Curious, do you have anyone in your family with dimentia? {nm} Apr 29, 22:09
Yeah. Also, I doubt whether it would make much difference regarding the making of a good film. Apr 29, 22:18
EXACTLY. {nm} Apr 29, 22:22
And that's the point, it's based on a real person. Heck, I wouldn't care if they did a satire on the Reagan presidency... Apr 29, 22:37
Comedian Ruby Wax: What's So Funny About Mental Illness? Apr 29, 23:20
And in some of these examples, it's those with the disease that's doing the comedy and thus bringing light to it. {nm} Apr 30, 00:18
What difference does that make? So, the only person that should make a film about a bank robbery is a bank robber. {nm} Apr 30, 00:28
Nobody else with an imagination could bring any light to it. {nm} Apr 30, 00:35
Apples and oranges. Mental disorder is not the same thing as bank robbery. I'm done. {nm} Apr 30, 00:36
Comedian Joshua Walters: On Being Just Crazy Enough. Apr 29, 23:21
SPLITSIDER:The Uneasy Relationship Between Mental Illness & Comedy. Apr 29, 23:27
WOW: There's A Lot About Mental Illness That's Really Funny. Apr 29, 23:32
Performing in black face is never funny {nm} Apr 29, 22:52
People seemed to dig Tropic Thunder {nm} Apr 30, 03:21
did not SNL build their Reagan jokes in the 80s on dementia? {nm} Apr 30, 00:08
Nope. {nm} Apr 30, 00:17
Nope a lot of their jokes were he was this sweet old man for the camera and sharp as a tack behind the scense {nm} Apr 30, 03:16
I don't have a problem with comedy related to any subject, including dementia, in a general sense, Apr 30, 07:05
In other words - A fictional president with dementia, played for laughs = potentially funny, Apr 30, 07:10
I don't see Will Ferrel comedies as "edgy". Self-humiliation and potty humor are not "edgy", at least IMO. {nm} Apr 30, 12:23