I went on a cruise to The Bahamas a couple months ago and this was playing over and over in my room, marathon-style. I found it very challenging to motivate myself to get out and enjoy the beautiful sights!
Stir Crazy
Laurel and Hardy (The Music Box/Hog Wild)
Groundhog Day
Blues Brothers.
Trading Places
School for Scoundrels
Ace Ventura (I hate myself for liking any Carey product)
Caddyshack
High Anxiety
This is probably my number 1. Almost every line is funny, and some of the bits that make you piss your pants laughing are funny because they're real (eg, stoning people for saying Jehova, crucifixion gags etc).
Trading Places, somewhere in the top 10 for sure.
Not sure about Coming To America - great characters, slightly weak story, but definitely top 20!
I have fond memories of Coming To America but it doesn't even come close to the genius of Trading Places.
So many great lines in Trading Places. A random snippet:
"...Have you people ever heard of coasters?
"Would you like me to prepare some more hors d'oeuvres for the guests, sir?"
"Fuck them."
So many great lines though I used to have an obsession with this scene for quite some time :
Not really in the mind to make lists today but if I was just looking comedies that make me laugh more than anything else rather than "great films" mine would probably mainly consist of the following plus a few forgotten right now.
Trading Places
Airplane
The General
Man With Two Brains
After Hours
The Burbs
Bringing Up Baby
Planes Trains & Automobiles
Groundhog Day
Office Space
Blazing Saddles
Spinal Tap
Funny how the list is almost entirely composed of films from my youth. No doubt nostalgia and quotables plays a heavy part.
Not Top 10 to me, but that's not to say that it's not a great comedy. It's just that there are other comedies that have made me laugh more than Coming To America. And yeah, I would put Trading Places over Coming To America. I don't really rate comedies, but these films have been longtime favorites of mine:
My Man Godfrey (William Powell and Carole Lombard. Enough said)
Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Kubrick and comedy. Genius)
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (just an all-star cast of comedy greats)
Love And Death (my all-time favorite Woody Allen film)
Harold and Maude (love those random death scenes)
Duck Soup (Marx Brothers and war)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Sir Alec Guinness was Eddie Murphy before Eddie Murphy)
Blazing Saddles (one of my favorite Mel Brooks films)
Take The Money And Run (I love the documentary feel to it, but also Jackson Beck as the narrator did it for me)
There's lots of other films, but these are the ones off the top of my head. Oh, and Ghostbusters.
There really aren't enough movies made in Queens. I'll always watch it when its on, even if I just watched it yesterday. I enjoy it just as much for the historical perspective, the clothing, the music, etc., now as I do for the comedy. It's a cute movie and I'd put it in Eddie Murphy's top five, if not mine.
the Sexual Chocolate scene is comedy gold..................Joe the policeman from the Whats Goin Down episode of That's My Momma.....damn that boy can sing
I went on a cruise to The Bahamas a couple months ago and this was playing over and over in my room, marathon-style. I found it very challenging to motivate myself to get out and enjoy the beautiful sights!
one of only about a dozen movies I actually own in hardcopy.
Monty Python anybody? (Woops just realized life of Brian was mentioned already)
And yeah coming to America is a top 5 for me. Hard for me to separate it from the nostalgia factor though. Also...
Princess Bride
Three Amigos
Spies Like Us
Spaceballs
Speaking of the tail end of Golden Era Eddie Murhpy comedies, what's your take on Boomerang, underrated or overrated or the little-used accurately rated? I always kinda liked the movie, although I saw it at a very impressional age (like 12) -- I actually ordered the soundtrack on CD for Christmas for my brother... from Columbia House, a crafty trick I employed two holiday seasons in a row.
Speaking of the tail end of Golden Era Eddie Murhpy comedies, what's your take on Boomerang, underrated or overrated or the little-used accurately rated?
I ride hard for Boomerang, but i dont really put it with the Classic Eddie Murphy Comedies.
Its more of a Dramady or Rom-Com. He's not cartoonish/outlandish. He's getting his semi-serious sexy on.
I think its a pre-cursor to the coming "Upscale" Black Film movement during the 'Neo-Soul' Era.
Professional Brothers & Sisters and their drama presented w/ some extra-sheen/glamour.....like Waiting To Exhale three years later.
