What your top five funniest movies ever?

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T. D.

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on July 27, 2021, 10:47:47 AM
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Yes! An immortal classic.

I have difficulty ranking films, because the ones I really love, and that made the biggest impact, rarely seem to have the same magic when seen again.

Many of the usual suspects have been named. To add something different:

Slapshot. Maybe you need to have played (ice) hockey to get it, though.
Best in Show. I'm a big fan of the "mockumentary" troupe (This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind, etc.), and Spinal Tap is pretty much hors concours, so will go with B I S.

bhodges

So happy to see Christopher Guest getting some love.

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A Night at the Opera
Best in Show
Mon Oncle
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

--Bruce


Artem

Pietro Germi by Pietro Germi
Big Deal on Madonna Street by Mario Monicelli
Getting Any? by Takeshi Kitano
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou by Wes Anderson

Karl Henning

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Carlo Gesualdo

1-Crocodile  Dundee 1-2
2-99 franc( a real super classic of comedie)
3-Brewster Millions (because I love mister Richard Pryor)
4-The Money pit  whit Tom Hanks
5- The golden child

vandermolen

#26
The Ladykillers - original Alec Guiness version, not the awful one with Tom Hanks (an actor I generally think very highly of)
Little Miss Sunshine (tragi-comedy)
Airplane
Play it Again Sam
A Night at the Opera
Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (I have quite low-brow tastes)
The Return of the Pink Panther
(I know that's seven choices)

+1 for La Cage Aux Folles (original French version) as well - a marvellous film.
"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).

Brian

Since so many of my favorite movies have already been named, I will go for a totally different post style:

Funniest line reading: Gene Wilder, "The common clay of the new west" speech, Blazing Saddles
Funniest line reading of a single word: Kevin Kline, "asshoooooole," A Fish Called Wanda
Funniest drunk: Jimmy Stewart, The Philadelphia Story
Funniest silent joke: the mirrors, Duck Soup
Funniest sexual innuendo: Josh Brolin eating a frozen banana, Inherent Vice
Funniest movie where the first hour isn't very funny because it's all setup for one hilarious finale: Big Deal on Madonna Street
Funniest overall actor: Madeline Kahn
Funniest overall actor (primarily known for serious acting): Philip Seymour Hoffman
Funniest movie since 2001: Black Dynamite
Funniest last shot of movie: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Separately because it is nonfiction and TV:
Funniest facial expression of all time: Mel Giedroyc when she learns she has to eat a sandwich, "Taskmaster"

david johnson

The Producers
Arsenic and Old Lace
Dr. Strangelove
It's a Mad....World
Oliver the Eighth
The Russians are Coming

The new erato

Quote from: Brian on August 04, 2021, 08:03:34 PM
Since so many of my favorite movies have already been named, I will go for a totally different post style:

Funniest line reading: Gene Wilder, "The common clay of the new west" speech, Blazing Saddles
Funniest line reading of a single word: Kevin Kline, "asshoooooole," A Fish Called Wanda
Funniest drunk: Jimmy Stewart, The Philadelphia Story
Funniest silent joke: the mirrors, Duck Soup
Funniest sexual innuendo: Josh Brolin eating a frozen banana, Inherent Vice
Funniest movie where the first hour isn't very funny because it's all setup for one hilarious finale: Big Deal on Madonna Street
Funniest overall actor: Madeline Kahn
Funniest overall actor (primarily known for serious acting): Philip Seymour Hoffman
Funniest movie since 2001: Black Dynamite
Funniest last shot of movie: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Separately because it is nonfiction and TV:
Funniest facial expression of all time: Mel Giedroyc when she learns she has to eat a sandwich, "Taskmaster"

You have some serious amounts of spare time, no?

vandermolen

"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).

Sergeant Rock

Quote from: Brian on August 04, 2021, 08:03:34 PM
Funniest movie since 2001: Black Dynamite

That is a serious contender  ;D

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Carlo Gesualdo

Quote from: vandermolen on August 05, 2021, 12:51:10 AM
Nice thread idea DP  :)

Thanks buddy , Vandermolen you're one cool guy man. like you a lot, mazel tov my friend merci vous etes super!!!


André

Hard to stop when you get a good laugh, so here's 7:

Snatch
La grande vadrouille
The General
(silent)
Trading Places
Ghostbusters
La Cage aux folles
(French original)
Coming to America

vandermolen

#35
Quote from: deprofundis on August 05, 2021, 09:30:20 AM
Thanks buddy , Vandermolen you're one cool guy man. like you a lot, mazel tov my friend merci vous etes super!!!
:)

I'd like to add 'The Lavender Hill Mob':
"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).

Roasted Swan

best sight-gag - Woody Allen playing cello in a Marching Band (take the money and run)

vandermolen

Quote from: Roasted Swan on August 06, 2021, 04:07:22 AM
best sight-gag - Woody Allen playing cello in a Marching Band (take the money and run)
I'll have to watch that again!
"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).

TheGSMoeller

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.



Mirror Image

I really like the first three Police Academy movies, but the third has always been my favorite: