The Funniest Movie Ever
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The Funniest Movie Ever
Hey it's winter in most parts and we could use a little cheering up. What's the funniest movie you've ever seen? Mine is "Dumb and Dumber"
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Without a doubt , I saw it when it first came out in 1963 as a youngster and never tired of watching it over and over through the years.Rather amazed it is the second post in this thread,you beat me to the punch
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Beverly Hills Cop
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Edit, Blazing Saddles 2nd
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My Cousin Vinnie
Although seeing someone above say Airplane reminded me of that movie which I haven't seen in ages. It was hysterical!
Although seeing someone above say Airplane reminded me of that movie which I haven't seen in ages. It was hysterical!
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+1 without a doubt!!
There will never be that many comedians of that caliber in a movie again. And think, by today's standards it would have been a G rated movie.
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Being There
A Fish Called Wanda
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Office Space
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The Man With One Red Shoe with Tom Hanks
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Hope this isn't a duplicate post...
For this time of year, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation....
"The Producers" ( the original from the '60's)..
Blazing Saddles ....
ANd for darker humor, "Network"...
I like this list that is forming-will give me ideas what to watch today while it snows snows snows here in W.PA!!!!
For this time of year, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation....
"The Producers" ( the original from the '60's)..
Blazing Saddles ....
ANd for darker humor, "Network"...
I like this list that is forming-will give me ideas what to watch today while it snows snows snows here in W.PA!!!!
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Yea, Blazing Saddles!
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+1BL wrote:The Man With One Red Shoe with Tom Hanks
NO one I have known, for decades, has ever heard of this movie.
I had forgotten all about it, but I now remember all of us laughing uncontrollably, including after leaving the movie theatre.
And... I had no idea Tom Hanks was in that.
Now to find it again, and share with DH
"A Fish Called Wanda" is a tie with "...One Red Shoe".
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Great illustration of "there's no accounting for taste." I saw it on its first run, and I saw it a few years ago just to see if my recollections of it were accurate. I don't want to irritate people unnecessarily by panning it, so let me say: unquestionably and without a doubt:glock19 wrote:+1 without a doubt!!
There will never be that many comedians of that caliber in a movie again. And think, by today's standards it would have been a G rated movie.
a) "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is the funniest movie ever made in Cinerama.
And, furthermore,
b) "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is the funniest Stanley Kramer movie ever.
And, yes, I think I would even agree that
c) "There will never be that many comedians of that caliber in a movie again."
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For all-out sustained start-to-finish nice, feel-good funny, "A Christmas Story."
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A few perhaps seasonally-influenced choices, but still movies that make me laugh on every (repeated) viewing: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story.
Others that top my list: Coming to America. Planes Trains and Automobiles. Groundhog Day. Best in Show. This is Spinal Tap.
Others that top my list: Coming to America. Planes Trains and Automobiles. Groundhog Day. Best in Show. This is Spinal Tap.
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"Dr Strangelove" has to get the award. Dialog for many of of my favourite scenes at the IMDB link below. Though of course if you haven't seen the movie, you don't know the Russian premier is drunk when the US President is trying to get his help in stopping the nuclear holocaust, or that the reason Captain Mandrake is willing to "answer to the Coca-Cola company" for shooting up a vending machine is that he needs coins to phone the White House to avert the end of the world...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/tri ... =tt_trv_qu
I can't resist quoting just one scene:-
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/tri ... =tt_trv_qu
I can't resist quoting just one scene:-
General "Buck" Turgidson: General Ripper called Strategic Air Command headquarters shortly after he issued the go code. I have a portion of the transcript of that conversation if you'd like me to to read it.
President Merkin Muffley: Read it!
General "Buck" Turgidson: Ahem... The Duty Officer asked General Ripper to confirm the fact that he *had* issued the go code, and he said, uh, "Yes gentlemen, they are on their way in, and no one can bring them back. For the sake of our country, and our way of life, I suggest you get the rest of SAC in after them. Otherwise, we will be totally destroyed by Red retaliation. Uh, my boys will give you the best kind of start, 1400 megatons worth, and you sure as hell won't stop them now, uhuh. Uh, so let's get going, there's no other choice. God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural... fluids. God bless you all" and he hung up.
