I don't know if we are at the point where we can label anything a comedy. I don't know when it was considered acceptable to do a film about the end of the world and call it a comedy, but there have been several films about "the end of the world as we know it" in this decade alone and they are played for laughs. It is quite possible that we got afraid of that whole 2012 Mayan … [Read more...] about Speculative Fiction Saturday: Seeking a Friend at the End of the World