Mel Brooks was once interviewed and asked if he thought Blazing Saddles could be made today, his response was “Are you kidding? We couldn’t make it back then. But we did it anyway.” And that’s the real key to beating this PC crap. Do it anyway. I think people are craving comedies like these and if Daily Wire made one, I think it would greatly help win the culture war.

Police Academy is another classic that could never be made

“Hey, where the white women at?” has got to be one of the funniest lines every performed in any movie!!

Lol we JUST rewatched Tropic Thunder recently while showing it to my sons Polish fiancé for the first time. She loved it and we laughed our asses off (just like every time). I own it and MANY movies because I KNOW it’s a matter of time before they get memory holed.

20 years ago "If you dont like it dont watch it" Today "I dont like it so I'm going to make sure nobody can watch it"

Proof that we're not progressing. We're regressing.

It seems like most of the movies I loved in the 80s and 90s cannot be made today. Which is really tragic because they were some great movies.

One of the funniest things about Blazing Saddles was actually after the film was made. It premiered at the Puck sick Drive-In in Burbank. The gimmick was that anyone who came riding or driving a horse could get in free. The only problem was that the horses recognized other horses on the screen and refused to leave regardless of what the rider/driver wanted

The good ole days when jokes were jokes and no one got offended because everyone was subject to a joke.

Mrs. Doubtfire definitely wouldn’t be made today, but it’s a classic

Mel Brooks, Leslie Nielsen, and Police Academy movies were my childhood, and i loved them. i rewatched them when i got older and i found them funnier because then i understood the references that flew past my head as a kid. unfortunately i don't think we will ever get to see more of those kinds of movies the way things are going.

That is definitely true. Jumping off subject, as far as TV shows, I think the Little Rascals would be a show that could never be made today.

These type of movies are exactly what needs to be made nowadays .

The actors for Airplane were specifically chosen because all of them had been dramatic actors up to that point and the producers wanted the deadpan delivery of the jokes

I watched Blazing Saddles with my grandparents, and according to my grandmother, I was nearly in the floor, I was laughing so hard. One of my favorite movies of all time, and it would never, in a million years, be made today. Which is really very sad, because it’s a great movie.

American pie is a timeless classic with one of the best fitting soundtracks ever, i always loved them up to part 3 or even 4

Ace Ventura. No way you could get away with the scene of exposing the cross dresser villain tucking. The LGBTFreaks would riot over it

Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places, Caddyshack, The Three Amigos, The Jerk, National Lampoon's Vacation... The list goes on, sadly.

