Films that made you laugh so hard it hurts:

[LeftinOH]

I prefer comedy to anything else- and the more twisted the better. I'd like to see more. My short short list of gut-busters:

Orgazmo (w/Trey Parker)
Clerks II (Kevin Smith)
Polyester (John Waters)

What are yours?

[rurallib]

1. 'Young Frankenstein' the first time I saw it

From the stab of the knife in the leg to Igor's floating hump and through to the finale just laughed my head of.

[lukasahero]

64. I saw this in the theater with my dad

I was 11. It's one of my fondest memories with him. (Should give you a clue as to what a wacko my dad is - and I mean that in the most complimentary possible.) :)

[Courtesy Flush]

115. I laughed my ass off at that one

But only the first time. When I saw it again it was just amusing.

[edbermac]

2. Airplane! and The Naked Gun.

Even though one of the Zucker brothers has turned into a fundie nutbag.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

33. I remember just busting a gut in the opening scene of the third Naked Gun.

I.e. the train station dream sequence where Lt. Drebin has to stop all these criminals, and then they show Nordberg catching babies and trying to spike them, etc.

[proteus_lives]

73. I love that scene.

I bust-up when he picks up the quarter!

:rofl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaGLZEdYDGU

[proteus_lives]

72. Oh those are classics.

They just don't make good parody movies anymore.

[blue neen]

3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Some of The Pink Panther Movies (Peter Sellers versions).

[mopinko]

13. i nominate steve martin's pink panther.

pee your pants funny. we saw that one for a kid's birthday. we still laugh at aaammburgrrr.

[blue neen]

20. I'll have to check it out.

I haven't seen that one, yet. :)

[Martin Eden]

93. I saw the Chicago Premier

Some of the Pythons were on the stage before the movie.

I laughed pretty damn hard, that's for sure.

I also almost fell out of my seat during The Meaning of Life when Mr. Creosote exploded.

[BOSSHOG]

4. Caddy Shack, The Jerk, Paper Moon

[TrogL]

5. The Blues Brothers, It's a Mad, mad mad mad world

[Captain Hilts]

23. Two GREATS!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

58. Every frame of film in IAMMMMW with Jonathan Winters is "laugh out loud funny."

Arnold Stang in the gas station: "We're gonna have to KILL him!"

It was one hell of a movie, but Winters took the greatness that was already present and bumped it up a few notches.

:toast:

[Martin Eden]

97. Jimmy Durante kicked the bucket

literally and figuratively at the same moment

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. Blazing Saddles, Duck Soup, Dumb and Dumber, Office Space.

Some others I can't think of right now.

[Auggie]

24. The mirror sequence in Duck Soup

was the hardest I ever laughed over one scene in one movie.

It literally did hurt -- and still cracks me up today.

[Forkboy]

34. The whole movie is brilliant.

I love all of their stuff, but that's them at their peak.

Trentino: Oh! Now, Chicolini, I want a full detailed report of your investigation.
Chicolini: All right, I tell you. Monday we watch-a Firefly's house, but he no come out. He wasn't home. Tuesday we go to the ball game, but he fool us. He no show up. Wednesday he go to the ball game, and we fool him. We no show up. Thursday was a double-header. Nobody show up. Friday it rained all day. There was no ball game, so we stayed home and we listened to it on-a the radio.
Trentino (exasperated): Then you didn't shadow Firefly?
Chicolini: Oh, sure we shadow Firefly. We shadow him all day.
Trentino: But what day was that?
Chicolini: Shadowday. Hahaha. That's-a some joke, eh, Boss?

:rofl:

[jmowreader]

57. Will you tell me, what happened Saturday?

I'm glad you asked me. We follow this man to a roadhouse. He meet a married lady.

A married lady?

Yeah, I think it was his wife.

Firefly has no wife!

No?

No!

You know what I think? I think we followed the wrong man.

Ross Perot's Inaugural Address was good too...

