Funniest Movies of All Time
jerikson40
New York
Okay, this one is totally subjective, no criteria whatsover, it just depends on what makes you laugh.
Personally, I can't recall a big long list of really funny movies. Many where kinda humorous, but how many films did I actually laugh out loud while watching? Not many. I'm not the kind of guy who grabs his gut and doubles over laughing when Lucy sticks a bunch of chocolates in her mouth.
So my contenders for funniest movies are these:
1. Ted (2012 Seth MacFarlane film with Mark Wahlberg): absolutely fucking hilarous. One of the few movies in memory that had moments when I'm in tears from laughing
2. 40 Year Old Virgin: Hilarious, I could watch this movie over and over and over.
3. Caddyshack: Very funny, though some long boring sections. But some of the funny stuff in Caddyshack was legendary.
After those two I'm pretty much drawing a blank. Yeah, some early Woody Allen stuff (Take the Money and Run), some Mel Brooks stuff (Blazing Saddles) was very funny, but otherwise, I'm drawing a blank. I'm sure I'm missing a lot of great stuff...
Personally, I can't recall a big long list of really funny movies. Many where kinda humorous, but how many films did I actually laugh out loud while watching? Not many. I'm not the kind of guy who grabs his gut and doubles over laughing when Lucy sticks a bunch of chocolates in her mouth.
So my contenders for funniest movies are these:
1. Ted (2012 Seth MacFarlane film with Mark Wahlberg): absolutely fucking hilarous. One of the few movies in memory that had moments when I'm in tears from laughing
2. 40 Year Old Virgin: Hilarious, I could watch this movie over and over and over.
3. Caddyshack: Very funny, though some long boring sections. But some of the funny stuff in Caddyshack was legendary.
After those two I'm pretty much drawing a blank. Yeah, some early Woody Allen stuff (Take the Money and Run), some Mel Brooks stuff (Blazing Saddles) was very funny, but otherwise, I'm drawing a blank. I'm sure I'm missing a lot of great stuff...
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2) Road Trip
3) American Pie 1, 2, & 3,
4) Revenge of the Nerds
and for you very old guys
5) Mister Roberts
- Ted - Love it and hilarious.
- Caddy Shack - classic and many funny movie quotes
- Dumb and Dumber - again many quotes and funny
- Billy Madison - again stupid comedy but funny
- Strange Brew - Yep again a cult classic but funny
- The Internship - Vince Vaughn is hilarious
- Wedding Crashers - again hilarious and vince vaughn
- Step Brothers - Many one liners again hilarious
- Talledageh nights - LOve the kids and stupid comedy.
I have many more.
Oh, and Will Ferrell and Mike Meyers !!!
Like the plane is in trouble, gonna crash, and in the control tower there's a fan running, and someone off camera throws a bit pile of brown turd at it.
Get it?? The shit hits the fan !!! HAHAHAHA !!!! That was Airplane. Great for 3rd graders I suppose, but geez...
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Lots of movies in the first category, very few in the second.
If we're talking about laugh-out-loud funny the undisputed champion is Airplane. Nothing is even close. But after you've seen it once, it's less funny. And I don't watch it now.
But comedy movies I still watch over and over are The Bkues a Brothers, Animal House, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Something About Mary
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
A Fish Called Wanda
Anything related to Monty Python
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
I remember seeing that as a kid and thinking it was the greatest. But have you watched it lately? Damn, it doesn't stand the test of time, IMO. I turned it off after maybe 15 minutes.
Anyway, I agree about the Monty Python thing. I never found British humor very funny. Kind of weird, IMO, but not funny.
And Planes, Trains, and Automobiles was the John Candy and Steve Martin one huh? Good movie, nice ending, but I never thought of it as particularly funny. Nice, humorous, but not very funny. Though Candy and Martin are always good to watch.
Again, let me emphasize there's a distinction between good movies that happen to be comedies and side-splitting laugh out loud funny.
Hmm, seeing a trend here....
There is no way it could make a movie today with so many "stars". It would be too expensive, too many big egos, too many schedule conflicts.
But it would be fun to recast it today.
As for movies Super Troopers, Strange Brew, Wedding Crashers, Clerks, lots of good stuff mentioned already.
Top 5 last 15 years:
1. 40 Year Old Virgin
2. The Hangover
3. 21 Jump Street
4. Step Brothers
5. Talladega Nights
I must have watched each of the above 20 times in parts flipping through premium movie channels over the years. Whenever on, you have to watch these no matter how many times you've seen them.
And of course super troopers.
Bob Porter: Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I wouldn't exactly say I've been missing it, Bob.
This scene always cracks me up..... Kind of tuscl appropriate too!
I agree with that assessment. The ones that do hold up have something else...Not just slapstick humor
A dramatic element -- Mister Roberts
Or a dark comedy -- Fargo
Or clever writing writing -- The Seven Year Itch
Robin Hood Men in Tights. A great send up of every previous Robin Hood movie. "Unlike some Robin Hoods, I speak with an English accent."
@slic - I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?
Boomerang
Coming To America
Bad Santa
Bad Grampa
"Now I got ta cut cha."
Some of Richard Pryor's lines are laugh out loud funny
The Three Amigos
National Lampoons Vacation
Space Balls
Stripes
Bad Grampa was kind of disappointing, it had some funny moments but it wasn't as good as lot of the Knoxville stuff.
Yes. Very much. He's a fucking moron. Sings these silly songs that aren't funny, and does stuff that would embarrass a 6th grader. And what's that stupid character he did on SNL, the school lunch lady where he dresses up as some fat old woman?
When a guy has to resort to dressing up like a woman, he is grasping at the last chance for being funny.
