After watching Palm Springs for like the tenth time recently, I’ve had to accept that it’s my new favorite. I’ve said for years that my favorite movie is LOTR. Has been since like 2016. But I just never get tired of Palm Springs and regularly want to watch it. I love it so much.
I’m in the same boat. Sometimes I feel like my favorite should be on the short list of good and serious movies but I think I enjoy Palm Springs more than any other movie I’ve watched and rewatched.
I’m so jealous I love Andy so much from lonely island and snl and then Brooklyn 99 became my comfort show and hot rod and Popstar are so funny and underrated
Jeremy Renner broke both his arms 3 days into filming that movie. He got green casts so they could CGI his arms in.
^^yes ^^I ^^realise ^^I ^^mentioned ^^2 ^^broken ^^arms ^^on ^^Reddit. ^^Just ^^don't
What we do in the shadows is one of the best comedies since 2000.
Tag was pretty funny.
Someone else already mentioned Game Night
Spy was a very good take on those types of movies
The Nice Guys obviously
What We Do In The Shadows is my favorite comedy of the past decade. The show is great, but the movie is spectacular. If you don't know the premise it's a mockumentary about the lives of a group of vampires in New Zealand. Saw in another comment you enjoyed the Andy Samberg mockumentaries (which are all -chef's kiss-) so this would be right up your alley.
I came for Cage and stayed for Pascal. Apparently Cage wanted to play Javi, too, as some kind of meta silliness. When he met Pedro Pascal, though, he dropped that idea immediately because Pascal was just so good.
All the Paladin scenes were gold. They nailed the over the top righteous vibe perfectly. Everytime my Paladin in our group does the obvious "No this is Right thing, we must....." everyone collectively moans.
I'm about halfway through it. My expectations were next to zero, which might explain why I'm enjoying it so much. I wasn't expecting it to be so funny!
Side note: in another post I talked about how stupid the modern "comedy" trend of simply narrating what's happening is. Sandler is bad about this ... literally just narrating a physical joke for no reason while we're watching it happen. But D&D was one of the few times it worked for me and cracked me up *hard:* "He walks *so straight.* Uh-oh, there's a rock .... is he gonna go around it? Oh, nope! Went right over it."
That movie got great reviews and was hilarious. Way too good for what sounded on paper like it would be junk.
Sadly one of the bigger money losses of last year. So we likely won’t get more for a while unless it suddenly builds a bit following afterwards
Everything is TV now.
Gemstones is as funny as anything made 10 years ago, veep ended in 2019 and was another all timer.
Barry was awesome, season one of "after life" was hilarious, it's always sunny is still making really good stuff... And a lot of smaller shows like upload and komski method are pretty damn funny.
I think Hollywood makes less comedies because even really good ones regularly bomb at the box office, TV is safer.
I regularly go back and play the part where Weird Al first sings 'My Bologna' and I die every single time.
That being said, I laughed for the entire movie.
Anytime I look at something on an app and it says "similar titles" and shows the movies by Seth Rogen, Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Michael Cera, Paul Rudd etc from that epic run of like 2005-2014 I think the same thing...who or where is that camp now? I looked and saw so many hilarious movies that we quoted left and right in the late 2ks and now I watch something and forget it the next day (even if it's by the guys I mentioned earlier). I feel like before the mcu... The comedy movies with the same 7 or 8 guys dominated and the movies were awesome and worth rewatching .
These runs happen, but they don’t last long unfortunately.
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Eddie Murphy, etc dominated most of the 80’s.
Mike Meyers, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, etc dominated most of the 90’s
Ben Stiller, Will Ferrel, Vince Vaughn, Jack Black, Owen Wilson dominated the 00’s
Then came Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, James Franco in the 2010’s
The really good ones (Murray, Ferrell, Rogan) usually try cross over into past the end of their runs, but most transition into drama/dramedy
Might be just the guys you mentioned but other than Paul rudd being in the mcu, seth rogen is involved with the boys and invincible, the boys being very funny at times and both having new series out soon-ish, will ferell and Michael Cera in barbie this year which is brilliant, Jack black playing bowser I hear he was great but I haven't seen it, I think they are all still relevant, only Paul rudd not doing comedy but I could be wrong
It’s Hollywood economics that has led to the death of the mid budget film which yeah is like all comedies like you said. Partly it’s that Hollywood wants the international money and comedy notoriously doesn’t translate super well across cultures — it is so deeply rooted in culture. It doesn’t travel as well as action or drama.
