Ten Funniest Movies

[FloridaJudy]

Okay, as long as we're all sharing...

What are the movies you save in your Video/DVD collection for really *bad* days? Days when your boss chews you out, you come home to find your plumbing has backed up, and your kid calls you for bail money? Days when Sylvia Plath's "Cooking with Gas" looks appealing?

Days like today, when GWB makes a major speech...oh, that's right! I really don't have cable...Wheew!

What do you slam into the old VCR/DVD after pouring yourself a tall glass of wine or vodka, kicking off your shoes, and looking forward to laughing your ass off?

Here are mine:

The Producers
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Airplane!
This Is Spinal Tap
Take the Money and Run
Groundhog Day
Big
Best of Show
Dogma
Annie Hall

If you've got others, please share. We could all use the lift.

[Fixated]

1. ....

There's Something About Mary. Just watched it last night, just a solid comedy all the way.

[Zuni]

33. most Ben Stiller

Mary is great, and so is Zoolander. Meet the Parents is classic too.

[Wcross]

2. My cousin Vinny!!! N/t

[Bob3]

3. Duck Soup - a classic.

Bringing up Baby
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
The In-Laws (the one with Alan Arkin and Peter Faulk)
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (the Movie)

[mistertrickster]

10. Blazing Saddles, thanks for reminding me of that one

Slim Pickens seeing a railroad worker passed out from heat stroke:
"Dock that ____'s a days pay for napping on the job."

[disgruntella]

4. tommy boy!

That movie rivals pharmaceutical antidepressants. I speak from experience!

1st runner up: zoolander

i definitely agree with airplane! and best of show as well

Edit: I just got the SNL "Best of Will Farrel" DVD, it is awesome. Includes outtakes and appearances on Conan - on one Farrell does the whole interview as Robert Goulet. It's hysterical

[mistertrickster]

8. Tommy Boy . . . who can forget the model cars and Chris Farley

"I can't stop" ka blam!

Don't like to watch these too much--spoils them--

Animal House
The Graduate
Beetle Juice
Waiting for Guffman
The Winter's Tale (Kenneth Branagh directed)
Green Fingers

[DrBB]

5. Dr Strangelove

Well, I think of it as comedy anyway. Pretty much anything with Peter Sellers ranks high on my list, and in Dr Strangelove he plays three characters.

"Now see here, Sergeant Batguano if that really is your name...."

---

"Now I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed. But 50 to 60 milion dead tops!"

---

"Well, Dimitri, so I'm fine and your fine... I agree... It's great to be fine...."

---

"Of course I like to call you on the phone! Of course I like to say hello! It's just... we've had a little problem with the bomb. The bomb, Dimitri. The atomic bomb."

[NightTrain]

6. A short list...

It Happened One Night (1934)
You Can't Take It With You (1938)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Return of the Pink Panther (1974)
My Favorite Year (1982)
The Tall Guy (1990)

Also, pretty much any of Woody Allen's early films.

[comsymp]

25. Ahh, My Favorite Year

"I'm not an actor, I'm a Movie Star!"
Love that movie and just about anything with Peter O'Toole...

Other Faves, in no particular order:

Noises Off
My Fellow Americans
Shrek
Clue ("I hated her... sooo much...")
My Little Chickadee
Burglar
I'm Gonna Get You, Sucka
Scary Movie
Galaxy Quest

[sasquatch]

7. The Big Lebowski

Orgasmo
Oh brother where art thuo?
Hudsucker Proxy
Kelly's Hero's
Drowning Mona
Saving Silverman

[mark0rama]

9. A second on "Lebowski".

Lebowski has consistently reduced me to helpless laughter. It's the funniest movie I've ever seen, bar none.

Also "Animal House". Just saw "Old School" this weekend. Funny, but no "Animal House".

[Bluzmann57]

11. M*A*S*H

With Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould, among others. Anti-war and still funny after all these years.

[Zuni]

34. Mona and Silverman

are two of the funniest films that have come out in the last two years. They are great.

[BigMcLargehuge]

12. 10 laugh out loud comedies from BigMcLargehuge

In no particular order (and not repeating any on the original list)

Office Space
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
The Raven
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Mystery Science 3000: The Movie
Modern Times
The Whoopie Boys
Shakes the Clown
Battlefield Earth
Project A

[Zorba607]

13. spinal tap and best in show

but no Waiting for Guffman?!
I hate you and I hate your ass face.

