Comedy sequels aren't always a good idea, because they're typically not an easy idea. The first movie tends to have a funny premise that isn't worth repeating unless there's a great twist to the situation. Still, the demand from fans of and studios behind successful comedies outweighs the creative need.

Unless, perhaps, you're as powerful as Adam McKay. While promoting his new movie The Big Short, he revealed ideas for sequels to a couple of his popular past efforts -- if he were actually genuinely interested in making them. "There are so many original ideas and it’s so much fun to create new worlds," he told Cinema Blend while admitting he's avoiding sequels for a while. 

If he changes his mind, here are two possibilities:

 

Talladega Nights 2

Another ballad of Ricky Bobby apparently came close to happening after Talladega Nights became a hit. McKay told Cinema Blend that plans went as far as a basic idea sort of reversing the premise of the 2006 original, which stars Will Ferrell as a NASCAR driver competing against a French driver played by Sacha Baron Cohen, but that's it.

"We had an idea about [Ricky Bobby] that he goes and drives over in Europe," he said. "You know, so it could be like an international, more of an international-type movie, American driver going to Formula 1. We kicked it around a bit" 

 

Anchorman 3

We've already gotten one-and-a-half sequels to 2004's Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, which also stars Will Ferrell. First was the half, a re-edited version with alternate storylines titled Wake Up, Ron Burgundy. Then, rising interest in the TV-news-set comedy over the years resulted in 2013's Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.

As was the case with that official follow-up, a true third installment would take place years later and advance the characters to the next level in broadcast journalism. “We talked about doing [an Anchorman movie] that was about the rise of the new media,” McKay told Yahoo Movies, meaning it'd be set in the Internet age.

He added, “I also thought there was something to the idea —and who knows, maybe we will do one someday— to have Ron Burgundy get embedded in the Iraq War. But we’ve never got that serious about it... by then Burgundy would be getting pretty old. So maybe it’s a movie we make in 10 years, when Will Ferrell’s aged up and it actually makes sense that you can set it in 1997 or '98.”