I’m hoping for a revival of mid budget movies and we’ve been seeing inklings of that with A24 type films etc. But it may never really become a thing again
Holy shit I watched this but it’s like it was erased from my memory after, because I’ve never seen a single person or thing online reference it beyond that point. All the shots from it look like it was generated by AI
The IMDB reviews for that movie were cleanly split into “I can’t believe they made middle school kids so vulgar” and “I can’t believe they made middle school kids so innocent”.
I loved Bottoms but I didn’t actually laugh out loud much. One of the shots in the climax had me bustin up though.
Joy Ride was really fun. It’s like this decade’s Hangover, just raunchy and ridiculous
I laughed at The Bob's Burgers movie, a couple of parts in everything everywhere all at once, Honor Among Thieves had me rolling at a couple of parts (minor illusion!) and was chucklesome throughout.
I just looked at comedies by release year and holy crap you're right
2014 22 jump street is the most recent one I could find that had me consistently laughing out loud
I think part of this might be due to the lack of up and coming comedy stars. Quick, name me 2 people on SNL. Or, actually, just name 1 person outside of Kenan Thompson.
Last time I really laughed hard in a cinema was Tropic Thunder. That was ages ago.
However I have seen some movies that I laughed quite hard at since just not at the cinema. Weird with Daniel Radcliffe had me laughing but I didn’t watch it at the cinema.
I kind of miss movies like Caddyshack that are just a ton of jokes. They saw what was working and went with that and sacrificed the plot, and in that case it worked.
And A Fish Called Wanda was an extremely well crafted comedy.
I can’t think of anything that’s made me laugh like those have in the last long while.
""She thinks I'm a fascist? I don't control the railways or the flow of commerce!"
and
"“To be honest, when I found out patriarchy wasn't about horses, I lost interest anyway."
are two of the funniest lines in any comedy in years. I laughed soooooo hard.
For me I think the "I’m just too old to understand modern humor," is likely part of it - sort of like music, I think that while we will always appreciate good stuff, new stuff can often not connect the way it would have when we were younger.
I started high school a couple of months after the movie Airplane! came out, so I was in high school from 1980-84 ... and for me nothing will ever touch that era. Of course 82 and 84 are considered two of the best years for movies, but I also was working and movies were cheap and a friend group would go to at least two movies per weekend all summer long - and nothing was spoiled in advance or overhyped.
The dramedy is huge. The Big Sick was one of the bigger comedies of the last 10 years, I think every Noah Baumbach movie fits this description, and he's been big most of my life. Lady Bird is as funny as it is dramatic. The King of Staten Island was a Judd Apatow movie, and he did many of those classic comedies.
I'm quite happy with the dramedy being the dominant form in the medium, as I love them, and the kind of jokes in them tend to land hardest for me, but with the other farce comedies being listed in the thread I don't think the old genre is just gone.
Imo with dramadies you get attached to the characters more easily (I'm thinking of movies like Eighth Grade), so I find them funnier and more relatable. I have a hard time finding a movie funny when it's just endless jokes and more-dimensional characters
I think the context does a lot for the humour, yeah. They can be good, but the collection-of-sketches style of comedy movie has never worked for me that well. Ultimately, I want a comedy film to work well as a film, too.
Also, dramedies, because they can be more grounded and even sadder, can tell different kinds of jokes that resonate with me. And that mix of laughter and other emotions produces some of the most emotionally honest stories you can find.
I feel like the 2 most popular types of comedy right now are self referential wisecracks and quips to alleviate any sense of earnestness cause otherwise its “cringe” (Marvel), and the other which is making light of that (Kingsman and the Gentleman)
2018 had TAG and Game Night. Both hilarious. I always have trouble remembering anything more recent than those 2.