And yeah, the whole "Wayne's World" thing was excellent. Mike Meyers is superb. And I loved the whole Austin Powers thing. Hilarious. Except when the catered to the 4 year olds and did all the poop and fart jokes.
I know, right? I'm not a real big fan of hers, but she is very cute, and just my type as a girlfriend. And she comes across as such an awesome chick in that movie.
And that was arguably the funniest movie of all time, and if you don't agree you're a homo. :) :)
The cute little bear sharing a bong hit ? And he's banging the hot blonde in the back room of the supermarket? And with the Boston accent? Damn that shit was hilarious.
Travelling across country at night in the Wagon Queen Family Truckster. Camera pans across the back seat, young kids blissfully sleeping. Then the wife in the front passenger seat, sound asleep. Then to Chevy Chase in the drivers seat, snoring away....
Fucking priceless.
I've tried to watch those movies, I really have. But I just can't. On a scale of 1 to Silly, they're a 12. There's one joke thru all the movies. Bumbling Detective. Fine. But after an hour of that same, totally predictable stuff over and over, it gets boring. Yeah, I know he's going to do these slapstick pratfalls over and over and do dumb stuff that causes a ruckus. Okay, I get it.
It's a bit like I Love Lucy. Lemme guess, Lucy is going to so something dumb and get in trouble.
The all time award for least funny SNL member goes to Jim Breuer, whose claim to fame was the most unfunny character in comedy history, "Goat Boy".
If someone can explain to me why anyone would laugh at some guys whose humor is nothing more than bleating like a goat, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Spinal Tap
Caddyshack
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Blazing Saddles
Dr. Strange love that does make me laugh out loud. "Gentlemen there will be no fighting in here, this is a war room!"
Raising Arizona
My Blue Heaven & My Cousin Vinny
The movie that's had me rolling the most was probably the first time I saw Austin Powers.
I think you guys covered everything else that popped in my mind as far as funny movies.
The Naked Gun movies – def LOL
The Jerk
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Shit, them 80's high school movies all rocked.
60's: It's A Mad, Mad World.
70's: Animal House, Monty Python Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles.
80's: Airplane, 1941, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Good Morning Vietnam
90's: Dumb & Dumber, Naked Gun Final Insult.
2000- On: Horrible Bosses
Some not mentioned, I list my fave funny scene:
Silent Movie- Mime Marcel Marceu (sp) has only speaking scene, the Dom Deluise Coke Machine scene is a rib-splitter.
Monty Pythons Meaning of Life- Mr. Creosote restaurant scene literally takes the cake. (Or should it be "the mint.")
I'll close by saying that I appreciate British humour, and the Anna Nicole "tranny moment" in Naked Gun Final Insult puts me in stitches for minutes at a time.
Yeah – Anthony Michael Hall was pretty funny in 16 Candles
Kentucky Fried Movie
Amazon Women on the Moon
Mel Brooks "History of the World" only because it was such a clever homage to vaudeville (the "playing Caesar's Palace" line was a hoot). As already noted, his funniest was "Young Frankenstein" (the scene where the monster lights his thumb instead of the cigar still kills me.)
I enjoy "Kelly's Heroes" every time I watch it. Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Conner, and Donald "its a mother beautiful bridge" Sutherland as "Oddball." Outstanding.
Bill Murray playing Hunter S. Thompson in "Where the Buffalo Roam" was pretty funny as well.
Dr. Strangelove is brilliant, as is "The Mouse that Roared" with Sellers again in multiple rolls. Best Pink Panther was the one where both Chief Inspector Dreyfus and Kato were trying to kill him.
Last but not least, the Marx Brothers "Duck Soup" is chock full of silly shit that is still funny after 80 years.
Yeah, IMO his films were very watchable and humorous. But Mel Brooks seemed to write stuff for Mel Brooks, with a lot of inside jokes particular to his Jewish background, which flew over many people's heads. All of his mockery of Germans and Hitler (however well deserved) and inside Yiddish jokes were hilarious if you got them, but fall flat if you don't.
I was a big fan of Gene Wilder, especially in The Producers with Zero Mostel. And IMO Madeline Kahn was one of the very few really funny women in comedy. Not hilarious, but very funny and watchable.
"What's your name, Cowboy?"
"Tex, Ma'am"
"Well Mister Texmam, are you in show business?"
"No, Ma'am..."
"THEN WHY DON'T YOU GET YOUR FWIGGEN FEET OFF THE STAGE !!"
Ex-Inspector Dreyfuss being pushed back over the edge, "I just want to kill him!" With the suction cup arrow on his forehead.
"That's a priceless Steinway!" Horrified lady about the crushed piano. "Not anymeour", replies Clouseau.
"Does your dug bite?"
"No, my dog does not bite."
Clouseau, after being bitten, "I thought you said your dug did not bite."
"That is not my dog."
Priceless gags all!
shining
clockwork orange
full metal jacket
Roberto benigni the monster
the bad lieutenant -Harvey Keitel version
any of the jackass flicks
btw, check out jim breur and tracy morgan's last stand up specials and then try and tell afterwards if they are the least funniest snl cast members. my cote for that goes to tim meadows
That "mirror scene" is so fucking funny. And so are the lines. I can see how Mel Brooks and others picked up on this zaniness.
Or Billy Crystal, "He's only mostly dead."
Or the Dread Pirate Roberts, who ends up being a franchise name.
And all of the above played with a straight face. Brilliant!
http://youtu.be/-H-cWXr-n5I
You have got to admit that Hitler taking a pineapple up the ass is pretty funny.
But I loved "Paul Blart: Mall Cop"
Yeah, really stupid, but if you love "Die Hard" as much as i do, you have really did the parody of it in Mall Cop.