What your top five funniest movies ever?

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Karl Henning

Did I miss it, or did no one list Animal House? personally, I found it a lot of fun the first time, in the cinema, but I don't think it wears well.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
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[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

vers la flamme

Quote from: TheGSMoeller on August 07, 2021, 06:29:00 AM
I see a lot of classics that would also make my list so I'll avoid any repeats. But I will add The Death of Stalin as one of the funniest, and honestly one of the best acted and brilliantly written films of the this century.




My girlfriend and I laughed our asses off at this movie.

Brian

Ooh, Death of Stalin is a GREAT answer, as is his previous movie, In the Loop.

Quote from: The new erato on August 05, 2021, 12:41:47 AM
You have some serious amounts of spare time, no?
Without going into detail, the day of writing that post, I had a sickness which left me with lots of spare internet time because I couldn't do what I wanted to do.

drogulus


     No one has mentioned Withnail and I until about 2 inches to the left.
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T. D.

Good ones. I agree, having seen both, Death of Stalin and Withnail and I should have come up earlier.

Though it wasn't strictly a comedy, Wonder Boys had many hilarious moments...e.g. Terry Crabtree (Robt. Downey Jr.): I gather you two staged a little raid on the Crabtree pharmacopoeia...

SimonNZ

Quote from: T. D. on August 07, 2021, 03:42:34 PM


Though it wasn't strictly a comedy, Wonder Boys had many hilarious moments...e.g. Terry Crabtree (Robt. Downey Jr.): I gather you two staged a little raid on the Crabtree pharmacopoeia...

"Are you drunk professor Tripps, right now?"
(smoking weed)"No"

Wonder Boys is one of my all time favorite films.

The new erato

Death of Stalin was wonderful. Hilarious but also thought provoking.

T. D.

Quote from: SimonNZ on August 07, 2021, 07:13:34 PM
"Are you drunk professor Tripp, right now?"
(smoking weed)"No"

Wonder Boys is one of my all time favorite films.

+1

vandermolen

Quote from: The new erato on August 07, 2021, 09:50:40 PM
Death of Stalin was wonderful. Hilarious but also thought provoking.
+1
Good soundtrack too.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Dry Brett Kavanaugh

#49
Bullets Over Broadway.
The Teahouse of the August Moon.
The Shakiest Gun in the West.
The Death of Stalin
Tampopo.

Brian

Somebody needs to mention Preston Sturges. An amazing director I found thanks to GMG's own Ken B, who would have said here that his favorite movie of all time is The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.

Karl Henning

Quote from: Brian on August 08, 2021, 09:46:39 AM
Somebody needs to mention Preston Sturges. An amazing director I found thanks to GMG's own Ken B, who would have said here that his favorite movie of all time is The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.

You remind me: it's time to listen again to the Mennin Eighth  8)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

LKB

Airplane!
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Producers
( 1967 )
Mit Flügeln, die ich mir errungen...

Karl Henning

Quote from: LKB on August 08, 2021, 02:06:49 PM
Airplane!
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Producers
( 1967 )

Frau Blücher!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

LKB

Mit Flügeln, die ich mir errungen...

Roasted Swan

Quote from: LKB on August 08, 2021, 02:06:49 PM
Airplane!
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Producers
( 1967 )

Humour is SO personal but that is a GOOD list!!

Karl Henning

Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Mirror Image

Another long-standing favorite, which I should've mentioned in my 'honorable mentions':


vandermolen

Quote from: Mirror Image on August 09, 2021, 10:21:50 PM
Another long-standing favorite, which I should've mentioned in my 'honorable mentions':


That reminds me of this one which I found very funny indeed. Fine performances from Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman, sending themselves up:
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

#59
This might be rather British humour but I find the first two minutes of 'Mike Bassett, England Manager' when the open-top celebrations goes horribly wrong, when the team bus goes the wrong way into the one way system, absolutely hilarious (the opening was filmed just before they demolished the old Wembley Stadium):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33G8rUpUI08
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).