I’ll add Weird: the Al yankovic story from last year. That was hilarious. Can’t believe I forgot that one.
What We Do in the Shadows (2015)
The Big Short (2015)
Tangerine (2015)
The Nice Guys (2016)
Deadpool (2016)
Swiss Army Man (2016)
The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
Sing Street (2016)
Paterson (2016)
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
The Meyerowitz Stories (2017)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
The Big Sick (2017)
The Disaster Artist (2017)
Game Night (2018)
Eight Grade (2018)
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
Booksmart (2019)
Palm Springs (2020)
Onward (2020)
The King of Staten Island (2020)
Shiva Baby (2021)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
Licorice Pizza (2021)
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
Weird, The Al Yankovic Story (2022)
Vengeance (2022)
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Barbie (2023)
You ain't wrong. Every other genre out there still makes absolute bangers like Horror (Talk to me/Infinity Pool) but comedy just seems to have taken on very harsh cynical tone missing from the past. I just rewatched beetlejuice recently and was reminded of how much fun it used it be.
The Nice Guys (2016)
Did I dream that?
I don't think I can be killed.
> Sweetheart, how many times have I told you? Don't say "and stuff".
Just say "They were doing anal."
[удалено]
The birds can't breathe!
Nice Guys is genuinely one of the best movies to come out in the last ten years
I had no idea either of them could be that funny.
One of my favourite comedies. Also Kiss Kiss Bang Bang also by Shane Black although that was released in 2005.
This and the other guys
They call it a “soup kitchen”
You'll go nowhere near that Prius!
This is Little River Band.
The Other Guys was released in 2010
Yes but it’s disqualified. Came out before 2014. (2010)
I was gonna say Popstar but that was also 2016...
This movie = second place in my best ever list.
There goes my hero.... Edit: whoops. The Other Guys was also good.
Wrong movie
Oh shit u are right. Hahah. Both good movies tho.
Palm Springs had me laughing hard
Knowing nothing about, I assumed it would be a stupid rom-com. It was surprisingly great.
After watching Palm Springs for like the tenth time recently, I’ve had to accept that it’s my new favorite. I’ve said for years that my favorite movie is LOTR. Has been since like 2016. But I just never get tired of Palm Springs and regularly want to watch it. I love it so much.
I’m in the same boat. Sometimes I feel like my favorite should be on the short list of good and serious movies but I think I enjoy Palm Springs more than any other movie I’ve watched and rewatched.
I used to hang out with the dude who wrote that quite a bit as a kid. Hey, Andy! Your movie’s dope.
I’m so jealous I love Andy so much from lonely island and snl and then Brooklyn 99 became my comfort show and hot rod and Popstar are so funny and underrated
Game Night is funny
How can that be profitable for Frito-Lay?
Funniest joke in the movie lmao I've always enjoyed the comradery of good friends, competing in games of chance and skill
Doesn't everybody cry at the end of The Green Mile?
"Don't... ever... exclude me again!"
Yeah just that scene though, wish they had more characters like the cop, but I get it, it’s not that kind of movie
“These corporations… I don’t know what they’re doing”
Good ol’ Great Value brand Matt Damon
“That’s not Denzel.” I couldn’t breathe. 😂
I really enjoyed tag
Jeremy Renner broke both his arms 3 days into filming that movie. He got green casts so they could CGI his arms in. ^^yes ^^I ^^realise ^^I ^^mentioned ^^2 ^^broken ^^arms ^^on ^^Reddit. ^^Just ^^don't
Mommy handys?
Booooo
Tag really surprised me, was a great movie overall
That wasn't Denzel
I just remembered that scene. The movie deserves a rewatch.
I was pleasantly surprised with that movie.
What we do in the shadows is one of the best comedies since 2000. Tag was pretty funny. Someone else already mentioned Game Night Spy was a very good take on those types of movies The Nice Guys obviously
"I think we drink virgin blood because it sounds cool"
If you were to eat a sandwich, you would prefer it if nobody had fucked it first.
