What movie do you think is the funniest ever?

[Stinky The Clown]

I really can't decide.

The original Thin Man may have the tightest dialogue ever. Delivered straight. Riotously funny. Both William Powell and Myrna Loy had funny stuff.

A Night at The Opera, just because. Canned chaos. The gags were so fast and furious that some must have been written in the script's margins, much as some of the gags in the original MAD magazines.

Blazing Saddles. Farts really are funny. So are cow punchers.

What do you think?

[wickerwoman]

1. Withnail and I; A Fish Called Wanda; Spinal Tap

A three way tie.

:D

[TZ]

30. Don't call me stupid!!! This response goes to ELEVEN!

Both a Fish Called Wanda and Spinal Tap are on my list

[zanana1]

57. A Fish Called Wanda was hilarious and brilliant. nt

[Roon]

91. Spinal Tap is on my bucket list

I wanna see it before I leave. My friends used to quote that movie and I would crack up laughing.

[GoCubsGo]

2. Airplane!

And, just about anything else with Leslie Nielsen in it. All the ones y'all mentioned so far are just as funny. So hard to choose...

[gristy]

12. seconded

Just brilliant. Found this compilation of all the Johnny stuff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YV5h6xzGKo omg. I can't breathe! :rofl:
More hilarious stuff. Jive talkin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZwMcoDVJM&feature=related "Jive ass dude don't got no brain anyhow" :rofl::rofl:

[Bennyboy]

51. Thirded!

[Roon]

88. I saw that at a drive-in my first time when I was a kid

the theater would play two movies and encore with the first movie in full. I wanted to stay so bad and watch it again,but my sister refused. I never forgave her for that...LOL

[NoPasaran]

3. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World

[DoBotherMe]

9. Yes!

Just thinking about Jonathan Winters and Phil Silvers gets me laughing. Excellent movie! Dana ; )

[Brother Buzz]

105. Never, ever, make Jonathan Winters mad!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KltCEke-dTg

[dysfunctional press]

14. its a mad, mad, mad, mad world is even better.

:P

[Captain Hilts]

24. An aide to Bob Filner - D-CA - has devoted his life to this movie. He

started the effort to get it on the LoC's preservation list. He published a newsletter and tried to get folks like Katharine Hepburn involved in it.

This movie was a New Year's Eve tradition on WDCA 20 in Washington, DC. One of only two movies my folks paid to see in a theatre TWICE.

[NoPasaran]

33. I remember seeing it for the first ttime in an actual Cinerama theatre in Denver

[bookworm65t]

38. Ethel Merman playing the worst female in the world!!

Wonderful performance!!!

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

61. Yes, Yes, Yes...

A hilarious movie........... :)

[Brickbat]

4. Slapshot. There isn't a bad line in the whole thing.

I cackle all the way through.

[AsahinaKimi]

5. Blazing Saddles

Mel Brooks is a genius!

[edhopper]

78. Kick!

I stopped laughing late in the movie because I was exhausted from laughing so much.

"That's Hedley!"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[begin_within]

6. I think What's Up Doc? (1972) has the funniest scene

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

although other scenes in the movie are also funny, the above is the best.

[Captain Hilts]

23. What's UpDoc is GREAT. Under-rated. nt

[fishwax]

44. love that scene

Great stuff :rofl:

[MilesColtrane]

49. The stunt man in the back of the DeVille was lucky to survive the convertible in the bay gag.

He was knocked out cold when his head hit part of the awning at the end of the pier and went into the water unconscious.

But, he got a great shot.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Young Frankenstein, or Dr. Strangelove...

These are tops in my book.

[6000eliot]

72. I agree on Young Frankenstein, Peggy.

But my other one has to be Duck Soup.

[cherokeeprogressive]

97. My dear CAPeg, I couldn't agree more.

Dr. Strangelove is #1 for me.

[lunatica]

118. Young Frankenstein is great

Cloris Leachman is fabulous in everything she does.