(Margaret Dumont)
If it's not asking too much...For our information, just for illustration, tell us how you intend to run the nation

(Groucho)
These are the laws of my administration:

No one's allowed to smoke or tell a dirty joke, and whistling is forbidden
If chewing gum is chewed, the chewer is pursued and in the hoosegow hidden
If any form of pleasure is exhibited report to me and it will be prohibited
I'll put my foot down. So shall it be. This is the land of the free!

The last man nearly ruined this place, he didn't know what to do with it
If you think this country's bad off now just wait till I get through with it!

The country's taxes must be fixed and I know what to do with it
If you think you're paying too much now just wait till I get through with it!

I will not stand for anything that's crooked or unfair
I'm strictly on the up-and-up so everyone beware
If anyone's caught taking graft and I don't get my share
We'll stand him up against the wall and pop! goes the weasel!

If any man should come between a husband and his bride
We'll find out which one she prefers by letting her decide
If she prefers the other man the husband steps outside
We'll stand him up against the wall and pop! goes the weasel!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

40. Definitely, and I also forgot Chaplin's City Lights and Modern Times.

The feeding-machine scene in Modern Times made me laugh so hard I think I popped a blood vessel. :rofl:

[azmouse]

7. The Odd Couple

[Captain Hilts]

41. He might have taken vitamins! He might be the healthiest one in the room!

[bif]

8. Robin Williams live on Broadway

I was laughing so hard I had to stop the movie to catch my breath.

[muffin1]

9. Death at a Funeral

Hysterical!

[Minimus]

106. Saw it in the theater and laughed so hard I cried and

every muscle in my stomach hurt by the time the movie ended.

[muffin1]

116. Great flick!

BTW, saw a trailer for a remake (already!), with Chris Rock and Martin Lawrence. Blasphemy!
They DID cast Peter Dinklage again, though.

[LibDemAlways]

10. I saw Ghostbusters with a good friend who laughed so hard and

long he was way more entertaining than the film. I've never seen anyone enjoy a movie more.

[charlie and algernon]

11. Zombieland

The Bill Murray scene...

:rofl:

[bluesbassman]

12. Grandma's Boy, The Hangover.

[bluesbassman]

44. Just thought of this classic - The In-Laws, with Alan Arkin and Peter Falk

not the cheesy remake.

[CBHagman]

63. I loved "The In-Laws."

"Serpentine! Serpentine!"

:rofl:

I also loved Foul Play, especially the chase scenes and any one involving Dudley Moore.

From the '90s: Everyone Says I Love You, The Big Lebowski.

[laylah]

14. A Fish Called Wanda...nt

[Brickbat]

15. Slapshot.

[Auggie]

16. Eating Raoul

[TheCentepedeShoes]

92. Got here late

That was what I was going to say
Edit - there is this small liquor store I stop at sometimes, always reminds me of ER

[Auggie]

114. Ahh, another fan

:fistbump:

Haven't seen it in years. I think I have to find the DVD of that.

[Haole Girl]

17. Planes, Trains & Automobiles

:-)

[bigwillq]

18. Dumb&Dumber

There's Something About Mary.
Liar, Liar.
really anything with Jim Carrey, at least his earlier works.

[Skittles]

19. Snatch, Spinal Tap

yes INDEED

[Forkboy]

27. Fucking Snatch.

"Blagged? Speak English to me, Tony. I thought this country spawned the fucking language, and so far nobody seems to speak it."

If you watch it again watch in that scene as Dennis Farina tries to get into the passenger side of the car as he's saying that only to realize the steering wheel is on that side. Nice little visual gag to go along with the good line.

Don't get me going on this movie. :)

[Skittles]

32. I find something new every time I watch it

did I tell you I picked up a couple extras when I bought it and mailed them to troops in Afghanistan? Yes INDEED! :hi:

"I don't want that dog dribbling on my seats."

