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I quite like some of the ones from Seth Rogen’s troupe. Dr. Strangelove gets better with each viewing. What do people think of It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World? And yeah Airplane, Naked Gun etc |
What's the best comedy movie ever made? • Page 5
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Psiloc 6,366 posts
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Rodney 5,029 posts
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Registered 15 years agoHonourable mentions for the following overlooked films in this thread;
Hunt for the Wilder People
little Miss sunshine
The Guard
Napoleon Dynamite
But my favourite has to be Airplane or Life of Bryan. -
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Registered 12 years agoMars Attacks and Shaun of the dead are up there. Also Wallace and Gromit films are brilliantly funny. -
up_the_ante 1,574 posts
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Registered 14 years ago"Strike him thenturion, very woughly!" -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThe Jerk is also excellent -
Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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Registered 19 years agoOffice Space because it's perfectly relatable.
Evil Dead 2 because it's barely comedy, but it is somewhere in the genre and is one of the best films ever made.
Sorceress because it's in the so bad it's brilliant category and hilarious because of it.
Hats off to the Cornetto 3, Bruge, Spinal Tap, Princess Bride and Strangelove.
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@Rodney Good shouts, hunt for the wilder people and nedpoleone dynamite are a few I forgot.
I do struggle with what's a comedy, but I know Airplane and Naked Gun are fucking genius on the level of the first 2 python films.
EDIT: Spinal tap: even BBC player goes to 11
On that not I'd push School of Rock
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Trafford 9,358 posts
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Registered 14 years agoMr Jolly Lives Next Door. -
Trafford 9,358 posts
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Registered 14 years agoThread should be renamed-
Which films make you laugh? -
Armoured_Bear 31,233 posts
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Registered 10 years agoelstoof wrote:
Indeed.
The Jerk is also excellent
Interesting/shame that almost all the films mentioned are from decades ago.
I think the only things I’ve watched recently that have been really funny are the Dave Chapelle Netflix specials. -
Armoured_Bear 31,233 posts
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Registered 10 years agoConfession : I still haven’t seen Spinal Tap -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoup_the_ante wrote:
This. Best film ever, let alone comedy.
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Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoDrStrangelove wrote:
Should have gone back further...
While I greatly appreciate the acknowledgement displayed in this thread, this is the correct answer:
jimnastics wrote:
Life of Brian by some distance... then Holy Grail, then everything else posted in this thread. -
Psiloc wrote:
Finally someone admits it
Dr. Strangelove gets better with each viewing. -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoOne thing is clear though... Good comedy is really hard to do. They are few and far between in the whole swathe of releases. -
BreadBinLidHero 10,801 posts
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Registered 12 years agoThere's lots of comedies, and lots which are really funny. But ones which also become timeless cinema aren't overly common. Most are made for profit rather than art, which might explain why a lot of true classics of comedy are satirical, or not straight comedies. -
Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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Registered 19 years agoI can never tire of The Blues Brothers. -
DangerousDave_87 7,074 posts
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Registered 5 years agoI can't stand Airplane. It's like meeting up with friends and one of them has got carried away with trying to be funny, but they're also the only person in the room laughing. I was amazed when I discovered it was held in such high regard.
Having said that, I love Wayne's World. Far from the funniest comedy, but it left an impression on me as a child and I could watch it a million times over. -
Rodney 5,029 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI loved Wayne’s World at the time, but time has not been kind to it, or any Mike Myers’ films for that matter.
I do have a soft spot for some B tier comedy movies though, like Wonder Men, Hot Rod, super Troopers -
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BreadBinLidHero 10,801 posts
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Registered 12 years agoI've never seen his 'classic' comedies, but The Purple Rose of Cairo and Blue Jasmine are two great films.
Enjoy them before he's a confirmed sex perv.
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There are quite a few films I'd name among my super funny favourites, like Wallace & Gromit, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, In the Loop, and of course Peter Jackson's magnum opus, Braindead.
But Monty Python is just one step above anything else, my top 3 of everything are Life of Brian, Holy Grail and Jabberwocky. Jabberwocky sadly isn't an actual Monty Python film, it's "only" a Terry Gilliam film starring Michael Palin, most importantly the other two have Graham Chapman and John Cleese. Holy Grail is a little less accomplished as a film telling a coherent story than the other two, it's a somewhat disjointed collection of sketches (and it lacks the emotional parts of the others). Life of Brian has it all, so it gets the top spot. -
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Registered 16 years agoKingpin, or arrested development the movie (when/ if they make it) -
Gibroon 2,658 posts
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Registered 17 years agoDirtbox wrote:
Love this film to bits.
I can never tire of The Blues Brothers.
The Life of Brian is hard to fault as well. -
anephric 5,274 posts
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Registered 14 years agoDuck Soup
A Day at the Races
A Night at the Opera
Duck Soup being predictably my favourite - the mirror skit is still ridicuously funny nearly a hundred years later.
Get your tuttsi fruitsi ica cream!
The Man with Two Brains - I didn't realise, until a couple of years ago, that there are some people who don't think this is the funniest film ever made. Gags on an Airplane-level of frequency.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother - a Gene Wilder flick made with the same level of farcical ridiculousness as a Mel Brooks film (Brooks has a voice-over cameo). The opera scene at the end is hilarious. -
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Registered 16 years agoDirtbox wrote:
Oh yeah, Blues Brothers is awesome.
I can never tire of The Blues Brothers.
Just so long as we can all agree that Blues Brothers 2000 never happened. -
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Registered 11 years agoBluesbrothers indeed. It isn't laugh out loud, chuckle funny, but the entire affair is just a slowly building joke without a punchline.
I'd put Shaun of the Dead and every other one of Edgar Wright's movies in the same genre and at the same level. It's just really funny, even without laughs and gags.
If I do need to nominate a chuckle film, I'd still go for Airplane. -
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Registered 18 years agoI prefer the Naked Gun films to Aeroplane. I'm very fond of the film but it doesn't make me laugh. -
They're doing a reboot of Blues Brothers, just to fill you all with dread.
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