They need to resurrect the screwball comedy genre

If you like screwball comedies, give "Brain Donors" a try with John Turturo in it.

A good fight is one you win!
James Woods as Eddie Dodd in True Believer

Bluntly, the average moviegoer (who is often a teen or young adult) lacks the patience or inclination (and often the intelligence) to parse the sublimely witty dialogue (often at a fast and furious pace) that marks the screwball comedy. Even a merely average '30s screwball comedy (say, something like Hands Across the Table or If You Could Only Cook) reads like Shakespeare compared to 99% of today's comedies (which are almost all either bodily function gross out comedies or toothless "romcoms" aimed at the date market). What would most of today's moviegoers make of Twentieth Century, Bringing Up Baby, Easy Living, His Girl Friday, or almost any Preston Sturges film? Sadly, they'd rather watch Joanh Hill or lummox Seth Rogen than William Powell or Cary Grant.

Try "Little Miss Sunshine" or even "Two Weeks Notice".

They aren't recent, but check the Pink Panther movies (the originals, not the Steve Martin ones).... 'that's a priceless Steinway' 'not any more.....' or the Goldie Hawn/Chevy Chase movies such as Foul Play or Seems Like Old Times - they are late 70s/early 80s.

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Raising Arizona (1987) is considered to be a screwball. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.

Son, you got a panty on your head.