[BigMcLargehuge]

15. You're all bastard people!

you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna go home and... and bite my pillow.

[Zuni]

35. They just kept probing me....

My favorite part in Guffman is when the people are talking about the Alien Abductions.
If you have the DVDs of Guffman or Show, watch the outtakes...some are funnier than the scenes in the movie.

[Forkboy]

14. I'll give this a go

in no real order my picks would be;

Tapeheads
Fletch
Dr. Strangelove
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Raising Arizona
Man Bites Dog
Airplane
Clerks
Take The Money And Run
Duck Soup

[baldguy]

61. "Her insides were a rocky place . . .

. . . where my seed could find no purchase."

H. I. McDunnough is one of movie historys classic characters.

[mitchum]

16. "The Lady Eve", "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek", "Some Like It Hot"..

This Is Spinal Tap"
"The Seven Year Itch"
"Waiting For Guffman"
"I'm Gonna Get Ya Sucka"
"Caligula"
"Showgirls"

[MrBenchley]

17. It's A Gift

"I'm looking for a man named Carl LaFong...Capital L, small A, Capital F, small o, small n, small g..."

Ed Wood..it's childish I know, but hearing Martin Landau cursing as Bela Lugosi kills me...

Young Frankenstein..."Yes! YES! He vas......my BOYFRIEND!!"

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Sons of the Desert

[LanternWaste]

18. In no particular order...

No particular order...

Princess Bride
The Awful Truth (Carey Grant, Irenne Dunne)
Roger & Me
Monty Python's Meaning of Life
Much Ado About Nothing (K. Branagh's '92 production)
I Love You, Alice B Toklas
The Lonely Guy (Steve Martin)
Rustler's Rhapsody
Weird Science
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (can you imagine building a two story house, drilling a well, renovating a workshed and a barn on 30 acres of land all for under $30,000?...whew!)


Ask me tomorrow...I bet at least half of my tiles will change...lol

[study_war_no_more]

21. shakes the clown

[FloridaJudy]

26. Welcome to DU!

You remember *I Love You, Alice B. Toklas*, and *Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House*?

Laughed my assets off.

Jump on in. The water's fine.

[LanternWaste]

56. Thanks for the welcome

Well, I don't quite remember them in the sense that I was going to the flickers when Grant was on the silver screen, but thanks to the technology og VHS (and I guess DVD's, now), I too can bnask in the glory of the silver age of movies...lol.

Thanks for the welcome. :)

[study_war_no_more]

19. Shanghai Noon

I'm the worst when it comes to comedy but this one is hilarius.

[study_war_no_more]

20. The king of hearts and Delicatesson

Also make me laugh as does Brazil.

[Lindsey]

22. I love this thread

and the fact that other du'ers do exactly what I do - take care of ourselves by laughter. I don't have all of these in my collection but what I don't have, I rent:
-Office space-"about that TPS report....."
-Best in Show- "If you're caught in my neighborhood with that outfit, you'd better be a hotel bellman." (and just TOO many other lines I could ever mention - this is actually my FAVORITE comedy of all time -I DO own this one.
-Waiting for Guffman(the corky in the bathtub scene)
-Raising Arizona
I'm tired, this is all I can think of for now...

[FloridaJudy]

23. Brazil?

I loved that, but I never thought of it as funny.

Also *The Fisher King*. Positively brilliant!

[SmileyBoy]

24. OK, I'll give you my list:

Dumb And Dumberer
Dumb And Dumberer
Dumb And Dumberer
Dumb And Dumberer
Dumb And Dumberer
Dumb And Dumberer
Dumb And Dumberer
Dumb And Dumberer
Dumb And Dumberer
Dumb And Dumberer

[HEyHEY]

27. mine

The search for the Holy Grail
Dirty Work
The Front Page
MASH
Animal House
City Slickers
Kids In the hall- brain Candy
National Lampoons Vacation
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Big Lebowski

That "Bait shop" In best in show, is where I spent much of my childhood eating candy on the front steps!

[CanuckAmok]

28. Planes, Trains and Automobiles... n/t

[HEyHEY]

29. there are so many

I could add that, and Mallrats, Dogma, Office SPace...the list goes on!

