Favorite, but OBSCURE Comedy Movies!

[MarianJack]

Some of my favorites...

1. Enter Laughing. Carl Reiner's semi-autobiographical story about a young Jewish boy in the 30's who wants to be an actor. IMHO, one of Jose Ferrer's best performances.

2. The President's Analyst. James Coburn as the President's shrink. The "FBR" (whose agents are all VERY short) is trying to kill him and Godfrey Cambridge (who left this world WAY too soon) as the "CEA" agent trying to protect him. The villian is "The Phone Company".

3. Goodbye Columbus. This movie defined my late High School & College years. Some good songs by The Associaltion (remember them?) and Ali McGraw was actually GOOD!

Yours?

[Zomby Woof]

1. How To Get Ahead In Advertising

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097531/

[MarianJack]

2. Sounds Funny!

Is one of the lessons "Lie Like HELL!"?

[Zomby Woof]

3. When satirizing marketing

Yes. :D

[A-Schwarzenegger]

114. Seconded. Hilarious and powerful.

[Fountain79]

4. Brain Donors....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103872/

[MarianJack]

14. Brain Doners?

Another term for bush supporters?

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5. "Dark Habits" directed by Pedro Aldomovar (1983)

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6. Lost in Yonkers (1993)

[MarianJack]

28. I Love Mercedes Rhuil,...

...but I always mis-spell her name!

[begin_within]

66. Mercedes Rheul. We call her Mercedes Drool. I laughed through that movie.

[begin_within]

7. What A Way To Go (1965)

[MarianJack]

30. "A Little Hard Work...

...never killed anybody!"

[TheCentepedeShoes]

111. I liked that movie, too n/t

[Lex]

8. The Imposters - (Oliver Platt & Stanley Tucci)

and also . . .

Lost in America

Flirting With Disaster

Best in Show

[MarianJack]

12. Lost in America &...

...Defending Your Life.

Albert Brooks made 2 great movies there!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

20. Brooks' "Mother" is pretty good too

If you haven't seen it.

[tk2kewl]

103. Defending Your Life is brilliant and hilarious

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[MrCoffee]

29. The Imposters is such a great movie...casting is everything.

[begin_within]

9. "The Loved One" (1965)

[MuseRider]

10. Ahh Joy Boy.

Love that one.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. Liberace as a casket salesman is priceless!

[meegbear]

73. That was the most surreal scene EVER!

Libearce, with his trademark voice and mannerisms, selling coffins.

[begin_within]

11. Who's Minding the Mint (1967)

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13. Lost in America (1985)

[MarianJack]

15. See # 12!

:hi:

[begin_within]

18. Dang... you got it before me. That was a very funny movie, but it ended

too soon, I thought. The story didn't seem finished to me. Maybe someday he'll make a sequel to it, which picks up where that movie left off.

[MarianJack]

34. Great "Lost in America" Lines

"We're finished talking!"

"I've lost the nest egg...I've lost the nest egg...jump in anytime,...I've lost the nest egg..."

Julie Haggerty "I think we should get to New York as fast as we can..."
Albert Brooks "...And I eat shit?" (with the most enthusiastic smile on his face)

[underpants]

97. This is the first of MANY SPEECHES about the Nest Egg Priniciple

Nice dam, huh? Do you want to go first, or should I?

[livetohike]

44. I love this movie

:-)

"I'll look in the $100,000 file."

[BrotherBuzz]

16. One, Two, Three

Coca-Cola's man (James Cagney) in West Berlin, who may be fired if he can't keep his American boss's daughter from marrying a Communist.

[Mendocino]

22. James Cagney

A manic performance from a real pro.

A few other obscure comedies:

Local Hero
My Favorite Year
SOB

[MarianJack]

35. My Favorite Year!

Oh YES!

Selma Diamond "THIS is for ladies only!"
Peter O'Toole "So is this madam, but I do need to run a little water through it from time to time!"
(and then the mustard on the frank)

[Mendocino]

43. I'm not an actor, I'm a Movie Star!

[enigmatic]

121. "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?"

Very hip (for it's time) take on 50's fame; Tony Randall and Jayne Mansfield were both great in this:


http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/moviereviews/060721/

[WCGreen]

63. All of those are primo....

Peter O'Toole, I believe, won an Oscar for that movie...

[cmkramer]

89. No

He's been nominated about 7 or 8 times, but has never won. He got an Honorary Oscar a few years ago which he almost declined because he thought it meant he would be ineligible to be nominated and he figured he had a few good performances left in him.