[enigmatic]

8. Well, my humor is deadpan

But this film to me is hyserically funny:



But "What's Up Doc?" and "Annie Hall" leave me laughing w/o fail, too..

[grasswire]

67. what about the Italian scene in "Night on Earth"?

Since you are a Jarmusch fan....

[enigmatic]

71. Love it!

The Helsinki scene is probably my favorite moment in and of his films, too..

[Initech]

10. The Big Lebowski

[TroglodyteScholar]

66. Seconded.. n/t

[pokerfan]

11. Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Favorite scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7v0eth4XAM

[Bennyboy]

52. HA HA! I met this new friend who NEVER SAW THE MOVIE!

and he was 50 something.(HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?) So I made him watch it. Now all he says is "your going the wrong way" or some derivative thereof.

[dysfunctional press]

13. it's a mad, mad, mad, mad, world. there's something about mary. used cars.

slapshot. this is spinal tap.

[asdjrocky]

15. Right now it's The Hang Over.

Somehting About Mary is way up there too.

[kwassa]

16. Groundhog Day

rather profound, too.

[pokerfan]

18. Have you read Replay?

The novel was a bestseller in Japan, and its time-loop concept has been referenced as a precursor of Harold Ramis' comedy-drama Groundhog Day (1993).

The novel was a selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club, and it was included in several lists of recommended reading: Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels (1988), Aurel Guillemette's The Best in Science Fiction (1993), David Pringle's Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction (1995) and the Locus Reader's Poll: Best Science Fiction Novel (1988). In the Locus 1998 poll of the best fantasy novels published prior to 1990, Replay placed #32. On the Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List, Replay was voted to the #43 position in 2000 but climbed to #19 by 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Grimwood

[kwassa]

54. No, I haven't.

Ramis did a good job with it, and I am not really a Ramis fan. Bill Murray was fabulous in the role

[pokerfan]

59. If you like the movie, you will enjoy the book

Though it's quite different. Instead of a single day, it's years, but I'm not giving away anything that isn't on the back cover.

[kwassa]

60. Thanks for the recommendation!

[JCMach1]

111. HATED that one...

[Danmel]

17. Trading Places

[Manifestor_of_Light]

74. With future Senator Al Franken as Amtrak Baggage Handler #1 !!!

Great thespians,all.....

[stewert]

19. Too Easy.............

Cheech & Chongs Up In Smoke.

[tigereye]

20. NIght on Earth - the part with Roberto Begnini

otherwise, Young Frankenstein and Harold and Maude.

[Orrex]

21. Wow--good call re Night on Earth.

The bit about the sheep and the pumpkin destroys me every time. Haven't seen the film in ages, though.

[Kat45]

42. Man, I love that Begnini segment.

I first saw that in a hotel room in Canada and I had no idea what I was watching. I thought it might be a foreign movie, I wasn't sure, but I was literally rolling on the bed laughing with tears streaming down my cheeks. I found out what it was, saw that it was on TV again later that night and of course I watched it again. No matter how many times I see it, the tears are still flowing. :rofl:

[grasswire]

68. oh you beat me to it.

I love that movie.

[Captain Hilts]

22. Some Like it Hot. "This might even turn out to be a surprise party."

[Mad_Dem_X]

81. "Who's the lucky girl?" "I am!"

One of the funniest scenes EVER. Jack Lemmon was such a jewel.

[grace0418]

112. "Most of the time I slap it!"

Definitely a movie in my top five.

[HopeHoops]

25. You nailed it - Blazing Saddles.

[Minimus]

26. Raising Arizona

[Blue_In_AK]

35. I love that one. :)

[Mari333]

27. The Producers, 1968 Mel Brooks

also Planes Trains and Automobiles

and everything with the Marx bros
everything with WC Fields.

[Mendocino]

28. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

I'm not dead yet!

[Common Sense Party]

62. That's got my vote.

Several others are close: Princess Bride, Airplane, Fletch...but Grail is the winnah.

