"Finally, host Bill Simmons cut through the umming, ahhing and awkward silence to get to the heart of the matter: Do we have comedies any more? What happened to comedies? Yes, what did happen to comedies? Or rather, what happened to the everyday American comedies like There's Something About Mary that once set up a permanent frat house residence in cinemas?"
"You know the ones I mean: those that took a familiar real-world situation teens trying to lose their virginity, a man clashing with his girlfriend's dad, a maid of honour struggling to arrange a hen do, stunted adolescents refusing to fly the nest and stretched them to absurd and lurid extremes. It's a lineage that goes back almost half a century, to the days of Animal House (rowdy college students annoy the dean by throwing a massive rager)."
"There are lots of names for this (often very male) genre: gross-out, frat pack, just simply mainstream? Industry website Box Office Mojo goes with the term bawdy comedy, and if you visit their list of the highest-grossing bawdy comedies you'll likely notice something: not one of the 100 or so entries was released after 2019. It seems these films simply ceased to exist as mass entertainment in the 2020s."
"The Drama's pretty funny one offered tentatively. Finally, host Bill Simmons cut through the umming, ahhing and awkward silence to get to the heart of the matter: Do we have comedies any more? What happened to comedies? Yes, what did happen to comedies? Or rather, what happened to the everyday American comedies like There's Something About Mary that once set up a permanent frat house residence in cinemas?"
The film-recap podcast revisited There’s Something About Mary and compared how parts still feel funny while others feel dated. A panel reviewed favorite comedy films by decade and found a gap in the 2020s, prompting a question about whether comedies still exist. The focus turned to everyday American comedies that take familiar situations and stretch them into absurd, lurid extremes, including teen sex farces, conflicts with a girlfriend’s father, and wedding or hen-do chaos. This lineage is traced back to Animal House. Box Office Mojo’s “bawdy comedy” list shows no releases after 2019 among the highest-grossing entries, suggesting the genre stopped functioning as mass entertainment in the 2020s.
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