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I had started a thread earlier titled "Greatest Movie Ever?". I realized now that I needed one for funny movies all by itself. My personal favorite comedy is the Marx Brothers' "Duck Soup" (1933). Thoughts?

Spaceballs! :p or just about any of the Monty Python movies.

Spinal Tap!

Holy Grail. L-O Frieking -L.

It's just a flesh wound

Holy Grail. L-O Frieking -L.

It's just a flesh wound

Yep Same here

Either "Airplane!" or "Life of Brian".

Either "Airplane!" or "Life of Brian".


Airplane is Fucking heeelarious!

"I know you, you're Kareem Abdul Jabarr!"

Schindler's List

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

The Castle of.... AHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGG!

Napolean Dynamite.

If you haven't seen this, you have to! It's a really underated gem!

Someone back me up on this!

Blazing Saddles

Best scene: black sheriff enters an Old West town, steps up to the podium, reaches into his pocket and says "Excuse me while I whip this out". Everybody screams until they realize he's only pulling out a written speech. :D

Napolean Dynamite.

If you haven't seen this, you have to! It's a really underated gem!

Someone back me up on this!
No. Napolean Dynamite stinks. The end.

Okay, so my mate thinks it's the funniest thing he's ever seen, but its just DULL.

And Blazing Saddles is brilliant. Redneck cowboys singing gospel? Genius.

This may be the most out-of-character comment ever, considering my nation name, but I have to say:

"Undercover Brother" (2002)

It's so funny!

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Airplane is Fucking heeelarious!

"I know you, you're Kareem Abdul Jabarr!"

"And it was that, more than anything else, that led to my drinking problem"

:D

Blazing Saddles

Best scene: black sheriff enters an Old West town, steps up to the podium, reaches into his pocket and says "Excuse me while I whip this out". Everybody screams until they realize he's only pulling out a written speech. :D

"I want rustlers, cutthroats, murders, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con-men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglars, horse thieves, bull-dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, sh**-kickers, and Methodists!"

Good film.

Schindler's List

OK, not funny. That was a good film, but not something to joke about.

OK, not funny. That was a good film, but not something to joke about.

How about "The Grey Zone"?

Young Frankenstien and Space Balls

I like the silly stuff.

Blazing Saddles

Best scene: black sheriff enters an Old West town, steps up to the podium, reaches into his pocket and says "Excuse me while I whip this out". Everybody screams until they realize he's only pulling out a written speech. :D

But leading up to it is just as good.

Johnson on top of the roof : "Our sheriff is a n..."
Johnson on the stage : "He says our sheriff is getting near..."

And you know how that ends up :)

I'm not sure I could even make a short list of the funniest, but many of those already here (Duck Soup, the works of Monty Python, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) are definitely up there.

I'd also nominate:

A Fish Called Wanda
Arsenic & Old Lace
Raising Arizona
The Thin Man
It Happened One Night
The Producers
Bringing Up Baby
Groundhog Day
Adam's Rib
A Shot in the Dark

What about The Naked Gun, Stripes, and The Man Who Knew Too Little?

All great, very funny films.

The Producers,
a classic

Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Young Frankenstein,

and more recently
the Aquatic life, with bill murray and owen wilson, i thought it was hillarious

and even more recently
Kung Fu Hustle, if anyones seen it here i'd be surprised, i thought it was unspeakably hillarious.

Old School...... Will Farrell is absolutely hillarious, as is vince Vaughn...

"We went to the Olive Garden, which was lovely"

by the way..... the movie "A fish Called Wanda" may be one of the worst films ever made...

Ah, "The Producers", what a great show. Mel Brooks seems to be taking the honors as funniest director.

Don't leave out "The Blues Brothers", that makes me laugh every time I see someone in dark glasses.

Since most of the just plain funny movies I can think of have been taken...

I think Van Helsing was one of the funniest movies that wasn't really supposed to be. Independence Day is up there, too.

Spaceballs! :p or just about any of the Monty Python movies.

SPACEBALLS! I was thinking that before I even clicked on the thread.

SPACEBALLS! I was thinking that before I even clicked on the thread.

i never actually saw it, but have heard people say it is hillarious, and others say it is just plain stupid....

Spaceballs! :p or just about any of the Monty Python movies.

You beat me to it on both accounts.


The Enlightened One, Gir

'The Party' starring Peter Sellers.

SPACEBALLS! I was thinking that before I even clicked on the thread.

Likewise.

The Enlightened One, Gir

Trivia Note: "A Fish Called Wanda" is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the only movie known to have induced death-by-laughing in somebody.

The Castle...

