Hello, everybody. I'm Tiago, screenwriter based in Lisbon, have written a few (produced) shorts, a handful of (unproduced) features and currently with either a bad case of laziness mixed with lack of confidence or just a good ol' writer's block (if you believe in such a thing). Question: what's your favorite forgotten/obscure comedy? I'm a big Larry Karaszewski/Scott Alexander fan, so I'm always going with Screwed. In case you don't know it, it's this convoluted, twisty and turny, screwball farce with a stacked cast including Norm Macdonald, Dave Chappelle, Danny DeVito, Sarah Silverman, Elaine Stritch and Sherman Hemsley. Not perfect by any means but I always get a kick out of it. Plus I believe it had a long road to theaters until Universal dumped it in 2000 (it was completed in 1998). It's also probably more famous for the marquees it inspired (see picture 2).

The topic of comedy sequels not being as good as the original has come up in the calls a bit (Airplane II: The Sequel, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues), so it got me to thinking... Has there been a comedy sequel that is better than the original? One of the few that comes to mind for me is American Pie 2. Getting the characters out of the high school setting and into college loosens everything up a bit. The actors having more experience (American Pie was the first major feature for many of the "high school student" leads save for Alyson Hannigan. and Thomas Ian Nicholas) also helps.