Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same … - James Wolcott

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James Wolcott

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

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