[RedEarth]

43. Agreed, "Trains, Planes and Automoblies".....

Steve Martin and John Candy...what a movie. I was laughing so hard I was crying, almost wet my pants and I couldn't breath.

[Gogi]

30. The Loved One

Call me strange butyou really have to see Mrs. Joyboy.

[maha]

57. I bet most of the young folks never saw it.

Brilliant film; ahead of its time.

[carpetbagger]

31. No Caddyshack?

In no order:

Caddyshack
Airplane
This is Spinal Tap
Dr. Strangelove
Stripes
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Jerk
The Beavis and Butthead movie
Animal House
Wag the Dog

[Zuni]

32. The Jerk

and the Man with Two Brains are two of my favorites. Of new movies, Drowning Mona and Saving Silverman are two really funny ones.
If you like Best In Show, check out 'Waiting For Guffman', which was the first of the improv movies done by Christopher guest and Eugene Levy, with many of the same actors and actresses.

[Wolfman 11]

36. Kicking and Screaming

anybody else like this one?

"go AWAY, cookie man!"

[grasswire]

37. my all-time favorite movie...

Victor Victoria (I adore it and wish there had been a sequel)

Pennies from Heaven (Steve Martin)

The Inlaws (Peter Falk, Alan Arkin)

Johnie Dangerously (farkin bastiches)

Any Marx Bros film

Cabin in the Sky

History of the World part one

Some Like It Hot (Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon)

To Be or Not to Be

City Slickers

Strange Brew (jelly donut comin')

[VermontDem2004]

38. The Man Who Knew Too Little

was the Funniest Movie I ever seen.

[Harrumph]

39. The Cheap Detective....

Jane Austen's 'Mafia'

Murder By Death

Up In Smoke

Scary Movie

Ace Ventura Pet Detective

First Wives Club

Blazing Saddles

SOB

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

[Dogmudgeon]

40. Oh, Harry ... It's Such a DRAG ...

Lord Love a Duck

to which I'll add:

The President's Analyst

The Manchurian Candidate (comedy-thriller)

Dr. Strangelove

You're A Big Boy Now

Head

Bringing Up Baby

My Little Chickadee (Fields) (W.C., not Totie)

Modern Times and The Great Dictator (Chaplin)

Krippendorf's Tribe

--bkl

[arwalden]

41. I Liked Your Choices... And I Would Add: "Nine To Five"

The Women
Roger Rabbit

[jumptheshadow]

66. Finally!

Somebody mentions The Women. It was about time!

[Richardo]

42. I'll chime in:

1) It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
2) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
3) Help!
4) Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
5) Throw Momma from the Train
6) The Producers
7) O Brother Where Art Thou?
8) The Hudsucker Proxy
9) MST3K The Movie
10)Any "Road" picture with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope


Honorable Mention:
- Office Space
- The Man Who Knew Too Little
- Raising Arizona

[gully]

44. RAISING ARIZONA?! n/t

[VOX]

54. "Never leave a man behind!"

Still my favorite Coen Bros. flick.

:toast:

[Wickerman]

45. Excellent list

Any list with Groundhog's Day is going to win my approval. I might have added Happiness in lieu of Big, but very cool.

[MissMillie]

46. I agree w/ a lot of yours... here are mine

Airplane (I haven't felt this terrible since we saw that Ronald Reagan film)

Raising Arizona (Son, you gotta panty on your head)

Blazing Saddles (Where all the white women at?)

Best in Show (I've boffed a lot of waitresses in my time...)

Monty Python & the Holy Grail (Well I didn't vote for ya)

Zorro, the Gay Blade (Two fruit, one salad...)

Tootsie (If you could just see me out of these clothes...)

Fletch (Charge it to the Underhill's account....)

Something about Mary (Franks and Beans, Franks and Beans)

Dr. Strangelove (Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room)


Honorable mention: It's not a movie, but I have a DVD of Victor Borga's funniest moments. He was really a gifted comedian.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

47. Rare, but on video

1. Peking Opera Blues--a Hong Kong movie with slapstick that you've never seen before. I've never seen an audience react so hysterically as they did that night at the Portland Film Festival ca. 1989.

2. Whiskey Galore (also known as "Tight Little Island") Humor about drinking is no longer considered in good taste, but this 1940s film about an island off the coast of Scotland that is denied whiskey due to wartime rationing is damned funny. "Some men are born two drinks below par."

