"Excuse me while I whip this out."
How many of us wanted this to be the first thing Obama said at his acceptance speech?
Hands down, still the funniest movie ever made. What say you?
"Excuse me while I whip this out."
How many of us wanted this to be the first thing Obama said at his acceptance speech?
Hands down, still the funniest movie ever made. What say you?
"The Turtle Moves!"
Nuh-uh. Pound for pound it's Clue.
everything in nature is sort of gross when you look at it too closely. what is an apple? basically the uterus of a tree - terrifel
I can't chose. I refuse to vote in your poll because it is fundamentally unfair to ask someone to pick Blazing Saddles over:
Young Frankenstein
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Airplane!
or
Spinal Tap
On the other hand, horesfethers isn't even the funniest Marx Brothers movie and I am perfectly comforable saying that Blazing Saddles is funnier than both Something About Mary and Animal House. (Both funny movies, don't get me wrong, but not Blazing Saddles funny).
ETAh and, Best in Show has nothing on Waiting for Guffman.
Now let me get a harumph!
I voted for other, because there are too many other possibilities. I'll just offer up Duck Soup, Dr Strangelove, and Life of Brian as serious suggestions
It came down to Airplane and Blazing Saddles (as I refuse to go to "other" for this one).... and then I realized:
Gene Wilder is the Man.
And "Mongo just pawn in game of life".
Hands down.
"Dude, your statistical average, which was already in the toilet, just took a plunge into the Earth's mantle." ~ iampunha
Christ, I wouldn't put Blazing Saddles in my top 5 of Mel Brooks movies - I HATED it. FWIW, I picked Spinal Tap, but I could've gone Airplane.
Joe
I voted "other" since there are so many funny movies that were hysterical at the time they debuted (like Caddyshack - man, I laughed until I cried - remember the golfer in the thunderstorm?) but compared to movies today, don't do it for me. It's difficult to judge, since my sense of humor has changed over the years. If I put myself back in the moment when I saw certain films and compare them to other certain moments I think that Eddie Murphy's, Raw has to be my overall choice. I had tears running down my face and the whole theater was laughing hard.
There are moments when watching, Happy Gilmore: The Bob Barker section, The "she's dead, she fell off a cliff" section, the sex/cocoa puffs with the Asian passerby section, The "Mistah-Mistah" section, that are all amazingly funny.
Spinal Tap is way up there for me, as is Best in Show. Dumb and Dumber had a lot of moments too.
They weren't singing....they were just honking.
Glee 2009
I would have also put The Party on the list. Maybe not at the top of the list, but in the conversation.
I picked Airplane! as my fave from that selection. For me it beats out Blazing Saddles by a hair because it remains hysterically, idiotically funny right through to the very, very end of the tape, whereas I find that Blazing Saddles just gets silly when the big fight finale busts off the western set and onto the studio floor. Same thing with The Party, actually -- spectacularly funny until the final 10 minutes when they seem to have run out of things to do but still need an ending. And also Holy Grail. I have never been happy with the ending of that show and would have much preferred an epic battle between the french and their cow catapult versus King Arthur and his knights bashing people over the heads with halves of coconuts.
All worthy choices, however!
Hell is other people.
I guess I really have to re-watch that. I saw it when it first hit cable and thought it was extremely lame, but I was a lot younger back then.Originally posted by Myrnalene
I didn't see Blazing Saddles until last year. It had it's funny moments, but a lot of the humor fell flat. I can see how it was a lot more important in it's time.
As to the ones on the list, "Best in Show" was probably the funniest for me, though "This is Spinal Tap" is pretty close. The funniest movie I've seen recently is "Tropic Thunder".
I’d go for Clue as well, but really I don’t think there is such a thing as the funniest comedy ever made.
Holy Grail is definitely the best on that list.
I do not bite my thumb at you, but I bite my thumb.
If you want my vote for least funny comedy ever made, it would be "The Producers." But that's probably another thread.
Oh, honourable mention for funniest comedy ever made to "Kung Pao: Enter The Fist." The first time we watched it (in a movie theatre), we were laughing so hard we were in danger of hurting ourselves. The rest of the audience wasn't laughing as hard as we were, so we were a little self-conscious about that.
"Clue" was funnier when it was called "Murder By Death"
Just a guy made of dots and lines.
I voted for The Holy Grail, but Airplane! is up there as well. I can't really pick a funniest movie, but D.O.A. is up there somewhere. And Krull.