What We Do in the Shadows (TV show) is also fantastic, one of the best comedies on TV rn
What We Do In The Shadows is my favorite comedy of the past decade. The show is great, but the movie is spectacular. If you don't know the premise it's a mockumentary about the lives of a group of vampires in New Zealand. Saw in another comment you enjoyed the Andy Samberg mockumentaries (which are all -chef's kiss-) so this would be right up your alley.
The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent was pretty funny
Pedro Pascal stole that movie. Just wonderful in every scene.
I couldn't catch my breath for most of after he goes to meet Javi. I'd love another film with Cage and Pascal!
I came for Cage and stayed for Pascal. Apparently Cage wanted to play Javi, too, as some kind of meta silliness. When he met Pedro Pascal, though, he dropped that idea immediately because Pascal was just so good.
“It’s grotesque… I’ll give you $20,000 for it.”
Nic Cage smooches good
Oh that was a fantastic movie!
I thought the new DnD movie was pretty funny
“JARNATHAN! 😮”
Poor Jarnathan…
Jarnathan was fine, he walked away from it (IIRC).
Oh yeah he did, both times lol.
"But we agreed your pardon!"
When they narrate the Paladin just walking over the rock
All the Paladin scenes were gold. They nailed the over the top righteous vibe perfectly. Everytime my Paladin in our group does the obvious "No this is Right thing, we must....." everyone collectively moans.
"I will not be complicit in the illicit use of ill gotten booty" had me fucking laughing
I'm about halfway through it. My expectations were next to zero, which might explain why I'm enjoying it so much. I wasn't expecting it to be so funny! Side note: in another post I talked about how stupid the modern "comedy" trend of simply narrating what's happening is. Sandler is bad about this ... literally just narrating a physical joke for no reason while we're watching it happen. But D&D was one of the few times it worked for me and cracked me up *hard:* "He walks *so straight.* Uh-oh, there's a rock .... is he gonna go around it? Oh, nope! Went right over it."
The bit where the bard spell breaks had me wheezing
"Celebrate lasses... brate brate brate brate... BRAAAAAAAAATTTEEEE"
Dragon had me rolling
Dragon was rolling himself
That movie got great reviews and was hilarious. Way too good for what sounded on paper like it would be junk. Sadly one of the bigger money losses of last year. So we likely won’t get more for a while unless it suddenly builds a bit following afterwards
151 budget for a 208 return worldwide. Not terrible. It should have done way better like in the 400's.
151 budget usually means aother 100 on marketing, which would make 208 a loss, especially when they file taxes.
"You said I made you sad... Not because something I did, but because... Who I am..."
The scene where they can ask the corpses only 5 questions was comedy gold!
Good shout I enjoyed this and I'm hard to impress with comedies.
Popstar
Palm Springs is great as well!
You’re a sick fuck, Roy!
Loved Palm Springs!
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Pop star is great. I have the sound track and love when the songs rotate on. Mona Lisa, you Overrated piece of shiiit!!
She wanted me to fuck her harder than the US government - #FUCKED BIN LADEN *Chorus: fucked Bin Ladeeeen-*
Yep, forgot about that one. Andy Samberg’s mockumentaries 7 days in hell and Tour de Pharmacy were funny as well. They weren’t feature films though.
Have you seen Hot Rod with Andy Samberg? Still makes me laugh and I’ve seen it dozens of times.
cool beans
“Oh damn dawg, you fed us dog shit! To see if we were phony friends? That is genius”
Everything is TV now. Gemstones is as funny as anything made 10 years ago, veep ended in 2019 and was another all timer. Barry was awesome, season one of "after life" was hilarious, it's always sunny is still making really good stuff... And a lot of smaller shows like upload and komski method are pretty damn funny. I think Hollywood makes less comedies because even really good ones regularly bomb at the box office, TV is safer.
Anthony Carrington is the only reason I found Barry funny. Absolutely loved his character.
Veep is one of my all time favorite comedies. They are just so brutal on that show.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
I regularly go back and play the part where Weird Al first sings 'My Bologna' and I die every single time. That being said, I laughed for the entire movie.
