{"id":11672,"date":"2021-10-15T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11672"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:38:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T18:38:34","slug":"cultural-karens-killing-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/15\/cultural-karens-killing-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Karens Killing Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/15\/airplane-creator-slams-joy-killing-threat-twitter-9-percent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from the New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Airplane!\u2019 creator slams joy-killing threat: \u2018Twitter 9 percent\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By David Zucker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Airplane Classic Scenes\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xlDXQdgx_QU?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the release of \u201cAirplane!,\u201d the comedy I wrote and directed with my brother Jerry and our friend Jim Abrahams. Just before the world shut down, Paramount held a screening at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, followed by a Q&amp;A in which an audience member asked a question we never used to receive: \u201cCould you make \u2018Airplane!\u2019 today?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My response: \u201cOf course, we could. Just without the jokes.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although people tell me that they love \u201cAirplane!\u201d and it seems to be included on just about every Top Five movie-comedy list, there was talk at Paramount of withholding the rerelease over feared backlash for scenes that today would be deemed \u201cinsensitive.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/15\/airplane-creator-slams-joy-killing-threat-twitter-9-percent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the New York Post \u2018Airplane!\u2019 creator slams joy-killing threat: \u2018Twitter 9 percent\u2019 By David Zucker Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the release of \u201cAirplane!,\u201d the comedy I wrote and directed with my brother Jerry and our friend Jim Abrahams. Just before the world shut down, Paramount held a screening at the Egyptian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}