A.V. Club's "The 50 best comedies since 2000"

Gonna ride for 'Barb & Star' and 'Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping' and that's really about it for our post-Farrell laffaverse

^style boy for life

I thought it was more in the "serious" social-satire bracket for some reason

There's what feels like a maybe obligatory amount of that in there too, but the movie's heart never really seems in that aspect

Barb and Star was wonderful.

i saw theater camp on a plane recently and imo it was a really solid endless-cascade-of-jokes movie that was also clearly angling for wet hot american summer cult status (bottoms seems more “improv” than either to me, tho i also enjoyed it)

oh my god, Theater Camp was amazing. it's enjoyable for all audiences but anybody who's done the theater kid experience will probably lose their shit.

the bit that went:

"I know this is an incredibly stressful process and it can kinda feel like life and death. It's designed to feel that way

"If you drop a line, if you crack, if you're a little flat, what does that say about you?"

slayed me

the making up the song on the spot part was great too.

and the kid auditioning with Better Now lmao

i’m not a theater person at all and thus approached the film with trepidation, but i lol’d at almost every joke! had to respect it

It definitely did feel like WHAS in many ways, you're right there

Bash brothers

Yeah, I'd say Bottoms is more working in 'modern society' than with much of a message about it (thinking particularly here of the "to me, being an ally is..." scene). It's basically a horndog hustle movie - Rachel Sennott is giving Peak Bill Murray Energy for a lot of it. Of course, two women in a horndog hustle movie now play differently from two guys 40 years ago, but that's modern society!

Moonrise Kingdom and WALL•E are probably my two favorites but they weren't included.

checked did i note the absence of super troopers previously, ok guess my work here is done

I feel like the absurdist, gags-upon-gags sort of comedy in the lineage of Airplane! & Mel Brooks has been missing from contemporary cinema since at least the Anchorman/Step Brothers days and it makes me sad. I love that garbage. No emphasis on story or character, no attempt at biting satire, just an endless buffet of escalating dumb jokes

― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Tuesday, January 16, 2024 10:06 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

If you need a reminder of why this genre was likely rendered permanently radioactive, do a quick google for 'Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer'.

i see WHAS noted as a cult comedy by americans and i note once again that 'cult' in this context means "no jokes and no good line reads and no good performances' and honestly that's fine i spose

That can sucks its own dick, dude.

which movie called Wet Hot American Summer did you watch that had no jokes?

britishes and Irishers don't get Withnail and I either.

correct

every performance in Wet Hot American Summer is amazing wtf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6YR1EvOS78

I've seen a few British comedies. Brave flex there, darraghmac.

xps fair point on Friedburg & Seltzer, those guys have a lot to answer for :(

I started watching Barb & Star a while back and recall liking it, so it's due for a revisit. I'll put Theater Camp on the list too

can we maybe pull back on calling ppl british as a reflex

historically we have shot ppl for it and im not sure laziness will be accepted as an excuse if i start

Stop the presses, a new title emerges:

First poster for ‘RICKY STANICKY’, starring Zac Efron and John Cena.

Releasing March 7 on Prime Video. pic.twitter.com/RyEm9SWvso

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) January 26, 2024

The writing credits are as long as a Kanye track's.

Academy Award-winning director Peter Farrelly!

can we maybe pull back on calling ppl british as a reflex

Perhaps Eric assumed that, much like every US funnyman turns out to be Canadian, British comedies are secretly entirely made by Irish people?

an interesting thought- apart from graham linehan ironically who everyone thinks is irish but is actually from anywhere else