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How Did 90s Slapstick Comedy Get So Popular? Why Wasn't It Done Earlier?
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Date: May 1st, 2025 11:13 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., ace ventura, dumb & dumber, austin powers, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719464&forum_id=2#48897861) |
Date: May 1st, 2025 11:15 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) its more of a resurregence. even classics have dumb slapstick. quixote is full of it. 90s was more of an indulgent return to form and admitting "yeah dumb slapstick is entertaining" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719464&forum_id=2#48897868) |
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Date: May 1st, 2025 11:29 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., i mean why was it dead for decades and what about the 90s brought it back (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719464&forum_id=2#48897907) |
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Date: May 1st, 2025 11:53 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) i think because it became "hack" aka overdone, obvious, and easy. broad entertainment is often dismissed and then surges back when someone dares to admit it was popular for a reason. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719464&forum_id=2#48897949) |
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Date: May 1st, 2025 11:17 PM Author: state your IQ before I engage you further Slapstick? ace ventura and dumb & dumber have tighter plots than most Oscar winners and high verbal IQ joke construction. The physical comedy is 1800000 because Jim Carrey is a hall of famer but the movies would be 180 just based on dialogue (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719464&forum_id=2#48897875) |
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Date: May 1st, 2025 11:30 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., all cr but not really responsive to the Q (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719464&forum_id=2#48897909) |
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Date: May 1st, 2025 11:33 PM Author: state your IQ before I engage you further Calling AV and D&D slapstick is imprecise and disparaging (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719464&forum_id=2#48897911) |
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Date: May 1st, 2025 11:35 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., it's a genre of comedy that didnt exist in the past few decades. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719464&forum_id=2#48897916) |
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Date: May 1st, 2025 11:36 PM Author: Ass Sunstein Naked Gun, Police Academy movies were doing that style in the 80s. But Jim Carrey was just a much bigger star. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719464&forum_id=2#48897920) |
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Date: May 1st, 2025 11:41 PM Author: state your IQ before I engage you further Great Outdoors Naked Gun Police Academy Airplane Blazing Saddles Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
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Date: May 1st, 2025 11:48 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., good list and great films. AV and D&D feel different from those. maybe just bc jim carey is unique (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719464&forum_id=2#48897942) |
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Date: May 1st, 2025 11:36 PM Author: potluck cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719464&forum_id=2#48897922) |
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Date: May 5th, 2025 10:15 AM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., wife and i rewatched AV last night. CC is SKINNY AS FUCK. i forgot the whole 90s bone thin chick thing. what a 180 trend. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719464&forum_id=2#48904831) |
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Date: May 5th, 2025 10:19 AM Author: scholarship cr how old was she in that. had one of those 90s haircuts that makes girls look older than they are but was fit af (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719464&forum_id=2#48904851) |
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Date: May 5th, 2025 10:20 AM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., she was 30. AV came out the same year friends debuted. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719464&forum_id=2#48904856) |
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Date: May 5th, 2025 10:23 AM Author: scholarship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719464&forum_id=2#48904868) |
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Date: May 5th, 2025 10:23 AM Author: 718-662-5970 few factors imo and it starts with bill cosby
his early work was tailored to black audiences, but the cosby show blew the roof off the entertainment industry.
this brought about a rush of white-black buddy movies, black family sitcoms, etc... all aimed at white audiences
at the same time, the door was opened for black comedies aimed at blacks. "in living color" was a prime example. These black entertainment for black people shows had very visceral and gutter humor. Jim Carrey starting here allowed him to really develop all his gross shit.
After that, JC was just a force. Much of the stuff youre talking about only came about bc JC just willed it into being. And it paid wildly, as he was accessing prole consumers that were not being catered to.
Because of him the Farrelly brothers could do there thing, American Pie universe happened, etc etc.
A spate of toilet humor, physical comedy... but its roots were really the introduction of black people comedy that came in the wake of cosby |