R-rated comedies are just shadows of their former eighties' selves, now it's all about being as vulgar, cheap and crude as possible to cater to teens whereas before the content and humor was actually intelligent
Jotaro is right, R-rated comedies are just crude. They will never use their ability to go to R as intelligently and tastefully as, say Stewardess School did in the 80s.
eh, wonder if it's possible to pinpoint the moment where it changed
stuff like Scary Movie is the WORST thing to ever happen to American culture as a whole
and the highest amount of fans of these movies are well below 17, it really striked me to see many of them liking this so much and seeing all this nauseating vulgarity, all these sexual gags and over the top violence as if it was nothing, it's as if nothing can be too vulgar or offensive as long as it's presented in a "funny" context
what kind of fucked up human beings with no concept of decency will that nurture
Things have been this way since the 70s. Comedies aimed at the teen set are crude. The evolution of societal mores means that the acceptance of more things requires the crude, young person's comedy to get more crude in order to stay ahead of the mass acceptance curve.
If you REALLY want to blame the current "shock" humor trend, blame Something About Mary and Dumb and Dumber. They are not the prome offenders (and not bad movies), but they set the stage for today.
Really, though, someone crowing about how the raunchy comedies of the 80s were more "intelligent" (your words, not mine) sounds more like someone jaded and looking to talk shit about modern pop culture. You think Porky's and its sequels were more "intelligent" than what we have today? The culture hasn't gotten worse. It is operating largely on the same principles it always have. You are just getting older and have trouble accepting things since you are apparently judging on a curve that is not only based off of older movies, but a curve that may have never even existed in the first place. "Intelligent" 80s R-rated comedies? The 80s set the template for the raunchy sex farces of today.