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I watched the CBS Late Show with David Letterman for a couple of decades, and I'm unable to watch his replacement Colbert, because Colbert is full of hate.
Letterman may say bad things about Trump, but if you listen to Letterman's voice, its half-joking.
Letterman is always half-joking about even the things he genuinely dislikes.
I had to watch the video a couple of times to really understand what bothered me most about it. Here goes:
It seems to me this video is arguing that the dreaded "PC" had killed free speech in the realm of comedy. Oddly enough, by the end of the video, that argument has somehow morphed into the idea that, to enjoy comedy, we must all find the same things funny.
Am I the only person who finds this strangely contradictory?
I didn't get that he was saying you had to find it funny, I understood him to be saying that you don't need to find offense in every little thing that someone says - that people are too uptight now and never understand when something is satire anymore.
On the one hand, I get that, because we do have people who say things that you might think is satire but is how they really feel, so it's hard to distinguish the difference anymore.
On the other hand, if everyone would get the hell over themselves, we might get back to the day when we could all laugh at the absurdity that is the human being and what humans do and say.
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Originally Posted by ktoni
Old people seem to have a thing for Blazing Saddles. I saw it for the first time recently and I thought it was really lame and boring, it was something that I would expect my grandpa to watch while everyone else just rolls their eyes.
I thought it was like watching 1.5 hours of fart jokes, it was like a real life version of the fake movie from Idiocracy that just showed butts for a couple of hours. If you have the mentality of a 10 year old boy, you might like it.
WHAT! I'm not old...unless you're a 12 year old, then you might think I'm old, but "Blazing Saddles" is hilarious. It mocks everybody! C'mon!
There was only one campfire scene, the entire movie was not passing gas, did you even watch the entire thing? Or maybe some of the humor was too subtle for you to understand?
Old people seem to have a thing for Blazing Saddles. I saw it for the first time recently and I thought it was really lame and boring, it was something that I would expect my grandpa to watch while everyone else just rolls their eyes.
I thought it was like watching 1.5 hours of fart jokes, it was like a real life version of the fake movie from Idiocracy that just showed butts for a couple of hours. If you have the mentality of a 10 year old boy, you might like it.
How could you say that about Mel Brooks. Love the guy.
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