They would never be able to do something like tropic thunder today.Everyone is making this about race when it was meant to be funny (and scary). It does not bother me when a white guy dresses as a black guy when it's meant to be funny.
Always sunny was funny as fuck when they did this and no one was canceled.
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Robert Downey was funny as fuck when he played a black man and no one was canceled.
As far as the "It's always sunny" episode...
FXX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is revisiting a past controversy in its current fifteenth season.
In 2020, Netflix pulled an episode of the long-running comedy titled Dee Reynolds: Shaping America’s Youth, which included an interpretation of Lethal Weapon 5. In the episode, show creator and cast member Rob McElhenny plays Danny Glover’s character, Murtaugh, and uses blackface. A later episode offers Lethal Weapon 6, which also uses blackface.
But times change, and what was once deemed funny now is viewed differently in 2021.
McElhenney acknowleged that the show sometimes goes too far in remarks at an FX Network press conference.
So yeah, that episode kind of been 'cancelled'..