*Next week Maher introduces black female sidekick who laughs at everything he says*

Although it likely wasn't budgeted (or shouldn't have been) with the expectation of Chinese box office, since it wasn't a surprise that it wouldn't play there.

It was probably never anticipated to be a factor in China, since the original movies never played there.

I wonder if he was yelling at John Landis when The Blues Brothers went insanely over budget.

OK, I'm willing to learn. What's an example of a major modern studio comedy that throws around the most offensive racial slurs and deals in blatant stereotypes in the name of satire?

But in a comedy? Too controversial, not worth the risk.

They won't.

*imagines the editor-in-chief in his office on Saturday, screaming at the reporters to get this up immediately and not let HuffPo scoop them on this breaking story*

Blazing Saddles could not be made today, not in the form it was released.

But even though he was clearly mocking the racists with Marge Schott and the Southie woman, it simply wouldn't fly today.

Some of that stuff Billy West used to do…I used to wonder if he ever considered that he could be ending his career, that mainstream companies might never hire him if they heard it. Maybe be didn't care, I don't know.

For better or worse, the Howard Stern radio show of the 90s could not happen today over the public airwaves. Wouldn't be tolerated.

Makes me wonder how Howard Stern ever got to become a respected interviewer and acceptable for NBC prime time, because his show used that word all the time.

"HBO cleans out refrigerator, tosses Leftovers"

But without Jim Nantz, who would interrupt my football coverage to share important information about an all-new Madam Secretary, only on CBS, America's Most Watched Network?

"Life on Death Row", aired Nov. 10, 1986:

It would be interesting because even by anthology series standards, it was wildly uneven. There would be plenty to say about what went right and wrong from week to week.

Yeah, if not for the two-year deal, Amazing Stories would likely have been dropped after one season.

Epilogue: The new Alfred Hitchcock Presents only lasted one season on NBC, but was picked up for three more on USA. Diff'rent Strokes was indeed rescued for one more season by ABC.

Pop is the U.S. home of Schitt's Creek!