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...Bill Maher's shows last Friday. And it wouldn't be a year divisible by four if there weren't a movie out that attacks Moore. This time it's an intended comedy: An American Carol, from funny-silly (and this time funny-silly-angry) director David Zucker...
...must be a weird honor, being the only documentary filmmaker ever to be the central savaging point of a right-wing satire. And by David Zucker, part of the Kentucky Fried Theater team (Jim Abrahams and Zucker's brother Jerry are the other two) who launched the Airplane!, Naked Gun and Hot Shots! franchises and took over and revived the Scary Movie series. Moore probably doesn't feel flattered, since An American Carol depicts its lead character, one Michael Malone, as a bumbling, politically myopic slob who gets swindled into a plot to blow up Madison Square Garden...
...movie isn't as deft or compact as Zucker's YouTube video this summer of a man being strangled by the pump at a gas station, but it has its funny parts. One is the running gag that Malone isn't a "real" moviemaker because he does documentaries. "Nobody likes documentaries," somebody says. "But many people find them restful." As it happens, Fahrenheit 9/11 earned more at the domestic box office than any movie David Zucker has directed. And though Grandpa Nielsen's closing argument is that "It turned out that people actually wanted to see movies that show...
...spoof” on liberal ideas that featured racial, religious, and sexual stereotypes and unabated nationalistic symbolism.That viewing got me thinking about what went into conservative humor, who is considered its audience, and how it differs from a lefty approach to comedy.You probably know writer/director David Zucker best for making “Airplane!” and the “Naked Gun” series. He has self-nominated himself as the “Master of Movie Satire.”On the surface, the trailer for “An American Carol” isn?...
...should know. Zucker virtually invented the spoof film with his '80s comedies Airplane! and The Naked Gun, and with Scary Movie 3 and 4, he has continued to make good money, if not exactly art, in the genre. But snagging a distributor for this red-state satire, which was funded by the late Wisconsin construction billionaire Ken Hendricks and his wife Diane, was no easy task. "We're trying to find movies that the conservative side of the country will desire," says Carol producer Stephen McEveety, whose Mpower Pictures had a low-budget hit last year with the pro-life...