What's your best comedy movie?

[sacajaweeda]

"E.T. phone home. E.T. phone home."

[ViRaL1]

One of my faves (that I have anyway) is The Big Lebowski.

SHUT THE F**K UP DONNY!

[Bodyslide]

The Full Monty

[yoda313]

Hello,

They're not really comedies but THE MUMMY and THE MUMMY RETURNS starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weiz are really funny....

Kevin

(though on purpose )

[thecoalman]

Pulp Fiction is a good comedy.

[pacmania_2001]

Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
Team America: World Police
Jury Duty
Eurotrip
Without a Paddle
Super Troopers
Club Dread

I'll post more later. Those are the ones that I can remember off the top of my head.

[offline]

The General
Yellow Beard
Life of Brian
Top Secret
Anger Management
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
What's Up Doc?
La Cage aux foll I. II & III
Les Ripoux
The Big Meat Eater
Eating Raul
Flying High
Experience prefered but not essential
P'Tang Yang Kipperbang
That Sinking Feeling
M. Hulot's Holiday
Morons in Outer Space
The Plank (short film)
A Day at the Races
Jumping Jack Flash
The Burgular
The Gods Must be Crazy
Brain Dead (The Jackson film) Gore/funny
Undead (The Australian zombie film)
Murder in the House of Death (Kenny Everett)
Tais-toi!
Les Fugitifs
Subway
Street Trash Gore/Funny

... al I can think off from the top of my head.

[sacajaweeda]

Anybody remember one called Student Bodies?

[SLICK RICK]

Anything with Chris Farley in it.

[thecoalman]

Super Troopers
.

That is one movie where I wish I had the 1 1/2 hour back. Everthing that was funny was on the commercials. IMO.

[pacmania_2001]

Super Troopers
.

That is one movie where I wish I had the 1 1/2 hour back. Everthing that was funny was on the commercials. IMO.

Blasphemy!

My mates and I still quote lines out of that movie. I know probably every line in that movie.

[Silvas]

Youg Frankenstein

[bazooka]

Spaceballs

[thecoalman]

Spaceballs

Ludicrous speeeeed..........

[rallynavvie]

There are differing levels of comedies in my collection. There are the straight-up comedies, romantic/dramatic/dark comedies, and action comedies.

Straight-up comedies are simple: Monty Python and Mel Brooks. To this day I still think Holy Grail is the funniest movie ever made, and by quite a distance. We had movie marathons some weekends at school and had Mel Brooks and Monty Python marathons and I recall leaving them quite in pain from all the laughing. Oh, Top Secret is well up there too. The part where the cows walk "into" the binoculars set us off something fierce one night but I think we had a few to drink at that point as well. Just thinking about it is good for a chuckle

Along the lines of action comedies you can't beat Lock Stock and its sequel (yeah, Snatch is pretty much a sequel). SLC Punk is one of my favorites as well. I think Kevin Smith films fall between this and the dramatic comedies.

Dramatic comedies are those like Napoleon Dynamite (though that could be a straight comedy if it moved faster), Wes Anderson films, and even Office Space would be in there.

[bazooka]

My runners-up would be Airplane 1&2, Robin Hood- Men in tights, The Naked Gun movies and Hot Shots but Spaceballs is by far and away the best in my collection, Imo.

[RickTheRed]

@ Bazooka
Have you seen the original naked gun tv episodes (6 of them). Hilarious, almost better than the movies.

[Epicurus8a]

Young Frankenstein
The Producers
High Anxiety
Animal House
The Blues Brothers
The Austin Powers movies
There's Something About Mary
LA Story, The Jerk, All of Me, or just about anything with Steve Martin

[Ripper2860]

"Raising Arizona" would have to be somewhere on the list.

[ViRaL1]

"Raising Arizona" would have to be somewhere on the list.

"OK then."

"Son, you gotta panty on your head."

I agree with rally on the Guy Ritchie movies (Snatch and Lock, Stock...).

My favorite line is probably

"It's a deal, it's a steal, it's sale of the f**kin century. In fact, f**k it Nick, I think I'll keep it."

That and the '...I'll kill ya' speech. :P

[Ma_Jie]

Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrells is great....

I can't believe no one's mentioned Dumb and Dumber w/ Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey...or Ace Ventura. I thought both Pet Detective movies were funny back in the day, esp. in #1 when he comes outta the john, and he's all wet, and he's like, "Do [/b]not[/b] go in there..."

Billy Madison is funny too I thought.. I know lines from it and Happy Gilmore and still quote them; same with Ace Ventura #1.

Hilarious Asian movies:

Tricky Brains w/ Stephen Chow & Andy Lau (who is prolly the Chinese equivalent of a guy like Brad Pitt)
Shaolin Soccer (w/ Chow and Zhao Wei)
Anything w/ Stephen Chow
Guns & Talks (Korean movie; literal title, in Chinese, is "Assassins Company")

- mj

[bazooka]

@ Bazooka
Have you seen the original naked gun tv episodes (6 of them). Hilarious, almost better than the movies.

No

I will have to check them out.

Thanks for the tip.

[waheed]

Mine are:

Police Acadamy (All)
Space Balls
Meet The Parents
Three Fugitives

[MackemX]

Meet the Fockers is one of the best comedies showing at the minute

[NamPla]

Carry On Abroad

[BJ_M]

come on - the funnest movies ever were

monty python - life of brian
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
caddyshack
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (fork in the eye still cracks me up every time)
Young Frankenstein
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The General
Duck Soup
Animal House
Blues brothers gets a honorable mention
and Fawlty Towers (not a movie - but funnest series ever)

[NamPla]

come on - the funnest movies ever were...

and Fawlty Towers (not a movie - but funnest series ever)

COME ON, if you're going THERE, how can you pass up:

Benny Hill Show?
Love Thy Neighbour?
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em?
Are You Being Served?

...oh, and all the Carry Ons and Cheech & Chongs and and...

(FOR AUSTRALIAN CHANNEL 31 VIEWERS):

What about "Public Holiday"? CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tgpo]

Super Troopers

[VCDHunter]

As BJ_M plus Ace Ventura Pet Detective.

[ViRaL1]

"I've seen the Exorcist 167 times, AND IT KEEPS GETTIN FUNNIER EVERY TIME I SEE IT, NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK? You think I'm qualified?'