Tag Archives: comedy
Young Frankenstein
The brilliance of Mel Brooks is that while his jokes are off-color, sexual, racist, and crude, they are never used merely for the sake of being offensive. His jokes use sensitive topics to make clever, silly, slapstick gags which entertain while making a cultural statement or observation. This brilliance extends into the way he makes [...]
Blazing Saddles
This film could not be made today. For all our progress, racial reconciliation, and advances made by minorities, this film would never get passed censors today, and its release would spark outrage among pundits of all variety. Indeed when this film was released in the 1970′s, the studio received many letters of complaint for the [...]