Getting back to the topic, I love the movie "The Wrong Guys" (1986). It's about a group of guys -- all played by standup comics like Louie Anderson, Richard Belzer, Franklin Ajaye, and the guy who did the sitcom with Jamie Lee Curtis who had been part of a Cub Scout troop who hadn't been able to finish a camping trip because of some bullies. So twenty years later they decide to finish the trip only to have an exaped convict (John Goodman) show up at the same time and mistake them for the FBI. It's terribly hilarious and hilariously terrible all at the same time.

Any of the Martin and Lewis comedies especially "The Stooge".

[ghostsofgiants]

17. Schizopolis

[CBGLuthier]

45. Yes Yes yes

There is many an obscure film here that I have seen but this little oddity of a gem may be the most obscure.

And now, filmed in its entirety.

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19. "The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!" (1966)

[Va Lefty]

21. "Emergency! Everyone to get from street!"

[Lydia Leftcoast]

23. "Ee-mair-gen-cy. Efferybod to get from strit."

You have to say it in the right accent. :-)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. Peking Opera Blues

This was the hit of the Portland International Film Festival in about 1988 or 1989. It's by Tsui Hark, who later directed A Chinese Ghost Story, but unlike those later works, it's more nearly a pure slapstick comedy than a martial arts film--and with sight gags and bizarre situations that you've never seen before. I'll never forget what happens when the female spy is caught in a bedroom after having just killed one of the bad guys... No, it's not this scene. I couldn't find it on the Internet, and besides, I don't want to spoil it for you.

[grasswire]

26. Front Page with Lemmon and Mathau

Hilarious.

Also "Bingo Long Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings" -- you gotta see Richard Pryor pretending to be an Indian baseball player so he can get hired in the white leagues. Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, etc.

Here's a review from IMDB:

One of the best baseball comedies mainly because of its very real and believable dramatic points. It also deals with a subject that has rarely been touched on in film: the Negro Leagues. The cast is absolutely incredible. Top to bottom a list of legends field this magnificent flick! James Earl Jones fits his aging sluggers role superbly and who better to serve up a ripping hot fastball than Billy Dee Williams! Richard Pryor gets high marks for his "faux-latino" Charlie Snow whose only reason for being on the team is because he has a nice car. Pryor also has a racey scene with a white prostitute and two paid hit men. Special mention of Carl Gordon who has a small role here. I loved him as the Dad on the great but all too short lived sitcom "Roc." Who gonna hit my invite pitch? Nobody. Not no one. Never. Bingo Long is the stuff of modern folklore. Invite pitch! Invite pitch! Invite pitch! A LOST BASEBALL CLASSIC. A great double feature would be "A League Of Their Own."

[MarianJack]

37. The Way Mathau Says...

..."The Son of a bitch just stole my watch!"

[Common Sense Party]

27. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

[ceile]

31. Brilliant movie! n/t

[MrCoffee]

32. The Castle

It's an Australian movie about a guy fighting to keep his house next to the airport from getting eminent domained. Hysterical.

[terrya]

33. "Putney Swope"

No one remembers this brilliant comedy. Written and Directed by Robert Downey (father of the actor).

[redwitch]

59. I do!

:bounce:

[datasuspect]

64. yeah

that was an interesting flick.

i'd watch it again.

[jonnyblitz]

36. House of Yes. nt

[dback]

38. "American Dreamer"

Silly rip-off of "Romancing the Stone," with JoBeth Williams as a mystery writer in Paris who, after receiving a conk on the head (don't they always?)wakes up and thinks she IS her female detective character. Tom Conti is the love interest.

It's deep as a puddle, but Williams is an absolute scream once she snaps into her alter ego, and the movie never stops to catch its breath for the next 90 minutes.

[yellowdogintexas]

79. I LOVE That Movie!!! ...nt

[Broken_Hero]

39. Kentucky Fried Movie, I think its called..its a laugh riot IMO...nt

[Scout1071]

53. It takes total concentration!

That movie used to crack me up. I haven't seen it in many years, but I can remember tears of laughter.

[begin_within]

69. Came out the same time as "The Groove Tube" but I think Kentucky is a

little better.

[bmbmd]

85. I dream of the new Kareoke...

Kentucky Fried Movie is one of my all time favorite movies, and I'm not wearing any pants. Film at eleven. There was another movie along the same vein called "If You Don't Stop It, You'll Go Blind" which had a very young Robin Williams in some of the skits.

[Rude Horner]

99. I bought the DVD a few months ago.

I remember it being funny, but it was even more so than I remembered. Lots and lots of funny skits.

