Favorite funny TV shows and/or movies

[IrishEyes]

What are your favorite funny TV shows and movies when you need a laugh? I've read that laughter helps lower the blood pressure and relieve stress.

[frogmarch]

1. Two funny movies I like

are Bridget Jones's Diary and Danny Deckchair. There are others too, but those two are among my favorites.

I don't watch funny TV shows, just true crime docs.

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. I'm a true crime nut too!

For funny TV, I like The Big Bang Theory.

[PennyK]

3. Try "Drunk History"

It's on Comedy Central and it's clever and funny. You might also like "Documentary Now!" on IFC. Both of these play with truth in one way or another and I find them to be very amusing.

[Initech]

7. Have you seen Review?

Seriously has to be one of the most ridiculous shows on TV right now. I love nonsense and this show is full of it. The episode where he reviews what it's like to start a cult I was about on the floor laughing.

And I would also recommend "The Spoils of Babylon" and its second season "The Spoils Before Dying". Will Ferrell as the reclusive author, OMG.

[Initech]

4. I'm all about comedies!

Some of my favorites:

Movies:

Big Trouble
The Big Lebowski
Hot Fuzz
Super Troopers
Anchorman
Pretty much anything that has Will Ferrell in it
22 Jump Street
The Naked Gun trilogy

TV Shows:

The Simpsons (seasons 3 - 10)
Seinfeld
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Daily Show w/Jon Stewart reruns
Colbert Report reruns
At Midnight
Police Squad
Brooklyn 99
Reno 911
Chappelle's Show

[alphafemale]

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[pinboy3niner]

6. LOL!

That's a hlarious Taxi scene!

[alphafemale]

8. That and the WKRP "Turkey Tragedy"

Are a couple of the best moments from that era.

[sarge43]

21. Rev Jim's flashback to his Harvard days

when he tries some 'brownies'. Plus, a very young Tom Hanks as a wiped out pot head.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

26. I used that scene to demo software for captioning video for the deaf.

While preparing the presentation I had to watch it over and over and over and over and still it did NOT cease to be funny! It's just that perfect.

[alphafemale]

28. Yeah. It's pretty much perfect. nt

[Skittles]

9. Spinal Tap never fails to crack me up

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. "Black Jesus"

Just started its second season on Toon Network.

Black Jesus is a six and a half foot tall black guy telling the folks in Compton to chill and love each other. The joke is, is he really Jesus, or just a guy who thinks he's Jesus?

His favorite expression is "Swear to Pops".

Written by Aaron MacGruder of The Boondocks comic strip and TV show.

[OriginalGeek]

33. LOOOVE Black Jesus.

Swear to his pop.

[BlueJazz]

11. "Romping through thins and finnys while the sunlight bathes the hedgerows.."

[quickesst]

12. For the past?

I kick on an episode of My Name Is Earl. For the present? The Last Man On Earth.

[hobbit709]

13. Barney Miller-the magic brownies episode.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. The IT Crowd, a British sitcom that's available on Netflix.

Once you get past the slightly annoying laugh track, it is perhaps some of the funniest stuff you'll ever see on TV.

Also, I'm sure someone else mentioned Arrested Development, but I'd second that.

Strangers with Candy--a Comedy Central series from the late 90s-early 00s starring Amy Sedaris and Steven Colbert in one of his first TV roles.

[ailsagirl]

15. Frasier was excellent

And any and all Fawlty Towers!!

And The Graduate still amuses me greatly.

[kairos12]

16. Fawlty Towers

[trof]

31. YES!

[Bertha Venation]

17. hmm

TV - The Carol Burnett Show. They just released the first five seasons on DVD. It'll probably be on amazon/hulu/netflix/etc. sometime soon. I hope.

Movies - Blazing Saddles, Tootsie, Some Like It Hot, Young Frankenstein ("FrahnkenSHTEEN!&quot

[DFW]

18. TV & Movie:

TV--Liebling Kreuzberg (a low-profile lawyer who likes nothing better than to relax on his sofa with a cigar and jello)
Movie--Young Frankenstein ("Wait! Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso...&quot

[gratuitous]

19. News Radio - the Phil Hartman years

The series tried to soldier on after Phil was killed by his batty wife, but it wasn't the same. His Bill McNeil character was a scream, and they even had one or two episodes with Dennis Miller being funny. No, really.

[yuiyoshida]

20. I giggled over the movie Airplane!

but a big fan too of POLICE SQUAD

[IrishEyes]

22. Thank you all for your suggestions.

I've been really stressed out lately. In addition to yoga and healthy eating, I'm trying to watch happy funny movies and tv shows instead of action, horrors or dramas for a little while.

[Xipe Totec]

23. Malcolm in the Middle

[sakabatou]

24. Whose Line is it Anyway?

[Va Lefty]

25. Soap

Watched some of them on Logo recently. Still very funny. Love Benson and Burt!!

[azurnoir]

27. Blunt Talk Patrick Stewart is great as Walter Blunt

[benld74]

29. Big Bang Theory

Carol Burnett CD's
Dean Martin show CD's
Original Celebrity Roasts CD's
Whose Line is it

[trof]

30. Life of Brian

I love this movie.

[nirvana555]

32. Too many to say but no ones mentioned Ab Fab yet. I've laughed so hard I cried

back in the day.