Adam Sternbergh has an insightful piece about contemporary comedies in the The New York Times Magazine.  I’m not just saying this because I agree with him — Judd Apatow’s film The 40 Year Old Virgin is a good film (his “masterpiece”) – but contemporary comedies are lacking for me, too.  Where are the jokes?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/magazine/the-hangover-and-the-age-of-the-jokeless-comedy.html?ref=magazine

It makes me long for the wit and intellect of films like Annie Hall, which doesn’t get tired.  “A relationship is like a shark…”  If you can finish that bit of dialogue, then you know exactly what I mean.