[trackfan]

40. Sunday in New York

[Mz Pip]

41. The Party

with Peter Sellars. He was very funny. "The Mouse that Roared" was another Peter Sellars movies from the 60s that was very funny.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[redwitch]

58. "Birdie num nums?"

ANd "You speak Hindustani? You're not missing much."

I also loved The Mouse That Roared. :-)

[azmouse]

42. Good Neighbor Sam

Cast:
Jack Lemmon
Romy Schneider
Dorothy Provine
Mike Connors
Edward Andrews
Louis Nye

[CBGLuthier]

46. Two of these are my favorites

The President's Analyst is one of the finest films ever made. Godfrey Cambridge's monologue on the day he discovered the "N" word is brilliant and moving.

Enter laughing is hilarious. Did you know the actor in it went onto play Poppi in Seinfeld. :-)

[hotforteacher]

47. "Female Trouble" by John Waters n/t

[begin_within]

67. Also "Desperate Living," if you like somewhat raunchy humor.

But then what's a John Waters film without wallowing in some raunch.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

48. Lollilove

Brilliant ultra-low budget mockumentary written & directed by Jenna Fischer (Dawn in the US Office) who stars alongside her real life husband James Gunn (writer of Tromeo & Juliet which would be another nomination here). They play heightened versions of themselves, determined to help the needy (& climb the Hollywood ladder) by setting up a charity to give lollipops to the homeless.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316187/


Also Only Human - a charming & hilarious farce which begins when a Jewish girl brings her Palestinian boyfriend home to her unsuspecting family.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376177/

[cspanlovr]

49. "Where's Papa", George Segal and Ruth Gordon.

Answer: "Still dead" Very funny NYC location movie. Ron Leiberman as Segal's brother almost steals the movie. Does anybody remember the full title? Something like "he's hanging in the closet and I'm feeling so bad"...

[blondeatlast]

55. That movie is a HOOT!

Very un_pc, but hilarious.

The gorilla suit, geez, falling outta the chair time!

[NYCGirl]

87. The movie title you referred to is —

"Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad", a surreal play which was made into a not very good movie with Rosalind Russell and Robert Morse.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062067/

[Tikki]

50. Some here....

"Start the Revolution Without Me'
'1 2 3'
'Running Kind'
'UFOria'
"Bagdad Cafe'


these among others......


Tikki

[SOteric]

51. Mel Brooks, "The Twelve Chairs"

[BurtWorm]

68. Very overlooked movie!

:hi:

Dom DeLouise is (I can't believe I'm saying this) brilliant.

[Kat45]

52. "The Search for One-Eyed Jimmy"

It's quirky and I laughed my ass off. Cast included Samuel L. Jackson, John Turturro, Anne Meara, the guy with the big head from "The Practice." I love that movie.

I remember seeing "The President's Analyst" a long time ago; that was one weird, funny movie.

[Scout1071]

54. "Amazon Women from the Moon."

High-larious.

[blondeatlast]

56. "Clay Pigeons," Joaquin Phoenix, Vince Vaughn, and Janeane Garafalo.

Vaughn's best role after Swingers.

Garafalo steals it--"Barney, could you please stop poking the dead body with a stick? Thank you..."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118863/

[haf216]

72. Good to know I'm not the only one in the world who has seen that movie.

I loved it.

[Redstone]

57. Putney Swope. Anyone else seen it?

Redstone

[cspanlovr]

124. I tried to get into that movie using my sisters proof. I was 16, and

you had to be 17. Of course, I looked like 12, so they stopped me.

[Sonora Nora]

60. came out in the '80s

Used Cars. Hilarious, worth watching. Kurt Russell is an unethical used car salesman. The laffs never end, I am tellin' ya!

[recoveringdittohed]

61. Watermelon Man (1970)

Godfrey Cambridge plays a white man who suddenly, inexplicably turns black. Directed by Melvin Van Peebles. Comedic on one level and not comedic on another.

[Lisa]

62. Sex and Chocolate -- Dawn French

It was surprising to me, because she didn't play one of those over-the-top comedy characters (e.g. Vicar of Dibley) -- but there were a lot of funny moments in the movie, even though it described what could have been a sad situation (a woman living in a poor London neighbourhood, married to a school janitor, with memories of a boyfriend who is now rich and glamorous).

[Lautremont]

65. Rubin and Ed, featuring that classic comedy duo Howard Hesseman and

Crispin Glover. "My cat can eat a whole watermelon!"

[mykpart]

70. Evil Roy Slade - John Astin

Cold Turkey - Dick van Dyke

[shanti]

71. raising arizona

hella funny!

