text: In my opinion, we don't take is seriously enough!  I mean, why have the critics never noticed it is merely a scenery change - the stories are still the same genres they always are in fiction:\n\nComedy\nSoap\nHorror\nAction/Adventure\nThriller\nRomance\n\nHistorical and Sci-Fi are just two flip sides of the same coin.  Do you want to set your story in the past, present or future, or alternate reality (fantasy)?  Simple!\n\nBy that argument, there is absolutely no reason why comedy should not work within a Sci-Fi setting - it works in the Fantasy, I mean, some episodes of Buffy had me laughing out loud!  The strength is in the writing, and the writing behind Red Dwarf was spot on.\n\nIf you want a comedy with the same epic strength as the films you mention though, you have a problem - look at normal comedy films.  There is not the visual impact in a comedy that you have in an action/adventure - the emphasis is on the script.  Therefore, comedies will never "appear" epic in nature, it's a problem with the comedy genre, and not with sci-fi in particular.