re: Will we ever see the return of blockbuster hilarious comedy movies?

True comedy movies, no. If you look at the list of highest grossing comedies, the top ten are:

Barbie - $1.4 billion
Deadpool & Wolverine - $1.3 billion
Hi Mom (Chinese movie) - $841 million
Deadpool 2 - $785 million
Deadpool - $783 Million
Detective Chinatown 3 - $686 million
Men in Black 3 - $686 million
Men in Black - $589 million
The Hangover part III - $586 million
The Mermaid (Chinese) - $553 million
Ted - $549 million

Original comedies grossing a ton of money are few and far between so I don't see a lot of studios pulling the trigger on them.

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Deadpool and Wolverine?

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No.

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Ted - $549 million

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Forgot about this one

Its essentially a buddy cop comedy disguised a super hero movie

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I don't understand the argument that Deadpool and Wolverine isn't a comedy?

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I don't think we mean the same thing when we refer to "blockbuster comedy."

Deadpool is a comic book movie first and foremost. Deadpool is a lot of other things too. I guess you can make an argument for it, but it's also extremely violent and full of gore, which was never part of big comedies of the past...was it?

When I think of Blockbuster Comedies, I think of movies like:

Ace Ventura
Dumb and Dumber
The Hangover
Old School
Tropic Thunder
Superbad
Anchorman
Step Brothers

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Are you unfamiliar with Deadpool? The entire movie was nonstop jokes and memes, it isn't a serious superhero movie, it's a comedy

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This is obviously not the type of movie he is referring to.

He is referring to movies like Superbad, 40 year old virgin, Anchroman, Wedding Crashers, 21 Jump Street, etc

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blockbuster hilarious comedy movies?

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Step Brother is the last one that comes to mind

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Step Brothers wasn't a "blockbuster" comedy. But I get what you're say, and yes, comedies like that are essentially dead. We aren't getting anymore Superbad, Anchorman, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Zoolander, Dodgeball level good comedies anymore. Much less on a consistent basis.

I didn't see it but Barbie for sure fits the blockbuster comedy criteria though.

Jojo Rabbit was probably the funniest movie I've seen in recent memory and that was 2019 and for sure wasn't a true laugh out loud comedy. More witty than dumb comedy.

No Hard Feelings fits the genre OP wants i think. Came out last year

Friendship with Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd is supposed to be a straight comedy as well

All these movies with whacky setups like talladega nights turn into streaming shows tho.

We had twisted metal and what we do in the shadows (movie and now a show)

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Right.

Because we are all the same age and those are the comedies we grew up with.

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Well yes, but also because they stopped making comedies like that.

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I think half of those movies would get made into streaming series nowadays.

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Tires is a good example. A show like that could have been a comedy movie 15 years ago.

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When I think of Blockbuster Comedies, I think of movies like:

Ace Ventura
Dumb and Dumber
The Hangover
Old School
Tropic Thunder
Superbad
Anchorman
Step Brothers

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Thank you, this is precisely what I was talking about. Original comedy movies, made for theater, with names like Sandler, Carey, Farley, etc.

The 80s, 90s ans 00s were filled with these movies. Dumb and Dumber, Happy Gilmore, Caddyshack, Tommy Boy, Old School, etc

The other thing is there is no more modern day Jim Careys or Adam Sandlers anymore. They just don't exist. I'm sure someone will throw out some obscure comedian no one knows, but everyone knows knows the type of movies I'm talking about and the type of comedic actors I'm talking about.

Barbie, Deadpool, sequels, superhero movies, etc don't fit the mold.