What Is the funniest movie you ever watched?

alieNDN

Whether it was mainstream or lesser known, I just want a top 5 list from you folks. I have a movie night with old school friends a few times a year (getting older related), and I'm hosting. Before we head to a local bar, I want to show a movie, and I think it should be funny and put people in good spirits. Dry humour would be appreciated.

I like "The Party", even though it could be interpreted as "Brown Face", as a brownie, my Dad loves it and introduced it to me, and I loved it as a kid, and now as well. The mannerisms are tight, it's just classic!

Cheers

tabira

Obvious choice but you can't go wrong with this



alternatively

LaserWolf

There is a best comedy thread somewhere.
In it I reped My Cousin Vinnie. I think people were embarrassed for me.

1) My Cousin Vinnie
2) Spinal Tap
3) Dr Strangelove (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb)
4) Trading Places
5) It's A Mad Mad Mad World

I think IAMMMW would go over well with a crowd. My guess is that you and your friends are to young to realize that the movie is filled with a dizzying array of the top comedy actors of the time and earlier times. Bonus Trivia James Brown released It's a Man's World as It's A Mans Mans Mans World to capitalize on the movie.

batmon

There is no "funniest" ever on my personal list.

I can watch Spinal Tap and Coming To America over and over and over and over......

Delirious was mindblowing when it came out. Even more so than the Richard Live stuff.

Possum Slim

Think the original version of Taking of Pelham 123 is one of the most underrated films for comedy dialogue.

Bon Vivant

Caddyshack. Still laugh out loud when I see it.

b/w

Blues Brothers

bonus beat: Austin Powers

DJBombjack

Off the top of the head three, in no particular order:

Airplane
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python & Holy Grail

Grandfather

I couldnt give them a place but five of my favorite for sure would be:

-Rushmore
-Coming to America
-Ghostbusters
-Observe and Report
-Big Lebowski

I don't think Airplane is that funny but the disco dance scene is some of my favorite stuff EVER.

bassie

American Psycho
Best in Show
Caddyshack
Punch-Drunk Love
Raising Arizona
The King of Comedy

Risingson

On first viewing - Dumb & Dumber, I almost my shit, nothing has come close

For repeated viewing

This Is Spinal Tap
Trading Places
Blazing Saddles
Friday
Withnail & I
The Big Lebowski
Annie Hall
Office Space
Dazed & Confused
Coming to America

rootlesscosmo

http://www.soulstrut.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/72882/

Grandfather

bassie said:

American Psycho
Punch-Drunk Love

Whoa, thats really pushing the comedy label IMO.

bassie

Grandfather said:

bassie said:

American Psycho
Punch-Drunk Love

Whoa, thats really pushing the comedy label IMO.

Yea...not like laugh out loud silly funny, but well-written and well-executed dark comedy funny.

Okem

M.A.S.H

& others already mentioned.

LaserWolf

And,
Something About Mary

batmon

bassie said:

Grandfather said:

bassie said:

American Psycho

Whoa, thats really pushing the comedy label IMO.

Yea...not like laugh out loud silly funny, but well-written and well-executed dark comedy funny.

Co-sign.

All the musical references in that shit is hilarious. Huey Newton is too Black, Whitney Houston, Phil Collins vs Peter Gabriel.
Oh shit type shit.

I gotta return some VHS tapes.

batmon

And i know im in the minority but How High is my shit along w/ Dont Be A Menace While Drink Your Juice In The Hood.

SIRUS

i loved don't be a menace when i saw it back when. bernie mack crushed his scene. the poster on the wall of the convenience store; robo-pimp, etc

Electrode

If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Belgium: Kind of like "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World" meets "European Vacation"

Mr. Mike's Mondo Video: Old school SNL cast parody of Italian shock-docs ("Mondo Cane", etc)

fishmongerfunk

bassie said:

The King of Comedy

that's one of my favourite movies in any genre but its not exactly "ha ha" funny. jerry lewis' is so dark and brooding in that flic.

"the jerk" still makes me laugh after all these years.

rootlesscosmo

i revisited don't be a menace recently and was shocked at the editing. like real amateurish pauses and silences between gags. kinda weird. that movie still has some great stuff. those dudes shoulda hung it up after that though. they blew their wad; subsequent "scary movie," "teenie movie," "white girls," etc. were all bad; way too obvious.

parallax

Pulp Fiction

alieNDN

Thanks for the responses. I really missed out on a lot of classics, which should be fun catching up with.

I thought "Election" was hilarious and watched it multiple times..

RAJ

Step Brothers

Mjukis

Depending on age and state of mind, I've laughed like crazy to:

Naked Gun
Superbad
40 year old virgin
Swingers
Half Baked
Play it again Sam (and Annie Hall of course)
CB4

Cosign on Airplane, Shaun of the dead and the Big Lebowski.

I also think American Splendor is really funny, in a dryer sort of way. Also, a movie that never gets enough credit for its comedic elements: The Seventh Seal.

GatorToof

Was a Jim Carey fan,

Ace Ventura
The Mask

The_Hook_Up

The first 2 National Lampoon Vaction movies
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Caddyshack
The Jerk
Kingpin
Airplane
Election
Coming To America
Trading Places

recent stuff:
The Hangover
Cedar Rapids

Risingson

Mjukis said:

Swingers

Good call......watch me make Gretzky's head bleed

Sunfade

Joe Dirt

badder_than_evil

Weird Science
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Hear No Evil, See No Evil

LoopDreams

Cosign on alot of the above.

Also:

Team America
Borat.