Marvel's latest victim? Theatrical comedies, according to Adam Devine
“You watch comedies nowadays and you’re like, this is not a fucking comedy. Where are the jokes? Where are the bits? There’s still good [comedy] shows, but movie comedy…it’s hard. My theory: I think Marvel ruined it,” he said on’s podcast in July pre-strike. “I feel like superhero movies ruined comedies because you go to the theater and you expect to watch something that cost $200 million to make, and comedy movies aren’t that.
Devine knows that critics will just say to “make better comedies,” but that’s harder to do when the studios are offering fewer chances to make any comedy at all. He pointed to
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