An idiot/loser, an jerk/idiot/loser or even a group of losers, a hot (somethimes bi, so even hotter) girl the first idiot/loser is trying to impress, and there is usually some sort of mission or quest to win the girl, this is the standrad for just about every comedy EVER produced from both sides of the pond, Dodgeball, Shaun of the Dead you name it, it fits the patten. And then we leave the cliches of the caracters behind, we enter the jokes...
While these are ineviable and, more than often, crude, they can never the less be extreamly funny, one of the classics is one jerk/idiot/loser will eat something they are not supposed to, and then vomit hevily, they will have a sreies of incresingly improbable evens that shall reslut with them getting locked out of the house. Oh, and there naked. And before i finish on the "gross out" moments in comedys, we must not forget there will be a strange incident in a tree, where no one but the poor schumuck who was up there knows what really happend, but he aint telling, and with a bit of imagination you can tell why. There are also certan laws that state that if (and when) a man has to dress up like a woman, normaly sane men will become imediately attracted to him, however sometimes said laws will have fight against a force like Corprall Nobby Nobbs from the Discworld series, and in cases like that the laws will just give up.
One of the most loved (or hights grossing, cos they appeal to little kids) is whats known as the "cuddaly man-child", whitch includes almost everything that Robbin Williams has starred in, is about a man with the heart, and social skills, of a little child who had an unhappy childhood as daddy never loved him, never understood him and he has to reconnect with him in a way that will please children and make the rest of us cringe with the ebaressment the cracter (okay, its almost always Robbin Williams) isnt felling, see Elf and anything else staring Robbin Williams. Or as the Who once said, "i hope i die before i get old", and (in my very skeptical opinion) yes, i just wish he would.
There will always be a gimmick, be in the old tried and tested "road trip", be it something completly rediculois like becomeing God in Bruce Almighty, or even something that feels like a breath of fesh air, a completly origonal comedy setting and premise like the ultimate "buddy cop" film, the might Hot Fuz with Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, openly mocking the America cop films that get churned out ever year and are always mediocre at best (even if they do star the Rock), or Shuan of the Dead, Paul, just about everything with Frost and Pegg in feels so mutch better with the exagreated clitches of both genres the current film is on (cop and comedy, zombies and comedy, sci-fi and comedy, you get the idea). But nomatter what the basic story is the same, simler jokes, etc. In the revised words of Winston Churchill "I have nothing to offer you but blood, crap, and puke."
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