Few film genres can be as potentially painful to sit through as the low-budget comedy.   While horror, even of the no-budget variety, allows for a certain amount of cheap thrills and spectacle, humor tends to take actual talent; which is why low-budget comedies tend to fail so badly. We can dislike a bad horror film, but bad comedy feels like a personal affront. Comedy also requires a focus on many of the areas where films with limited budgets fail – particularly writing, acting, and editing. It takes sharp writing to wring comedy out of mundane situations (which tend
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