I am from Generation X and moderately conservative. I saw this video suggested on my feed - likely because I subscribe to Brett Cooper's channel. I watched the video and immediately recognized classic comedies. One more film you could add is "Back to School" by Rodney Dangerfield. I was a 17 year-old HS senior when I saw it in the late summer of 1986. I loved it because I was applying to many colleges that time and thought the movie brought a good context of humor. I remember when the audience roared with laughter at the scene when Sam Kinison's character, a history professor and Vietnam Veteran with PTSD, explodes at his class. He went on a diatribe about serving and fighting in the jungle. Then Rodney's character tries to calm him down but instead gets overheated himself about the Korean War. It could never get made today. As for films you noted, I also saw "Soul Man" in 1986 later that fall. I thought the film was fair in revealing the types of racism that can occur at an elite college town when the character was dressed in disguise. The film showed a fair amount of blatant racism, microaggressions, and colorism - far ahead of its time in potraying inner details of racism. But it could never be made today either. However, I like your point that affirmative action was outlawed. As a brown Apache Indian, I personally witnessed how AA destroyed a lot of promising minority STEM students by putting them in classes for which they were unprepared. For example, let's say a Navajo Indian got an ACT/SAT far below the mean but was accepted due to AA. More often than not, such an unprepared minority usually dropped out or got bad grades. What should have happened was (1) the student should have been denied admission and (2) gone to a community college for about 2.5 to 3 years to catch up to the more prepared students from high performing school districts (e.g. affluent areas of Phoenix or San Diego), then (3) transfer back to a major university as a junior. That pattern was common after 2000 in Florida when Jeb Bush outlawed AA. Minority graduation rates actually went up in FL after AA was outlawed because the mismatch problem identified by the Heritage Foundation and Dr. Richard Sanders of UCLA was eliminated. Sanders thoroughly analyzed the mismatch problem among law students and AA. Now, with AA outlawed, minorities who do get admitted will have credentials comparable to the rest of the class and are much more likely to do well. There will be far less minorities on campus but with far higher graduation rates. The non-admitted can just go to a community college or smaller four-year school with a proper match. In regards to the "Airplane" scene with ebonics, the two African American actors were willing participants and tried real hard to get the comedy perfected in timing with the late actress who played the "Cleaver" matriarch. They were actually honored to work with her since she had a solid reputation with her career in film. But today, it can't get made. And such African Actors from the past are viewed as "sellouts" or "traitors" to a racist hierarchy in film. But it wasn't like that if you watch the documentary and do research on the two who played the passengers. Lou Alcindor (Kareem of the LA Lakers) was in the film as well. I miss those films and TV series of the past. I watched "All in the Family" weekly. It was wildly popular even among minorities. My family and friends on the Apache Reservation watched it persisently for years. When it went into re-runs, the last time I watched it was in the early 1990s at a summer minority student gathering. I had a female Puerto Rican friend who loved it and said it was popular over there too. But today it can't even be made. I remember Archie's famous proverb "The Right Wing is called the Right Wing because they're right!!!" He was awesome. The 70s and 80s are long gone with great films, thanks for bringing back the memories. In TV, M.A.S.H. still holds the record for most watched sitcom episode. It could not be made today - a series where all the doctors were men and the jokes with nurses like Margaret would be cancelled immediately. From my memory, the show actually had many female fans. I knew a female coworker who told me at her college the women in the dorm would get together to watch M.A.S.H. weekly when it was live. Those days are gone. But I do miss Colonel Flagg.

Trying to make Life of Brian today would send producer, director and writer straight to the courthouse

I feel like even Wall-E could be sketchy to make today, considering the "fat liberation" movement.

You forgot to add a all time classic Ace Ventura when they Implied you were mentally unstable if a male dressed and acting as a woman 😅😂

One of my all timer favorites...Wedding Crashers. No way that gets made today.

Surprised the Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller Comedy “Dodgeball” isn’t on the list. That movie is hilarious 😂 Had me and my parents dying of laughter. The movie is not PC, I dare say it’s the opposite

My dad made me watch blazing saddles like 10 years ago and I absolutely loved it! It was so funny and made fun of racism in a very hilarious way.

'Married With Children' is a 80's-90's TV-show that could never be done today. Making fun of fat people, plenty of hot women, mocking people on their appearance. Tons of humor. *BEST SHOW EVER!*

Drop Dead Gorgeous is a movie that makes fun of just about every American stereotype there is. Pokes fun at anorexics, asian americans, deaf people, trailer trash, and there's even a...dare i say... "retard". A beauty pageant contestant blows up on a float. I's the best movie Kirstie alley has ever been in. May she rest in peace.

I'm surprised Ace Ventura didn't make the cut, especially with the Rey Finkle twist at the end and the hilarious strip down of Sean Young.

Updating my watchlist. Thanks Shapiro for the movie recommendations 😂

Not a movie, but a series: House M.D. would give this generation heart attacks on demand. That show was so filled with racist, sexist and all other "ist" jokes, it was tons of fun, because House actually respected the people who did not flinch on his behaviour. Not to mention the "wrong" messages on the show, like Foreman actually being proud to be out of the ghetto by studying hard and commiting to being a great doctor and not only never making his race a big part of his identity as a character, but actually suggesting that black people can succeed just like him if they work as hard as he did. Imagine that: a black guy who believes he can succeed despite his race. He would be the "new black face of white supremacy"

3:45 omg this was also referenced in Star Wars. When Luke and Han take the Stormtroopers suits

Ace Ventura Pet Detective… that scene when ace (jim) realized that he had kissed a man then went to the most hilarious melt down. 😂😂😂

Monty Python's The Life of Brian definitely should have made the list. The Loretta scene is about the most iconic could not be made in today's day and age scene I have ever heard of

"Airplane" is still my favorite comedy movie. Filmed almost a year earlier, in August 1979, hence all the '70s cultural references.

