Action comedy
Action comedy is a hybrid genre that combines elements of action fiction with comedy. While early action films feature stuntwork and humor, academic Cynthia King wrote that the genre only came into its own as a mainstay of the American action film genre in the 1980s when actors who had backgrounds in comedy such as Eddie Murphy began taking roles in action films.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. The genre approaches various narratives and styles such as buddy films, superhero films, and Hong Kong action cinema featuring various actors such as Jackie Chan.
Action comedy has also been a recurring theme in television, with series such as The Dukes of Hazzard (1979–1985)[1] and Peacemaker (2022).[2]
Film
Academic Yvonne Tasker described most post-classical Hollywood action films as "more or less hybrids."Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. Action films are set across multiple settings and spaces with no single defining landscape and can become complicated in categorization which is sometimes acknowledged through hybridized designators such as action comedy.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Characteristics
Cynthia King said that the term "action comedy" is typically reserved for action films in which humor plays a relatively central role.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. Such films can take on a wide variety of formats, including buddy films involving mismatched partners such as the Lethal Weapon (1987–1998) and the Rush Hour (1998–2007) film series, as well as Hong Kong action cinema films featuring actors such as Jackie Chan. King also included within the genre the more comedic superhero films such as Mystery Men (1999), Hancock (2008) and The Green Hornet (2011).Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Elements of action comedy existed in early cinema, such as the chase sequences in pre-1915 films such as The Lonedale Operator (1911), which anticipate editing patterns of later action films such as Wheels on Meals (1984).Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. Later silent film comedies such as those featuring Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton (e.g., Easy Street (1917) and The General (1926)) featured chases, gags and stunts that would serve as inspirations for both comedic and non-comedic action set pieces in later action films.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. These films include Chaplin and Keaton using physical materials on stage, either weapons or props, to emphasize, affect or respond to their bodily actions.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
King wrote that despite a large cinematic history of humor and peril, the action comedy film only "came into its own" as part of American action film genre in the early 1980s, notably when actors who had backgrounds in comedy such as Eddie Murphy began taking roles in action films.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
In his book, Lights, Camera, Action: Crafting an Action Script (2005), Gregory Sarno said that not all films containing conflict and humor are action comedies; Sarno considered films with action-laden subplots such as Big Momma's House (2000) and Dumb & Dumber (1994) to be closer to straight comedies because the action lacks an integral role in their narratives.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. King echoed this point, saying that films such as Night at the Museum (2006) or Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) are better categorized as straight comedies since most of the action is framed comically with no serious violence or peril. She also said that the occurrence of sardonic one-liners in an action film, such as "Go ahead, make my day" from Sudden Impact (1983), is insufficient to categorize such a film as an action comedy.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Mark Gallagher, in Action Figures: Men, Action Films and Contemporary Adventure Narratives (2006), stated that action comedies often feature a fish out of water theme, such as Murphy's character clashing with upper-class white communities and conventional police procedures in the Beverly Hills Cop (1984–2024) film series.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
List of films
TV series
| TV series | Year(s) | Template:Ref heading |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | 1983–1987 | [9] |
| Burn Notice | 2007–2013 | [10] |
| Chuck | 2007–2012 | [11] |
| Doom Patrol | 2020–2022 | [12] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | 1979–1985 | [1] |
| Future Man | 2017–2020 | [13] |
| Kidd Video | 1984–1985 | [1] |
| Lethal Weapon | 2016–2019 | [13] |
| Our Flag Means Death | 2022-2023 | [14] |
| Peacemaker | 2022 | [2] |
| Remington Steele | 1982–1987 | [15] |
| Rush Hour | 2016 | [16] |
| Teenage Bounty Hunters | 2020 | [17] |
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