# Any good comedies lately? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [November 8, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955 "2024-11-08T23:28:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955/21 "2024-11-09T16:42:49Z")
I’ve been going through Wikipedia lists of comedy films for the 2020s and am finding almost no _good_ comedies. There are comedic films but none that I would describe as laugh out loud funny. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955/22 "2024-11-09T16:44:37Z")
**Quiz Lady** was hilarious. Streams on Hulu. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955/23 "2024-11-09T17:03:14Z")
I saw _Anora_ last night and loved it. It’s not completely a comedy, but there are things in it that are hilarious. I’ll warn you that the first part of the movie has lots of explicit sex and nudity. It’s not on any streaming services yet, so if you want to see it soon you’ll have to do it in a theater. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955/24 "2024-11-09T17:39:01Z")
The Retirement Plan (Nic Cage) ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955/25 "2024-11-09T21:08:38Z")
Comedies I could recommend with a clear conscience: some old, a few foreign, several obscure…though none really “lately”: _Easy Street_ (1917) _Bed of Roses_ (1933) _The Little Giant_ (1933) _The Great McGinty_ (1940) _Never Give a Sucker an Even Break_ (1941) _Arsenic and Old Lace_ (1944) _Champagne for Caesar_ (1950) _I’m All Right, Jack_ (1959) _The Graceful Brute_ (1962) _Rotten to the Core_ (1965) _Winter Kills_ (1979) _Get Crazy_ (1983) _Crime Spree_ (2003) _Kamikaze Girls_ (2004) _Killing Cabos_ (2004) _The Grand Budapest Hotel_ (2014) > [@Grrr](#): > > I’ve seen all the Buster Keaton movies. > > Mainly because my wife at the time was a fan. But I enjoyed them. Then you might enjoy the Hong Kong films of Jackie Chan, cinema’s greatest physical comedian (B. Keaton and H. Lloyd notwithstanding). I would suggest _Project A 2_ (1987) and _Armour of God 2: Operation Condor_ (1991). Both are superior sequels, but seeing the first ones in either series is not required to enjoy them. All Jackie Chan films seem pretty much the same after awhile, but these two had higher budgets than most. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955/26 "2024-11-09T21:17:55Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Kiss Kiss Bang Bang _Love_ this movie. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955/27 "2024-11-09T21:36:41Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Any Peter Sellers Pink Panther would help. The original is one of my top ten. For a long time I was under the misapprehension that the original was _A Shot in the Dark_ (1964), but it turns out there was an earlier one, _The Pink Panther_ (1963). Both are very good but _A Shot in the Dark_ is generally regarded as the best of the series. Personally, though, I found _The Return of the Pink Panther_ (1975) to be the funniest of the lot. It’s the first one after Peter Sellers and the director Blake Edwards started making them again after a long hiatus. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955/28 "2024-11-09T22:03:49Z")
My favorite among the ones that I’ve seen so far that were released in 2024 is _Thelma_. My favorite among the ones I’ve seen that were released in 2023 is _Barbie_. The real problem with what you’re asking for isn’t the category of comedy but the idea of recent. There is obviously no such thing as an accepted division into recent and nonrecent. Posters in this thread gave up on confining themselves to any one time period of film history. Really, though, there’s no way to break up films into clear categories. Any category (like the the things that are also referred to as genres) isn’t actually that easy to define. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955/29 "2024-11-09T22:19:33Z")
One of my favorites is [Paul](https://youtu.be/reo7zqvpdi0?feature=shared), about a couple of Sci-fi who encounter an escaped alien on the run from the government. Besides being pretty funny it has a great cast, including an excellent CGI lead character. ---
**Author:** ![cieskokid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cieskokid/32/5374_2.png) [@cieskokid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cieskokid)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955/30 "2024-11-10T01:13:24Z")
“The Brothers Bloom” 2009, with Adrian Brody, Mark Ruffalo AND Rachel Weisz directed by. Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Knives-Out, Glass Onio w/Daniel Craig) Very funny, well-written caper comedy; 2 con-men brothers try to play Rachel’s character out of her inheritance, hijinks ensue (& Rachel plays it funny af!) Good plot, twists, very enjoyable ride & FREE on Y.Tube (website, not TV channel) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hMsjZuxmf_U/maxresdefault.jpg "The Bloom Brothers") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMsjZuxmf_U&t=13s/) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955/31 "2024-11-10T01:16:59Z")
That description reminds me of _[Dirty Rotten Scoundrels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Rotten_Scoundrels_(film))_, starring Michael Caine, Steve Martin and Glenne Headly. A truly funny film, though released in 1988, so not recent. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955/32 "2024-11-10T15:47:10Z")
Two of my favorites of the 2000s, both coincidentally having colon / subtitle combos and both featuring the comedy stylings of John C. Reillly: - Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby - Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Both of which the OP may have seen since they say they’ve seen all the ‘classics’ up to the 2000s, but just in case. “Walk Hard” may not have been on the OP’s radar at least- it was a bit of a sleeper and criminally underrated when it first came out. ---
**Author:** ![Apodder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apodder/32/17727_2.png) [@Apodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apodder)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955/33 "2024-11-10T18:29:50Z")
Game Night I thought was hilarious. Also Grand Budapest Hotel I think is the best Wes Anderson. So many from which to choose! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955/34 "2024-11-10T18:52:58Z")
> [@Apodder](#): > > Game Night I thought was hilarious. This and Quiz Lady were my two great recent(ish) finds. 21 and 21 Jump Street have some great comedic moments as well. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955/35 "2024-11-10T20:28:37Z")
_American Fiction_ is a very good comedy and definitely counts as recent. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955/36 "2024-12-06T18:49:19Z")
I’m looking for enjoyable comedy films too. One of my absolute favorites is _My Cousin Vinny_ (1992). But IMHO it has to be seen in the uncut version, with the F bombs. I usually don’t care for swearing and it’s often gratuity swearing just for the eff of it, but in this movie, especially when they first meet Vinny, the F bombs enrich the scene immensely. And then later, Marisa Tomei drops one when talking about a deer in the forest and that is precious. Another one, not really a comedy but it is lighthearted and does come through with its Aussie humor, is _The Dish_ (2000). Unfortunately I don’t think it is available but if you can find it, watch it! And please let me know where you found it. Good comedies can be priceless. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955.md?page=1)