The just-released trailer for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty hopefully signals the start of a new era for Ben Stiller - one in which his movies don't suck.
A decade of fart and diarrhea jokes will wear away at you until you have to do something incredibly drastic like buy a time machine and visit yourself ten years back.
Saul Austerlitz's new book Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy chronicles over a 100 years of laughs. Here's an exclusive essay he wrote just for us.