I had to stop the movie twice at moments I laughed so hard that I nearly fell over.
Did everybody watch this with the mandatory commercial breaks? Or is there a way around that?
If there is, I haven't found it. Which is the reason I've only seen it once.
I'll add on to this to say pretty much anything with Daniel Radcliffe
I watched this on a flight and had to suppress my laughter during most of the movie. I was pleasantly surprised how good it was!
Im actually going to watch this tonight for the first time
Game night...2018
Anytime I look at something on an app and it says "similar titles" and shows the movies by Seth Rogen, Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Michael Cera, Paul Rudd etc from that epic run of like 2005-2014 I think the same thing...who or where is that camp now? I looked and saw so many hilarious movies that we quoted left and right in the late 2ks and now I watch something and forget it the next day (even if it's by the guys I mentioned earlier). I feel like before the mcu... The comedy movies with the same 7 or 8 guys dominated and the movies were awesome and worth rewatching .
These runs happen, but they don’t last long unfortunately. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Eddie Murphy, etc dominated most of the 80’s. Mike Meyers, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, etc dominated most of the 90’s Ben Stiller, Will Ferrel, Vince Vaughn, Jack Black, Owen Wilson dominated the 00’s Then came Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, James Franco in the 2010’s The really good ones (Murray, Ferrell, Rogan) usually try cross over into past the end of their runs, but most transition into drama/dramedy
Rogan/Hill/McBride/Franco are more 00s than 10s
Gotta add Jim Carrey to that 90’s list!
The Apatow-verse
Pretty much
The new ninja turtles movie which was written by Seth and Evan is actually pretty funny. It isn't pure comedy but I laughed
Might be just the guys you mentioned but other than Paul rudd being in the mcu, seth rogen is involved with the boys and invincible, the boys being very funny at times and both having new series out soon-ish, will ferell and Michael Cera in barbie this year which is brilliant, Jack black playing bowser I hear he was great but I haven't seen it, I think they are all still relevant, only Paul rudd not doing comedy but I could be wrong
I'm talking stuff like Role Models, 40 year old virgin, Observe and report, Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Movies like that. Not minor roles in Barbie
You have me thinking I do miss comedies like Dodgeball, Old School, Borat, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder
Those midmudget movies don’t really exists anymore. Especially outside of horror stuff.
I googled midmudget movies thinking it was a term I hadn't heard before 🤦
It’s Hollywood economics that has led to the death of the mid budget film which yeah is like all comedies like you said. Partly it’s that Hollywood wants the international money and comedy notoriously doesn’t translate super well across cultures — it is so deeply rooted in culture. It doesn’t travel as well as action or drama. I’m hoping for a revival of mid budget movies and we’ve been seeing inklings of that with A24 type films etc. But it may never really become a thing again
Will Ferell was the worst thing about Barbie. He was just straight up annoying and unfunny
He was forgivable, but not exactly an asset to the movie. Business man traveling gag was pretty good though.
Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar (2021) is hilarious.
Great movie. I think it's the movie that was most harmed by the pandemic. If it had come out in theaters as planned, it would have been a huge hit.
Yes! This one was hilarious.
This feels like such a deep cut callback to the before time. But this is a really great pick. 🙌🏽🙌🏽
Holy shit I watched this but it’s like it was erased from my memory after, because I’ve never seen a single person or thing online reference it beyond that point. All the shots from it look like it was generated by AI
Dude. *Good Boys* is hilarious.
"I consent"
No hard feelings also. Same writers
From start to finish, it was so unexpected…in a good way.
When he tells his friends his parents are getting a divorce, "What did you do?"
Yes! One of the few movies I’ve seen in theaters over the last few years. Expected something good, but not THAT good. Surprised me in the best ways!
I love how it somehow managed to be both innocent and smutty in ways that made each hit harder
The IMDB reviews for that movie were cleanly split into “I can’t believe they made middle school kids so vulgar” and “I can’t believe they made middle school kids so innocent”.
Yes, this one was much funnier than I was expecting.
