top that it's never been outdone.
@@MrWhipple42 "Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers... has been approved."
@@doctoratomic "𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘳𝘦??"
When I was a kid, they used to show Animal House, Porkies, etc, on TV -- edited, of course -- and that's where my love of comedy started.
One day, my aunt said 'you boys want to see funny?' and showed us Up in Smoke.
I was around 10 years old.
They'd probably try to throw her in prison today.
Porkies was absolutely hilarious
Up in Smoke. CLAASIC.
Totally agree, I want comedies back. I want to laugh to death as I did with Bill Murray, Peter Sellers, Jim Carrey and so....
The biggest roadblock to creativity is fear. And the people making decisions aren't the people with talent, they're the business men with money - who fear not making more money (or worse, losing money). I have to speculate that there was a time when actual talented people were brought into consult before making major decisions in the entertainment industry.
I get you, and I believe that's essentially true. But how do we account for Disney's debacle, where they insist on making films and series that lose money?
I don't know if that's true anymore. The people at the top appear to be concerned about THE MESSAGE above all else-and "all else" includes profits.
DYING IS EASY BUT COMEDY IS HARD
I think all the "writers" have painted themselves into a corner by trying to write a "dark, gritty sitcom for a new audience".
They are all too hatefull. Look at "Velma" ffs.
Yeahssss👏🏼
Thank ya!
….. no tellin how much of this guy work I’ve absorbed and don’t even know it LOL
I agree. We need more comedies!
No, we need more _good_ comedies.
Grumpy old men :D I still watch those movies with my kids.
Man it would be so funny if 'Married with Children' was broadcast now, man I love that show...
I miss meekness: a la TV's "Mister Peepers" and "Our Miss Brook's" etc. Too much today is pure adult-style arrogance and meanness.
Bless you. Would you consider Don Adam's Maxwell Smart "meek?"
@@earlsmith7428 I enjoyed that series, but it got to be too repetitious, too predictable comedy. However, I really laughed my head off when they used "THE CONE OF SILENCE"!!!
Fun comedies are now forbidden because they exclude those that cannot experience joy.
I do believe that comedians of the stand up variety are the last defenders of free speech. And JKR too! Some reporter asked Jerry Seinfeld what if their comedy offended someone. His response is golden..."then be offended!"
Thanks for sticking up for free speech, Paul!
They aren't. Standup comedians live in such an insular ecosystem that all it takes is unintentionally offending a single audience member who just so happens to a friend, or related to, the club owner.
Young Frankenstein. "Abby...Normal."
No professional comedian could even dream of coming close to your current gouvernment.
The US comedians are totally defeated. Same here in Europe.
Speaking for myself (and I am unanimous in this), I think "Are you being Served?" was an excellent British Comedy. :)
That was a classic.
PREACH! I was a teen/college age in the early 2000s and I desperately miss even mediocre comedies like Dodgeball and Old School. People still say "that's a bold move Cotton let's see how it works out..." The impact comedies make is tremendous
Laurel & Hardy still makes me laugh out loud!
There is no more comedy because most millenials (and those who came after) cannot laugh, they can only be offended. And I say this because I'm unfortunate to be one of them.
Agree with this 100%, comedy makes everything around it better, problem is that comedy is hard and modern writers now are easyminded and have no depth.
I agree, the lack of comedy movies is not a laughing matter.... I miss the comedies like City Slickers and such....
Well, I would quote the one line I remember from Tropic Thunder, as it's relevant to what modern Hollywood is doing, but I'm pretty sure UA-cam won't let me...
I fully agree and I approve this message. I watched Porky's at the theater and laughed my butt off. Didn't understand one word as the audience never stopped laughing. It was fun. Also loved Revenge of the Nerds.
Agreed! One thing that scares me is Todd Philips (who directed comedies like the Hangover, Starsky & Hutch, Due Date, Old School) said comedies aren't viable anymore so he ended up doing dramas like Joker instead. I mean, Joker was a good film, but I love comedies too much. Best we get nowadays are a few sparse romantic comedies
The Joker was well made and crafted but was a horrible movie. It was the sort of thing that should have been going straight to video or late night tv horror special. Not a nice movie and so dark it damages the soul for 24 hours.
You mentioned my fave film, "The Goodbye Girl", brought a tear to my eye.
Party time! Excellent!
Your videos background is my families all time favorite movie. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Thank you!
A comedy tonight!!
I can watch I LOVE LUCY over and over again and still laugh. Back then the actors -- and their writers -- had a way of connecting to their audiences.
“You could hear the cigarette smoke” that was compelling comment.
We can allways laugh at the Drama unfolding... 🤷♀️😂
Hollywood takes notes... Carefully reviews it's options... Greenlights Deadpool & Wolverine 2... Hugh Jackman's Endocrine specialist preorders a super yacht.
Glad you mentioned "Dave". Whenever "What are the democrats going to do with Biden?" comes up, I always think about the end of that movie.
I just watched Mad Mad World last night. Still hilarious, still a massive classic!
Most number of stars in one movie, ever.
Behind you looms some of the cast from “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”…. Hilarious movie, by the way.
About a minute in the background had me laughing and I couldn't stop 😅
There are many Netflix specials that aren’t “lifeless.” We’re in the midst of a standup boom; it’s just everywhere else that comedy has died.
Could you imagine the outrage... Married with Children, The Honeymooners, Benny Hill, (why was I watching these) even Me myself and Irene, I showed it to my teens and they agreed, we could not have these on tv today. I'm so grateful for the 80's, You're so right. The could just do reruns and it will be much better.
Comedy really is an under appreciated genre. Writing a decent comedy is a lot harder than it looks, because it’s hard to be funny. And as the “Fred the Movie” trilogy taught me during my formative years, nobody wants to sit through a bad comedy.
Fawlty Towers!!! Absolutely Fabulous!!! The Producers!!! Mame!!!🤣
and thanks for 'Some Like it Hot'!!! 🤣
You forgot one, I Married a Witch. The comedies of the silent era, '30s, and '40s were some of the best comedies of all time and still an influence.
Arsenic and Old Lace is one of my all time favorites. Thank you for mentioning it.
Gen X was lucky to get to watch all these plus more growing up watching OTA TV.
You're already on the new platform for comedy, Mr. Chato. Cheap, quick, regular. UA-cam is basically a bit-size sitcom for a lot of viewers.
Lady Ballers was the last recent comedy movie that made me laugh. I watch old stuff now. Currently watching WKRP in Cincinnati and All in the Family.
You're 100% correct. Some believe bringing comedy to some foreign countries is the best thing to temper "extremism."