...or don't look. It's more polite, and keeps things SFW.
A wacky romp, usually full of fanservice, blunt innuendos, and simple plans all to one purpose — to get laid! Expect tons of Gag Boobs, humorous dating or hook up scenarios, and maybe a large dollop of Virgin-Shaming, or Sex as Rite-of-Passage if he still is. These can be explicit or non-explicit. The hijinks don't have to end after our hero or heroine gets laid.
Note that the proportion of sexual material can vary; jokes on other subjects are certainly permitted. A comedy series can have episodes of sex comedy while completely avoiding the subject at other times. Many of the examples below actually feature variants of the trope, or deconstruct it in some way. Conversely, when Porn with Plot tries to be funny, the result is obviously some kind of sex comedy, if not usually a very good one.
Many long-running sitcoms aimed at grown-ups will have an episode of sex comedy sooner or later, sometimes featuring an attractive visiting character or guest star who catches the attention of one or more of the primary cast.
Related to Poor Man's Porn, because you can own a copy of the film and no one will know it's one scene you own the film for.
May occasionally overlap with Romantic Comedy. May be a cause of Best Known for the Fanservice. Compare Ecchi. Subgenre: Awful British Sex Comedy.
Examples:
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Anime
- A.I. Love You starts off with the Unlucky Everydude getting a Magical Girlfriend due to a lightning strike hitting his computer, causing her to materialize into the real world, with some fan-servicey moments here and there. Then around the time Number 20 and 40 appear, there are much more fan-servicey moments, Hitoshi is made out to be a huge pervert who only wants to get some nice action (whether it be from his computer program girlfriend or... actual Ecchi video games) and there's more jokes that go pretty far for an overall comedy series with tearjerky moments, including things like Hitoshi arousing Number 30 enough and pinching her nipple.
- Seitokai Yakuindomo is about 21% school Slice of Life jokes, 10% height jokes, and 69% sex comedy. Though here, the protagonist (and only male) is the Straight Man — it's the surrounding girls who provide all of the lust and sex jokes. Surprisingly, it's not actually Ecchi, and the fanservice is pretty limited.
Comics and Manga
- Robert Crumb's comic strips surely are full of this.
- Milo Manara's work is, too.
- Horacio Altuna's erotic fiction also includes a lot of comedy, usually a five-page set-up ending on a gag or punchline.
- Happy Mania: A young woman sleeps her way into true love, with many semen jokes along the way.
- Red Ears: This enormously successful Belgian comic book is nothing more than an erotic gag comic strip series.
- Sex Criminals is a series about two people who can freeze time when they have orgasms. They use this ability to rob banks so that they can use the money to save a library.
- Much of the work of Icelandic artist Kjartan Arnorsson is a comedic core wrapped in a thick layer of pornographic shenanigans, where the context may be sexual but the execution is often presented as silly, almost cartoonish antics.
Films — Animation
- Ralph Bakshi 's Fritz the Cat also falls in this category.
- Tarzoon The Shame of the Jungle puts sex into blunt parody.
Films — Live-Action
- American Pie is fairly definitive of the genre.
- Flowers and Bees: a pathetic young man attempts to sleep with a motley crew of women.
- Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask and A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy by Woody Allen.
- A lot of Mel Brooks' films fall in this category, despite sex not being the central theme; they tend to have a lot of sexual innuendo in their jokes.
- Porky's is another noted example.
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin: The clue is in the title.
- Another Gay Movie and its sequel Another Gay Sequel: Gay's Gone Wild, unsurprisingly.
- The Pink Panther (1963) has a fair number of sexual jokes, even though no one really gets any.
- The Sweetest Thing: It's like a chick flick was directed by the guys who direct Rob Schneider's films.
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High: '80s teen sex comedy.
- Love and Other Drugs: A higher drama quotient, but still in the category.
- Pretty Cool, and its sequel, Pretty Cool Too.
- Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Fantasy: A sex comedy musical with actual sex scenes.
- Deep In the Valley, where two average dudes are sucked into the world of porn films.
- Mischief, a 1985 comedy where a shy high school student wants to get it on with a popular girl in 1956 Ohio. Basically, it's Happy Days with sex in it.
- Zapped, a parody of Carrie (1976) in which a teenage boy gains telekinetic powers and uses them to strip girls naked.
- Not Another Teen Movie, a parody of both this genre and teen movies. Most visibly pronounced with Areola, a Foreign Exchange Student who spends the entire film butt-naked.
- Superbad is a Deconstructive Parody of the genre, the protagonists' obsession with getting into the pants of the hottest girls at school used to paint them as a bunch of weirdos.
- The Austin Powers movies, being James Bond parodies, riff nonstop on the Bond movies' sexual content.
- The Naked Gun movies, at least once a film, will parody dramatic Hollywood sex/romance scenes.
- Promises! Promises!: A sex farce involving accidental wife swapping, possible adultery, a dorky dude worried about his impotence, lots of dirty double entendres, and naked Jayne Mansfield.
Live-Action Television
Theatre
- The Ancient Greek play Lysistrata demonstrates that the sex comedy is Older Than Feudalism.
- In the 19th century, Georges Feydeau not only popularized farce in the modern form, but was quite risqué about it by the standards of the time; many of his stories have elements of sex comedy, and the combination has remained popular in theatrical farce to the present.
Video Games
- Leisure Suit Larry is an Adventure Game by genre, but by content, it's a Sex Comedy with logic puzzles.
- Monster Prom is a competitive Dating Sim in which your Lovable Sex Maniac playable character tries to score a date for prom, the quest being full of innuendos and several characters being very open about their sexuality as well as Everyone Is Bi.
Webcomics
- Among (non-porn) webcomics, Ménage à 3 is perhaps the purest example, although it's relatively subtle and even deconstructive about it — some of the time, anyway. Of its two spinoffs, Sticky Dilly Buns is more or less as much of a sex comedy but dials back on the explicitness and adds a little more Soap Opera, while Sandra on the Rocks is less about sex and substantially less explicit (despite the odd Shower Scene and a fair bit of nudity with careful use of the Scenery Censor), but still approaches the trope at times.
- Oglaf primarily revolves around sex comedy in a High Fantasy setting. Unlike the aforementioned webcomic, it is quite explicit and occasionally pornographic. Not all of it though, and some jokes could easily fit into a SFW fantasy parody.
Western Animation
- The infamous 1929 cartoon Everready Harton In Buried Treasure is a sex comedy.
