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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 th

James Wolcott

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Making a full-length comedy movie is more challenging than creating a TV sitcom because movies lack the established, efficient system of writers and familiar characters that sitcoms rely on. However, this difficulty alone does not fully account for why the quality of comedy films seems to be declining compared to sitcoms.

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