Having grown up quoting Airplane! and Blazing Saddles, mostly Jonny’s and Lloyd’s lines, never gets old.

I really like the producer cutaways. Very dynamic and fun!

The line in Tropic Thunder that was most controversial is "Never go full..."

My dad and I were watching Rush Hour and I remember us cracking up at the scene where Jackie Chan said the N-word. We are all different and it's okay to use humor to celebrate it. I'm black, he's white. (He adopted me.)

Tootsie (1983) in which Dustin Hoffman dresses as a woman to get an acting role and in the end, learns how to be a man in touch with positive feminine attributes but "without the dress". Fantastic comedy and won a bunch of awards too.

I was watching Pitch Perfect the other day, and told my wife, that the movie would NEVER have been made in 2022/23. I love the innuendoes in the movie, especially the first part. Quite funny.

Who could've guessed that the movie Juwanna Man would become a reality, and men would pretend to be women so that they can dominate women's sports.

Add just about every black and white movie where the guy main character slaps a hysterical woman to get her to calm down.

I was in the Navy when Blazing Saddles opened. I saw it, laughed and went to sea for 9 months. When I came back, it was still playing in the same theater and still had long lines.

Talladega Nights: the ballad of Ricky Bobby is another absolutely hilarious movie that would definitely be canceled today. The whole movie is comedy gold

The woke modern movie audience of 2023…. Where a movie trying to expose child abductions is considered controversial, Barbie is considered philosophical, and disliking anything starring a woman or a black cast is considered sexism or racism. Good times 🎉

Any of these shows are better than the woke crap that’s produced today! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Blazing Saddles is a great funny movie with an amazing theme song.

Stifler and his little brother is always my favorite

My favorite part of Airplane was Mrs Cleaver saying I speaking jive.

The inclusion of your production staff in the video made it incredible. More please!

You guys forgot The Jerk with Steve Martin! Classic😂😂

anyone else going to go through this whole list over the next week..... Ben this is a great segment please more lists like this and peronally i would add the classic the Ten Commandments,

All In The Family and Married With Children are 2 great TV shows that could never be made today.

The last people that should ever lecture anyone on ethics or morals should be anyone from hollywood. The only exceptions are people that have proven themselves to not grow insane by the fame they have been presented with.

The Ringer with Johnny Knoxville Wrong but so so funny 😂😂

Tropic Thunder deserves to be at the #1 spot, Just saying, it was an absolute masterpiece! I watched it a couple nights ago 😎

Johnny Knoxville made a movie called the Ringer. He pretends to have a disability so he can fix the special Olympics. It's hilarious but could never be made today.

There was a time...not that long ago, when Chappelle's Show was doing great work by playing on stereotypes and tropes of everybody, and in doing so created unity. Everybody loved it, and its ability to bring people together is the very reason why it was destroyed.

4:50 “Just hang loose blood…” 😂😅

you just scratched the surface there are so many, but one I was disappointed to not see here was Song of the South... have a great day and keep up the good work... :)

When I took sociology class in college, they suggested a movie night and my movie lazy saddles suggestion was taken. The teacher and faculty understood the jokes of the movie and what it was pointing out, but the students were appalled

One of the best lines of Tropic Thunder “I’m a dude playing the dude disguised as another dude”

Revenge of the Nerds is one movie I believe couldn't be made today.

Cabin fever, not necessarily the concept but some of the dialog is so wild.

Airplane is still funnier than any comedy that’s come out in the last 14 years

Team America World Police should definitely be on the Next List. As well as the Scary Movie Franchise (But mainly 1 and 2)

I have 3 movies that would not be made today. One of them stars a very famous woman. 1) Kentucky Fried Movie, 1977- starring Donald Sutherland and Kieth Zucker 2) Hot Dog... The Movie, 1984 - starring Tracy Ann Smith 3) The Best Little Whore House in Texas, 1982 - starring Dolly Parton alongside huge celebrities like Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise

Airplane has Like a great Joke every Minute its unmatched.

