You look at the best comedies of the 90's and 2000's and you have the Jim Carreys, the Ben Stillers, the Seth Rogen group. Most of them have fallen from the top of their game, but nobody has really replaced them.
Yes people still watch Seth Rogen comedies but I think it's fair to say his best films were around a decade ago (Superbad, Pineapple Express, The 40 Year Old Virgin etc).
Guys like Charlie Day, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Ed Helms etc have been in a lot of comedies in the last few years, and Hannibal Buress really cracked me up in the recent movie Tag, but where are the young ones? It seems any decent comedy movie now has to centre around men in their late 30's or early 40's because there are apparently no actors in their 20's who have come through?
I'm a young comedy screenwriter and filmmaker and I'll be casting for my first feature-length film in spring, and my plan is to cast stand-up comedians rather than actors, as I believe line delivery to be more important than emotional delivery (depends on the script of course but a comedy with no laughs isn't a comedy).
What are your thoughts on this? Where do you see the new generation of comedy actors coming from?
Submitted September 15, 2018 at 11:10PM by LancasterDodd777 https://ift.tt/2CYgaXi
