{"id":10657,"date":"2026-05-09T07:31:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/05\/09\/the-guide-242-everyday-hollywood-film-comedies-have-faded-but-can-they-make-a-comeback-culture-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:31:49","slug":"the-guide-242-everyday-hollywood-film-comedies-have-faded-but-can-they-make-a-comeback-culture-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/05\/09\/the-guide-242-everyday-hollywood-film-comedies-have-faded-but-can-they-make-a-comeback-culture-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guide #242: Everyday Hollywood film comedies have faded but can they make a comeback? Culture | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: As studios chase safer bets and streamers fail to deliver, the humble standalone comedy has been replaced by blockbusters that sprinkle jokes instead of delivering belly laughs<\/p>\n<p>There was a striking moment during this week\u2019s episode of The Rewatchables, the wildly popular film-recap podcast that I reach for when I\u2019ve had my fill of history\/football\/glum current affairs pods. The episode was revisiting 90s comedy There\u2019s Something About Mary, a film that in some ways holds up hilariously, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/1536929\/director-peter-farrelly-one-change-theres-something-about-mary-exclusive\/\">in others<\/a> has aged about as well as a bottle of semi-skimmed on a summer\u2019s day in Death Valley. As part of the episode, the podcast\u2019s panel were going through their favourite comedy films by decade and were spoilt for choice \u2013 until, that is, they reached the 2020s, when they seemed to collectively draw a blank. \u201cThe Drama\u2019s pretty funny \u2026\u201d one offered tentatively. Finally, host Bill Simmons cut through the umming, ahhing and awkward silence to get to the heart of the matter: \u201cDo we have comedies any more? What happened to comedies?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, what <em>did <\/em>happen to comedies? Or rather, what happened to the \u201ceveryday\u201d American comedies like There\u2019s 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 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2007\/sep\/14\/comedy.juddapatow\">teens<\/a> trying to lose their virginity, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2000\/dec\/15\/culture.reviews\">a man clashing with his girlfriend\u2019s dad<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2011\/jun\/23\/bridesmaids-review\">maid of honour struggling<\/a> to arrange a hen do, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/jul\/16\/in-defence-of-step-brothers-will-ferrell-john-c-reilly-obama-era-comedy\">stunted adolescents refusing to fly the nest<\/a> \u2013 and stretched them to absurd and lurid extremes. It\u2019s 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).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2026\/may\/08\/everyday-hollywood-film-comedies-have-faded-but-can-they-make-a-comeback\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2026\/may\/08\/everyday-hollywood-film-comedies-have-faded-but-can-they-make-a-comeback\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/47e4d3392119fca4ef3b0f33fa3a5c54c40cb256\/0_0_5906_4724\/master\/5906.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b24923ca0805aeef7c4724a8c33bbaa0\" title=\"The Guide #242: Everyday Hollywood film comedies have faded but can they make a comeback?\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: As studios chase safer bets and streamers fail to deliver, the humble standalone comedy has been replaced by blockbusters that sprinkle jokes instead of delivering belly laughs There was a striking moment during this week\u2019s episode of The Rewatchables, the wildly popular film-recap podcast that I reach for when I\u2019ve had&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Guide #242: Everyday Hollywood film comedies have faded but can they make a comeback? 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