[beac]

65. Mine too.

Even with aging brain cells, I can still quote a good bit of it. In my college days, I probably could have performed the entire movie from start to finish.

[Yavin4]

70. Gotta Go With Grail and Life of Brian

She has huge, huge tracts of land.

[Mendocino]

87. Someday son all this will be yours.

What, the curtains?

[laughingliberal]

84. The very top of my list. "He says he's not dead."

Have seen this at least 2 dozen times and still scream with laughter at this scene. And who can forget, "Yes, a spanking...."

[NewJeffCT]

101. And after the spanking

the oral sex.

Well, I could stay a bit longer...

[annonymous]

29. Blazing Saddles and Airplane

I also like Its a Mad Mad Mad World and The Great Race.

[tigereye]

31. regardless of what you think of Sacha Barron-Cohen, Borat was hilarious

I have never laughed so hard.

[Mz Pip]

32. Animal House

is right up there for me. A Fish Called Wanda ia also one of my favorites.

As far as old classics Unfaithfully Yours with Rex Harrison as the conductor is hysterical.

[Auggie]

92. +1

I just saw Animal House last night. It still holds up

[Blue_In_AK]

34. Blues Brothers still makes me laugh

and I must have seen it a hundred times.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

36. Either Caddie Shack or Back to School

Rodney was the man!

[UTUSN]

37. A Fish Called Wanda n/t

[bookworm65t]

39. Love and Death (1975)

One of Woody Allen's few screwball comedies, combined with satire on intellectuals and Russian literature. I neer get tired of this film !

[Catshrink]

40. One of the most quotable: Spaceballs

maybe not the funniest ever, but I quote it more than any other.

What's the matter, Colonel Sanders, Chicken?

[pink-o]

41. What? No "Harold and Maude"?

I guess it's a pretty mordant comedy, but I love that kind of humor, and it's on my Top Ten of greatest all-time flicks. Hal Ashby's direction is genius, he leaves just enough of a pause for you to guess what's coming next and by the time the joke has played out you're already screaming in laughter (example: When Harold lights the blowtorch and walks over to his new car)

Also, Fish called Wanda, Trading Places, and a lot of the comedies from the '80s like Ruthless People and Coming to America.

90's comedies are just too mean-spirited, like Something about Mary where the laughs come from scorning a loser character. I love satire, I don't love bullying.

[beac]

64. Always glad to meet a fellow fan of "Harold and Maude"

(see my sig line :) )

[laughingliberal]

83. I loved Harold and Maude. Would definitely make my top ten nt

[sarge43]

43. What's opera, Doc? n/t

[Catshrink]

47. I killllllllled da wabbit!

[sarge43]

75. Another great one -- My Favorite Year

"This is for ladies only."

"So is this, mum. (Sound of zipper). But every so often I have to run a little water through it."

[Flaxbee]

45. With Peter Sellers, The Pink Panther Strikes Again --

Summary: Charles Dreyfus escapes from the mental asylum and tries to kill Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau. He doesn't succeed at first, so he takes on another strategy, namely to build a Doom's Day machine and demand that someone else kills Jacques Clouseau, or Dreyfus will use the machine to wipe out whole cities and even whole countries... With about 22 assassins from all over the globe on his tail, Clouseau decides to find Dreyfus alone and put him back in the mental asylum.




Peter Sellers was a perfect Clouseau, a walking disaster. I had the dialogue memorized when I was 8 or 9... HBO had just really started, and they played the movie 3 times a day for weeks on end...

[Roon]

89. I saw that movie when I was a very young child

at the old IsIs theater in Aspen Colorado. This movie is how I know about ROFL..I was in the aisles rolling around very hard lauging at the movie. My Grandmoter had to keep picking me up and putting me back in my seat.

I didn't have so much fun at a movie until I started going to Rocky Horror.

