Joe and Ethan had a war of worlds in episode 7 about whether or not 2008 was the best year for comedies in recent memory. A listener in LA, John-Michael Powell, did some investigating and number crunching for us, using Rotten Tomatoes ratings to figure out what the "funniest" year was, after all. He assures us he's not "not this big a nerd in real life" but we think you'll want to check out his blog at http://johnmichaelpowell.tumblr.com/ and have a look at his chart before judging for yourself.
Ethan claims victory. Joe might, too.
Here's how he explains his methods:
"I checked out only comedy films in the last five years that got "fresh" ratings...that's 60% or above. Now, this is where it got interesting because obviously the number of films that were considered "fresh" per year varied. In order to make the findings as equal as possible I narrowed it down to two categories. The average rating of the top 5 films of each year and the top 10 of each year. I did this to see where each year stacked up at the top end of ratings and how that percentage changed over the top ten films, in other words to see how deep those years went in percentages as that could be argued as to what constitutes a better year for comedy over another. Something to note. No year in the last 5 years had more than 12 comedy films rated fresh. So here's what I found..."
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