[kwassa]

74. I also loved "The President's Analyst"

great commentary on America at the time, a black comedy at it's best.

[peekaloo]

75. Zelig

a gem from Woody Allen about a human chameleon. Uses "revised" historical footage to tell his story, long before 'Forrest Gump' made the scene.

[Joe Fields]

76. Dave, with Kevin Kline

[Ohio Joe]

77. Into the Night

With Jeff Goldblum. Very funny.

[jobycom]

88. Great film. David Bowie, Michelle Pfeifer, and a lot of cameos

ranging from Jim Hensen to Carl Perkins.

[Jokerman]

78. "Fear of a Black Hat" & "The Wrong Guy"

"Fear" is like "Spinal Tap" with a rap group:

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0106880/

"Wrong Guy" is a Hitchcock spoof by Dave Foley of "Kids in The Hall" fame:

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120536/

[NashVegas]

80. "If Lucy Fell"

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0116606/

Quintessential Gen-X romance fantasy of platonic roommates who eventually take the risk.

[yellowdogintexas]

81. "Undercover Blues" downright hilarious!

Dennis Quaid
Kathleen Turner
Stanley Tucci (steals every scene he is in)
Tom Arnold
Park Overall

In New Orleans.

Quaid/Turner are a married couple, FBI or CIA Or both? agents on extended family leave with a 6 month old baby, vacationing in N.O. Of course they get mixed up in an ongoing crime. Tucci is a mugger who keeps running into them, with disastrous results for Tucci's character.

Love love this movie.

[Rambis]

82. I love you Alice B. Toklas 1968

Peter Sellers

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063115/

[bif]

83. "Baghdad Cafe" "Chan is Missing"

And the original "La Cage au Folles"

[enigmatic]

119. "Chan Is Missing" is a great film

:thumbsup:

[Human Torch]

84. Hollywood Knights

25 words or less: American Graffiti meets Porky's.

Featuring a pre-"Nanny" Fran Drescher ("What's the matter? Come on! I'm all hot and bothered!"), a pre-"Arliss" and pre-"Batman" Robert Wuhl, Leigh French ("The Smothers Brothers Show") as a loose PTA member, Gaylord Sartain ("Hee Haw") as a cartoon overweight cop, "Officer Bimbo," and two unfortunate low points:

1). Pre-fame Michelle Pfeiffer, clearly mid-semester on her acting classes

2). Tony Danza, whose acting is about as convincing as George Allen saying he "made up" the word "macacca."

When the movie finally came out on VHS / DVD, the attempt was made to position Pfeiffer and Danza as the "stars," but that's clearly not the case. They participate in a secondary, trite and highly disposable sub-plot (She desperately wants to be an actress, Tony struggles with being supportive of her dreams, because he has self-esteem issues and fears losing her to Tinsel Town, but she just thinks he's not being supportive, which sets up the big scene where he...well, it's as bad as it sounds).



"I need my puffer!"

"Hey! Ironbox Twins!"

"Have you ever heard MY version of Volare?"

"He's looking for somebody named DICK!"

:evilgrin:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

86. Whoops Apocalypse (1986)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0092211

[BigMcLargehuge]

90. The Whoopie Boys

with Paul Rodriquez, Miles O'Keefe and Denholm Elliot.

Quote -

Barney (reading the thank you note he wrote in Charm School): I wanted to thank you for only giving me the clap. These days it's refreshing to meet a girl with curable diseases.

[Love Bug]

91. Anyone here remember "The Groove Tube"?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071583/

[Mendocino]

92. Mr. Mikes Mondo Video- downright weird but hilarious

And Showtime short satires from the late 70s and early 80s

Porklips Now
Hardware Wars
Fistful Of Fantasies

[Montauk6]

93. Ever hear of...?

1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother: Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Khan in a fun frolic concerning the Siggy Holmes, the slightly bitter sibling of the famous sleuth.

2. Where Does It Hurt?: Peter Sellers as a corrupt, horny administrator of a hospital where bedside manners take on a whole new meaning.

3. Used Cars: Great late 70s/early 80s laugh riot with Kurt Russell as a slick used car dealer who has political ambitions.

4. Gorp: Wild summer camp comedy from 1980 with Michael Lembeck and Dennis Quaid. Most memorable line was this crazy camp religious freak named Bible Louie who ran around naked, offering such scriptures as "And the Lord said, FUCK YOU ASSHOLES!!!!"

