Belongs with greats

Rating: 9/10 (4 March 2020)

This belongs in a serious subgenre of dark comedy along with The Great Dictator and Life is Beautiful and its goldmine seldom harvested (understandably) but films like these make me wonder how bad The Clown Who Cried could really be? Jerry Lewis is a comic genius and had a real personal reverence for the seriousness of the matter which is how dark comedies work. Look at Life of Brian. As long as satire isnt treated like a Family Guy cutaway you can make comedy out of anything Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles etc