Steven Spielberg Made a Comedy Once — and It Went Spectacularly Wrong

You would be hard-pressed to find a movie director more accomplished than Steven Spielberg. He has put his mark on every movie genre one can think of, with the lone exception being the Western (and even that is in the process of being remedied). But if we're talking about genres that he has successfully taken on, there is one genre that Spielberg has tried his hand at only once, and failed at spectacularly: comedy. A straightforward comedy, that is, with 1979's 1941 marking his only venture into comedy.