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Sannum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 08:58 PM
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What are your top funny movies?
Mine:
This is Spinal Tap
Airplane
Dumb and Dumber
Top Secret
Coming to America
MST3k: Mitchell

Though I have been described by some as a "Film Snob", These movies, no matter how many times I see, always make me laugh my ass off...

What are yours?
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 08:58 PM
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1. Blazing Saddles.
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democrat in Tallahassee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 08:59 PM
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2. Being There with Peter Sellers; very apt for our times
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:00 PM
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3. The Producers
and maybe Young Frankenstein should be on the list of all-time top ten.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:02 PM
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4. The Big Lebowski and...
Edited on Tue May-31-05 09:02 PM by EOO
This Is Spinal Tap
Wayne's World 1 + 2
The Naked Gun movies
Team America: World Police
Clerks
Mallrats
Dogma
Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back
Blazing Saddles
Spaceballs
Pretty much every Mel Brooks and Kevin Smith movie ever made.
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ruthg Donating Member (352 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:13 PM
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9. The Dude Abides.... n/t
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:36 PM
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Nobody calls me Mr. Lebowski! I'm the dude!
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:03 PM
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5. Annie Hall; The Producers; My Favorite Year
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TheDebbieDee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:09 PM
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6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Airplane and........
any Pink Panther movie!
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ruthg Donating Member (352 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:14 PM
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10. Well , of course...
I can't believe I left out Grail...

Can we have more than just five?
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48pan Donating Member (957 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:09 PM
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7. What are my top funny movies
Strange Brew
Blues Brothers
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Jerk
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ruthg Donating Member (352 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:12 PM
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8. I love Spinal Tap I adore Airplane..
I would also add..

Duck Soup

A Night At The Opera

Love and Death ( for some reason this is the Woody Allen movie that just kills me)

Arsenic and Old Lace


I just saw Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle and as dumb as it was I laughed way more than I probably should have at my age....

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Jeff In Milwaukee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:14 PM
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11. Fahrenheit 9/11
Edited on Tue May-31-05 09:16 PM by Jeff In Milwaukee
I mean, seriously, in what fictional world would voters be dumb enough to elect the main character as President and than fucking re-elect him?!. That's hysterically funny, don't you think?

On Edit: And on topic, I didn't see any votes for "Animal House." Not sure if it's my favorite, but it's pretty darned funny. Another good one is the original "The In-Laws" with Alan Arkin and Peter Falk. Cracks me up every time. Serpentine Shel!
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Bob3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:15 PM
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12. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Duck Soup
This is Spinal Tap
MST3K - Manos the Hands of Fate
The Bank Dick
A Fish Called Wanda
When Harry Met Sally
As Good as it Gets
Animal House
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morningglory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:16 PM
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13. Funny is real when a 4-yr-old and a 40-yr-old nearly wet their
pants laughing at the very same spots: Pink Panther when Clouseau sucked the masterpiece painting up into the vacuum cleaner nozzle and then sucked up a live parrot. Oh boy! Big Lebowski is wonderful! Many more, but especially the ones that are funny to all ages, like Charlie Chaplin, who appealed to people all over the world except for vindictive conservatives here in the USA.
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:24 PM
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16. I had hysterics at The Big Lebowski.
And here's another vote for the original In-Laws with Alan Arkin and Peter Falk. "Don't shoot! I'm a dentist!"

And I love Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, and Ball of Fire.
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:19 PM
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14. The Producers, and a few more...
Edited on Tue May-31-05 09:20 PM by mcscajun
Hopscotch
My Favorite Year
Noises Off!
The Ref
The Blues Brothers
Duck Soup
Animal Crackers
Monkey Business
Horse Feathers
A Night at the Opera

Edit to Add: Love and Death (how Could I forget that one?)
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:25 PM
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17. I forgot The Ref.
What Christmas is REALLY like in many households. :evilgrin:
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TheDebbieDee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:33 PM
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20. I forgot that I love "Noises Off!"
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:23 PM
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15. There's Something About Mary
Edited on Tue May-31-05 09:24 PM by Ilsa
Meet the Parents
Airplane
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python -- Anything
A Fish Named Wanda
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:25 PM
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18. Adding a couple more...
Edited on Tue May-31-05 09:26 PM by deadparrot
In and Out
The Lion in Winter
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 08:10 AM
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33. "The Lion in Winter"?
I love that movie. It's intense. Never thought of it as comic...although it does have a moment or two. :)
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masshole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:31 PM
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19. five I like
In no particular order

