Old movies are insanely overrated

[@clanofclams2720]

this is the man who cried at black panther

[@manuelsputnik]

Black panther is peak fr

[@lemoncholly]

Slop​@@manuelsputnik

[@B2Roland]

​​@@manuelsputnikgenuinely insane take. It's so mid

[@ItsSkytheGuy]

@@B2Roland the story is mid but Ludwig Göransson's score is kinda peak

[@Ant12468]

more and more I find myself saying "who let him cook?" whoever is letting him cook needs to be stopped

[@Drekromancer]

I love seeing this meme evolve.

[@zacharynovak2180]

We need the health inspector in stat, there are definitely multiple violations in that kitchen.

[@imadeofwax1455]

Get this man out the kitchen!

[@twostepRMX]

“A painting Pablo Picasso painted in the Middle Ages” brother

[@konoskubos1641]

"Never had an athenian in my chat before" Literally been there for years

[@lemoncholly]

Same, I can see Sanford stadium from my apartment

[@NinjaGoldRoger]

Him doing the "name a woman" bit never fails to make me laugh

[@TheMarkoSeke]

He's never actually watched an Abbott and Costello Who's On First bit and it shows. That shit's hilarious.

[@demujo]

third tragedy from Sophocles is Oedipus at Colonus, and it is always overlooked. lysistrata is actually a hilarious comedy, one of the best to ever do it quite frankly.

[@Xellos14]

The best use of the "Who's on first" gag is Among Us played with names like "Me, Who, Over There, Where etc" lol

[@funx24X7]

I can’t tell if Abbott and Costello would be proud of or intensely disgusted by their legacy

[@Drekromancer]

@@funx24X7 I'm pretty sure every outcome rocks here.

[@parsnipappendectomy]

he’s like aleister crowley he just be saying shit he doesnt believe to get a reaction

[@awerawer0708]

I agree with him that old movies are typically overrated. But his take on "who's on first?" and old comedy in general is INSANE. Great comedy is timeless.

[@En.GergerRacc]

"Great comedy is timeless." This dude is still going to minstrel shows?

[@desgoyomama3274]

@@En.GergerRacc Minstrel shows are not great comedy, hence they are not timeless?

[@clanofclams2720]

​@@En.GergerRaccthe hell are you going on about

[@En.GergerRacc]

@@clanofclams2720 Comedy is subjective. You can't just say "great comedy is timeless" as if "great comedy" is a fundamental attribute. People in the past thought minstrel shows were great just as they thought the rest of their entertainment was great, and they were wrong on every count. "Great comedy" therefore means, "based on my modern sensibilities, I like it." We clearly cannot conclude that anything is timeless, just that you like it despite it being ass.

[@clanofclams2720]

@@En.GergerRacc bro is yapping about nothing. Great comedy is timeless, ergo if it isn't timeless it's not great comedy. Simple as.

[@DollarinoJones]

Bride of Frankenstein is a certified banger. You ever fucking seen the part where Frankenstein puffs on a fat doink???

[@DrChillyBones]

ok, so i know I'm a year late. But the "who's on first" bit is basically the progenitor of 60% of modern humour so even though it's not funny ANYMORE that's not a fault of the bit itself.

[@EntrEsprit]

I will assume that he forgot about Hitchcock existence and movies like 12 angry men, Seven Samurai etc. because that can't be a sane take

[@willtaylor9309]

Bro he talks about vertigo in the clip

[@EntrEsprit]

​@@willtaylor9309 yea and he says admittedly he's never seen it.

[@nikkovalidor4890]

yo am i ganking invoker or something because all im seeing is mid

[@machiel5888]

Singing in the Rain is from the 1940's and it's hilarious and incredible

[@ChicaneryBear]

Actually his worst take of all time. Who's on first is hilarious.

[@aereonexapprentice7205]

Who's on first's main draw, as already pointed out by a chatter, is its delivery, its looping back and throwback while expanding upon the joke premise, and the theatrical visual aspects. You wouldn't have guessed a joke name would go that long while keeping it fresh for the audience. NL did not get that and after he read the chatter, he immediately changes the topic to vanity and subjective stuff like "aging well". Truly one of NL railroad moments of all time.

[@funx24X7]

He had a point about how rapidly humor evolves over time but dropped the ball with the meme culture comparison. The fact that memes stop being funny after ten seconds its more of an indictment of our ADHD-riddled short attention spans than an indication that comedy has somehow changed in that span.

[@RexusprimeIX]

@@funx24X7 No memes stop being funny after 10 seconds because the meme was never that funny in the first place. You got a chuckle when you first saw it, then got over it.

[@funx24X7]

@@RexusprimeIX Yeah, that too. People get really attached to some memes though. In a weird twist I think you could draw a line from who’s on first to kid named finger

[@Pulatapus2016]

The amount of chatters that didn’t get his Picasso joke is disgusting.

[@fredrik8500]

I know, right? Because NL obviously knows when Pablo Picasso lived, and is deliberately misstating the period in which he painted as a joke. Not getting that is truly disgusting… Touch grass

[@Pacifist259]

Why you pressed over someone making a joke on the internet Touch grass

[@_DZ_]

I still don't understand the joke, Picasso died 40 years ago, is he saying that 40 years ago we were living in the middle ages? Was the joke that he was feigning ignorance about not knowing the time period when Picasso lived? Explain pls

[@JohnJohnson-rf9xc]

@@_DZ_ yeah somethin like that, pretty funny regardless of what it means

[@starseeing]

@@_DZ_ It's simply that he was saying something obviously false.