5. Jamon, Jamon: Outrageous, cynical Spanish comedy (characters are actually named in the end credits, another hilarious part of the movie, "La Madre Puta," "La Puta Madre," "La hija de puta," etc.) from '92. The pig/garlic scene is too wild for words!

6. Just Tell Me What You Want: The scene where a REALLY pissed off Ali McGraw beats the hell out of Alan King with a purse in the middle of Bergdorf Goodman is a cinematic gem.

7. Which Way To The Front? One of Jerry Lewis's later, underrated efforts where he play a spoiled rich mogul who, unable to deal with being rejected by the US Army to fight in WWII, decides to whip up his own military team to take on the Nazis. If you're like me and love Jerry Lewis, this film is a comedy must; if you hate him, move along, you'll hate this movie.

8. Cold Turkey: Dick Van Dyke, as a minister, tries to lead his small town in a smoke-out in order to win a huge money prize from a tobacco company.

[Release The Hounds]

94. Strange Brew

Set mostly in a Canadian brewery with Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas. Take off.

[catmandu57]

95. The Flim Flam Man

George C. Scott plays Mordecai Jones a southern confidence man hystling the rubes.

Flesh Gordon A take off of Flash gordon the earth is under assault by wang and his sex ray.

Cold turkey an entire town in Iowa quits smoking for thirty days to win thirty million dollars.

[underpants]

96. "Shakes the Clown"

You hate us because we are artists!!!

[LynneSin]

98. PCU (gotta love the Caine-Hackman Theory!)

Jeremy Piven plays a college student who looks like he's been in college for about 10 years. And the college is run by a President who pushes political correctness to the maximum but really she's in cahoots with David Spade, president of the College Republicans.

One of the funniest parts in the movie is when Gutter (Played by Jon Farveau) gets so fricking stone that he has a fantasy dream that he's in front of the Us Senate Judicary committee and the Committee is asking him whether or not in inhaled. And it's the real Judiciary commitee - you'll see Arlen Specter, Orrin Hatch, Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy in the dream sequence

But the best part about the movie:

The Caine-Hackman Theory. Pigman's senior thesis was based on the fact that no matter what time it is, 24 hours a day, you can find a Michael Caine or Gene Hackman movie playing on TV.

And oh, there's a pit party with George Clinton and the P-Funk Psychadelics in it - gotta love that

[oncall247]

100. "Lady Killers" loved it!

[Glorfindel]

101. The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover

As inexplicable as it sounds; disturbing and hilarious at the same time. Also, "You're a Big Boy Now," from the mid-60's.

[Miss Marmelstein]

102. The Cheap Detective.....

Madeline Kahn was hilarious....also Louise Fletcher, Eileen Brennan, Stockard Channing and of course Peter Falk.

Drop Dead Gorgeous.....Kirstie Alleys best movie

A Lone Star State of Mind....stupid but very funny

Bad Taste....Peter Jacksons first movie

:bounce::bounce:

[SoyCat]

104. The Last Supper--no one ever seems to have heard of it.

[masshole]

105. "Tape Heads"

Jon Cusack and Tim Robbins, Great soundtrack featuring Fishbone, Devo, Sam and Dave, King Cotton

[Deja Q]

106. 'Death Becomes Her'

Riotously funny! :thumbsup:

[mtnester]

107. "Dutch" - 1991...Ed O'Neill, Jo Beth Williams, Ethan Embry..

Ari Meyers, Christopher McDonald

FUNNY flick

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800162265/info

[Parche]

108. comedy

"What Planet are you from"

[Missy Vixen]

109. Big Trouble

"Big Trouble" was supposed to be released in theaters shortly after September 11th, 2001, and was pulled because of subject matter. Even with Tim Allen, it's one of the funnier movies I've ever seen. Stanley Tucci's character alone makes it worth renting. It also features my favorite actor, Dennis Farina.

Julie

[Auggie]

110. Eating Raoul

[TheCentepedeShoes]

112. I went thru the whole

thread to see if someone mentioned Eating Raoul. Darn, ya beat me to it.:hi:

[dajoki]

113. Nothing But Trouble

:rofl:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

115. Princess Caraboo.

[Heidi]

116. Waiting for Guffman. (nt)

[samsingh]

117. stripes

[Emops]

118. Not really "obscure," but...

"Dick" with Kirsten Dunst and Dan Hedaya (as Richard Nixon) never got it's due.

[samsingh]

120. perils of pauline

[Bucky]

122. UFOria (starring Cindy Williams!). Never knew why it wasn't a hit

Also Harry Dean Stanton & Fred Ward. IBMD and Wiki.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

123. Seconded. Wonderful movie.