"Your seats? Tyrone, this is a stolen car, mate"

:rofl:

[Forkboy]

37. "What's in the car?" "Two seats and a steering wheel."

I'm telling you, it's the one movie I've watched the most this decade (excluding Godzilla movies, naturally). Midnight Run is one of my favorite movies, and Snatch comes the closest to the dialog and pace of that movie that I've seen, and is even better (I don't say that lightly). Brick Top is the best bad guy in decades. "If you ever stop me again whilst I'm walking I'll cut your jacobs off!" What a prick bastard! :rofl:

I picked up a couple extras when I bought it and mailed them to troops in Afghanistan? :hug:

[Auggie]

46. I've never seen Snatch

I'll put it on Netflix.

[Forkboy]

49. It's not for everyone.

My father didn't make it 10 minutes into it before stopping it, but he hates British anything. I've always loved British everything (Young Ones, Red Dwarf, Monty Python, Fry and Laurie, French and Saunders, Fawlty Towers, Alexei Sayle, etc), so for me it was perfect. Let me know what you think after seeing it. It seems a hit or miss movie for people. I just love any caper movie. :)

[Auggie]

51. I love watching Dennis Farina work...

he was so fantastic in Get Shorty.

Might take a few months to get to -- I'll let you know (if I can remember).

[proteus_lives]

74. Guy Richie is very good with caper movies.

"And a Pikie reaction is quite a fucking thing."

[Skittles]

112. and me, I lived in England as a child

:D
check it out: me and my brother as English schoolkids:

[Forkboy]

122. Awwwww

:)

That can't be America...the street is too clean. :)

[Skittles]

108. when I purchased the DVD Snatch, I picked up a couple more for the troops

it's a classic!!!

[hamsterjill]

21. A scene from "While You Were Sleeping"

Okay, I loved the Bullock/Pullman movie, BUT there is a scene in the movie where the time is being shifted from night to morning, so they show this newspaper delivery boy riding his bicycle down the sidewalk early in the morning.

The kid throws the paper SO HARD that he turns the bike over. For some reason, that scene really makes me laugh every time I see it. I think part of the cuteness of it is that you aren't expecting anything to happen. It's just a transitional scene. And probably not everyone notices the bike.

[Captain Hilts]

22. Some Like it Hot, Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Russians Are Coming, Clerks, 9 to 5...

I'll think of more...

Blues Brothes, Airplane! Hot Shots, The Fountainhead (though that was not their intention...)

[Forkboy]

28. Good list. The Russians Are Coming is a hidden gem.

As always, Alan Arkin is excellent. And Jonathan Winters as well, so you can't go wrong.

[Captain Hilts]

36. And Arkin's Russian, also is good. A documentary in many ways...

And to think William Rose wrote that and MMMMWorld.

[Forkboy]

39. My introduction to Arkin was Catch 22, but I didn't get it.

My father loved it, but I was lost. The Russians Are Coming I got though (most of it anyways...I was born in 67). I never realized it was the same writer for both!

[TrogL]

42. Catch-22 is a primer in logic

The book is even crazier. I sat down one time and tried to sort out the flash-backs and flash-forwards into some sort coherent sense and ended up with a mobius loop.

[Forkboy]

43. LOL...I finally read the book in my 30's. I got it then, but it still messes with me.

One of the classics, for sure.

[hisownpetard]

105. With Catch 22, it's best to read the book first for all the twists and turns.

the book is better!

[11 Bravo]

125. "Emergency, Emergency! Everybody to get from street!" Still makes me laugh today.

[sarge43]

25. Blazing Saddles

Mongo's ride into town and the follow up can still put me on the floor.

