Funniest Films

[Ted O'Reilly]

Geez, 75 responses, and not a single vote for "Some Like It Hot", which is usually at the top of Best Comedy lists...

It's the "Kind Of Blue" of the film world!

Edited July 2, 2012 by Ted O'Reilly

[Jim R]

  On 7/2/2012 at 10:13 PM, Ted O said:

Geez, 75 responses, and not a single vote for "Some Like It Hot", which is usually at the top of Best Comedy lists...

It's the "Kind Of Blue" of the film world!

I almost mentioned it, but for me it's a notch below my favorites.

[Pete C]

  On 7/2/2012 at 10:13 PM, Ted O said:

Geez, 75 responses, and not a single vote for "Some Like It Hot", which is usually at the top of Best Comedy lists...

It's a great film and a great comedy, and a better film than most mentioned, but it's not necessarily as funny as many of the others, I mean in a belly laugh way. Wilder is possibly my favorite director.

Another non-stop laugh-fest is the Dinner Game (Le Diner de Cons), remade as Dinner for Schmucks, which I didn't see (but is a better translation of the original title).

Edited July 2, 2012 by Pete C

[GA Russell]

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

I saw these two together as a double feature in 1972, and I was rolling in the aisles non-stop for three hours.

[thedwork]

  On 7/2/2012 at 11:26 PM, Pete C said:

  On 7/2/2012 at 10:13 PM, Ted O said:

Geez, 75 responses, and not a single vote for "Some Like It Hot", which is usually at the top of Best Comedy lists...

It's a great film and a great comedy, and a better film than most mentioned, but it's not necessarily as funny as many of the others, I mean in a belly laugh way.

bingo, Pete. hit the nail on the head.

and talk about actual lol, that clip you put up of Living In Oblivion is hysterical i will have to rent that one...

Edited July 3, 2012 by thedwork

[Tim McG]

The Frisco Kid

Support Your Local Sheriff

Robinhood: Men in Tights

Any of the Wallace and Gromit claymations.

[JSngry]

  On 7/2/2012 at 10:13 PM, Ted O said:

Geez, 75 responses, and not a single vote for "Some Like It Hot", which is usually at the top of Best Comedy lists...

Jack Lemmon tended to get on my nerves.

[PHILLYQ]

  On 7/1/2012 at 7:18 PM, Pete C said:

  On 7/1/2012 at 7:13 PM, GoodSpeak said:

[do animations count?]

If they make you laugh.

Agreed on Young Frankenstein. Puttin' on the Ritz is priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ-aRwEbp5I

The Producers.

The original, with Zero Mostel- hilarious!

Anybody like 'There's Something About Mary'? Grossout comedy at its finest!

[Big Wheel]

Okay, so this isn't exactly a film as you usually think of it, but Brad Neely's re-narration of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is a modern classic:

[BruceH]

Ealing, Tati, Keaton, Hawks, Sturges...also "My Man Godfrey," "The Awful Truth," "Easy Living," and "The Thin Man." And "North by Northwest."

[BillF]

Well, North By North West is different, anyway!

I used to laugh my head off at Jacques Tati, particularly Mon Oncle, when I was young. Don't know if I would do now.

[BruceH]

"North by Northwest" is a thriller, sure, but a comedy/thriller, and it's never funnier than when the danger is highest.

[Tim McG]

  On 7/3/2012 at 6:19 PM, BruceH said:

"North by Northwest" is a thriller, sure, but a comedy/thriller, and it's never funnier than when the danger is highest.

Hm.

TBH, I never saw that film as anything less than a Hitchcock cliffhanger.

Great movie, though.

[BillF]

  On 7/3/2012 at 6:19 PM, BruceH said:

"North by Northwest" is a thriller, sure, but a comedy/thriller, and it's never funnier than when the danger is highest.

I see an opening for you in the "See Film Differently" series:

[GA Russell]

This far into the thread, and no one has mentioned La Cage aux Folles yet!

[thedwork]

one of my favorite scenes of all-time. don't know why it didn't come to mind earlier. the guy playing opposite Brooks is perfect:

"Over what period of time we talkin' 'bout?"

the "nest egg" scene is great too, but i couldn't find it.