Blazing Saddles over Airplane! by the width of a bean.
"To give anything less than your best is to waste the Gift."
Steve Prefontaine
Holy Grail is the single most hysterical movie in the entire universe....for the first 20 minutes. Then it becomes a good movie, then a decent one, then it peters out into a very mundate ending.
Blazing Saddles is a great movie that I maintain, could not be made today. Even if too has some flaws at the end.
A Night at the Opera is my personal favorite Marx Brothers movie.
I reserve the right to be bothered by things that don't faze you,
and to cheerfully ignore things that bug the shit out of you.
I am not you.
I'll have to watch Three Fugitives again and see if it's held up. Nick Nolte pre-craziness and Martin Short. I raved about that movie for years after laughing my ass off, especially where Martin's character's in drag.
That's a good list of all-time-great funny movies. I picked Spinal Tap - I laughed myself sick the first time I watched the 6-inch Stonehenge and the dancing dwarf appear on stage. In fact I'm snorting now just remembering it.
But Blazing Saddles is a strong second.
I voted Animal House because of the experience of seeing it at a Drive-In whilst enjoying *ahem* various destabilizing compounds. I have never laughed so hard in my life.
Monty Python and The Holy Grail was a close second.
[mod flip-flops on]I'm going to move this over to TG, where it belongs.[/mod flip-flops off]
And I'll throw in another vote for Three Fugitives. It's been years since I saw it, but I remember it being hysterically funny.
I'm not good at the advice. Can I offer you a sarcastic comment instead?
Reverse that and you have my vote. Both hold up fantastically well.Originally posted by runner pat
No cage, thank you. I'm a human being.
I'm the (so far) lone Young Frankenstein vote. The first time I saw this I was snorking, and ended up hurting myself. And it does stand up well. It's a film that I've been honored and thrilled when I was able to introduce someone to it for the first time.
Most of the movies I've seen from that list are great. (I didn't care for There's Something About Mary.) But YF is what I keep coming back to when I need to laugh.
None of you have seen Some Like It Hot, have you?
Stranger
Some people just aren't happy unless the world is about to come to a bloody and fiery end.- Diana
I have. It's a good film, but it didn't have me laughing.Originally posted by Stranger On A Train
As soon as I read the original post, Young Frankenstein was the first thing to pop in my mind, so that's where my vote went.
MP & the Holy Grail, but as representative of all the Monty Python films.
As for the rest of you, I fart in your general direction!
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. - Doctor Who
It is hard to choose just one, but I have to go with Blazing Saddles from this list.
The scene where Cleavon Little escaped the crowd while holding a gun to his own head has to be a factor as does this scene:
Sheriff Bart: Are we awake?
Waco Kid: We're not sure. Are we.....Black?
Sheriff Bart: Yes, we are.
Waco Kid: "Then...We're awake, but we're very puzzled.
Airplane isn't as witty as B.S. but it wins hands down as being funnier from the sheer amount of humour in it from the moment it starts till the very end.
Dont get me wrong,I loved B.S. but could only watch it so many times before reaching saturation point but A I've watched god knows how many time over the years and still haven't reached that point yet.
Thirty minutes of Googling not only doesn't make you an expert in a subject,it doesn't even make you right.Real life experience and education will win out every single time
Yes I have. I have seen it at least three times. It just isn't that funny. Funny but not top 10 funny. I would rather watch "Bringing up Baby" for a screwball comedy and I would much rather watch the classic "Arsenic and Old Lace".Originally posted by Stranger On A Train
I like Airplane, BS, Young Frankenstein, Animal House, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Spinal Tap, Blues Brothers and others I cannot even think of at the moment better than Some Like It Hot that relies to much on Men in Drag humor but is not as clever about it as Monty Python. "Arsenic and Old Lace" manages to not be dated as the humor holds up even though the times have changed. Some Like It Hot was the height of humor way back when and I love Jack Lemmon but honestly Tony Curtis is not an actor I enjoy at all. Monroe is far from my favorite actress.
All of these are pretty funny, but my pick of what's listed is Spinal Tap. I think what works for me about it is that the concept is so funny in & of itself. (Obviously, the execution of it is brilliant, too.) I thought about a write-in vote for The Blues Brothers, too, or Life of Brian, which I like better than Holy Grail.
I think Three Amigos belongs on the list.