[beat]
General "Buck" Turgidson: Uh, we're, still trying to figure out the meaning of that last phrase, sir.
President Merkin Muffley: There's nothing to figure out, General Turgidson. This man is obviously a psychotic.
General "Buck" Turgidson: We-he-ell, uh, I'd like to hold off judgement on a thing like that, sir, until all the facts are in.
President Merkin Muffley: General Turgidson! When you instituted the human reliability tests, you *assured* me there was *no* possibility of such a thing *ever* occurring!
General "Buck" Turgidson: Well, I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir
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Cue Jimmy Durante voice: "It's under the Big W"
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Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Animal House
Animal House
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I have always been a fan of The Twelve Chairs, one of the least known Mel Brooks movie.
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Liar Liar. The role Jim Carrey was born to play. The inner struggle is hysterical.
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Home Office was an HBO movie years ago. Eddie Albert, Judge Reinhold and others. A spoof of corporate America.
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Caddyshack. Sublimely quotable.
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I like Fargo.
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Blues wrote:Cue Jimmy Durante voice: "It's under the Big W"
Classic
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Any of the "Naked Gun" series - although I think the one where Leslie Nielsen wears a mike into the Men's room when the Queen is speaking is probably the funniest.
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The Hangover
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Something About Mary
Some Like it Hot
Some Like it Hot
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What about the not intentionally funny? Planet of the Apes maybe?
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My cousin Vinnie has to be my favorite
A fish called Wanda
A recent one I saw was We are the Millers and liked that
A fish called Wanda
A recent one I saw was We are the Millers and liked that
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The Big Lebowski.
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I am going back a while - so I don't remember which, of the two, was really funny - either Divorce, Italian Style or Marriage, Italian Style. Also, going back to that same era, Irma La Douce was hilarious.
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His Girl Friday, with Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, and Ralph Bellamy
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Totally agree "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is the best ever
I can watch these any day over and over again ... brightens my day:
Tommy Boy
Analyze This
Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
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Happy New Year!
I can watch these any day over and over again ... brightens my day:
Tommy Boy
Analyze This
Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Happy Gilmore
Happy New Year!
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ResearchMed wrote:+1BL wrote:The Man With One Red Shoe with Tom Hanks
NO one I have known, for decades, has ever heard of this movie.
I had forgotten all about it, but I now remember all of us laughing uncontrollably, including after leaving the movie theatre.
And... I had no idea Tom Hanks was in that.
Now to find it again, and share with DH
"A Fish Called Wanda" is a tie with "...One Red Shoe".
RM
Ooops - Tom Hanks was NOT in the movie I saw.
I saw the French (English subtitles) version about a decade earlier (circa 1973/74).
RM
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Billy Wilder's classic 1959 movie, "Some Like it Hot"
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this is not a movie-but could be the funniest in history-it is subjective
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Steve Martin's The Jerk.
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Agreed. *Maybe* the most quotable movie in history.lws6772 wrote:The Big Lebowski.
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Double "my bad": The first/French version was "The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe".ResearchMed wrote:Ooops - Tom Hanks was NOT in the movie I saw.ResearchMed wrote:+1BL wrote:The Man With One Red Shoe with Tom Hanks
NO one I have known, for decades, has ever heard of this movie.
I had forgotten all about it, but I now remember all of us laughing uncontrollably, including after leaving the movie theatre.
And... I had no idea Tom Hanks was in that.
Now to find it again, and share with DH
"A Fish Called Wanda" is a tie with "...One Red Shoe".
RM
I saw the French (English subtitles) version about a decade earlier (circa 1973/74).
RM
red, black, meh...
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Bad Santa, with Billy Bob Thornton
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Napoleon Dynamite, amplified by weed
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Slapshot
Used Cars.
Used Cars.
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You must have not seen Casablanca.coalcracker wrote:Agreed. *Maybe* the most quotable movie in history.lws6772 wrote:The Big Lebowski.
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Second Some Like It Hot.
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We'll always have Casablanca.gkaplan wrote:You must have not seen Casablanca.coalcracker wrote:Agreed. *Maybe* the most quotable movie in history.lws6772 wrote:The Big Lebowski.
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How about The Awful Truth, if you liked that one?gkaplan wrote:His Girl Friday, with Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, and Ralph Bellamy