[Moondog]

26. Add Brazil to others already listed -

Blazing Saddles
Clerks
Some Like it Hot
Office Space

[Tommy_Carcetti]

29. Airplane, Naked Guns, The Jerk.

Also a few television shows--Arrested Development, The Office, segments on The Daily Show, skits on Conan O'Brien.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

35. Oh, and how can I ever forget?

Walter Sobchak: Is this your homework, Larry? Is this your homework, Larry?
The Dude: Look, man...
Walter Sobchak: Dude, please? Is this your homework, Larry?
The Dude: Just ask him about the car.
Walter Sobchak: Is this yours, Larry? Is this your homework, Larry?
The Dude: Is that your car out front?
Walter Sobchak: Is this your homework, Larry?
The Dude: We know it's his fucking homework! Where's the fucking money, you little brat?
Walter Sobchak: Look, Larry. Have you ever heard of Vietnam?
The Dude: Oh, for Christ's sake, Walter...
Walter Sobchak: You're entering a world of pain, son. We know that this is your homework. We know that you stole a car.
The Dude: And the fucking money.
Walter Sobchak: And the fucking money. And, we know that this is your homework.
The Dude: We're going to cut your dick off, Larry.
Walter Sobchak: You're killing your father, Larry!

Quite possibly the funniest scene in movie history, if you ask me.

[Alexander]

85. There are a lot of scenes where diffferent characters repeat the same dialogue.

Not sure why the Coen brothers did this so much, but it did help make it funny.

"Nothing is fucked"

"Her life is in your hands"

"She kidnapped herself"

"Really tied the room together"

[dixiegrrrrl]

88. If you liked Arrested Development, there is a new series

..ok..newish series, called Corner Gas.
Started in 2004.
Canadian, by a guy named Brent Butt.

Quirky, goofy, funny.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. This Is Spinal Tap

Best in Show
Waiting for Guffman
A Mighty Wind

[Forkboy]

31. Snatch, Naked Gun, Tapeheads (John Cusack's best movie!), Street Trash, Python and the Holy Grail.

Slapshot, Midnight Run, any Wallace and Gromit film, It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Jonathan Winters...say no more), Duck Soup, Dr. Strangelove (or pretty much any Peter Sellers movie), Raising Arizona. To name a few.

Almost everything in this thread is worth watching though. :)

[LiberalEsto]

38. Animal House

Weekend at Bernie's
Young Frankenstein

[Rabrrrrrr]

45. Beavis and Butthead Do America - that's the movie I laughed my ass off the most.

Also Blazing Saddles, Airplane, and of course the all-too-obvious so-overdone-it's-fucking-ludicrous, Love Story.

[Fleshdancer]

47. The Jerk is one of my all time favorites

I'm also a fan of History of the World, Part I and Wedding Crashers.

[Mike_03]

48. A few

Robot Monster
88 Minutes
The Beast of Yucca Flats
Monster a-go go
Plan 9 from Outer Space (of course)
Manos: Hands of Fate (I think that is the title, or approximately)
Showgirls

[Ikonoklast]

50. When I first saw Blazing Saddles in the theater,

there was a guy sitting across the aisle from us and I thought he was going to have a heart attack during the campfire farting scene.

The poor guy was laughing so hard he couldn't catch his breath.

My buddy spit out a mouthful of soda when they started the farting in that scene.


And Bill Murray in Caddyshack was astoundingly funny during the ball washing scene.

When he said "Lean, mean, and not too far between" my poor Dad almost choked on some popcorn.

[WolverineDG]

52. Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

Parenthood
Meet the Parents

dg

[GoCubsGo]

100. Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Much funnier...

Meet the Parents was hysterical!

[WolverineDG]

119. RH: POT wasn't supposed to be funny

that's what makes it hysterical in my book. :rofl:

dg

[The empressof all]

53. Lost in America

It's dated now...But the first time I saw it I was out of control.....

[WinkyDink]

54. "The Full Monty", "The Odd Couple", and "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

[Lydia Leftcoast]

55. Hot Fuzz, What's Up Doc, Peking Opera Blues--a few obscure ones

:-)

[Forkboy]

61. Hot Fuzz...LOL.

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost kill me. For a horror fan like me Shaun of the Dead is even better, but Hot Fuzz had me in stitches too. I'm in on anything those two do. :)

[bookworm65t]

56. The In-Laws (original)

Although I felt sorry for the banana farmer who lost his crop on the highway.