[Bertha Venation]

113. KICK IT!

:rofl:

[janx]

98. Man, I love Peter Sellers movies and started watching them

when I was just a kid. Which Pink Panther movie was it where Sellers was at the nudist camp trying to "hide himself" with the guitar?

Also, which movie contained the famous line, "That is NOT my dog?" And which contained the line, "Do you have a license for that minky?"

:rofl:

ALSO--Have you seen BEING THERE ?

[pink-o]

99. Peter Sellars was just indisputably brilliant and genius...

"Being There" is another on my Top Ten movies of all times.

[canoeist52]

46. The Bird Cage" -belly laughed throughthe whole thing!

[Roon]

90. That's a very cool movie

My Favorite part is when Gene Hackman was walking across the club in drag saying.."I don't want anyone to see me not dancing!!

[janx]

96. My brother saw the original La Cage aux Folles in the seventies.

He was studying in Switzerland and had to go to France (Geneva) to see it--the Swiss weren't showing it. He said it was the first time that he really latched on to humor in a foreign language. (Some Europeans, including a colleague of mine, think that our U.S. version is even funnier!)

[Roon]

102. WOW!!

That makes me love this movie even more!!

[janx]

104. Well you can imagine how the U.S. kicked up the satire--

with the religious right politics, etc. ! :rofl: It is truly a work of art.

[janx]

93. That one has been my favorite comedy for many years!

And the acting is masterful. Robin Williams and Nathan Lane--especially in the scene where Lane is channeling John Wayne! It's definitely one that people should have in the video library. :hi:

Another funny one is About Schmidt (Jack Nicholson).

[applegrove]

48. Brazil was really funny in places (Robert Deniro breaking into a home to fix

the air conditioning quickly comes to mind). Much Ado About Nothing was pretty funny too.

[snailly]

50. High Anxiety

The End

[6000eliot]

73. The scene where the guy brings his kids to the conference is hysterical,

no pun intended.

[bikebloke]

53. OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Hilarious. A French take on Bond. It's even shot like it was made in the 60's. I waiting for the next one, that's supposed to take place in the 70's.

[LostInAnomie]

55. Borat

Only the first time you watch it though.

[vixengrl]

56. So difficult, I have a few favorites--

I can list them, but don't think they are in order:

Young Frankenstein

Harold & Kumar go to White Castle

The Princess Bride

The Birdcage

The Blues Brothers--(I hate Illinois Nazis!)

Blazing Saddles

The Jerk

Airplane!

The Producers

Sheez! Mel Brooks is so over-represented in my list! I could count "History of the World Part One" also....

The Meaning of Life (maybe this is my favorite, actually--I love all the musical bits!)

Animal House (I can and have watched this movie over and over agai--still funny.)

South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut (I know it's tacky as fly paper in the living room, and it's every single kind of wrong...and, nonetheless, I laughed my stupid behind off, so I guess it counts as funny.)

I can quote all the lines to Spaceballs along with the movie ....but I think I'll leave my list here. Watching that movie over and over had more to do with when my parents finally got HBO...so? (Although seriously, "I'm my own best friend?" "Funny, you don't look Druish?" "Lox and Bagel" "You're ugly when you're angry!" So good!)

[MiddleFingerMom]

58. DEFINITELY Some Like It Hot

Jack Lemmon: Oh no you don't! Osgood, I'm gonna level with you.
We can't get married at all.
.
Joe E. Brown: Why not?
.
Jack Lemmon: Well, in the first place, I'm not a natural blonde.
.
Joe E. Brown: Doesn't matter.
.
Jack Lemmon: I smoke! I smoke all the time!
.
Joe E. Brown: I don't care.
.
Jack Lemmon: Well, I have a terrible past. For three years now, I've been
living with a saxophone player.
.
Joe E. Brown: I forgive you.
.
Jack Lemmon: I can never have children!
.
Joe E. Brown: We can adopt some.
.
Jack Lemmon: But you don't understand, Osgood! {pulls off wig] I'm a man!
.
Joe E. Brown: Well, nobody's perfect!

