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1969, Mad Magazine. Still has much relevance today. (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by mecfs to c/politicalmemes

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Blazing saddles isn’t really centrist, more just anti-rightwing from my memory of it.

There's the problem right there.

There are plenty of books and articles about the making of the movie. I've read a few and don't remember anyone involved talking about trying to carry a political message. Plenty of people thought it was offensive, but no one thought it was going to change minds.

What I'm challenging is you trying to put things into history that just weren't there.

The people at MAD weren't trying to influence a generation's politics, they were trying to make a buck. If yippee jokes were popular they'd print them.