The thread about "The Princess Bride" got me thinking about funny movies. We have some very witty people here are TUSCL, but we all seem to have different sense of humor. I'd like to get a taste of what you guys think is funny. Just off the top of my head, here are my favorites. I probably left out a few.
The Seven Year Itch
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Animal House
The Blues Brothers
National Lampoon's Vacation
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
but the all-time winner, by a wide margin is Airplane!
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last commentClerks is the first that comes to mind
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Anchorman(the first one)
Due date
Step brothers
Superbad
Pineapple express
The other guys
Wedding crashers
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40 year old virgin
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Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtiss & Jack Lemon
The Odd Couple With Walter Matthau & Jack Lemon
The Sunshine Boys with George Burns & Walter Mathew
almost anything written by Neil Simon
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Local Hero
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Almost all of Will Farrell movies (Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, Old School)
Hangover
Tommy Boy
The Nutty Professor (Eddie Murphy version)
Blues Brothers
National Lampoon's Vacation
Friday
Happy Gilmore
Dumb and Dumber (the original one)
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Blazing Saddles
Quest for the Holy Grail
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Super Troopers
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Most of the American Pie movies
Road Trip
Porky's
Christmas Vacation
Harlem Nights
Old School
Revenge of the Nerds
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Spaceballs (best meta scene ever)
Support Your Local Sheriff
The Princess Bride (natch)
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The In-Laws
Office Space
Lost in America
Fierce Creatures
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Caddyshack
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Gotta agree with Rech; Big Lebowski
Also:
Dr. Strangelove
Raising Arizona
Office Space
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Blazing Saddles (maybe the only time I've ever agreed with Dougster on anything)
Life of Brian
Animal House.
Maybe slightly off topic, but the Broadway play Book of Mormon was also hilarious (assuming that you're not a Mormon).
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And yeah Airplane definitely goes towards the top of the list.
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Caddy shack.
Dodge ball
The Jerk
Joe Dirt
Coming to Anerica
Trading Places
Back to School
Animal House
Austin Power movies
Zoolander
Office Space
Blazing Saddles (classic)
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I see lots posts for Animal House. It was good but American Pie Beta House is much funnier in my opinion.
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Might be because when Animal House came out, there had never been anything like it before. Same with Blazing Saddles. I don't think its shock humor has nearly the impact it did at first.
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The Jerk
The Man with 2 Brains
Stripes
Harlem Nights
Boomerang
Stir Crazy
Silver Streak
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My favorites, no particular order:
The Princess Bride
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
" " European Vacation
Space balls
Robin Hood Men in Tights
The Producers
Blazing Saddles
Police Academy
The Out of Towner's (Original version)
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Shadowcat's divorce or Obama's inauguration.
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Oh! Almost forgot:
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Dr. Strange love
Revenge of the Pink Panther
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In addition to the classics above I would add The Three Amigos and Young Frankenstien
I probably laughed most at Ed Woods cult classic---Plan 9 From Outer Space
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The Producers (original 1967 version)
The Naked Gun
Play It Again, Sam
Annie Hall
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My faves across the years, in rough chronological order:
It's A Mad Mad World
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python- Holy Grail
Animal House
Airplane
1941
Caddyshack
Monty Python Meaning of Life
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Dumb and Dumber
Naked Gun 33 1/3 The Final Insult
Horrible Bosses
For honorable mention, for not being the Lmao kind, but 3 antiwar clasics from the 60's and 70's: Dr. Strangelove, MAS*H (the movie), and Catch22.
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^horrible bosses was funny too.
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Almost forgot; some of the Police Academies
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Animal House would be far and away my favorite, but I don't see a lot of movies anymore. Caddyshack and Back to School were also good. My best friend thinks Used Cars was the best, but I only liked a few of the scenes.
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I forgot about Silver Streak. I loved Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. The restroom scene with Wilder trying to be black was among the funniest laugh out scenes in movie history.
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Many have already been said but for me in no particular order
Coming to America
The Naked Gun
Dragnet (Dan Ackroyd and Tom Hanks)
Happy Gilmore/Billy Madison
Beverly Hills Cop
Trading Places
48 hours
Blazing Saddles
Spaceballs
Johnny Dangerously
Harlem Nights
Many of you have listed some hilarious movies, the criteria for mine was if it is on tv even though I've seen it a million times will I still watch it. And for all of the above the answer is yes for me. and as a matter of fact Blazing Saddles and Johnny Dangerously are on this weekend and I'll be watching both. Lol
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A few of the previously mentioned and.............................................................
my favorites that weren't mentioned.
Ruthless People
I Love You To Death
Snatch
Quick Change
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OK, A fish Called Wanda too.
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Amazon Women On The Moon
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motorhead,
Another easy question for me, Mad Mad. Just look at the list...