[applegrove]

59. Brazille. Princess Bride.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

60. The Exorcist

i thought it was hilarious.

[JBoy]

62. Napoleon Dynamite.

Funny right from the first line.

Kid on Bus: What are you gonna do today, Napoleon?
Napoleon Dynamite: Whatever I feel like I wanna do. Gosh!

[lukasahero]

65. "The Money Pit" - stoned

Really, the stoned part makes all the difference.

When the bathtub falls through the floor and Tom Hanks starts laughing - I swear to god, I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. And it just kept coming...

[begin_within]

66. What's Up, Doc? (1972), especially this scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw3391SiKRk

[Captain Hilts]

68. This is a very UNDER-RATED movie. I, too, love it!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

109. I saw that when it first came out

It was a period in my life when I really needed some laughter, and I laughed so hard that I was out of breath.

Must add to Netflix queue.

[fishwax]

70. I was just coming here to post that scene

:D

[Frank Cannon]

76. I haven't seen that movie since I was a kid

I forgot how crazy hilarious it was.

[Twillig]

104. That's the thing. It was funny when I was 8, it's SCREAMINGLY funny

now.

--Like when John Hillerman throws Ryan O'Neal out of the Hotel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6bLoSn50gA&feature=related ***around 8:45

O'Neal: "I don't suppose you have another room that you could let me use..just...for..?"

Hillerman: "mmmmmmmm" <shakes head>

:rofl:

[Twillig]

107. I was watching "Magnum Force" the other day on Netflix streaming

and in it, Harry (an Inspector of the SFPD, remember)--in a chase scene--crashes his car
,somewhat gratuitously, into a parked Volkswagen van.

I took that as a referential joke to the scene and the VW bashing that goes on in it in What's Up, Doc.

Does anybody else see/remember that?

[tishaLA]

123. "There are people named Eunice?"

[kwassa]

67. Groundhog Day

Bill Murray at his best.

some deep ideas traveling in the comedy.

[proteus_lives]

75. Deep and Hilarious.

It's not often a film can pull that off.

[jobycom]

69. A Fish Called Wanda, Ruthless People, Borat, Talladega Nights, Big Trouble in Little China.

Some others already mentioned, too, like Ghostbusters and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

When I saw Talladega Nights, people were sliding out of their seats holding their sides, especially at the kiss scene. These weren't Larry the Cable Guy fans, either, this was an educated, middle class theater in Austin.

[proteus_lives]

71. Hmmm.

Caddyshack
National Lampoon's Vaction and Christmas Vacation
Blues Brothers
The Hangover
Animal House
Out Cold
EuroTrip
Hairspray (Original)
Four Rooms.

Short-List.

[Misskittycat]

77. The Frisco Kid.

[nuxvomica]

78. Lord of the Rings, Playtime, Dumb and Dumber,

Modern Times, It's Only Money, Office Space, Plan 9 from Outer Space. That's all I can remember at the moment.

[peekaloo]

79. Quick Change, Love and Death, Midnight Run, Blazing Saddles

and Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (Gene Wilder drinking Woolite!).

[bif]

80. The two Harold & Kumar movies are pretty funny

[Mopar151]

81. The neat thing about "The Hangover"

It is so detailed that you can find new stuff to laugh about after seeing it 3 or 4 times. Blazing Saddles is like that too.

Best comedy movies no one has ever heard of? Get Crazy and Brother from Another Planet

[tango-tee]

82. Some Like It Hot

One of my all-time favorites.

[peoli]

83. Raising Arizona

[EastTennesseeDem]

84. Shaun of the Dead fit that description

The first time I saw it, there were times when I lost complete control, to the point where my friends actually thought something was wrong with me.