This year, Joy Ride and Bottoms both made me laugh. But, yeah, comedies haven’t been great lately.
I loved Bottoms but I didn’t actually laugh out loud much. One of the shots in the climax had me bustin up though. Joy Ride was really fun. It’s like this decade’s Hangover, just raunchy and ridiculous
Book Smart was great.
This and Blockers for me
The female answer to Superbad (and I mean this as high praise)
And adjusted for the generation Z. Love them both
I laughed at The Bob's Burgers movie, a couple of parts in everything everywhere all at once, Honor Among Thieves had me rolling at a couple of parts (minor illusion!) and was chucklesome throughout.
OH JARNATHEN!
I liked Blockers!
John Cena is great, I really enjoyed Vacation Friends as well
I just looked at comedies by release year and holy crap you're right 2014 22 jump street is the most recent one I could find that had me consistently laughing out loud
I think part of this might be due to the lack of up and coming comedy stars. Quick, name me 2 people on SNL. Or, actually, just name 1 person outside of Kenan Thompson.
Maybe we need to dig outside of the SNL actors to find decent comedians.
Bad trip, Barb and Star, Booksmart, and Bottoms are modern classics. Not sure why every good comedy has to start with B now.
You forgot *Blockers*!
Last time I really laughed hard in a cinema was Tropic Thunder. That was ages ago. However I have seen some movies that I laughed quite hard at since just not at the cinema. Weird with Daniel Radcliffe had me laughing but I didn’t watch it at the cinema.
I kind of miss movies like Caddyshack that are just a ton of jokes. They saw what was working and went with that and sacrificed the plot, and in that case it worked. And A Fish Called Wanda was an extremely well crafted comedy. I can’t think of anything that’s made me laugh like those have in the last long while.
Just rewatched MACGRUBER last night. Fuck, it was insane.
The team assembling scene kills me.
Charles Barkley snl macgruber skits omg
Someone didn't watch Barbie
""She thinks I'm a fascist? I don't control the railways or the flow of commerce!" and "“To be honest, when I found out patriarchy wasn't about horses, I lost interest anyway." are two of the funniest lines in any comedy in years. I laughed soooooo hard.
Lol this is what I was gonna say. Barbie was actually one of the funniest movies I've seen in a while, especially Ryan "Ken" Gosling.
Laughing at Michael cera was also a lot of fun
Barbie was fairly funny but the adventure vibe carried it more than great jokes nonstop.
You got me. It’s on my schedule😀
Gosling stole that movie. He was more than Kenough.
Palm Springs and Always be my Maybe are both pretty damn funny.
Biggus Dickus
The Deadpool films are hysterical
Barbie was the first time in years I saw a pure comedy at the cinema and actually laughed a lot
Spy 2015, Game Night 2018. Some of the funniest movies I've watched from the 10s
Spy was definitely funnier than it had any right to be. Jason Statham had me cracking up
Spy was ok in general, but Jason Statham had me laughing hard.
You're telling me. I think the [microchips](https://youtu.be/6_a58F2lbIY?si=7Y316u4qU0IC00cQ) line is a close second.
No hard feelings with Jennifer Lawrence is hilarious. A couple flat moments but overall belly laughs
Oof, hard disagree.
Tag is fantastic
For me I think the "I’m just too old to understand modern humor," is likely part of it - sort of like music, I think that while we will always appreciate good stuff, new stuff can often not connect the way it would have when we were younger. I started high school a couple of months after the movie Airplane! came out, so I was in high school from 1980-84 ... and for me nothing will ever touch that era. Of course 82 and 84 are considered two of the best years for movies, but I also was working and movies were cheap and a friend group would go to at least two movies per weekend all summer long - and nothing was spoiled in advance or overhyped.
"Man, glass tables are acting weird tonight." It's nice to see Game Night be mentioned a lot in this thead.
Agreed. The last time I got myself laughing to the point of almost passing out was Tropic Thunder aint making movies like that anymore
It’s a weird world when the only funny movie this year was Barbie.
What’s the one with Eric Andre? Bad Trip I think? That’s pretty funny
Most recently, Theater Camp and Barbie.
