Ferris Bueler’s Day Off.
(also, I laughed so hard in Borat that I thought I had a ruptured apendix.)
The Big Lebowski, obviously.
But if we had to base this on the sheer number of rib-shattering moments — Superbad.
(Will penis drawings ever get old?)
I love Annie Hall. Also, I really wish Farrell as Bush had been made into a full length movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkqrI3IibYI
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Monty Python and the Holy Grail, or Life of Brian. Classic comedies, just thinking about cracks me up.
There’s a whole list of movies that crack me up, though it’s eluded my mind at the time being.
Definitely The Party for funniest. I love Peter Sellers in anything – so add any of your other Peter Sellers movies here. My short list of other Sellers comedies: After the Fox, I’m All Right Jack, Heaven’s Above, Only Two Can Play, Shot in the Dark, Being There, World of Henry Orient (this last sort of a comedy/drama, though) – told you I liked him.
These are all honorable mentions, too: Ladykillers, Horsefeathers, Night at the Opera, Some Like it Hot, Clockwise, Monty Python & the Holy Grail (thanks for reminding me Huy Le), A Fish Called Wanda, Big Lebowski, Arsenic & Old Lace (heck, any Cary Grant comedy), Bringing Up Baby, Christmas Story, Loved One, Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House, Mr. Hulot’s Holiday, any Preston Sturgess (you pick), Play it Again Sam, Raising Arizona, Ruling Class, Billy Liar (technically a comedy/drama, too), Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Young Frankenstein.
I would like to pull Clockwise out of the list for special mention. Not too many people are aware of this hilarious John Cleese film where he plays an uptight public school head master having a very bad day. If you haven’t seen it, please do! It will cheer you up from even your darkest mood. All lovers of Fawlty Towers, you have now been advised.
After a good night’s watching one of my favorite ‘heavy’ auteurs, I often need a good laugh and any of the above will do. You can’t beat the opening scene of The Party, though. Any guesses what film is being parodied here?
The Big Lebowski
Napoleon Dynamite
Dumb and Dumber
The Foot Fist Way
This Is Spinal Tap
In response to the following post by Ed Gordon
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Ed Gordon
I love Annie Hall. Also, I really wish Farrell as Bush had been made into a full length movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkqrI3IibYI
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According to the internet (cue music) Farrell and his director du jour Adam McKay were doing Farrell’s impersonation as a Broadway play counting down the fictional last days in office. So if this happens this is sort of like a Farrell/McKay version of Altman’s “Secret Honor”…just intentionally funny.
Sturges’ The Great McGinty.
The Party. I laughed and laughed and laughed when I saw this. Another favourite of mine, is anything by Charlie Chaplin. Monty Python’s movies are great to take the family too, but my family are all academics (well versed in literature and wit) and the found the low brow elements of Monty Python to be distasteful. I love Shakespeare (do the taped plays count?) and The Importance of being earnest (the book more than the move but hey) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a good one. And I was the sick idiot that loved the cheezyness of Troll 2 and Once upon a time in Mexico.
Waiting for Guffman!
My Dinner with Andre action figures! Comedic-fucking-genius.
AUNTIE MAME
TOM JONES
PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES
anything the Pythons do
anything by Tati
BORAT! (this film is a whole new frontier of funny: frightfully funny!)
BRINGING UP BABY! (seventy years later, this film has morphed into a surrealistic masterpiece)
C’mon, guys. Let’s play hard ball, rein it in. It says ‘favorite’. Singular. Put on the thumbscrews. Brass tacks and all that. Nail ‘er down! One favorite. It’ll be fun! GO!
The 40 Year Old Virgin is the funniest movie I’ve seen in years. I’ve seen it at least 10 times, and it has yet to falter.
Blazing Saddles does absolutely anything for a laugh. No way that movie gets made today.
Big Deal on Madonna Street was an extremely funny italian film, Borat is just amazingly funny, Monty Python and the Meaning of Life, Dumb and Dumber, Napolean Dynamite, Mr. Blandings Builds a Dream House, and lots others!
^Mel Brooks hasn’t gotten enough props ’round these parts.
One favorite….
hmmm
It would then have to be Dr. Strangelove. Still feels like a movie that could be made today and Im always rolling on the floor laughing when I watch it.
No one mentioned Withnail & I yet? For shame! Not only is it my favorite comedy, it’s my favorite movie as well.
Awesome, Dr. Strangelove is the gift that keeps on giving. It’s so absurdly hilarious. "Tell you what. You start your countdown and ol’ Bucky’ll be back before you can say, BLAST OFF!
Some one here I forget who thought ‘Some Like It Hot’ wasn’t as funny as all that. I totally get that, but please revisit that one a few times more. It’ll grow on you in the best way.
Who out there is down with National Lampoon’s Vacation like real hard?
Growing up, “Duck Soup” was a favorite, and still is. The absurdity almost made sense as a kid, and with each year it gets funnier. “Lebowski” works in that sense for me as well, as does Monty Python’s “Holy Grail”. But for my money, nothing makes me laugh right now as much as “Bad Santa”, the film with worse taste, manners and all out cruelty than any mainstream film I’ve ever seen. It’s so pitch- black and unapologetic in it’s mean- spiritedness, but I cannot stop watching it whenever it is on. The look on Billy Bob Thornton’s face when he describes beating up the kids to Tony Cox kills me utterly. And I will also throw in a vote for “Vacation”.
dr strangelove
high fidelity
wet hot american summer
monty python and the holy grail
big lebowski
annie hall
History of the World Part I. Classic Mel Brooks.
And of course, Dr. Strangelove.
All of Wilder’s comedies get me in a uproar. At this point he is my favorite comedic director and a genius in the genre. I love The Marx Bothers, Monty Pythons works had a good sense of intelligence, and Woody Alien’s comedies also. I really enjoy the films of Stephen Chow, I feel he keeps alive a sense of the Laurel and Hardy style comedy which is dead in modern cinema.
Woody Allen’s Sleeper
The Big Lebowski
Safety Last(Harold Lloyd)
Duck Soup
Bringing up Baby
Sons of the Desert(Laurel & Hardy)
It’s A Gift(WC Fields)
Airplane
Blazing Saddles
Sullivan’s Travels
Life of Brian
The Lady Eve
The Navigator
Easy Living
Bringing Up Baby
Modern Times
Duck Soup
Seduced And Abandoned
Smiles Of A Summer Night
Mr Hulot’s Holiday
Kind Hearts And Coronets
I have to second the following:
The Big Lebowski
Blazing Saddles (brilliant)
Dumb and Dumber
This is Spinal Tap
Best in Show
Dr. Strangelove
Annie Hall
Monty Python Holy Grail
And add…
Death to Smoochy!!!
Election, Fargo, Mommie Dearest, Die Mommie Die, But I’m a Cheerleader, Valley of the Dolls(quite possibly the funniest film I’ve ever seen) & Beyond Valley of the Dolls, Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Borat, The House of Yes, Ma Vei en Rose(My Life in Pink), Zus and Zoe, L’iceberg and anything by Jonh Waters. I am also a Troma fanatic…………
Phil Worfel
Few films still make me laugh out loud especially if I’m by myself. But there are a few:
The Big Lebowski
The Great Muppet Caper
Sherlock Jr.
The Great Muppet Caper