The Guardian has
an article about the rise of zombie comedies as a subgenre of our favorite films. From that article:
Zombies are the 99%, the proletariat of the undead – and so the perfect vehicle for detailing fears about mass civic breakdown. There was always grotesque humour in even the most serious zombie films, and the renaissance of the last decade has made the comedy dominant. In the true tradition of the decadent frisson, we're loving the grisly spectacle of our decline. John Wyndham's "cosy catastrophe" – the genre of literature in which the breakdown of civilisation is weirdly good to the protagonists – has been superseded by the carnival catastrophe, à la Zombieland.
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