Ben my husband and I weren’t sure what to watch this weekend. Thank you for providing a list 😂😂😂❤

Anthony Mackie said it some time ago that a movie like 48 hours would never ever get made again nowadays. As someone who grew up in the 80s this hits me way harder than those newer movies mentioned here. But I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment that it was a better time for the country. It was a better time for the whole world. In the late 80s to the mid 90s I really believed we have left all that behind us for good. Race and skin color I mean.

The moment you realize 44 was actually Santa Klaus playing 35, disguised as Sgt. Lincoln Osiris is when you see The Matrix Revelations on the Airplane ride they’re taking us all on.

Blazing Sadles was actually remade recently. They made it an animated movie for kids about cats & dogs. It was called "Paws of Fury." Mel Brooks helped write the script and provided a voice in it.

Tropic thunder is hilarious! All the movies listed are great comedies for those with a love for sense of humor.

Tropic thunder is amazing becuz even in 2008 we all realized this can't happen again. And Robert Downey Jr deserved best supporting actor over heath ledger. Facts

The 'Hitlers Car' scene with Jon Lovitz in Rat Race comes to mind. It's Hillarious

Don't forget "Not without my Daughter" with Sally Field It's a very serious drama but you can bet it wouldn't be made today!

Recently I watched the 1982 film “48 Hours” starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy (in his first major role), and there is a level of racial invective that comes out of Nolte’s mouth that would never fly today. 😳

The Hangover - just watch the scene where they are picking Stu up on the way to Vegas.. I forgot about this line and nearly spit my drink out when I was watching the movie recently.

Don't forget ace ventura's ending. One of my favorites.

I know it’s not a movie but Married With Children should be on this list!

I'm surprised Monty Python's Life of Brian didn't get a mention because of its 'fighting for a man's right to have babies' scene.

You brought me back in time! I miss the eighties 😊

Dude, Where's My Car is a classic imo

Ben should direct a movie make incredibly anti-woke, and when the left wing media attacks him he says “it’s not about politics, it’s about the art and not apologize”

Married with Children is one of the funniest shows I've watched with some of the most offensive jokes I've seen 😂 How much the main character hates his Wife is so damn hilarious, but nowadays he'd be called abusive 💀

Smokey and the Bandit. “For some reason or another, you sounded… much taller on the radio.”

Ok, I have to watch Blazing Saddles & Airplane again!

I remember growing up, and seeing movies and thinking "they could've never gotten away with this back in the day"... Funny how things change, eh? For forty years I watched lessening censorship and what was allowed in art grow by leaps and bounds. For the past ten, I've watched those liberties go by the wayside.

So many pre-2010 movies, people say, "You couldn't make that today." And pretty much every movie made after 2010, they do make today, and will keep on making.

I want more films like American Pie, I miss that format. School of Rock is dark af when you realise what Jack Blacks character has done, it’s a prison sentence haha but the audience want him to succeed 😂

Apparently Snow White is unmakeable today... or at least the abomination they were trying to make it into. Hopefully the pendulum is finally swinging back!

I was having a bad day today. Watching this got my mind off everything and remembering how much fun I had watching all these movies. Thanks Ben 😂

When the Simpsons visited Australia, they portrayed us as drunk idiots and a bunch of convicts. I couldn’t stop laughing the whole episode.

Gran Torino would be another one that couldn’t be made today.

Not a comedy, but Full Metal Jacket could neverrrr be made today.

Tropic thunder is a masterpiece. I've recommended it to my friends many times and they all loved it. Also anything with Leslie Nielsen. All the Naked Gun series from the 90's It's crack me up every time. This is all gonna be mandatory viewing for my kids one day. True classics.

Love Blazing Saddles, still have a VHS!

The Bad News Bears. Tanner Boyle's classic response when told a girl is joining the team (look it up cuz yt won't allow me to quote it) and the celebration scene at the end when beers are being handed out to 10 to 12 yr olds by the coach probably not tolerated today. A great film from a better time!

Like Ben, I was born in 1984. And also like Ben, I agree that Airplane!, released in 1980, is soooooo good. If you've never seen it, seek it out. It's incredible.

You opened up a nostalgia attic I never knew I had😂😂😂 all of these are amazing movies💪🏾💪🏾