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Good comedians can be excused for going bad.
I love the Daily Show and I wanted to like "40 Year Old Virgin." My teenage nephew's euphoric recap of the movie was far more entertaining than sitting through the movie itself, which was another overlong example of one-skit material stretched to the point of breakage (and boredom) in its film-length version. If this is the 21st century artistic baseline for a successful comedy, how does anyone, even a "good" comedian, know what to do? Apparently anything passes for wit and timing, and scripts apparently are optional for financially successful "laffers." Why would "good" comedians bother?
Could be the malls packed with Bushworld exacerbating the colossal dumb-down, sucking in Steve, Woody et al. Maybe Dave Chappelle is safe!
