Comedy gets the short end of the critically acclaimed stick. Best Picture winners tend to be the heady dramas and the tearjerker biopics – what makes us laugh just isn’t valued as much as what makes us cry. So what’s comedy to do? Walk its clown shoes down the road to the bus stop and hitch a ride to Artistic Irrelavence-Ville? No, the answer: rebrand. Comedy might not get any respect from the critics, but satire? That’s another matter entirely. Perhaps it’s the cynicism and darkness of the genre that feels in the ballpark of the tragic greats. Or maybe it’s that labeling things as “satire” just makes critics feel smart? You can decide the answer for yourself with the 10 best satire films of the 21st century.
