Oh, right. 1933. I see the context now.

Boy, ancient romans sure were tan.

And what, exactly, is offensive about a man in blackface singing about how only beautiful women are loved? Singing blackface man too REAL for you?

No. Time is no excuse for this.

That negro is extremely superficial and sexist.

How the hell did this movie dodge the Hays Code in every possible way...

I love this video without qualification, and I hate myself for it.

I think it says a lot about our current society that the terrible racism in this clip registers much more strongly on the "what the Hell is going on?" scale than mere offensiveness.

So here's my theory:
He's supposed to be a minstrel eunuch (or were black men generally portrayed to be harmless enough to be singing to naked white women?) in the service of the baths, but it turns out he's a fully-balled white man.
Thus... he was shrunk by the Nubian servant girls.
This is so awesome.

Everything made in the 30's tells me it was a Hellish nightmare to live in.

Wow. It gets more and more...like itself.

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The line from Blazing Saddles

I was solid drunk from '27 to '34. I don't remember a thing.

Buncha prudes, this is funny.