13 Unapologetic Comedies That Are Unconcerned About Offending You

      These unabashed comedies are unconcerned with offending anyone — their primary goal is to make you laugh.

      Not Another Teen Movie (2000)

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      This brutally affectionate satire of teen films, ranging from Lucas to She’s All That, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and The Breakfast Club, is an offensive onslaught packed with sex, bathroom humor, outrageous violence, and surprisingly insightful social commentary.

      Where else can you witness Chris Evans misusing a banana, white characters pretending to be Asian, and football players literally split in half?

      Not Another Teen Movie could easily remove every offensive joke and still be quite humorous, but it scores extra points for the sheer audacity of keeping them in.

      White Chicks (2004)

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      Marlon and Shawn Wayans portray Black FBI agents who impersonate wealthy white socialites to penetrate a pretentious Hamptons social scene and unravel a conspiracy. During their journey, they learn how white individuals behave when they assume no one of other races is around, while also gaining insight into the female perspective.

      If you’re not offended by something in White Chicks, then you’re simply not paying attention. The Wayans criticize privileged white folks, as well as everyone else, making observations on our peculiar racial and sexual issues throughout. White Chicks keeps you guessing about its limits, and it definitely pushes them.

      Airplane (1980)

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      June Cleaver speaking jive is incredibly inappropriate — and one of the funniest moments in cinematic history.

      Kudos to Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker for the brilliant idea of Barbara Billingsley delivering the line, “Oh stewardess? I speak jive,” along with the 7,000 other exceptional jokes in Airplane, one of the greatest comedies of all time.

      You can question its taste if you wish, but you'll find it more rewarding to simply enjoy the laughs. There are plenty of them.

      Team America: World Police (2004)

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      After watching this puppet-based spy thriller, it’s tough to take any self-righteous actor seriously; it scorns Kim Jong-Il but has an even greater disdain for Sean Penn.

      With puppet love scenes, prolonged projectile vomiting, and unapologetic jingoism — Team America, created by the minds behind South Park, is a satire of gung-ho nationalism, while also presenting a compelling argument for American foreign policy at its best.

      Additionally, there's a brilliant metaphor involving three distinct body parts that we contemplate far more than we should.

      Borat (2006)

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      Sacha Baron Cohen portrays a sexist, anti-Semitic, and generally oblivious Kazakh journalist who enables Americans to express thoughts they usually wouldn't voice. His blatant ignorance, juxtaposed with his naiveté, brings out the worst in individuals who should know better. (And occasionally, the best.)

      While Borat’s antics are shockingly offensive, his derangement makes you feel pity for him, and Baron Cohen and his crew achieve an impressive balance of revulsion and vulnerability. What stands out is how much of it Baron Cohen had to improvise in real-time, often in tense and perilous situations.

      The 2020 sequel, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, is equally impressive.

      The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

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      With its overflowing gratuitous nudity and racial humor, The Kentucky Fried Movie epitomizes modern-day problematic cinema while serving as a perfect time capsule of the free-spirited 1970s: It identifies and parodies genres from kung-fu to Blaxploitation to women-in-prison films through quick, take-it-or-leave-it sketches that mock a variety of grindhouse classics.

      Believe it or not, it’s also a significant film — it was the breakthrough for director John Landis and the writing team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, who would later create Airplane.

      Kentucky Fried Movie is one of those comedies that Gen X kids whispered about because many parents prohibited them from watching it. It boasts a well-deserved reputation as what was once considered a dirty film. It remains subversive, wrong, and thrilling in many ways.

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      Coming to America (1988)

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      Are you Black, white, Jewish, Christian, African, American, young, or old?

      There’s something in the cartoonish absurdity of Coming to America to offend everyone, as Eddie Murphy plays characters from nearly all those demographics, eviscerating each one.

      Coming to America critiques royalty, the nouveau riche, and the struggling underclass, but it primarily focuses on gender dynamics. It serves as such a sharp commentary on human behavior that the only sensible response is admiration.

      Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)

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