It's true that some (not all of course) Scorsese movies are vey funny, often much more so than works by people who are making deliberate comedies. There's a humour that grows out of natural storytelling that is distinct from forced jokiness.
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Updike's contrast between the labored humor of the British "comic novel" (as exemplified by Kingsley Amis) with the natural comedy of Catcher in Rye is sharp on this point.
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Updike: "Compared with...Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, it lacked not only private psychological intensity but, oddly enough, true comic edge. For there is no need to write 'funny novels,' when life’s actual juxtapositions & convolutions, set down attentively, are comedy enough"
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Their full of gags and quips like Marvel movies.
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"AFTER HOURS is basically a Apatow pitcher"
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Because powerful, protracted laughing is a health risk, a health warning should be attached to the Quaaludes scene in *The Wolf of Wall Street.*
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The Departed makes a lot more sense when you realize it’s an Italian guy making fun of the Irish
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