He Could Look Past Robin Having a Posh Accent, But Then...
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Its not that his work was unfunny or even bad, its just that he has a very consistent set of themes/topics he shoehorns in to every thing. And in the current zeitgeist it would come off either very controversial or simply blase because, unlike back when he was making all his big hits, literally everyone is doing it.
A great example of the dynamic for me is from Epic Rap Battles of History. The first time they used Trump in a random Christmas episode, it was funny and interesting with basically no one getting upset about it. The second time they did it went so bad they literally, by their own admission, went into hiding out of the backlash they got because they couldn't fathom anyone didn't hate him like they did. And those who weren't upset about it, found it extremely fucking terrible regardless because literally everyone had already said everything they tried to.
I get it. He has great movies. Blazing saddles and Young Frankenstein are two of my favorites
Blücher!
Sounds of horses
I have a soft nostalgia spot for Men in Tights myself. A buddy and I spent a lot of years ending every list with a slow "...Larry King?"
Men In Tights was oddly what I ended up watching for the first ever date I went on. I was about 9 at the time.
When it comes to humor, on a scientific, visceral level, the Jews are on top of things. Their timing, their use of irony, their use of the unexpected and/or "subverting expectation" is unimpeachable.
It's suffused, just inseperable, from American comedy, which is the best comedy. You can pinpoint when pacing started to get good, and you had sit-coms went from things like Taxi and became more like Cheers, and it gets more Jewy. It gets more and more Jewy from Friends to The Office and then the entire idea of shows sort of falls off a cliff.
But basically all of it owes thanks to Mel and Jewry. He was so successful that we're still trying to climb our way out of the seemingly bottomless pit of irony he buried us into. Funny but fucking evil.