The Academy Awards will be a trickier game, considering how reluctant the voting body has been historically to reward comedic actresses;
the last pure comedy performance to actually land a nod was Melissa McCarthy, for her supporting role in 2011's Bridesmaids.
Not exact matches
Van Dormael's film was
pure torture from first to
last, about as mirthless a
comedy as I ever hope to see.
If we're judging in terms of
pure quotability, the only
comedy film of the
last 20 years to even exist in the same solar system as Step Brothers is Anchorman.
After breathing their own life
last year into a genre that can feel staid story-wise at times with Spider - Man: Homecoming, longtime writers Jonathan Goldstein and John Frances Daley reunite to direct their first
pure comedy since 2015's Vacation.