Is Hollywood afraid of making women dumb for laughs, in comedies? (characters, book)

[Ralph_Kirk]

Originally Posted by P47P47

Your description make it pretty obvious that you don't get it at all.



Moe: I'll go get us a moose.

Larry: I'll go get us an elk.

Curly: I'll go get us a couple of Odd Fellows. N'yuk, n'yuk, n'yuk, OWWW!

Young folk are not going to get a joke about old-school men's lodges.

Particularly the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

[Ralph_Kirk]

Originally Posted by ocnjgirl

It’s a guy thing, like the show Jacka** is a guy thing and even History Channel and Military Channel are guy things, I sit there feeling like I’m back in school lol. I don’t know any marriage can survive one TV! OP hold onto that girl, lol.

What about "Airplane!"

I got my son to watch it when he was a teen, and he practically had a stroke laughing, even though he wasn't getting a lot of the 70s period jokes. My wife and daughter can't stand it.

[Ralph_Kirk]

Originally Posted by Sundaydrive00

Fraternal organizations sure sounds like a "guy thing" to me.

Although Odd Fellows was kind of different in their early integration of women and blacks.

Must be why they were odd.

[Ralph_Kirk]

Originally Posted by English Dave

Physical comedy? I agree, I think only Lucille Ball did that kind of thing. I never got Jerry Lewis at all. Jim Carrey made me laugh in a few movies. Lucy was very good at physical comedy, but only on tv, not in her movies.

I mentioned that before. I think the factor is that Lucille Ball had firm creative control of her television series, but not the movies.

IOW, I'm guessing she herself would have rather done more physical comedy.

[Ralph_Kirk]

Originally Posted by Iconographer

We've had other comediennes engage in physical comedy over time with great results.

Melissa McCarthy (of course)

Debra Messing and Megan Mullally:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtkdwSE6igI

Kristen Wiig:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pZeUlKt_wg

And of course, the incomparable Gilda Radner.

If those are you examples, you clearly don't understand what we're talking about.

[ocnjgirl]

Originally Posted by Ralph_Kirk

What about "Airplane!"

I got my son to watch it when he was a teen, and he practically had a stroke laughing, even though he wasn't getting a lot of the 70s period jokes. My wife and daughter can't stand it.

Airplane I love and the naked gun movies I love!

[maciesmom]

Originally Posted by Ralph_Kirk

What about "Airplane!"

I got my son to watch it when he was a teen, and he practically had a stroke laughing, even though he wasn't getting a lot of the 70s period jokes. My wife and daughter can't stand it.

I don't think Airplane! is in the same genre as The Three Stooges.

I can't stand Stooges and the slapstick humor.

Airplane! is funny in a silly way, with some slapstick but it's also quotable (beyond "nyuk, nyuk, nyuk") and clever at times.

[Ralph_Kirk]

Originally Posted by maciesmom

I don't think Airplane! is in the same genre as The Three Stooges.

I can't stand Stooges and the slapstick humor.

Airplane! is funny in a silly way, with some slapstick but it's also quotable (beyond "nyuk, nyuk, nyuk") and clever at times.

Yes...on further thought. I agree you are right.

[maciesmom]

Originally Posted by Ralph_Kirk

Yes...on further thought. I agree you are right.

Not to mention, Airplane! was mocking the the "Airport" movies (and other similar movies popular at the time - the genre name escapes me at the moment).

[ocnjgirl]

Originally Posted by maciesmom

Not to mention, Airplane! was mocking the the "Airport" movies (and other similar movies popular at the time - the genre name escapes me at the moment).

I think they were just referred to as disaster movies. Poseidon adventure, airport, the towering inferno, etc.