You can pretty much put a laugh track and some Seinfeld music to anything and it will look like a comedy. Yes, even the Godfather.
If TV programmes and films with subject matter as dark as Breaking Bad, Se7en and even Scarface can appear like convincing comedies then you can pretty much apply the formula anywhere, as Matin Atrushi (matincomedy on YouTube) has with the Godfather in his latest Seinfeld mash-up.
Featuring an unusually smiley Robert de Niro amongst other characters in Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece, you’d swear that all was sweetness and light in the life of one of the biggest Italian-American mob families in New York, while the fictional phone call involving George Costanza at the end is a touch of genius.
Nice work.
Video via YouTube/matincomedy
Hat-tip to Matin Atrushi for sending this one our way
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