I mean movies that are just like regular modern comedy movies but take place in a historical setting. Some examples include “The Little Hours” and “A Million Ways to Die in the West.” Furthermore, does anybody have any more examples of movies like these?
It leans a little more toward academic than some of the others here, and spans a broader time span, but History of The World p1 is pretty good.
Academic? History of the World Part I? I guess you could say it has about as much academic rigour as the average Mel Brooks movie.
Examples:
- Black Knight (2001)
- arguably, A Knight’s Tale (2001) if you consider it sufficiently funny (big year for anachronistic knights)
- All of the Ice Age films I guess
- Year One (2009)
there’s actually tons of these.
Drunk History.
Also,
That episode of Sunny where they bullshit the connection between Paddy’s Pub and the cracking of the liberty bell
The Death of Stalin is great.
“Johnny Dangerously” came to mind once.
Once.