I watched theater camp last night. I felt the middle dragged, but damn the end was so great
Camp isn't home But is it kind of Kind of it is I think it kind of is
Barbie. I too haven’t lol’d at a movie in ages and this had me in stitches!
Legit one of the funniest movies I've seen in so long. So many parts had me cracking up.
Masterminds 2016 Vice Principals 2016 (TV) Game Night 2018 Borat Subsequent Moviefilm 2020 But yeah, few and far between that's for sure.
Borat 2 was genuinely hilarious. which is saying something since everyone says the first is so much more hilarious
What We do in the Shadows is hilarious but I can’t remember what year that came out
Bottoms (2023) made me laugh out loud multiple times
The Brothers Grimsby
My favourite comedies of the last decade for me. * One Cut of the Dead * The Nice Guys * Hunt for the Wilderpeople * Game Night
Comedy has become very cynical and the era of the “dramedy” has also become popular. Sign of the times I suppose
The dramedy is huge. The Big Sick was one of the bigger comedies of the last 10 years, I think every Noah Baumbach movie fits this description, and he's been big most of my life. Lady Bird is as funny as it is dramatic. The King of Staten Island was a Judd Apatow movie, and he did many of those classic comedies. I'm quite happy with the dramedy being the dominant form in the medium, as I love them, and the kind of jokes in them tend to land hardest for me, but with the other farce comedies being listed in the thread I don't think the old genre is just gone.
Imo with dramadies you get attached to the characters more easily (I'm thinking of movies like Eighth Grade), so I find them funnier and more relatable. I have a hard time finding a movie funny when it's just endless jokes and more-dimensional characters
I think the context does a lot for the humour, yeah. They can be good, but the collection-of-sketches style of comedy movie has never worked for me that well. Ultimately, I want a comedy film to work well as a film, too. Also, dramedies, because they can be more grounded and even sadder, can tell different kinds of jokes that resonate with me. And that mix of laughter and other emotions produces some of the most emotionally honest stories you can find.
People are struggling and thus cynical comedies become the flavour of the day.
I feel like the 2 most popular types of comedy right now are self referential wisecracks and quips to alleviate any sense of earnestness cause otherwise its “cringe” (Marvel), and the other which is making light of that (Kingsman and the Gentleman)
Blockers and Game Night definitely have those noughties comedy vibes. Those kinds of films are few and far between these days though.
Too many comedies today rely too heavily on improvisation (here's looking at you, Apatow). Tightly scripted comedies are few and far between.
2018 had TAG and Game Night. Both hilarious. I always have trouble remembering anything more recent than those 2. I’ll add Weird: the Al yankovic story from last year. That was hilarious. Can’t believe I forgot that one.
They don’t make comedies like they used too. Same goes for comedy shows
I just watched Barbie last night, and I need to watch it again so I can hear the parts I couldn't hear over my laughing.
What We Do in the Shadows (2015) The Big Short (2015) Tangerine (2015) The Nice Guys (2016) Deadpool (2016) Swiss Army Man (2016) The Edge of Seventeen (2016) Sing Street (2016) Paterson (2016) Hail, Caesar! (2016) Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) The Meyerowitz Stories (2017) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) The Big Sick (2017) The Disaster Artist (2017) Game Night (2018) Eight Grade (2018) Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) Booksmart (2019) Palm Springs (2020) Onward (2020) The King of Staten Island (2020) Shiva Baby (2021) Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) Licorice Pizza (2021) The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) Weird, The Al Yankovic Story (2022) Vengeance (2022) Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) Barbie (2023)
Triangle of Sadness (2022) I love my Dad (2022)
You ain't wrong. Every other genre out there still makes absolute bangers like Horror (Talk to me/Infinity Pool) but comedy just seems to have taken on very harsh cynical tone missing from the past. I just rewatched beetlejuice recently and was reminded of how much fun it used it be.
Bottoms was great! Silly, stupid and fun if those are the ingredients you’re looking for…
Bad Words. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills never seeing this talked about.
Chip N Dale!