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8 Biopics That Are Also Comedies
The biopic has often been one of the most serious (and sometimes the most dry) of all the film genres. Generally, biopics are made about highly revered or influential individuals, and so tonally, their life stories will be told on screen in a way that's serious, respectful, and lacking in humor or levity.
This is especially true if the filmmakers choose to focus on the most emotional or dramatic parts of a person's life; they do only have two or so hours to hit all the most important parts, after all.
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That makes the rare comedic biopic stand out.
Often, these dramatized life stories will be more memorable thanks to their different tones, and given a new Weird Al Yankovic biopic is making waves for also being a comedy - and serving as a parody of sorts to the biopic genre - it's as