Funny Or Not? PC VS Ha HA

Some folks did not find find the theatrical trailer for the November 4th action comedy Tower Heist very funny...

Actor Greg Grunberg--who has a 15-year-old son Jake with Epilepsy, called for a boycott of the film  last week.

The former Heroes star got upset over an exchange during which,  Eddie Murphy's character pokes fun at Ben Stiller's character because of a childhood ailment, calling him "little seizure boy" twice. After seeing the trailer, Grunberg expressed his outrage to his 1.4 million Twitter followers.

“TERRIBLY OFFENSIVE TRAILER for #TowerHeist – Making fun @ people w/ seizures is NOT FUNNY & WRONG! “Seizure Boy!” REALLY? #Boycott RT,” he tweeted.

TalkAboutIt.org founded by Grunberg is devoted to raising awareness about epilepsy posted on its website over the weekend that director Brett Ratner had issued an apology.

"I am so sorry you are offended. ... I sincerely feel bad,” Ratner wrote to Grunberg.

The organization added that Ratner has asked studio Universal Pictures to alter the movie’s marketing campaign taking out the offensive jokes from planned series of TV spots.

After receiving the apology from Ratner, Grunberg tweeted the news with a message to the director.

"THANKS @BrettRatner for ur SINCERE APOLOGY to the Epilepsy Community! I'm lifting my personal boycott of ur hilarious film #TowerHeist RT," he wrote.

“The movie is filled with all of my favorite actors,” Grunberg told ABC News Radio. “It’s a funny concept for a movie, [but the joke is] irresponsible, ignorant and not funny.”

He also wants the studio to "reach out to the Epilepsy community and say, ‘we mean no personal harm to anybody,’ which of course they don’t. They probably just don’t even realize the people they are offending and how this could possibly offend people.”

The film follows working stiffs who seek revenge on the Wall Street swindler who stiffed them. After the workers at a luxury Central Park condominium discover the penthouse billionaire has stolen their retirement, they plot the ultimate revenge: a heist to reclaim what he took from them.

Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Judd Hirsch, Téa Leoni, Michael Peña and Gabourey Sidibe co-star.

While I think that Grunberg had every right to express outrage--and Ratner did the right thing by issuing an apology...I also think this is just another example of Political Correctness gone wild--Comedies like Airplane! and Stiller's own There's Something About Mary could not be made the same way today...

And that is sad....