Kuala Lampur, Aug. 9 -- The comedies I grew up watching - as a kid in the 1980s and as a teenager in the 1990s - can feel like they come from another planet when compared to what is being sold as comedies right now.

There were no sacred cows back then, and people could make fun of anyone, even in the most tasteless and low-brow manner.

Try doing that in this era of political correctness, woke and cancel culture, and I'm sure some internet outrage will be coming your way.

I loved the movies by the ZAZ trio (which consisted of Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker) like Airplane, The Naked Gun and Top Secret, all of which can be clearly classified as low-brow or dumb comedies, but are no less funny for being so.

The 90s saw t...