{"id":1948401,"date":"2025-08-08T03:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T03:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1948401"},"modified":"2025-08-08T03:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T03:30:09","slug":"the-last-big-comedy-movie-released-8-years-ago-proves-laughter-was-intentionally-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-last-big-comedy-movie-released-8-years-ago-proves-laughter-was-intentionally-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Big Comedy Movie Released 8 Years Ago, Proves Laughter Was Intentionally Banned"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Quietly, and while no one was looking, an entire movie genre was wiped from existence. Now it\u2019s back. This weekend, the new version of The Naked Gun<\/a> opened in theaters, and it\u2019s the first big comedy movie to be released in eight years.<\/p>\n

The last full comedy of significance to show up at the cinema was Daddy\u2019s Home 2, released in 2017. And then Hollywood banned comedy.<\/p>\n

\"<a<\/span><\/div>\n

Daddy\u2019s Home 2 was a legitimate hit. Its all-star cast included Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, John Lithgow, John Cena<\/a>, and Mel Gibson. Audiences loved it and gave the movie high scores. It made good money at the box office, earning $180 million on a $70 million budget.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you this so you know that there was nothing about Daddy\u2019s Home 2 to suggest that big comedy movies were no longer a good investment. Quite the opposite. They were easy to make and easy to profit from. So what happened?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard some try to blame COVID, but that\u2019s not it, since COVID happened in 2020 and comedy movies died in 2017.<\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/span><\/div>\n

Mark Wahlberg and Ted in Ted 2 (2015)<\/p>\n

The number of comedies produced had gradually slowed by 2017. In 2015, nearly a dozen big-budget comedies were in theaters, led by movies like Ted 2, Paul Blart 2, and the original Daddy\u2019s Home. In 2016, that number dropped to less than half a dozen, with Central Intelligence, Bad Moms, and Neighbors 2 as the most notable entries.<\/p>\n

Although the number of comedies released dwindled, the money was still significant. Central Intelligence alone made $226 million.\u00a0Still, in 2017 comedy went away.<\/p>\n

\"jennifer<\/span><\/div>\n

It sputtered briefly back to life in 2023 when Jennifer Lawrence tried to release an R-rated raunch comedy called No Hard Feelings. In response, the press attacked her<\/a> for it, and she hasn\u2019t appeared in anything since. It\u2019s like she was run out of the business.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly why there haven\u2019t been any comedies. No Hard Feelings was called creepy and tone deaf for daring to exist. The film, which is about a hot middle-aged girl taking a teen nerd under her wing, was accused of promoting toxic masculinity and was deemed an affront to the #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n

The few normal people who did see it loved it. The movie holds an 86% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>. But activist-driven backlash in the press buried the film, which barely registered at the box office.<\/p>\n

\"Jennifer<\/span><\/div>\n

Jennifer Lawrence in bed with a teenager for No Hard Feelings (2025)<\/p>\n

That attack on Lawrence and No Hard Feelings is exactly what Hollywood has been avoiding for the past eight years, by refusing to make comedy. It\u2019s the reason for everything, and given what happened to Lawrence, it\u2019s hard to argue that it wasn\u2019t the right business decision.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not as sure it was the right cultural decision. It\u2019s been eight years without laughter at a time when, perhaps more than at any other time in recent history, people needed a laugh.<\/p>\n

Now The Naked Gun is in theaters, but it\u2019s not an act of bravery. It\u2019s an act of timing. The anti-humor mentality that took hold of the entertainment press has begun evaporating, and The Naked Gun is first to take advantage of the changing environment.<\/p>\n

\"Liam<\/span><\/div>\n

Liam Neeson as Frank Drebbin Jr. in The Naked Gun (2025)<\/p>\n

Whether The Naked Gun does well at the box office is almost irrelevant since the past eight years have proven that Hollywood is making comedy decisions based on the changing forms of political bias expressed by the media, and not on profit. That media orthodoxy, which forbade us from laughing for eight years, seems to have embraced The Naked Gun.<\/p>\n

The gatekeepers have opened the gates and allowed us all to laugh. I\u2019m glad comedy is back, but no one should be happy about how it happened. Tear down the gates; we can\u2019t let this happen again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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