{"id":35,"date":"2010-01-15T18:14:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T00:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2010-01-15T18:14:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T00:14:56","slug":"the-biggest-comedy-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Comedy Ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, an ad came on TV for the DVD\/Blu-ray release of The Hangover<\/span>.\u00a0 Near the end of the ad, the commercial referred to the movie as the \u201cBiggest Comedy Ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

At first, I was appalled by this statement.\u00a0 I saw The Hangover<\/span> in the theater, and I liked it and laughed a lot, but by no means did I think it came close to being the biggest comedy ever.<\/p>\n

I balked at this commercial\u2019s statement, and I then started to wonder out loud what I thought the biggest comedy ever was.\u00a0 Before I could even come up with a challenger to the title, my wife says, \u201cThat\u2019s not even quantifiable.\u201d<\/p>\n

My thoughts stopped before I could mention recent comedies like Old School<\/span> or Wedding Crashers<\/span> because she was right.\u00a0 Calling it the biggest comedy ever is just marketing fluff to try to get you to buy the movie.\u00a0 The statement is illogical on two counts.<\/p>\n

First, the idea of the biggest comedy ever is completely subjective.\u00a0 My opinions on comedies are certainly not the same as everyone else\u2019s, so if I didn\u2019t think the latest Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler movie was as hilarious as you, to each their own.\u00a0 The commercial could claim that The Hangover<\/span> was \u201cthe best movie my friend\u2019s 16-year-old brother had ever seen,\u201d and it would mean about as much as calling it the biggest comedy ever.<\/p>\n

Secondly, what does biggest comedy ever even mean?\u00a0 What does \u201cbiggest\u201d refer to?\u00a0 Highest ticket sales, largest budget, most cast members?\u00a0 Without even researching the numbers, I can make a good assumption that none of those are true of The Hangover<\/span>.\u00a0 Maybe the advertisement was trying to make me believe that The Hangover<\/span> would provide the biggest laughs of any comedy, but once again, that\u2019s pure opinion.<\/p>\n

So instead of starting my internal debate over what was the biggest comedy ever, this commercial made me upset at the inherently poor choices made by generic advertising.\u00a0 Neither option led me to the purpose of the advertisement, which was to want to buy the movie.<\/p>\n

All that being said, what do you think is the biggest comedy ever? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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