[Recovered Repug]

63. No one mentioned Dr Strangelove yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeqVGP-GPM&feature=related

[grasswire]

69. Victor Victoria

My favorite movie.

The Producers is a very close third, after Some Like It Hot.

[retread]

76. So very many to choose from ! If I can go back repeatedly and still laugh it qualifies.

My Little Chickadee--- Judge: Are you trying to show contempt for this court?
Flower Belle: No... I'm doin' my best to hide it!

The Big Lebowski -- The Dude: Nobody calls me Lebowski. You got the wrong guy. I'm the Dude, man.
Blond Treehorn Thug: Your name's Lebowski, Lebowski. Your wife is Bunny.
The Dude: My... my wi-, my wife, Bunny? Do you see a wedding ring on my finger? Does this place look like I'm fucking married? The toilet
seat's up, man!

Duck Soup -- Chico: I wouldn't go out there unless I was in one of those big iron things go up and down like this. What do you call those things?
Groucho: Tanks.
Chico: You're welcome.

[MrScorpio]

77. The Spy Who Shagged Me almost made me piss in my pants

The shadows in the tent scene especially

[Tommy_Carcetti]

79. Toss up between Airplane and The Big Lebowski.

Is this your homework, Larry?

[Maccagirl]

80. Tootsie

Perfect from start to finish.

[Mad_Dem_X]

82. Yes!

I still quote Teri Garr's "A guy named Les is sending you candy?" scene.

[MotorCityMan]

85. Mommie Dearest; The Women (1939 original)

Monty Python's Meaning of Life

[Tuvok Obama]

86. District 9

I saw it last night. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.

[janx]

94. Is this still in theaters?

I missed it when it came here--it wasn't here long. But I've been promising my son I'd see it.

[Capn Sunshine]

100. snark aside, GREAT science fiction

I'm not sure what the OP Meant. But it's a must see.

[janx]

103. But is it in theaters, or should I order it from NetFlix?

My son really enjoyed it

[Capn Sunshine]

106. I rented it

but in the wilds of NM anything could be happening

[janx]

107. Thank you!

:hi: I'll look for it on NetFlix.

[Tuvok Obama]

108. No snark here -- I'm convinced I was watching a comedy

due to how hard I was laughing. True, it stopped being funny about halfway through. But the first part (up until the hardcore violence and cruelty started) reminded me a lot of Monte Python.

[underpants]

95. Talledega Nights-Ricky Bobby

Blazing Saddles was funny
but

nothing overall comes close to the pace and not-going-for-cheap-laughs that Ricky Bobby did

a classic

[leeroysphitz]

109. I think everybody has made some great choices but I have got to go with Used Cars.

I can still get laughs out of this film.

[JCMach1]

110. Duck Soup

You have to ask?

Runner-up: Young Frankenstein

[Burma Jones]

114. Bananas, Duck Soup, South Park BLU, Holy Grail, The Producers

Strangelove, Animal Crackers, Caddyshack, Blazing Saddles, Animal House, The Inspector General, The Court Jester

And, unintentionally, The Shining......

[S n o w b a l l]

115. There's Something About Mary, The Jerk & Caddyshack

[B Calm]

116. "What About Bob" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest"

[lunatica]

117. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

with Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Michael Crawford, Jack Gilford

I also love Idiocracy

clever slapstick is always a winning combination

[Demoiselle]

119. The Inlaws comes first to mind.

(..The original, with Alan Arkin and Peter Falk, certainly not the remake.)
Coming in next, The Bird Cage. I can never resist it whenever it's on, and it's like watching (listening) to a great symphony...even though I know it by heart, I laugh my head off.. (Although I think that maybe the original Cage aux Folles is a bit more subtle and more moving.)
And third, Some Like It Hot.

[canoeist52]

120. "The General" with Buster Keaton- great to watch with kids!