Spencer Tracy
Milton Berle
Sid Caesar
Buddy Hackett
Ethel Merman
Mickey Rooney
Dick Shawn
Phil Silvers
Terry-Thomas
Jonathan Winters
Edie Adams
Dorothy Provine
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Jim Backus
Joe E. Brown
William Demarest
Andy Devine
Peter Falk
Norman Fell
Buster Keaton
Don Knotts
Zasu Pitts
Carl Reiner
Arnold Stang
The Three Stooges
Jimmy Durante
Morey Amsterdam
Jack Benny
Larry Fine
Moe Howard
Jerry Lewis
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One I forgot.
You don't mess with the Zohan.
stupid movie but I find it hilarious.
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Monty Python And The Holy Grail and Caddyshack are the two best comedies ever made IMHO. Honorable mention to Blazing Saddles.
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Arnold Stang! Mr_O and I must be the only two people who even know who he is!!
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If a huge cast of stars plus hours of car chases equaled funny, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World would talke comedy gold. And 1941 would take silver.
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One that I forgot: "Egermency! Egermency! Please to get from street!"
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Old French comedies starring Pierre Richard and Louis de Funes.
"Some like it hot".
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I saw it's a Mad mad mad world while I was stationed in Japan in 1964. I particularly like it because it was filmed in around my home town of Long Beach CA.
I had a 42 year career in air transportation. Airplane was required viewing for all employees. :)
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My gosh, Mikey! How could I have left Amazon Women on the Moon off of my list? I should also have included Search for the Holy Grail as well.
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O Brother Where Art Thou
The Birdcage
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Chandler:
The movie you mention was "The Russians are Coming! The Russians are coming!"
The line was, "Emerrrrgency! Emerrrrgency! Everybody to get from street!" A very funny movie with a very hot blonde as one of the townspeople. I was in college when it came out. A bunch of us went through the dorm chorusing that line.
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Just found another one I'm watching right now. "I'm gonna get you sucka"
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Coming to America is great. Eddie Mirphy is really funny.
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Coen Brothers comedies
Harold & Kumar
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Jay & Silent Bob
The Brady Bunch parodies
Dodgeball
Animal House
Revenge of the Nerds
Airplane!
Police Squad!
Shaun of the Dead
and the occasional classics with The Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, and Abbott & Costello
I'm sure there are more -- lots more.
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Oh, yeah:
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Sixteen Candles
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One more - Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
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Airplane
Caddyshack
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Throw Momma from the Train
Twins
Wedding Crashers
Animal House
40 year old virgin
Raising Arizona
There's Something about Mary
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Trading Places...maybe a perfect comedy movie!
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Seeing some of the comments, I definately forgot the "Naked Gun" movies with Leslie Nielson.
And the "Vacation" movies also.
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ATACdawg, I hoped someone would remember that. And that's the line Alan Arkin's Russian captain taught his sailors, but some of them repeated it back as "Egermency".
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How about some love for the classics?
It's a Gift -- W.C. Fields
Duck Soup -- The Marx Brothers
Way Out West -- Laurel & Hardy
Bringing Up Baby
Sullivan's Travels
etc etc
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One more movie that I just remembered!
Paint Your Wagon with Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin headlining. Two guys not known for their comedic chops turned in great performances. The scene where the bull runs through the tunnels under the town knocking out the props and causing the whole boomtown to collapse into the earth is a classic. I definitely wouldn't have wanted a "Take two" on that one.
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R.I.P.D. (my favorite comedy right now)
Bridesmaids
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Trainwreck
Spy
Anything Mel Brooks
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+1 lopaw on Trainwreck. I laughed my ass off at that movie. I haven't done that in awhile.
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The first Ghostbusters. Man, how could I forget that classic?
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Most comedies do not stand the test of time. I tried to watch some 70s and 80s comedies with my teenaged boys and they thought I was retarded. I can laugh at their humor, but they don't find my "classics" funny at all.
21 Jumpstreet, 40 year old Virgin. and The Hangover all work for us both.
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@rh48hr- yeah....Amy Schumer. Either you love her or you hate her.
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There's been many good choices posted here. I'll throw out "Good Morning Vietnam" as another worthy consideration. Although not entirely comedic, whimsical, or lighthearted, it has enough Robin Williams schtick to keep the humor rolling along. "This will not look good on my resume" is one of many RW one-liners.
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There's Something About Mary
Old School
Wedding Crashers
The Hangover
Caddyshack
Big Lebowski
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Peter Otoole did a comedy called 'my favorite year'. He was brilliant. Anyone remember the bathroom scene?
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Everyone is throwing out some classics and I can't argue with very many of them. I'd have to say my highlight reel would def include:
Monty Python holy grail
Airplane
Caddy shack
Natl lampoon-any of the vacation series
Spaceballs
Blazing saddle
40yo virgin
And I can't believe there's one no one has mentioned. It is roll in the floor hilarious:
My Fellow Americans
If you have never seen it you need to pull it up and watch it tonight.
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I forgot all about "My Fellow Americans"! Excellent buddy/road-trip movie. "Hero" with Dustin Hoffman and "Wag the Dog" were also great social commentary comedies.
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