I dont see that cats up in here championing Boomerang if theyre not rockin CTA.
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Animal House
Airplane
Dont Be A Menace While Drinkin Juice in The Hood
The Blues Brothers
Which Way Is Up
Spinal Tap
How High
countdown to the Big Lebowski bitches............
Blazing Saddles
Caddyshack
Spinal Tap
A Fish Called Wanda
Dr. Strangelove
Young Frankenstein
Trading Places
Blues Brothers
Stripes
Airplane
I'm probably forgetting something obvious too.
My top five would include these mentioned above.
Spinal Tap
A Fish Called Wanda
Dr. Strangelove
+
It's A Mad Mad World
These might make it in.
Trading Places
Beverly Hill Cops
There are also all the Marx Bros. so Night at the Opera could be the 5th.
I am sure there are more I am overlooking.
Just watched the first 2 seasons of Bored to Death, and did a lot of laughing.
peace, stein. . .
top five would include Blues Bros, Top Secret, Caddyshack, Fast Times....fuggit I don't feel like doing this rat now.
YES.
I went on a cruise to The Bahamas a couple months ago and this was playing over and over in my room, marathon-style. I found it very challenging to motivate myself to get out and enjoy the beautiful sights!
So many great lines in Trading Places. A random snippet:
"...Have you people ever heard of coasters?
"Would you like me to prepare some more hors d'oeuvres for the guests, sir?"
"Fuck them."
Stir Crazy
Laurel and Hardy (The Music Box/Hog Wild)
Groundhog Day
Blues Brothers.
Trading Places
School for Scoundrels
Ace Ventura (I hate myself for liking any Carey product)
Caddyshack
High Anxiety
This is probably my number 1. Almost every line is funny, and some of the bits that make you piss your pants laughing are funny because they're real (eg, stoning people for saying Jehova, crucifixion gags etc).
Trading Places, somewhere in the top 10 for sure.
Not sure about Coming To America - great characters, slightly weak story, but definitely top 20!
So many great lines though I used to have an obsession with this scene for quite some time :
Not really in the mind to make lists today but if I was just looking comedies that make me laugh more than anything else rather than "great films" mine would probably mainly consist of the following plus a few forgotten right now.
Trading Places
Airplane
The General
Man With Two Brains
After Hours
The Burbs
Bringing Up Baby
Planes Trains & Automobiles
Groundhog Day
Office Space
Blazing Saddles
Spinal Tap
Funny how the list is almost entirely composed of films from my youth. No doubt nostalgia and quotables plays a heavy part.
Big Lebowski
Raising Arizona
Ground Hog Day
The Office
The Hangover
Dr. Strangelove
Clerks
There are others. Coming to America is not even a blip on the radar. It has a few moments, but it's corny to me overall.
Kindly,
parallax
My Man Godfrey (William Powell and Carole Lombard. Enough said)
Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Kubrick and comedy. Genius)
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (just an all-star cast of comedy greats)
Love And Death (my all-time favorite Woody Allen film)
Harold and Maude (love those random death scenes)
Duck Soup (Marx Brothers and war)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Sir Alec Guinness was Eddie Murphy before Eddie Murphy)
Blazing Saddles (one of my favorite Mel Brooks films)
Take The Money And Run (I love the documentary feel to it, but also Jackson Beck as the narrator did it for me)
There's lots of other films, but these are the ones off the top of my head. Oh, and Ghostbusters.
More people need to recognize It's A Mad Mad World.
He took it up a notch for that flick.
one of only about a dozen movies I actually own in hardcopy.
you sir, forgot the best one.....
And yeah coming to America is a top 5 for me. Hard for me to separate it from the nostalgia factor though. Also...
Princess Bride
Three Amigos
Spies Like Us
Spaceballs
It was a special time for young Halle Berry
I ride hard for Boomerang, but i dont really put it with the Classic Eddie Murphy Comedies.
Its more of a Dramady or Rom-Com. He's not cartoonish/outlandish. He's getting his semi-serious sexy on.
I think its a pre-cursor to the coming "Upscale" Black Film movement during the 'Neo-Soul' Era.
Professional Brothers & Sisters and their drama presented w/ some extra-sheen/glamour.....like Waiting To Exhale three years later.
I dont see that cats up in here championing Boomerang if theyre not rockin CTA.