Irony and Comedy of "Sex Is Comedy"

The 2002 film "Sex Is Comedy" presents a comedic mood to its spectator as the director of the film tries to capture the ever-present, yet always expected Hollywood kiss. The circumstances the actors of this film-within-a-film find themselves in is difficult because the young man is constantly complaining. He complains about the makeup, the fact that she does not want to kiss him and general dissatisfaction with the entire situation. The young actress tells him that she does not want to kiss him because he kisses badly and not as well as her boyfriend. The director of this film brings to light the important relationship of director and spectator because she tells her actors how she wants them to kiss and she tells them "Kiss, so I as a spectator, enjoy it." She is looking for conviction from them, conviction they just can't seem to find. This hardship, combined with the inconvenient ambiance that it could rain at any moment and this tension of repellence of the two actors creates an honestly ironic feel because everything that the director wants and needs in a specified, hurried amount of time cannot overcome the reality of the opposing affections of the actors. "Sex Is Comedy" is ironic and comedic at the same time; ironic because these two "have-to-be lovers" cannot feign this because the man cannot kiss and the woman will not kiss a man who cannot khiss her. The actors cannot set their emotions aside and work. The comedy is in the face and close-up, similar to the close-up of the director as she is telling them how she wants the kiss to be, not only as a director, but as a spectator.