Somehow it seems appropriate that John Candy was born on Halloween. John Franklin Candy: 31 October 1950 - 4 March 1994 (aged 43). Of course since he's been gone for 30 years, I suppose a lot of the children out there don't know who he was.
Comedy seems to be dead the past few years. You can't write comedy by committee, and comedies are rarely international hits, because they don't translate well. Add those two things together, and between the Woke scolds saying that every joke is offensive to someone, and the studio execs not bothering about anything that they don't think can make a billion dollars in theater sales, plus merchandise sales, and you get no comedies being produced.
This is The Best of John Candy in Films (Supercut). It is longer than I wanted at 10 minutes, but he was a bright spot in every movie he was in.
There may be a sign of healing. Sydney Sweeney's recent romantic comedy, Anyone But You, is the first comedy to make more than $200 million at the box office since Bridesmaids, which came out shortly after The Hangover. (That is according to Nerdrotic.)
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