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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
About the last mainstream Hollywood screwball comedy that was good = Freddy Got Fingered. Okay, it wasn't, er, TOO mainstream (it did make a shitload of money, though -- I, for one, saw it in theaters THREE times!), but it was just.. god... AMAZING. Genuinely funny, surreal as fuck, just one hilarious absurdity, with no gay jokes, fat jokes, drug jokes, etc. Truly the best comedy to come out of Hollywood since.. well.. I dunno... DUMB AND DUMBER?!
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oh no, freddy got fingered isn't a "screwball" comedy-- neither is dumb and dumber-- screwball is a particular genre from the depression era that included strong female leads, "classy" settings, and elements of slapstick comedy and snappy dialogue. the best contemporary example i can think of is almodovar's "women on the verge of a nervous breakdown"--almodovar famously looks back a lot on classic hollywood films for inspiration. the reason i brought it up was because demoņo mentioned "desperate housewives" and there definitely was a strong element of that in the first year of that show (which i happened to witness, to my embarrassment). the heir to the screwball genre are more the "romantic comedies" you see today but they are fucking weak and pathetic.