"It's the vibe. Yeah that's it. The vibe..."

I have to agree with the Pythonists. I lurve Monty Python. I'm still able to quote entire scenes from the movies, and if I get a hand on the DVD seasons of Flying Circus, I will quote those as well.

"Can't I have a little peril?" "No, it's too perilous!"

"Can't I have a little peril?" "No, it's too perilous!"

"I'll bet you're gay."

"...No I'm not."

No. Napolean Dynamite stinks. The end.

Okay, so my mate thinks it's the funniest thing he's ever seen, but its just DULL.

I agree. I'm not so arrogant as to think that there might not be something in their that I don't see, but... well... I don't see it.

You can exaggerate foolhardiness to the point that it becomes funny and spoof action movies. You can exaggerate horror schlock until it becomes funny and spoof horror movies. But when you exaggerate boring it doesn't get funny, it just gets reeeeeally boring. It's like that old NPR sketch on SNL.

As for my pick. Clerks. Kevin Smith has had his moments since, but he's never gotten funnier than Clerks. Of course, I do keep forgetting to go see Silver City.

I'm not sure I could even make a short list of the funniest, but many of those already here (Duck Soup, the works of Monty Python, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) are definitely up there.

I'd also nominate:


Arsenic & Old Lace
The Producers

Seen both those plays...but not the movies. Sadly.

I think Monty Python (the entire group) and Mel Brooks should have had a love child...somehow.

History of the World part 1 was really underrated. I personally think it is one of his [Mel Brooks] best. Plus, he played like, 20 roles in it.
Come on, making The Inquisition a musical number? And the preview for Hitler on Ice? Genious.

Schindler's List



LOL

The Guiness Book of Records has it wrong.

In Monty Pythons And Now for Something Completely Different quite a few died laughing at the funniest joke ever.

Dr Strangelove. OK so it ended with the apocalypse but it was hilarious.

Python films.

One of our Dinosaurs is missing. old-skool 'British' humour. Slightly racist but funny.

Tie between Sgt. Bilko and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Happy Gilmore

The Castle...

"It's the vibe. Yeah that's it. The vibe..."


Lol, yeah another great film...This thread's going straight to the pool room.

Dark star.
With Shrek a close second.

The Life of Brian

Old School...... Will Farrell is absolutely hillarious, as is vince Vaughn...

"We went to the Olive Garden, which was lovely"

Ugh I thought Old School was dreadful! The jokes were few and far between and it just meandered pointlessly!

Here's a few of my fave comedies
Clue - based on the film cluedo
Elvira mistress of the dark - hilarious camp comedy
Repossessed - ah parody!
Shirley Valentine - Comedy for the intellectual side
Scary Movie 2 - Comedy of the ..other side

I can't believe no one has said "Animal House"!

A Boy and his Dog.... er... no,
The Day After.... errrr... no,
Battle Queen 2020.... no, definately not.
Battlefield Earth? (smack!) Ow....

Mars Attacks! ? Ok, that's reasonable.

Got a list of em...
of course, any and all Monty Python films.

Real Genius -
"I was contemplating the immortal words of Socreties who once said... 'I drank what?"

Top Secret -
"Nick, I've tried everything: the embassy, the German government, the consulate. I even talked to the U.N. ambassador. It's no use, I just can't bring my wife to orgasm."

Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death -
Margo Hunt: They're an ancient commune of feminists, so radical, so militant, so left of center they... they eat their men.
Bunny: Oh, that. Well, if I like a guy, I usually start at -
Margo Hunt: They don't eat their men like that, Bunny.

This has nothing to do with movies, but the group was funny. Anyone ever own records from a group called the "Firesign Theater"?

YES YES YES! Duck Soup was the greatest movie ever! No one ever mentions it!

Young Frankenstien and The Great Dictator

Paris Hiltons home videos!!!

hands down
monty python's quest for the holy grail :headbang:

Screwed and any of Monty Python's films

IMHO, Monty Python = overrated. Good for a few laughs, but nothing hilarious.

I can't believe no one's said Caddyshack. Or Anchorman.

You people have bad taste.

High Anxiety, in my opinion the best mel brooks movie and the most hilarious. If you haven't seen it, do. It's great. Other movies that I find funny: spaceballs, holy grail, saved, napoleon dynamite, the princess bride mean girls, one scene in matchstick men (at the pharmacy), the first 5 minutes of the Lady and the Highwayman (never watched any more than that, haha)

Still Crazy
Mallrats
Dogma
Holy Grail

Harold and Maude

I nearly bust a gut at Harolds' mothers' unshakeable calm.
"No. No, I would not say "benefit."

