Comedy, because it’s best as a shared phenomenon, like music, is considered successful when you thrum the wires that get almost everybody laughing. But that can lead to a homogenization, a chortle-sausage approach — and if you’re familiar Chevy Chase’s career, even at its prime, you’ve seen the assembly line. Much as I can still get a rise out of the Apatow Paradigm, it’s already waning, a joke told 10 times. What’s needed are movies with no precedent, that reek of slightly deranged ideas and dare to amuse only of some of us — the odder few and far between. Mystery Team certainly fits.
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On DVD: Singular Mystery Team Dares to Break Comedy Ranks