[paul secor]

They were concerts, but they were also movies: Richard Pryor - Live in Concert and Richard Pryor - Live on the Sunset Strip. And they're funny as hell.

[david weiss]

  On 7/2/2012 at 3:50 PM, freelancer said:

  On 7/2/2012 at 2:59 PM, Pete C said:

  On 7/2/2012 at 2:53 PM, freelancer said:

Cook and Moore

Bedazzled is uneven, but has some great moments. I don't know why, but for years I labored under the misconception that it was a Richard Lester film.

I love Bedazzled as well. There is some funny stuff in that. The pop star wish is hilarious. I've read people write that the 'pop star' Peter Cook plays in this scene is strangely pre-empting David Bowie's stage persona of a few years later

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ-1uO5H0Vk

Best lyric.....

You fill me with inertia....

[david weiss]

  On 7/1/2012 at 8:41 PM, Pete C said:

  On 7/1/2012 at 8:26 PM, Scott Dolan said:

Still haven't seen Being John Malkovich after all of these years.

That may have been the film that gave me my crush on Catherine Keener. That and Living in Oblivion (directed by and with Buscemi).

http://www.youtube.c...&feature=fvwrel

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=NWYbXsTqv4g

Have to agree with Happiness, one of the only movies I've found really funny in the past 10 years or so.....

Living in Oblivion is great but it's not directed by Buscemi it's by Tom DiCillo

[david weiss]

I thought with with the sense of history that is on this board I would have seen a lot more screw ball comedies and the like mentioned.

Though perhaps not considered a comedy first, I have to say that to me Network is one of the funniest (and most prescient) movies ever.

Then every thing Preston Sturges especially the big three...The Lady Eve, Palm Beach Story and Sullivan Travels.

Duck Soup, My Man Godfrey, Dr. Strangelove, The In-Laws (the original of course, the remake was one of the worst movies ever made), The South Park Movie are others that come to mind.

I don't think any Chaplin has been mentioned. There are many of course but maybe Modern Times is the one that cracked me up the most as a kid.

Though not one of the funniest, another good one is That Uncertain Feeling by Ernst Lubitsch. Not one of his better known movies but very funny. Woman leaves her brutish husband for egocentric concert pianist she meets in her psychiatrist's office.

Edited July 7, 2012 by david weiss

[Pete C]

  On 7/7/2012 at 3:00 AM, david weiss said:

Living in Oblivion is great but it's not directed by Buscemi it's by Tom DiCillo

Thanks--I guess he was so convincing as the director. He did direct Trees Lounge.

[Soulstation1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P47GukSWE_k&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[medjuck]

  On 7/3/2012 at 10:45 PM, paul secor said:

They were concerts, but they were also movies: Richard Pryor - Live in Concert and Richard Pryor - Live on the Sunset Strip. And they're funny as hell.

I agree about the first concert film. I remember that I hurt rom laughing when I first saw it.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I'd have mentioned 'Le cage au folles'.

'Mon oncle' still makes me laugh. My daughter borrowed a copy from the library a little while back and brought it round.

The one of his I scream with laughter to is 'Traffic'. Those wonderful shots of people in other cars, feeling they're in private and picking their noses etc just kill me. People are the funniest people ever.

Another French comedy film I love - but can't remember the title at present - is one that takes place mostly in the sewers of Paris.

A Spanish film that I find really strangely funny was 'Belle epoque' - about some sisters' amorous adventures with the hero during the Spanish Civil War. Gruesome but hilarious.

I love the Carry on films. The world would be a much worse place without awful puns.

Funniest American film I've seen is 'I'm gonna git you, sucker', a spoof blaxploitation film produced by Motown.

Also

Life of Brian

The party (Peter Sellers doing his Indian act again, but as subtle as Keaton)

Dolomite (Rudy Ray Moore)

The importance of being Earnest (with Edith Evans)

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Oh, also another Spanish film - 'Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown'.

Another cowboy spoof (seeing 'Support your local sheriff' mentioned) - 'The good guys and the bad guys'.

MG