It’s an old story, but nevertheless it still gets me, how average drama is hailed but comedy is “not serious”.
Drama feeds the gawker in us, it’s like reading Star or People magazine, we vicariously live out the tragedy of others. Tragedy, some movies do it better than others, but really The English Patient or reading Star magazine while on the hopper, is the same thing.
Pure drama, makes us feel important and valuable. But comedy, a good comedy, tels us the truth - that we are just a bunch of fools, that take ourselves way to seriously, and that is painful to admit.

you are right.let’s not forget that the academy awards have yet to put a category for these people who make us laugh.i don’t know why that mentality exists.that drama is the serious and thus important stuff.but i think that in our times things are changing.don’t forget that movies nowadays seldom belong to one category.they belong to sometimes more than two.and most times comedy is one of them.they have tried to add comic situations in dramatic movies.and come to think of it,in a way this has been going on sometime now.the difference is, then they did not accept that comedy existed in the movie.for example, “one flew over the cuckoo’s nest” had hilarious “black” moments.and i do not think that anyone really accepts or remembers that."dog day afternoon “ also.i just remembered these because i like them.the reverse is also true.drama had always been “inside” comedy movies.i guess that, especially when a movie is good it can not avoid the simple fact that in real life comedy and drama most often walk hand in hand.