“Obviously” to the former, and “Of course it is.” to the latter. What’s funny, and how funny it is, is a kind of opinion.
Being British I’ll note British TV comedy is the best. But movies?
I think a lot of Australian films mix comedy and drama well. Muriel’s Wedding, Strictly Ballroom, The Castle, Bad Boy Bubby spring to mind. Crocodile Dundee was very funny at the time. Some of the humour - spying on a woman washing - hasn’t aged well.
To me New Zealand and Australia are the same thing (not really…) and since I enjoy a good splatter horror comedy that gives **Peter Jackson’**s Braindead.
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“What Countries Make The Funniest Movies?”
Well, America made the funniest movies. The silent era comedic trio, Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd were the pinnacle of funny. Their brand of funny crosses time, place, gender and language.
An Australopithecus africanus dude, a 25th-century post-apocalyptic AI bot and everyone in between would all laugh heartily at this trio’s films.
Examples: Hot Water ,Safety Last
You’d also get Taika Waititi in that deal, which gets you What We Do In The Shadows and Hunt For The Wilderpeople…
Hunt for the Wilderpeople is exactly what I was talking about with the Antipodean mix of comedy and drama. You have two standard comedy tropes playing out ‘Fish out of water’ (City Kid in rural environment) and ‘The odd couple’ (City Kid and Rural Old Man) when - keeping this to a deliberately vague minor spoiler - a sympathetic character is introduced but departs in genuinely tragic circumstances.
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I am with you there, but I think your examples are the exceptions that prove the rule. As mentioned, I am very partial to movies like “Bang Boom Bang” or “Absolute Giganten” (sorry, no imdb linking at work), but would they work outside of their target audience? Maybe, maybe not. And I like Bully Herbigs work on TV, but his movies, well…
“Bad Boy Bubby” is a good movie. Very original.