The all-time funniest movies are...

[bwana devil]

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happy gilmore is on my list for sure.


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cubs,
what size is your mobile home? [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

bwana

[bwana devil]

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P.S. From Shakes: "Die, milkman scum!!" High comedy indeed.

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it's been a long time since i saw that movie. i worked in a video store in college so i've seen my fair share of flicks. i dont even like bobcat. find him annoying, but couldn't stop laughing at that movie.

doesnt the opening scene have carol brady's young son urinating on bobcat's head? "mom, there's a clown passed out in the bathroom"

bwana

[Cubswin]

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cubs,
what size is your mobile home?


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It's a double-wide...why do you ask? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Raising Arizona. Solid.

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Damn right. Really most of the Cohen stuff is pretty funny, in a weird way of course. O Brother Where Art Thou was a lot of fun.

I thought Happy Gilmore was very funny. I don't despise Adam Sandler but he's not one of my favorites either. He's got Moses Malone's range, that's for sure.

HOW IN THE NAME OF GOD HAS NOBODY MENTIONED CADDYSHACK???!!!

[West]

Man, I totally agree. Sure it's got a few jokes in there that, for me anyway, weren't particularly funny (I distinctly remember seeing this in the theater, and thinking during the first few minutes that it was going to be horrible), but the rest of it had me in tears. I think this movie may have helped start a trend of increasingly tacky humor in movies (a trend I personally am not a fan of), and I think it's possible that that may have something to do with the fact that a lot of people don't seem to agree that this movie is a classic. Or maybe not. I don't know. For me, it's one of the greatest movies of all time.

[West]

I got another one - it has a few moments that IMO it definitely could have done without (like the disgusting flossing moment - part of the tacky humor movement I mentioned above), but otherwise was solid gold: Kingpin.

[VarlosZ]

I think we have to make a distinction between comedies that are very good, and comedies that are funny (but not necessarily good movies).

Exhibit #1 is Clerks. By any objective standard, this is a Bad Movie. With the exception of Jay and Silent Bob, every character has the exact same (unrealistic) speech patterns. Worse, it features the worst acting of any popular movie I've ever heard of. Nevertheless, I can see why some people find it very funny (though I just can't get past the acting, personally).

Exhibit #2 is Annie Hall. A Great Movie, but necessarily a Very Funny Comedy (though there are some very funny scenes, of course).


Sticking to the "funny, not necessarily good" criteria, I'd have to note, in no particular order:

South Park
Raising Arizona
Noises Off
Airplane!
Naked Gun
Showgirls (?)

[Tuco]

The correct answer is:

1. Life of Brian

NISUS WETTUS
Next. Crucifixion?

DOOMED
Yes.

NISUS
Good. Out of the door, line on the left. One cross each. Next. Crucifixion?

ALSO DOOMED
Yes.

NISUS
Good. Out of the door, line on the left. One cross each. Next. Crucifixion?

CHEEKY
Eh? No, freedom.

NISUS
What?

CHEEKY
Eh, freedom for me. They said I hadn't done anything, so I could go free and
live on an island somewhere.

NISUS
Oh? Oh, that's jolly good. Well, off you go then!

CHEEKY
Naah. I'm only pulling your leg. It's crucifixion really.

NISUS
Oho, I see. Very good very good. Well, out of the door...

CHEEKY
[cheerily] Yeah. I know the way. Out of the door, one cross each, line on
the left.

2. This is ...Spinal Tap

Marty: Your first drummer was uh....
Nigel: The peeper....
David: Joe stumpy Pepys...great great...uh...tall blond geek..
with glasses uh...
Nigel: Uh.. good drummer.
David: Great look, good drummer.
Nigel: Good, good drummer....
David: Fine drummer....
Marty: What happened to him?
David: He died, he, he died in a bizarre gardening accident some
years back.
Nigel: It was really one of those things...it was...you know...the
authorities said...you know...well best leave it unsolved,
really...you know.
Marty: And he was replaced by...uh....
David: Stumpy Joe - Eric Stumpy Joe Childs.
Marty: What happened to Stumpy Joe?
Derek: Well, uh, it's not a very pleasant story..but, uh,
David: He's passed on.
Derek: he died. uh...he choked on..the ac- the official explanation
was he choked on vomit.
Nigel: It was actually, was actually someone else's vomit.
It's not....
David: It's ugly.
Nigel: You know. There's no real....
Derek: You know they can't prove whose vomit it was...they don't
have the facilities at Scotland Yard....
David: You can't print, there's no way to print a spectra-photograph
Nigel: You can't really dust for vomit.

3. Swingers

ROB: So, if the party starts at eight, why are we first going to a bar at ten?

MIKE: To get a drink before we meet the guys for a bite at eleven.

ROB: Oh. Where is this place?

MIKE: It's one of these. For some reason, cool bars in L.A. have to be very hard to find and have no signs out front.

ROB: That doesn't sound too good for business.

MIKE: It's kinda like a speakeasy kind of thing. It's kinda cool. It's like you're in on some kind of secret. You tell a chick you've been some place, it's like bragging that you know how to find it. The only way you could know where a place is is if someone who knows brought you there. You have to have someone come before. There is a direct line connecting you back to the original, unequivocally cool, club patrons. It's kinda like Judaism...

ROB: Sounds more like Aids...

4. Lost in America

David: You are never allowed to use the word "nest egg" again. If we're in the woods, you can point and say, 'A bird lives in a round stick! And you have things over-easy with toast!

5. Slap Shot.

Jim: Oh gee, hold the phone. This is an unscheduled surprise. This young man has had a very trying rookie season. What with the littigation, the notoriety, his subsequent deportation to Canada and that country refusal to accept him. That's more than most 21 year olds can handle, Oggie Olgilthorpe!

6. Snatch

Bricktop: Do you know what the word nemesis means? A rightous infliction of retribution by an appropriate agent, personified in this case by a horrible c*nt. Me.

7. Strange Brew

Attendant: Twenty-four Elsinore! That will be $14.70.

Doug: I believe there will be no charge on this two-four of beer, thank you.

Attendant: Excuse me?

Doug: Ok, uh, we found this mouse in a bottle of Elsinore beer that we bought at your beer store, eh? And we heard that when that happens you get your beer free.

Bob: It's in the Canadian Criminal Code, eh. Like there's legal precedence set in cases in law, eh?

Doug: So, like give us our free beer.

Attendant: You want free beer? Go to the brewery. Now get out of here before I put the two of you in a bottle.

Doug: You sure you don't want to think this over?

8. Animal House

Blutofsky: Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

9. Caddyshack

Carl Spackler: So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one -- big hitter, the Lama -- long, into a ten-thousand foot crevice, right at the base of this glacier. And do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga...gunga -- gunga galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consiousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

10. Stripes

Winger: We're soldiers, but we're American soldiers! We've been kicking ass for 200 years! We're 10-and-1!

Tuco.

[Punker]

I always had a soft spot for the National Lampoon Vacation series.

[exist]

maybe i'm a sociopath, but Final Destination 2 was hilarious. (for those who have actually seen it) remember that part where the chick in the crashed SUV gets impaled through the back of her head with the broken pipe?? PRICELESS!!!