Laugh, Clown, Laugh

At first I thought Nikki Finke was joking when she wrote "funny films swept the Top 3 as the obvious antidote to rising food bills, astronomical gas prices and the constant tide of bad news these days." I mean it sounds like a parody of the silly idea that comedies do better during "bad times." But reading it a second time, she seems to be serious--even her headline says "Comedies Rule Because Of Bad News."

Nikki's been writing about show biz long enough to know this is nonsense. The top three films are comedies now because the biggest and best three films released in the past two weeks are comedies. (And note none of the three will make $100 million domestic.)

I guarantee next week the news will be just as bad and the biggest hit film will be Iron Man.