Love Quote by David Zucker

Zucker is doing something slyly political in the low-stakes language of fandom. “Those guys” is both casual and strategic: he’s refusing auteur solemnity and putting himself in a lineage, signaling allegiance to a particular strain of American comedy that prizes abrasion, stupidity-as-art, and a certain Midwestern deadpan. The films he cites are not random hits; Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, and There’s Something About Mary are touchstones of post-Airplane! gross-out craft, where the joke is built with the precision of a stunt and the emotional motor is weirdly sweet.

The intent reads like a public endorsement, but the subtext is defensive as much as celebratory. Zucker came up in a comedy era obsessed with mechanics: sight gags, timing, the hard physics of laughter. By praising the Farrelly-style world, he’s validating a model of comedy that critics often treat as disposable, even though it’s meticulously engineered. It’s also a tacit argument about taste: the funniest work isn’t always the most “elevated,” and the line between sophisticated and stupid is usually marketing.

Context matters because Zucker’s name carries institutional memory. When a foundational spoof director nods to the Farrellys, it’s a passing of the torch between adjacent schools: his clean, rapid-fire absurdism meeting their messy, bodily chaos. The warmth of “I love” isn’t just personal; it’s cultural solidarity, a reminder that American comedy evolves by treating vulgarity as a delivery system for craft, and by insisting that generosity and idiocy can coexist in the same punchline.