What has become of American humor?

| May 22, 2022 1:00 AM

Is it just me? Am I in my 70s and having a "still wish I was young" meltdown? l admit I pay for satellite, but with such a low cost monthly bill that I only get two free movies. I am also smart enough to look at YouTube movies, plus Tubi, Crackle, etc. But I cannot find a comedy movie. I am talking about Jack Lemon, Walter Matthau, even cheap Tony Curtis movies.

Every movie in the last 20 years or more has a gun in it … a Black guy in a city? Guns. What a stereotype. White cops as detectives: weapons on both sides. A movie in the future: killing objects. Does every new movie have to have killing or the threat of death?

I want my Jack Lemon movies back. (I just watched "How to Murder Your Wife" with Jack Lemon and no one actually died.)

Even a lot of the new alleged comedy movies have someone dying. What has become of American humor?

JAMES RICHARD JOHNSON

Clark Fork