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?

      • EleventhHour@lemmy.worldBanned from community
        6·
        10 months ago

        I mean, did you just make up that term? Or is that an actual genre comedy?

        I don’t disagree that your term is adequately descriptive, I’m just curious as to whether that is a known name for this genre of comedy. I’m not trying to argue here.

  • kbal@fedia.io
    18·
    10 months ago

    If we’re including television I’m disappointed that nobody mentioned Blackadder.

    If not, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

  • bionicjoey
    14·
    10 months ago

    “Our Flag Means Death” seems like a solid example

  • megopie@beehaw.org
    10·
    10 months ago

    “The Death of Stalin” is perhaps similar to what you’re thinking of, basically about the shenanigans with in the Kremlin fallowing Stalin’s death.

    I mean, I guess the term might just be “historical comedy”

  • Tai@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    Depending on your definition of modern, History of the World Part 1 is great.

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
    81·
    10 months ago

    Drunk History.

    Also,

    That episode of Sunny where they bullshit the connection between Paddy’s Pub and the cracking of the liberty bell

  • ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world
    61·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • kbal@fedia.io
      31·
      10 months ago

      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.

  • xantoxis@lemmy.world
    61·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • saigot
    1·
    10 months ago

    You may appreciate “miracle workers” the first season is set in modern times (kinda) but each other season is set in a different historical setting.