He's the same age as Zach Galifinakis (The Hangover) and Paul Rudd (I Love You Man) that happened afterwards.

He chose to go the rom-com route (also a dying industry outside of streaming) for more money. And is now complaining that a genre he left isn't giving him anything.

Galifinakis wasn't the lead, and Paul Rudd is famously an ageless vampire. Again, tell me, which of the movies I listed could Vaughn have starred in? And what were all the R-rated movies Vaughn was turning down? Show your work.

You didn't like The Break Up?

Just going over movies with my son last night - blocking his movie suggestions to my 14 year old daughter. Zach Efron came up. Talk about a younger man's game that I forgot about.

Dirty Grampa - 2016
Neighbors -2014
Neighbors 2 - 2018
Mike and Dave need wedding dates - 2016
Greatest Beer Run Ever - 2022 (I have no idea if this fits because i haven't seen it)

That also leads to Adam Devine who has had a few.

What about Seth McFarlan - Ted, Ted 2, Wildest Gun in the West

I don't particularly like those actors as much or those movies. I love Ted(s). Maybe it's just a case though of any one actor only having a window of a dozen years or less in the genre - even if great.

Something kind of touched on in this thread, but apparently some comedians have lost interest in doing movies because they make more money from stand up and specials. Around the 9 minute mark of the Fly On the Wall podcast with Dana Carvey, David Spade, and Seinfeld:

I'd honestly be ok with more PG and PG-13 comedies. Movies like Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre, Hot Rod that were low budget, random, funny but still kind of wholesome. I like some R-rated comedies that go for more shock value humor, but I don't need a movie to have 500 F words and 100 bodily function jokes to enjoy it. I don't really know if the latter two of those movies I mentioned made enough money for people now to *want* to make them.

This popped up in a feed of mine. Thought it was funny considering this thread - getting back to the old school raunchy comedies.

Netflix's raunchy new film Incoming is a throwback to R-rated comedies like Superbad and American Pie (msn.com)

I haven't seen the film (or even the trailer). But there is some recognition out there of what was discussed here.

Here is an upcoming R-rated comedy/horror called Y2K. Not quite the same as Old School or Superbad, but probably the closest we're gonna get today

Have some streaming series taken the modern day place of these? The Boys comes to mind as a comedy tilted series where anything goes, I'm sure there's others.