lordzeppelin

Did anyone else see the Daily Show tonight? The Colbert report on the Dukes of Hazard Movie was so damn funny...

"I know someone who'd bounce that" LOL

brookzy

That definitely was a classic. Snatcher, I mean Cooter, hasn't even seen the movie and he's telling people to boycott. Just like Dogma, boycotting something because of things they've heard.

MrX

More like boycott it because they wouldn't give him a part in it.

lordzeppelin

The part of the interview with the frat guys talking about how they would do Jessica Simpson was hilarious...

Count Dooku

Because of his accent and the crosstalking, I couldn't understand what Carville said that pissed Novak off. Anyone?

dolphinboy

Carville and Novak were both trying to speak while they were handicapping the GOP candidacy of Katherine Harris. Novak said the opposition of the Republican establishment in Florida might not be fatal for her.

"Let me just finish, James, please," Novak continued. "I know you hate to hear me, but you have to."

Carville, addressing the camera, said: "He's got to show these right wingers that he's got a backbone, you know. It's why the Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching you. Show 'em that you're tough."

"Well, I think that's bull---- and I hate that," Novak replied. "Just let it go."

snoogins

What a Stiffly Stifferson. Seriously, great episode!!!

MovieExchange

Yeah, but at least he has a better idea of what's in the movie. He's right, they are over-sexualizing it when compared to the original.

Personally, I'm just not going to see the movie because one look at the trailer tells me it's a festering pile of shit. None of the 3 mains can act to save their lives, and Burt Reynolds makes a piss-poor Boss Hogg.

JasonF

It's been 20 years since I've seen the original, and I've not seen (or intend to see) the movie, but, in the tradition of Ben "Cooter" Jones, let me talk about them:

1) The movie is probably much more sexualized than the TV show was, but
2) The TV show contained as much sexuality as it was legally and socially possible to get away with on network TV at that time. I have no doubt that if the FCC and society would have let them get away with it, the TV show would have been just as sexualized then as the movie is now.

MovieExchange

You can have "no doubt" all you want, but that doesn't prove what you say.

It was a different set of morals back then. So I can understand why he has a problem with the movie being done this way. His comparison he made elsewhere, saying that it's like bringing back I Love Lucy and making her a crackhead, was rather accurate.

The sexuality doesn't offend me, but I can see how it offends him. The movie offends me because it looks like the typical Hollywood piss-poor remake. More than likely, it's aimed at the people in their mid 20's that vaguely remember the show, and the kids that don't remember it at all but just want to see these pathetic excuses for actors.

scottall

"Lynching blacks used to be fun in the South, too."

"I don't agree with that."

wmansir

I think your right JasonF. The movie was far from the first time Daisy was put into a skimpy bikini. And I don't buy the morals BS. "Cooter" was on a hit TV show in Hollywood during the 80's. It's not like he's from puritan times. He probably did a small mountain's worth of coke off stripper ass, and if he didn't you can bet he did business with people who did.

Noojimbo

"She could have the entire fucking spectrum on her head and I'd still bounce that ass."

Boot

"Who's Cooter again?"

"He's the mechanic."

"Oh...fuck that guy."

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"I don't understand why they have to billboard their fucking packages."

Fielding Mellish

Man, I wish they'd get back to doing the next-day rebroadcasts at 7:00 pm. I miss this show all the time, now.

das Monkey

That fraternity kid should be hired as a regular.

das

dick_grayson

I didn't think the frat stuff was funny......but then again I hate most frat dudes anyway.

The "Snatch-face" or whatever he called Cooter was pretty good, as was his humorless reply "What did you just call me?"

Gil Jawetz

The whole episode was one of the best in a long time. From Bob Novak through to Miles O'Brien.

Jadzia

They air them the next day at 10am, 8pm, and then at 11:30pm after the new episode airs.

Actually, you can get away with a lot less nowadays. I read an interview with Richard Linklater that said he had to tone down a lot of the humor that was in the original Bad News Bears movie for the re-make. And then ironically, everyone now talks about how "bawdy" the new one is. I think people assume that things aremuch more risque now.

I can think of a lot of movies from the 70's and 80's that you wouldn't see made today because of the content. Teen sex comedies were much more explicit back then, for example.

I think the main difference is for the Dukes movie is broadcast TV vs. film.

atlantamoi

I had to pause my Tivo because I was laughing too hard on that line.

There was another story they did recently about military recruiting that was just as funny as this one. What a great show.

Boot

Sorry to be picky, but I think the response was "That's where you and I differ."

seymouru

"So there was nothing more for me to do here but crawl into the General Grant, and head back up to the godless North..."

Cue "Hava Nagila."