Was 2021 the Year Comedy Finally Died?

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Was 2021 the Year Comedy Finally Died?
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Comedy discourse was plentiful this year, but actual laughs were scarce.

However, you guys know the kind of movies I’m talking about, the kind of movies we really don’t get anymore.was tremendous, but it seemed designed for cult film status: I suspect that it alienated as many audience members as it enchanted. Meanwhile, I keep going back to, which felt like a blurry palimpsest of the kind of movie that would have knocked ’em dead in the Before Times. In retrospect, I want to watch it again, because it feels like an endling, the last member of a dying species.

, and … did I laugh even once? I get it, it’s meant to be a serious movie , but still, would it have killed Aaron Sorkin to also make it a funny one? Meanwhile, the shrill, scattered, scolding, contemptuousis a movie made by someone who up until a few years ago I would have called one of the greatest comedy minds of our time (and

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