NatLamps' Vacation is also great, tho twisted
"Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best at it."

Being There cracks me up every time.
"I like to watch."

IMHO, Monty Python = overrated. Good for a few laughs, but nothing hilarious.

I can't believe no one's said Caddyshack. Or Anchorman.

You people have bad taste.
Bolding mine

Pot. Kettle. Black.

I can't believe no one has yet to mention The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Or Plan Nine From Outer Space, for that matter. (He's been murdered! And somebody's responsible!)

This has nothing to do with movies, but the group was funny. Anyone ever own records from a group called the "Firesign Theater"?
how old are you ???

my brother in law, aged 62, has all of them on reel to reel tapes

Dark star.
With Shrek a close second.

Shrek?! Are you serious? Is he serious?

3 way tie between....

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (Every Sperm is Sacred is a prime example)
Airplane! (And don't call me Shirley)
Naked Gun (Nice beaver!! *Woman takes down taxidermed beaver* Thanks! I just had it stuffed!)

No Supertroopers mentioned yet? Ouch, that's gotta hurt.


Farva: Just cleaning out the old locker, she stinks like ass but I'll sure miss her... I guess you could say that about all my girls.

Captain O'Hagan: I swear to God I'm going to pistol whip the next guy who says, " Shenanigans."
Mac: Hey Farva what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy stuff on the wall and the mozzarella sticks?
Farva: You mean Shenanigans?
Rabbit: OOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

[Mac gets shot in the crotch while wearing the steel cup ]
Foster: How you feelin' there, Mac?
Mac: Good enough... to fuck... your mother.

Either any of the Monty Python movies or Yellow Submarine, I love any of those Beatles movies.

how old are you ???

my brother in law, aged 62, has all of them on reel to reel tapes
Pretty damned ancient some days, other days I'm only 48. I started buying the LPs when I was in 7/8 grade. About 1970, or so.

Fierce Creatures.
A Fish Called Wanda.
Mars Attacks.
EDIT:
The Princess Bride! (How could I have forgotten that?)
"Give him a break. He's been Mostly Dead all day."
Groundhog Day
"I'm not THE God, I said I'm A God."

Dogma and the Princess Bride

I know it's not slapstick funny, but it has a ton of great lines.

And one you probably missed: a Steve Martin movie called "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid". Hilarious.

Anything from the Python guys has it for me, although I'm amazed no-one's mentioned Mel Brooks' Robin Hood Men In Tights.

BASEketball and Team America are also very funny (God love Trey Parker and Matt Stone),

But i think, THE funniest (if ever-so-slightly strange) movie has got to be Rocky Horror.. also the movie with the best legs, methinks.. mmm, Tim Curry's legs.. *drools*

BHB
xxx

Rat Race is very funny, the first time you see it, after that it stinks.

I really like your dike, I mean bike

1) Holy Grail
2) ARMY OF DARKNESS (COM'ON PEOPLE!!!! YOU GOTTA LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!)
3) The Burbs (i cant believe no one said this!!!!!!)
4) Galaxy Quest (again, i cant believe no one said this!!!)
5) Groundhog Day
6) Mean Grls (yea, im serious)
7) Shrek (yea, im serious again)

Heathers was good.

Better off Dead was good too. (Dude, I 'm sorry I blew up your mom...)

Ice Pirates (lamely weird...)

Clerks

Office Space

Team America - because liberals suck. :)

Better off Dead was good too. (Dude, I 'm sorry I blew up your mom...)


DAMMITDAMMITDAMMIT!!!! Ya took mine.

"This is pure snow! It's everywhere! Have you any idea of what the street value of this mountain is?"

"Two DOLLARS!"

"It's got raisins in it, you like raisins."

DAMMITDAMMITDAMMIT!!!! Ya took mine.

"This is pure snow! It's everywhere! Have you any idea of what the street value of this mountain is?"

"Two DOLLARS!"

"It's got raisins in it, you like raisins."
"It's skiing, how hard can it be? Go downhill, very fast. If something gets in your way, Turn."

"This hooch is just like daddy used to make..."

"He had his testicles all over me"...

Rat Race is very funny, the first time you see it, after that it stinks.

I really like your dike, I mean bike
But "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is funny every time. Only difference is the quality of the comedians.

Another vote for Animal House

Also

Life of Brian
Holy Grail
Top Secret
Airplane
Naked Gun

OK so I like childish humour

The funniest scene has to go to the best man speech in 4 weddings and a funeral

The Naked Gun and Airplane! are my two favourites. Leslie Nielsen is superb. Also like Blazing Saddles.