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[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 85 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Everything Rob Schieder started in.

None were very well liked even when they were fresh, but things like "Big Stan", in which his pipsqueak convict character has to go on a karate-kid-style journey to learn martial arts from David Carrodine in order to fend off rapists before he heads off to prison is kind of a case study in a whole genre that could be called 'damn, you really thought that was funny?'

Norm MacDonald and some of the other SNL folks dabbled in some of the same jokes, but were much more talented, so some of this stuff feels a little forgivable. Schneider though... oof.

Also: I haven't seen it, but I'm going to guess that 2008's "You Don't Mess with the Zohan" -- in which Adam Sandler stars as an Israeli Mossad super ninja who wants to be a stylist -- probably didn't age great.

[–] cheat700000007@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It can't age poorly when it was never good to begin with

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

It was unwatchable cringe shit when it came out.

I know cause I lived with a dumbass drummer who thought Sandler was funny. Even HE was turning that crap off halfway through.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

None were very well liked even when they were fresh, but things like “Big Stan”, in which his pipsqueak convict character has to go on a karate-kid-style journey to learn martial arts from David Carrodine in order to fend off rapists before he heads off to prison is kind of a case study in a whole genre that could be called ‘damn, you really thought that was funny?’

"Get Hard" does this as well. Showed it to my parents and they loved it, to be fair - The premise does disgust me though.

From my perspective the wider American population has a problem with people acting like rape in prisons is

  1. Something bound to happen
  2. Something routine
  3. Part of the punishment and something criminals deserve
  4. Something to laugh about. When would it ever be okay to laugh about it?
  5. A racially asymmetrical situation, I.e they're always like "a tough and violent black criminal with a large penis is going to rape you in prison and they will target you more if you're white." How is that okay? That's like 20 racist fallacies right there in a short idea.

This is pushed heavily by Hollywood and also by people across twitter, whether professional or rando accounts.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

he's the one that hasn't aged well. gone off the deep end, he has. antivax, transphobe, trumpette, pimps for moms for liberty.. you name it. actually got pulled from the stage in Regina (ca) during an event two years ago, in the middle of his routine, due to piss-poor taste and 'inappropriate' (to say the least) content. src

[–] TheShamMirrors@lemmy.today 16 points 2 days ago

Don't mess with Zohan is conceptually wild now. Damn.