Message #1: “Have you revisited this scene? The serious girlfriend chastising the insouciant lout for being the proverbial overgrown adolescent. That behavior used to be the goal to avoid becoming the establishment and our parents. Now not just women are sounding like the cliched frustrated girlfriend, but society at large. We’re breaking up with Bill Murray and anarchist comedians.”
Message #1: “Some friends and comedy writers were talking about how it used to be a compliment to be kidded, ribbed and insulted. While these sort of sexual preference jokes are extinct, we can feel nostalgic for the time when someone as lofty as Jack Nicholson can take a gag at his own expense like a man and play along with it. Imagine the audience response if an Oscar host were to tell the ‘woke up with a poodle head in my bed’ joke. Technically 18 or 19 years ago, but boy, have times changed!