Hello, my name is Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan, and you're listening

to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we're going to have ourselves a few laughs, because we're

going to be talking about spoof movies. Surely you can't be serious. Please don't call me

surely. Got that gag perfectly.

It's all about the timing.

So this is an interesting episode because we're talking about comedy, which I think that out of anything that we could talk about is the most difficult to articulate why we like something.

If it bams, it's funny.

If it breaks, it's not funny.

Tragedy is a man cutting his fingers. Comedy is a man falling down a open manhole and dying. Comedy is a man in trouble. Okay. What's that from? I don't know. That was Jerry Lewis said that. Oh, was it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he died a sad and lonely man. But let's not focus on the sad parts, like the end of Jerry Lewis's life.

Let's focus on the funny stuff, like the output of Zaz.

And that is David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abraham's. We should maybe say that we'll be kind of looking at the history of the spoof movie decade by decade.

And we're starting in the 1900s comedy began.

And later on we'll be getting to, you know, the modern day practitioners of the spoof movie,

Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer.

Perhaps it's a little arbitrary that we're starting with the Zaz boys, but I think that's kind of

where the modern spoof movie begins, right?

I don't think that we could talk about spoof in any earlier context, and like people could

come out of the woodwork and go, well, look at these, this spoof like hell's a poppin, making

fun of all of this stuff. Or what about Mel Brooks? Exactly. Well, we talked about the Mel Brooks. We weren't going to discuss in this episode because he deserves his own hour dedicated to him. But also the Zucker brothers and Abraham seem to have created a whole other kind of, maybe not a whole other kind of thing, but they, they created something that's like

the rapid fire.

Yeah, kind of jokes.

Yeah, joke, joke, joke, joke, joke.

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