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Hubs was dropping Tootsie clips the other night. It's a top 10 for sure😁 My question is, "When did movies become unwatchable?" For me, it was Pulp Fiction & Natural Born Killers. I mean, what the hay?? I was raising my kids soon after that, so almost no theater attendance for a decade.

I also grew up watching the greats - Brooks, Sellers, etc but have a sweet spot for The Princess Bride. It's a SIN about Rob Reiner's TDS!!

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I believe it is “shoe-horn”!

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A long, long, time ago, Sid Ceaser wrote an article about the death of comedy, especially satire, in TV GUIDE. I wish I’d kept it. He observed that the once you lose cultural boundaries satire becomes impossible. This devolution is in its fifth or sixth decade by my reckoning.

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The way the Left embraced illegal immigration and the resultant human trafficking of young girls (and boys) to pay off their cartel pimps shows that liberals really do not believe in human dignity or even the freedom from being abused and enslaved. In the new Lib world, that is Progress.

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I could not agree more. There are many features of the darkness of American leftist policies but this issue is the absolutely the most evil. I work with a large group of women who are the most extreme lefty feminists types that you can imagine. There are a few conservative women in the mix but most keep quiet because they are just not into getting verbally attacked while trying to work. I occasionally respond to them with my own version of what you wrote and it shuts them down every single time. The other issue that makes them put their heads down, walk away , and quit talking is the entire concept of actually suggesting that injecting sterilizing synthetic hormones into the bodies of confused minors is some kind of legitimate idea.

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It may have been the weed, but me and my 8 friends saw Caddyshack when it came out and I don’t remember laughing so hard at a movie. Also when Buddy the Elf gets hit by the cab. Not much draws me to movies these days.

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"Trading Places" DOES deserve to be in the Smithsonian along with Ferris...

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Any Mel Brooks movie.

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Or Monty Python movie!

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We fart in your general direction!

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A great routine was Abbot and Costello's "Who's on First Base".

Danny Huckabee

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Arsenic and Old Lace… that was funny!

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Yeah, points deducted because the perpetually adolescent, insufferable Seth Rogan is in it, but I thought "This is the End" was hilarious. Very funny watching Hollywood hedonists grapple with the fact that there is a God, and that they, as the book title states, have been "left behind".

"Grand Budapest Hotel" was excellent. I found it very amusing.

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My favorite line was from Peter Sellers in Pink Panther asking "Does your dog bite?" Makes me laugh knowing what comes next.

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People used to think Albert Brooks was uproarious, and people to this day claim that the insipid Garrison Keillor is a beloved humorist… we will get through this together!

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We despised Anora. Trashy sad movie. Way too much graphic sex. Loved Juror number two. Puritanism(modern wokeness) does not lend itself to humor.

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Kentucky Fried Movie...... an oldie fer sure

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"I was going to make espresso" =Gene Hackman on Young Frankenstein. an ad lib that broke up the crew.

I used to love going to movies in theaters. When I was young it was a way to take a date out or just the gang going out for a good time. In high school particularly because we could get away from parents (besides the Boob tube was mostly still B&W. But Hollyweird has run out of good ideas. Thanks for some of the old clips

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"frau...BLUCHER! roll-y roll-y," puttin' on the Ritz, etc etc. I made my daughter watch Young Fronkensteen (sic). She loved it.

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"Sweet mystery of life at last I've found you"

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Great article, as always. Hard to find great comedy in the modern era. Some of my picks: THE BIG SHORT; THE WOLF OF WALL STREET; THE SOCIAL NETWORK; WIN WIN, TOY STORY 3; BLACKBERRY; THEATER CAMP. These films are not exactly thigh slappers, and some are actually quite dark. But they frequently make me laugh. THEATER CAMP — a quirky delight from start to finish — sadly did not get the love or kudos or audience it deserved.

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I really like Grand Budapest Hotel, but it's definitely a comedy despite a couple of laughs.

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