[Alexander]

86. Plan 9 From Outer Space

[azmouse]

87. Galaxy Quest

[BarbaRosa]

89. Casino Royale (the Peter Sellers one)

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTAyMzgzMjc2MTBeQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU2MDgwMTUxOQ@@._V1._SX96_SY140_.jpg

[livetohike]

90. This is Spinal Tap

I laugh just thinking about it. The first time I saw it, I was laughing so hard I cried. :-)

[opiate69]

91. 40 Year Old Virgin, Zach and Miri, Lebowski, Clerks II

[Blue-Jay]

94. The Three Amigos.

Many of my other favorite comedies have already been mentioned (Spinal Tap, Holy Grail, Young Frankenstein, etc.)

Still, I need to admit that The Three Amigos makes me laugh like an idiot. I actually didn't like the movie the first time that I watched it. Then I watched it again, and chuckled a little bit. Then I watched it a 3rd, 4th, 5th time and laughed out loud at the silliness.

"A sweater!"

[pokerfan]

111. So, would you say

that you have a plethora of pinatas?

[Martin Eden]

95. Marx Brothers triple feature -- on windowpane

It was the first time I dropped acid ... 1973, junior in high school. Four of us drove to the Berwyn Theater (Chicago suburb) in Albert's mother's station wagon. Albert had spent 2 years in Florida, grew his hair very long, and was already a veteran tripper (his mother didn't come with us on this trip). Since he was "experienced" he took half a square of 4-way windowpane; the rest of us took a quarter hit (believe me, it was ample).

The acid started taking effect shortly after we took our seats. The scenes melted into one another and we "got" every scrap of humor the Marx Brothers threw at us, even though it was 40 years old. If you haven't experienced something like this yourself, I cannot begin to explain to you the nature of the hilarity we experienced.

When we came out of the theater Albert realized he was unable to drive the car. I volunteered and got us home safely -- while we listened to the perfect new art rock album on the car's 8-track player -- Dark Side of the Moon.

[Mojambo]

96. Borat. n/t

[tigereye]

98. Harold and Maude

Spinal Tap

[GoCubsGo]

99. Airplane!

Also:
Anything by Mel Brooks, the Marx Bros., and Monty Python's Flying Circus
This is Spinal Tap!
Something About Mary
Tropic Thunder
Zoolander

[caitxrawks]

101. i totally hate to admit this, but

Judd Apatow movies (especially Knocked Up and 40 Year Old Virgin) send me rolling.

[Zavulon]

102. Planes, Trains and Automobiles is one.

Major League is the other. If not for the stupid Berenger-chasing-Russo storyline, Major League would have been perfect.

[Danger Mouse]

103. Sadly, the most recent one was 'Stepbrothers'...yes, I am very immature...

but that movie made me laugh my ass off more times than I could count.

[Initech]

118. Stepbrothers was funnier than I thought it was going to be.

"You know what I got for Christmas? A cold shoulder!"

[Lydia Leftcoast]

110. Nobody has mentioned "Waking Ned Devine"?

Sure and you can't be serious.

[Kat45]

113. The Roberto Bengini segment of "Night on Earth"

I was literally rolling on the bed laughing, with tears running down my cheeks, when I first saw that one.

[Initech]

117. First time I saw Borat I was on the floor.

[MindPilot]

120. Hot Shots & Hot Shots Part Deux

Clang! "I'll get that!"

And the scene in Part Deux when Charlie Sheen & Martin Sheen pass each other on the Mekong River...

Stan Helsing, Stripes, Repossessed, Death Race 2000, Idiocracy

[JTG of the PRB]

121. Anchorman, Blazing Saddles, The Hangover, Office Space

Each and every one of those movies as always made me roll on the floor with laughter. :rofl:

[av8rdave]

124. The Life of Brian, The Hangover, Airplane, Kentucky Fried Movie