TCM - Billy Crystal on gross-out comedies

[watayapupuya]

PLEASE! Crystal is so full of shit.Just a businessman making excuses.

[drcoxcentral]

I totally I agree with Mr. Crystal.

[skatekristianstad]

The so called "Comedies" of today is just pure crap. So bad. They don't make comedies like they used to. Today its just about sex and stupid shit, partys and stuff. I miss the old days of comedy.

[robotpanda77]

Does the tcm logo have a loud enough sound effect or what?

[radamez2]

Yeeeuuppp! Deafening!

[chawk111]

Also, I don't think its true that what makes people laugh has stayed the same for years and that the only thing that has changed is the people who do it. When I see comedy from earlier eras, I think to my self, "You'd have to be some kind of an idiot to enjoy this. " And I think, to a certain extent, they were, or at least more of them were (the old ppl I know are simpletons). There has been a progression whereby more ppl are more sophisticated now and tv/movies, populist mediums, must be too.

[radamez2]

I think comedy, more than any other art, is about the time it's sent out. I'd say almost to the week. You cannot really understand how actually funny Groucho was unless you were around then. I now understand the brilliance of the older comedy but when i was a teen nothing meant more than SCTV and Monty Python and SNL- it was as important to me as the music coming out at the time. Political, socio-political and shocking.

Look at Zach Galifianakis

[watayapupuya]

@radamez2

You do not make sense:you said that you could not understand.Then you say that you CAN.

THEN you talk about rhe '70's MUSIC! and SCTV,SNL,and M.P.,which were ALL so obviously far superior to all the stupid ,worthless shit  produced for so many years now!

[chawk111]

Billy Crystal is a hack. City Slickers - awful! The one with him and the giant - crap! To see him prophesying about comedy is just ridiculous. It's not just that he is not funny - he's antifunny - he creates, appreciates the sort of comedy that sucks the most. Not sure of the kind of movie he's referring to here (Sandler sucks as do "gross out" movies) but this might be fueled by bitterness at not being more successful lately - as well of lack of understanding of rely great comedy.

[dahomies94]

this guy is a genius