So the joke is they're dancing to blues music?
This is the shit people thought was better then modern SNL?
So the joke is they're dancing to blues music?
shut up nigger
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high-school level
Very generous of you.
Yup, I’ve never understood the popularity of that shit.
SNL is a variety show, and comedy sketches are just part of it. It's also why they have bands perform. The comedy sketches came to dominate the show and define it. I'm a bit iffy on the Blues Brothers sketches, but hte film is stupid fun.
Seriously can someone explain what the "joke" was behind Blues Brothers? They were autists in suits who spoke very little? Why did Boomers consider that premise one of the funniest things of all time?
i just watched a few minutes of the original movie. not funny at all. they went to a restaurant to get one of their old band members who works as a maître d to rejoin the band. they tried to be obnoxious to force him to rejoin them. it was so unfunny
Enlighten is then oh wise one
*The Blues Brothers* (1980) is meant to be funny for several reasons, combining absurdity, deadpan humor, satire, and musical parody. Here's a breakdown of **why it's considered funny**:
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### 1. **Deadpan Delivery**
* **Dan Aykroyd** and **John Belushi** play Jake and Elwood Blues completely straight—even in the most absurd situations.
* Their emotionless responses to chaos (e.g., being chased by hundreds of cops or Nazis) create a surreal, dry comedic effect.
### 2. **Absurdity and Exaggeration**
* Everything in the movie is over-the-top: the car chases are ridiculous in scale, the damage is cartoonishly excessive, and the coincidences are implausible by design.
* Example: A single car chase leads to dozens of wrecked police cars, but the brothers just drive away calmly.
### 3. **Parody of Action and Crime Films**
* The film borrows tropes from crime dramas, musicals, and action movies, then pushes them into parody territory.
* The hyper-dramatic pursuit by the police, a country band, and literal Nazis exaggerates typical action movie stakes for laughs.
### 4. **Musical Comedy**
* The movie is a musical at heart, with scenes where characters randomly burst into performance.
* Cameos from legends like Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and Ray Charles are used in intentionally silly or unexpected ways—Ray Charles shoots at a shoplifter mid-song, for instance.
### 5. **Bizarre Supporting Characters**
* Nearly every side character is eccentric or cartoonish: the nun with the ruler, the good ol' boys band, the Illinois Nazis, and Carrie Fisher as the vengeful ex-fiancée with military-grade weapons.
zoomiest zoom post. If you were over 30 you would:
1. Have seen the damn thing on tv 20 years ago.
2. Have more attention span to watch an entire film all the way through not demand a 2 minute clip to entertain you.
There's no joke, there was just nothing else to watch
Barbara, get in here, quick!
That Belushi fella just got up on the stage on SNL, and you're not gonna believe this
He's SINGING
and dancing!
At the same time
HAHAHAHAHA boy now that's one funny sketch
And now Akroyd's got the harmonica out HAHAHAHAHA
funniest thing I've seen in my life. Singing and dancing, how do they come up with this stuff? Boy you could make a whole feature film about this
Makes me think we're overdue to invite the neighbors around for another King Tut party
If you were over 30 you would:
i am. i saw this so long ago i forgot most of it. the part where they drive through a neo-nazi rally was also very unfunny
Yes anon! Don't you love "black culture"? Don't you love blacks and hate nazis? Laugh god damn you!
So the joke is they get dommed by a kinky nun mommy? That's but funny, that's just a fetish?
That’s the gist of it. You had three stations, whatever was at the theater, and whatever was on the radio, and if you didn’t like it, you were welcome to fuck off.
The Blues Brothers was soulful as fuck and has a legendary soundtrack.
James Brown
Cab Calloway
Aretha Franklin
Ray Charles
etc
If you don't enjoy it you may wish to return to your Travis Scott playlist of mp3s
It's good because of the soundtrack? Ahhh to be so easily entertained, life must be a constant joy to you
The Blues Brothers was soulful as fuck
starring two of the whitest guys around. lol
It's not a joke, it's a live music performance. Do you go to concerts expecting to laugh?
Blues Brothers was more of a music performance rather than sketch act in SNL. That's why they tried to flesh out their backstory for the movie and gave them some motivation.
Yes, people are conflating the Blues Brothes movie which is more known than the SNL performances.
Yes, the film pays homage to black musicians and every one of them is black. They got James Brown to for the gospel scene.
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Yes
Yes, the film pays homage to black musicians
they were all well past their primes and that style of music was totally dated/dead. you really think young 20/30yr old white people in the early 80s were listening to cab calloway?
I'm pretty sure the joke is that blues is black music so they were like the wiggers of their day. I never really got it either. My boomer dad loved the Blues Brothers and tried to get me into it. I never really found it funny besides the police chase.
The whole franchise is just a boomer relic.
I'm 29 and white and The Blues Brothers is one of my favorite movies
but not because of the music
And that’s funny because…?
It's almost as if they don't care what you think, they are on a mission from god.
Wypipo, you can put two white guys from minneapolis to lead the band they still act like is black music
The whole point was not about skin color but to showcase the music.
Am pretty sure it was a movie about two white brothers who needed a gig to save the orphanage they grew up in
I ask AI to write all my posts for me too. Even this one.
The music is the best part. The Briefcase Full of Blues album is fucking great also.
No because they were complete idiots and couldn't do anything right except play music, the show was focused on the music entirely with lots of slap stick comedy and one liners.
They should be called the Dadrock Bros because none of the music from the movie is actual blues
That movie is good and the music was nice. What the hell do you wanted?
The music is the best part
not really. i dont like blues. i liked modern day black groups from back then like the gap band or cameo or the commodores. i just dont like any of the music featured in this movie
Why are you american niggers so racist? Your problem with this movie is that the two main characters are white mens?
So the joke is they're dancing to blues music?
it's not supposed to be a joke
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it was completely normal for a tv show to have it's own band, the snl band wasn't featured playing much on the show, and the blues brothers started as a warm up act for the crowd that got popular enough they felt it could be on tv
tv success was so much they did a stand alone album which hit number one and a movie that hit number one
The movie was the whole point. When he asks how much for the little girls. The whole point was to normalize pedophilia.
Could have fooled me, they looked good at everything from driving to networking
It was a glowOp.
it was surprising how solid they were at singing blues i guess.
Also Dan being a pro at the harmonica
The car chase was epic, but not as good as smokey and the bandit.
This is the shit people thought was better then modern SNL?
No, this is.
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