[@ryanwingfield6092]

Bro has not seen Yojimbo 😔

[@zoeysutherland7470]

My brother in Christ, Psycho came out in 1960.

[@teratoma.]

12 angry dudes was 1957, borderline perfect movie

[@nikkovalidor4890]

ben hurr when john durr walks in

[@Potbelly76]

His Girl Friday is hilarious, epic Cary Grant

[@revelaitons3959]

Who's on first is actually comedy gold, he's insane

[@kiiyll]

Him reciting the Billy on the Street interview nearly word for word had me dying

[@pruwyben]

Amazing how fast he pivoted from making fun of the guy who likes classic plays to showing off his own knowledge of classic plays.

[@ratfromsewer6683]

i would say in a lot of cases ire comes from familiarity

[@SaturninePlaces]

Is it hypocrisy? or self-degradation...

[@teratoma.]

12 angry men is still a masterpiece tho

[@joelwhite2361]

AS a classicist, the Lysistrata is Aristophanes. Also it's really funny. Don Quixote and the Canterbury Tales are also hilarious.

[@aureus79]

HIS ASS IS NOT COOKIN 😭

[@7yditchfits]

Hey Library could we get a cropped in clip of when he turns his head in time with all the cats at around 5:40?

[@djlee_exe]

My dog Pablo Picasso died in like the 1970s tf you talkin bout “the Middle Ages”?

[@karsaurlong]

I'm the guy who brought up Ben-Hur. I'm famous.

[@waffleisyummy]

Bicycle Thieves, Seven Samurai, Grapes of Wrath, 400 Blows, 12 Angry Men, Seventh Seal I’m literally so triggered lmao

[@angelthingjenny]

he overcomplicated the vertigo one. just say "more like. i gotta verti-go home early instead of sitting through this whole thing"

[@stereo1329]

His worst take

[@WoodenBench]

this is the first step down the ’saying it like it is’-pipeline

[@cammyboig]

The common northernlion L

[@Exarian]

It's the way they *talk* that gets me. Everyone talks in this one particular extremely curt and gruff manner in every movie released before New Hollywood, no matter what mood they're trying to convey. I sure hope that isn't how people actually used to talk at the time, it sounds maddening.

[@adelinovale6356]

Lysistrata is a comedy by Aristophanes.

[@hastyscorpion]

Idk Looney Tunes is still pretty funny.

[@cubewano]

dr strangelove is actually a goated movie, haven’t seen the other ones (except 2001) but i bet they’re god if egg doesn’t like them

[@tsawy6]

Some play comedies are fuckin great, but then, I think we all already know that

[@quinardosoto977]

Freaks came out in 1932, the same year as the original Scarface; not to mention Kirosaua's work, and that's just the most obvious b&w Era stuff I can think of off the top of my head, this man is insane

[@alicea8554]

I agree about the movies and music and shit I just think who’s on first is funny

[@lettersnstuff]

some uncharacteristically bad takes from NL here, feelsbadman

[@Lowekinder]

This man needs to watch more screwball comedies

[@unimpressedalchemist]

TIL My favorite movie is only gonna be good for one more year.

[@jacobcoates3942]

The most based man alive, many people are saying this.

[@ballcoozysmooth]

OH BROTHER

[@hunnerboi8561]

Looney tunes is timeless

[@umey3445]

im offended at the first good movie came out in 1965 take >:(

[@unimpressedalchemist]

Sunset Boulevard is my favorite movie of 1939

[@Ant12468]

ngl Northernlion has bad taste in movies, one of his rare L's

[@jamesdulak3108]

Are you telling me you don't find Norbit and Madea to be certified kino?

[@Pardot_]

biggest -2 of my whole life

[@erikralph]

Sophacles NUTS GOTTEM

[@kornelparoczai1763]

I never heard about who's on first? so I watched it. Ngl, I normally love old comedy but that shit is just not funny

[@Heatranoveryou]

Hes just shitposting i dont think he had any serious hot takes here.

[@Matkatamiba]

And of course the only movie he likes is the one I hate

[@lemonke8132]

bro pablo picasso died in 973

[@shitposter2790]

Who's on first is actually an all timer, worst NL take

[@slynt_]

NL saying that newer movies are better is unironically his worst take of all time

[@toddbertuzzy44]

NL used to only drop Ws with the very rare L, now it's the opposite. It's like he's just trying to antagonize chat.

[@jaqf]

was with him until he said 2001 is good bro there’s like a ten minute scene of a woman walking into a room in that movie

[@nazmmetin1862]

LUL

[@coltonmurphy6508]

2001 a space odyssey was the biggest waste of 3 hours in my life

[@EntrEsprit]

No way, you might have witnessed the most beautiful looking movie that's already not such a waste

[@SaturninePlaces]

I honestly cannot see how there is any overlap in people who enjoy NL's incredible banter and the who's on first "joke" Old things are overrated for two reasons, either you experienced something when you were younger and are blinded by nostalgia, or it is something you were convinced was good by peer pressure from people who were blind themselves. The old things that are actually good are few and far between but are remembered more fondly than all the crap that came out at the same time, and that is the case for things coming out now and into the future forever. It's also tough for the good old things because they get lumped in with all the rose-tinted BS people liked from their childhood that wasn't actually good, but they grew up in an echo chamber of their hometown and cannot be convinced otherwise.

[@slynt_]

Old things are usually underrated, because on average the current generation in the West has an insane recency bias, short attention span, and lack of knowledge about history.