I don’t
think I’ve ever laughed so hard in the cinema that I ended up having to
discreetly pick popcorn from the hair of the person in front of me, although I
did come close with three of my most favourite comedies in recent years: 2008’s
Step Brothers, 2013’s Anchorman 2 and the highly-underrated This Is The End. A
lot of it is personal taste, of course. But for the most part, comedy movies
miss the bullseye, sometimes veering too far off-target altogether, with this
year’s Zoolander and Bad Neighbours sequels being the most recent examples of
unfunny and plain wrong standing in for concrete comedy writing.
