Claremont McKenna College's student programming board cancelled a planned screening of Zoolander 2 because the film's humor is inappropriate and comes "at the expense of individuals of marginalized identities." The college ultimately decided to show Deadpool instead.
Of course, many people would probably find the R-rated Deadpool a whole lot more offensive than the PG-13 rated Zoolander 2. I've seen Deadpool. It's incredibly violent, graphically sexual, and contains plenty of offensive humor of its own. (It's also a great film.)
The difference, it seems, is that Zoolander 2 offends "marginalized identities."The Rotten Tomatoes rating for Zoolander 2 is 24%. That's not good. Why can't offensive movies be any good? Is it too much to ask?
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"That's not Funny!"
Quickest way to kill freedom and the Left has discovered it.
I old enough to remember in the 90's, everyone claimed it was Republicans/Christian Right pushing censorship. Mentions of "Tipper Sticker" was met with blank faces, because that was just too much information that too many didn't know. I have no doubt that many churches find Zoolander offensive, but their censorship goes about as far as a "tisk-tisk" for the moviegoer.
IT'S A TRAP to get you flyover people to support this movie.
Although I think those guys are my kind of stupid, I'll wait for Netflix... I still haven't seen the original Zoolander. Maybe I'll marathon them next year.
Will Ferrel as Mugatu is the best part of Zoolander.
Anything with Ben Stiller is too offensive for any refined taste.
Wait for the next Pauly Shore opus if you like that kind of thing.
Besides Jeb Bush you have to realize that Ben Stiller is the biggest beneficiary of nepotism that you can find anywhere.
Ben Stiller keeps moving, constantly moving lest he be found out. The father had some talent. Not much but some. The mother with her impossible Irish name, what was it, Kate O'Fogarty? I guess she had talent not that I could see it. But the kid? Nada. Meara. That was the mother's last name. That too is ridiculously Irish. Like that family that owns the Giants. Throw me in the bog Irish.
Ann Meara. She played the blowsy white mom in any job that Doris Roberts or Kay Ballard turned down. In fact Stiller and Meara were a comedy team and often played opposite each other in shows like "Love American Style." Or I think the "Love Boat."
No, I remember Stiller and Meara. I think they got their big boost on the Ed Sullivan Show. It was more the ethnic peculiarity than that they were really funny. It was kinda we're all the same under the skin tripe.
Those of us of a certain age remember Stiller and Meara from, what, about 100 years ago? Before color was invented.
Well, I found them funny. They had the ability to laugh at themselves.
That's the thing ric. Back in the day and Irish and Jewish hookup was big news. Fodder for tons of jokes and ethnic comedy. Could we do it today? No. Even a black/white coupling would fall flat.
There was a cheesy sitcom a few years ago starring Rob Schnieder the "Copy Machine Guy." You know Duece Bigelow Male Gigilo. Well the concept was that he married into a immigrant Hispanic family and hilarity ensued. Well the hilarity of mocking the white guy and his culture and everything about him that was not as great as illegal immigrant culture. Dropped like a stone.
Lasted eight episodes.
So ethnic humor is out. We couldn't even talk about it let alone laugh about it.
Well until Trump came along. Maybe he can do something.
I am sure that ricpic remembers the classic sitcom "Bridget loves Bernie" with an winsome Irish Lass falling in love with a Jewish guy.
Of course the girl was played by Meredith Baxter Birney who has recently discovered that she is a lesbian and is shopping a sequel called "Bridget loves the Fish Taco."
Mum served sauerkraut from a tin. Didn't rinse it or anything.
None of us understood what that stuff was supposed to be. What was it trying to be? Is it relish? Kimchi or what? And not just a regular tin, and not just generic tin, rather, military generic tin with stenciled letters and never any superfluous photo.
Stop me if you heard this.
James the darling seated centrally at a large dinner table surreptitiously draped tinned unrinsed sauerkraut over his little fingers under the table and waited for a lull in conversation.
"uh, uh ... uh uh ... hu uh ... UH UH ...
He lifted his hand from under the table up to his nose.
CHOO !
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We all look directly at him sitting there looking stupid, his hand draped with sauerkraut.
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"You f'n little idiot." Punked us all at once. It really did look like snot. We all hated that shit anyway. How rude! Now that there is just funny. The dinner destroyed. How we all laughed uncontrollably but I wouldn't be surprised if I'm the only one who remembers it. The type incident somewhat common. I think it's a hurtful ethnic slur. I think that shredded cabbage in vinegar is German or something, or tying to be and failing. That could have really hurt Mum's feelings but herself even trying to act mad was impossible. She was laughing too hard.
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