Theater is making fun of a lot of things this season. 

Eccentric families, sexual scandals involving politicians, growing up, Broadway itself — all of these are themes of comedies currently playing in town: “You Can’t Take it With You,” “Tail! Spin!,” “This is Our Youth,” “It’s Only a Play.”

But some get more laughs than others, and most aren’t taken seriously come awards time.

In this interview, Elisabeth Vincentelli, theater critic of the New York Post, said she is a fan of the genre, and she believes it’s unfairly ignored at the Tony Awards. “Pure comic actors often do not get recognized,” she said. “It looks harder and more serious to be in a drama.”

Vincentelli said “It’s Only a Play” has both effective and non-effective comic acting. She thinks Nathan Lane is very good in it, and Matthew Broderick “is very, very bad.”

Clyde Alves, Tony Yazbeck, Jay Armstrong Johnson and the cast of "On The Town"

(Joan Marcus)

Adam Feldman, theater critic of Time Out New York, said he thinks this has been a good season for comedies, especially thanks to plays like Jacuzzi. “Jacuzzi is wonderful,” he said. The play takes place in a Colorado ski chalet in the 1980s and it’s about the encounter of a father, a son, and a couple of strangers. “What I love about this show is the way in which it uses pure 1980s detail, and jokes, to distract and amuse you throughout the show so that other things can happen without your being aware of it.”

Here are some of the other comedies they recommend:

“On The Town”

“This is Our Youth”

“Found”

“You Can’t Take it With You.”

One comedy they both think gets everything wrong:

“Billy and Ray”

And they are both looking forward to:

“Hand to God,” coming to Broadway in April.