Slapshot (Hockey! Paul Newman! Can it get any better?)
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Airplane (the original only)
Dr. Strangelove (see AV)
Austin Powers 1 (Dr. Evil's monologue during the "father/son therapy" scene was brilliant)
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masshole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:38 PM
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23. Meat Helmets
The details of my life are quite inconsequential.
My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian woman named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it.
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:36 PM
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21. Young Frankenstien, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Some Like it Hot
Edited on Tue May-31-05 09:38 PM by WI_DEM
Tootsie
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (a very black comedy)
Harold and Maude
Bringing Up Baby
Duck Soup
North by Northwest (I appreciate it as a comedy as well as a thriller)
The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis' 1963 masterpiece)

P.S.
Those Ealing comedies with Alec Guiness such as "The Lavender Hill Gang", "The Ladykillers" (much superior to the Tom Hanks film) and especially Kind Hearts and Coronets.


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hickman1937 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:37 PM
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22. Ghostbusters.
The first movie that I laughed till I cryed. Airplane too. Their effect has worn off from too many viewings, but I still remember how amazing they were when they first came out. Hot Shots Part Deux too. Especially the documentary they filmed about it.
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:43 PM
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24. Double feature: Cheech and Chong's next movie and Caddyshack
Saw it three nights in a row with three different girls.

Aaaah... to be 19 again. :)
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General Zod Donating Member (652 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:48 PM
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25. Here's mine:
Slap Shot
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Animal House
What's Up Doc
The Blues Brothers
Silver Streak
Young Frankenstein
Stripes
Caddyshack
Bachelor Party
Trading Places
Back to the Future
Smokey and the Bandit
Tootsie
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LizW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:49 PM
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26. Scene in Bruce Almighty
When Jim Carrey uses his godly powers to make Steve Carrell make all those noises on camera during the news broadcast. I just about wet myself every time I see it.

:rofl:
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mark414 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 09:56 PM
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27. Fear of a Black Hat
which is essentially the spinal tap of rap music

i have shown it to friends/family who HATE rap music and even they were in stitches

it is absolutely ridiculous and absolutely fantastic
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 10:00 PM
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28. Not necessarily in this order:

"The Man in the White Suit"

"Hopscotch"

"Dr. Strangelove"

"The Fireman's Ball"

"Some Like It Hot"

"Real Genius"

"Animal House"

"Duck Soup"

"M*AS*H"

"Young Frankenstein"

"Sleeper"


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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 08:08 AM
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32. Wow. Someone else *knows* Hopscotch.
:)

I always put it in lists...'cause I figure most folks don't know it.

"Hey, Myerson. Say, I thought you were taller. I don't remember you being this short - how'd you get so short?"
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 05:28 PM
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35. Oh, yeah...
... it's a very clever--and funny--movie. I've seen it a dozen times and still fall down laughing at the scene where the FBI is destroying Myerson's wife's house....

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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 06:29 PM
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36. OMG, YES!!!
It's Too, Too Priceless...and just what he has coming, the rat. :)
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 07:46 PM
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40. Don't know if you've noticed...
... but in that series of scenes leading up to the shoot-out, the producers do some funny things with continuity. At first, the picture of Myerson on the desk is of Myerson smiling, and by the time the fireworks are being laid, his expression is very sour, with mouth downturned.

Another thing I read about it was that Ned Beatty was very troubled about doing Myerson. Apparently, he's a very devout and religious person, and had a lot of trouble with Myerson's lines, laced as they are with profanity. Article said that, at first, he had a lot of difficulty getting them out, but it got easier as time went by. :)

Cheers.
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 08:00 PM
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42. Knew the first...not the second. Very interesting.
Prosit!
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 10:02 PM
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29. The Odd Couple & Grumpy Old Men.
:)
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SnohoDem Donating Member (915 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 10:05 PM
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30. Young Frankenstein
Withnail & I
Caddyshack
Best In Show
Blazing Saddles

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maddiejoan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 10:09 PM
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31. Twelve Chairs
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Lindsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 02:32 PM
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34. Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, Office Space,
There are many many more but that's it off the top of my head.
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blockhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 06:52 PM
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37. Strange Brew
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 07:07 PM
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38. UnderCover Blues, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstien
Producers, Noises Off, Victor Victoria, My Favorite Year,
Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World
Arsenic and Old Lace
Bringing Up Baby
Animal House
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Shadowen Donating Member (742 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 07:09 PM
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39. Any and all Monty Python.
Sideways.
The Incredibles.
Most Kevin Smith work.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 07:51 PM
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41. I like Dumb & Dumber too.
Also...

Dazed & Confused
Hairspray
Caddyshack
Animal House
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YankeyMCC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 08:10 PM
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43. Blazing saddles
Holy Grail
Life of Brian

Not 100% sure of the order of those first three

Then there is
Stripes
Young Frankenstien
Pink Panther movies

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