3, The Wrong Box--(see this week's edition of Movies for Democrats in the Meeting Room for details) "My father was a missionary, but he was eaten by his Bible class."

4. The Loved One--Someone else already mentioned this satire on the funeral industry, and I second that opinion. Liberace as a fake-sincere funeral director is priceless.

5. Tampopo--You just knew I'd have a Japanese film in there, didn't you? Built around the story of a truck driver trying to help a widow make a success of her noodle shop, this comedy is full of surreal vignettes about food.

[FloridaJudy]

48. Okay, you folks have all convinced me

I'm going to have to check out *Waiting for Guffman*, and *Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?*. I missed those two in first release.

And how could I have left out *Dr. Strangelove*, *There's Something About Mary* and *A Night at the Opera* (yeah *Duck Soup* is funny, but nothing can beat that "stateroom scene").

Actually, the list could have gone to at least fifty films. Another three quirky little films that passed under the popular radar, but that I love are *Top Secret* (a weird little spoof of spy/Elvis films), *Harold and Maude* (this film discovered that death can be a hoot WAY before "Six Feet Under"), and *Earth Girls are Easy* (Jeff Goldblum has always been one of my favorite cinematic Hunks, along with Gene Wilder. Funny is sexy, guys).

Again, thanks for the recommendations!

[4_Legs_Good]

49. Midnight Run

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

there's 2...

[Rooktoven]

50. I'd thrown in

Life of Brian, Meaning of Life, South Park, Clerks, and Blazing Saddles....

and take out Groundhog Day, Big, and Take the Money and Run, and (I hate myself) Best in Show

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

51. charlie chaplin

the great dictator
modern times

sherlock jr
w/ buster keaton

and duck soup
by the marx bothers

[Spirochete]

52. 1941

Caddyshack
Supertroopers
Naked Gun
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Mad, Mad, Mad world

[Cocoa]

53. a fish called wanda

the scene where she goes off on what an idiot Otto is is perfect. :-)

[VOX]

55. "Dr. Strangelove," "M. Hulot's Holiday," Ealing Studios' "little comedies"

with Alec Guiness ("Lady Killers," "Man in the White Suit," etc.); any of the Abbott and Costello service comedies ("Buck Privates," etc.); Laurel and Hardy's "Sons of the Desert"; W.C. Fields "It's a Gift" and "The Bank Dick"; "Waiting for Guffman" and "This is Spinal Tap"; "Animal House" (although I loathe most anything else by John Landis); the Ned Beatty-Lionel Stander bits in "1941" (also, Bob Stack as Maj. Gen. Joseph Stilwell crying at "Dumbo."

[Deja Q]

58. "What's Up, Tiger Lily"

:D

[marigold20]

59. The Man Who Knew Too Little

I really do like Bill Murray.

[zauberflote]

60. Hey Abbott!

Both Bringing Up Baby and South Park had scenes so hilarious I almost stopped breathing from laughing so hard.
But how about "The Naughty Nineties" with Abbott and Costello? OK, It's not a great movie by a long shot, but it does have the "Who's on First" routine, which has got to be one of the funniest sketches ever penned.

[George_Bonanza]

62. Analyze this

[joeybee12]

63. I like most of yours, but gotta add Bringing Up Baby

The two greatest actors of their generation--Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. It'd be worth watching for that even if it weren't so damn funny.

[msu2ba]

64. Great Thread!

In no particular order:

1. Duck Soup
2. Harvey
3. Arsenic and Old Lace
4. The Producers
5. Without a Clue (Ben Kingsley and Michael Caine do Watson and Holmes)
6. Raising Arizona (My old roomie who now lives in Phoenix describes this as "a documentary on Arizona")
7. Blues Brothers
8. Animal House
9. The In-Laws
10. To Be Or Not To Be (Either version)

[bloom]

65. What About Bob?

:)

[ornotna]

67. The Groove Tube

At least I thought so in '74....I laughed my ass off...oops. :silly:
"Better things come from Uranus"

[Twillig]

68. No Time for Sergeants!

Andy Griffith as a dim bulb hayseed Air Force recruit.

I'll add that the dvd audio commentary to This is Spinal Tap is like another movie for free. :-)