"Are you the singing bush?"
Surely you voted for Airplane!Originally posted by don't call me shirley
I am deeply saddened that there has been no mention yet of The Blues Brothers.
After that, Holy Grail works for me.
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
[quote=What Exit?]Surely you voted for Airplane![/quote:cjgh0a8e]Originally posted by "don't call me shirley":cjgh0a8e
Yeah, but it was a tough decision.
Except for posts 28 & 29 just above yours.Originally posted by Oliveloaf
Silenus has an excuse though. As he told me, "Honest... I ran out of gas. I, I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts. IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD."
Thank God. Cuz, "We're on a mission from God."Originally posted by What Exit?
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
Dude. You know me better than that. See post #29.Originally posted by Oliveloaf
And post #28, for that matter.
Sheriff Bart: What are you pleasures? What do you like to do?Originally posted by longhair75
Waco Kid: Oh, I don't know. Play chess....screw.
Sheriff Bart: Well, let's play chess.
Hey, I'm sorry. It was dark and I was wearing sun glasses.
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
Hit it!Originally posted by Oliveloaf
As funny as I think Blazing Saddles is, I had to go with Young Frankenstein. Marty Feldman steals the show, but the scene with Gene Hackman and Peter Boyle in the woodchopper's hit makes me hurt because I laugh so hard.
Political correctness will be the death of our country.
For a killer single scene, it's tough to top the holy hand grenade bit in Holy Grail.
Of course, the visiting-the-penguin scene in the Blue's Brothers is also fabulous.
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
I just rewatched "Office Space," and now I am wavering - THAT may be the funniest movie ever made. That dream scene where Lumberg quaffs his coffee while bonking Peter's girlfriend is priceless.
Of course, it helps that I had a boss identical to Bill Lumberg in the early 1990s. The similarities are eerie. I think they secretly videotaped my boss and totally based the Lumberg look and mannerisms on him.
The above post is why there will always be wars in the world. I didn't find Office Space to be very funny at all. Mildly amusing, occasionally diverting, but not fall-down funny. The characters were just annoying.
As for single killer scenes, there are few that can top "Don't move, or the nigger gets it!"
"The Turtle Moves!"
"Son, you've got pantie on your head!" from Raising Arizona
To mimic Silenus a bit, I found both Raising Arizona and Something about Mary to be absolutely overrated with very few laughs. In general Ben Stiller is the opposite of funny for me. Odd as I have always liked his parents and so many seem to love Ben.Originally posted by longhair75
I do love office space, when Scrubs recently had a "Red Stapler" in Perry's office, I broke up laughing very hard.
There's Something About Mary was nothing to write home about and while Raising Arizona is great, it's not because of the laughs. As for Ben Stiller... there's Zoolander and Mystery Men and little else.Originally posted by What Exit?
I thought Something About Mary was hilarious. A great anecdote from the commentary- Lee Evans, the guy who plays Tucker, the guy who talks with a British accent but turns out to be a burnout pizza boy- in testing the audience said that his British accent sounded totally fake and that he was trying too hard to make it believable. The funny thing is, that guy is really British, but his American burnout accent was so good everyone thought he was really an American.Originally posted by Harlequin
Raising Arizona doesn't have any really big laughs, except the "I'll be taking these Pampers and any cash you have on hand" line, but it's still a great movie.
Mystery Men- the first half of that movie is excellent, but the ending is pretty lame.
I was so disappointed when Mystery Men turned out to be so "meh," because that practically guarantees that Bob Burden's far stronger character, Flaming Carrot, will never have a movie of his own.Originally posted by don't call me shirley
As for me, I voted "other," because Yellowbeard wasn't on the list.
I'm pro-choice and I shoot back.
Ben Stiller is best when he’s playing a character, somebody over the top, like Derek Zoolander or White Goodman from Dodgeball. When he’s just playing “Ben Stiller” in a movie, like in Mary, or Meet the Parents, or Along Came Polly, he’s worse than putridly unfunny.Originally posted by What Exit?
I do not bite my thumb at you, but I bite my thumb.
If Raising Arizona had been on the list, I might have picked it. It is easily one of my favourite comedies of all time and I find the show laugh-out-loud funny from beginning to end. Nic Cage at his defeated-looking best and the late Trey Wilson being a brilliant character actor, as always. Sweet!Originally posted by Harlequin
Hell is other people.