Where Have All the Good Spoof & Parody Movies Gone?

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Spoof & parody movies used to be incredibly common in movie theaters...so why are they now absent from the cinematic landscape?

Today, comedy movies are so rare on the big screen that it’s not really surprising that spoof movies are also scarce in the theatrical cinema landscape. But even in the years leading up to events like the COVID-19 pandemic and the dwindling of theatrical comedies, spoof films were hard to come by. Once the domain of acclaimed comedic auteurs like Mel Brooks, the spoof movie has largely vanished from the pop culture landscape. Classic entries in the genre still spawn GIFs and appreciative retrospective reviews to this very day, but modern-day successors to the likes of Scary Movie and Blazing Saddles are impossible to uncover.

This is an especially fascinating turn of events given just how ubiquitous these titles were for so long. There was once an era where it was impossible to find a year that didn’t contain a handful of spoof movies attempting to skewer the biggest motion pictures of recent years. What happened? How did the spoof movie go from being a comedy cinema titan to slipping on a banana peel and into the manhole of obscurity? As usual, whenever any genre goes missing from movie theaters, there are lots of reasons why the spoof movie has become an artifact of a bygone era.