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[apocalypsos]

Okay, for some ungodly reason I'm watching the 100 Funniest Movies list, and it's still pissing me off.

So name me your favorite funny movies. Not the best comedies, but the movies that make you laugh hysterically every time you see them.

My favorites?

The Princess Bride, which is one of my three favorite movies of all time, if we're counting the Terminator series and the "Irwin Allen's Attempt to Destroy The Planet in the '70s In Three Crappy Disaster Movies" trio of death and destruction as one movie each.

Arthur, because that movie keeps me laughing for two straight hours without fail.

A Fish Called Wanda, because Kevin Kline in that movie is the best thing on the planet after maple walnut ice cream.

Airplane!, because that's my dad's influence at work.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail, because ... well, REALLY.

And an honorable mention to the scene in While You Were Sleeping where the paperboy goes to throw the newspaper from the icy sidewalk and his bike goes flying out from under him, if only because that scene never fails to KILL ME DEAD.

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[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

The Producers. The original,with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. I damn near had a seizure the first time I watched it.

"...and I'm sorry I caught you with the old lady!"
"Come in, Mr. Tact."

[siberian-skys.livejournal.com]

OMG. I adore your icon. He's the best of the Doctors IMO.

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

Real Genius. On the one hand, it gave me completely unrealistic expectations of college... on the other hand, not nearly enough of their wacky hijinks involved new and interesting ways to consume alcohol, so real!college wins a point, there.

"Look! It's K-K-K-K-Ken! C-C-C-C-oming to k-k-k-kill me!" *falls over laughing*

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

Oh, oh, but the scene in RG where they're all studying and one guy at the table flips out, they all watch him run out of the room and then someone else calmly moves up and takes his seat? Stunningly accurate.

[siberian-skys.livejournal.com]

Too hard--I think I have to go with Dogma.

[buffyspazz.livejournal.com]

I'm a huge Mel Brooks fan, so I'd go with the holy trinity of Young Frankenstein (my all-time favorite movie), Blazing Saddles, and High Anxiety.

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

Agree on Princess Bride.

Also Kiss Kiss Bang Bang never fails to crack me up.

And The Lion King - or at least, Timon and Pumba's drag show still has me in stitches every time, and I've been watching the movie since I was 6.

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

'Blazing Saddles.' I can't believe 'The Wedding Singer' scored higher. That just ain't right.

[phaballa.livejournal.com]

1) Real Genius, because Val Kilmer as a physics genius? GOLD.

2) Top Secret, because Val Kilmer as a surf rock star/spy? MORE GOLD.

3) Kentucky Fried Movie.

[killerweasel.livejournal.com]

Evil Dead 2. That movie makes me laugh every time I see it.

[snowpiratess.livejournal.com]

I'd have to say Some Like It Hot (best ending EVER) and Clueless (which I haven't watched for ages, damn). Oh, and Tomorrow Never Dies. I mean, it has a henchman called Mr Stamper!

[ladysorka]

I watched that whole thing, just so I could scream at it.

Clue (Flames! Flames on the side of my face!), Emperor's New Groove, Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Producers, and, uh, Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

(I've honestly never seen Arthur, A Fish Called Wanda, or Airplane)

[fortuna-juvat.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Clue! Yes.

[budclare.livejournal.com]

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.

[fan-this.livejournal.com]

Keeping the Faith because it reminds me of growing up Catholic and a bunch of my friends being Jewish. The crossing the street scene always makes me giggle. And Ed Norton! And Ben Stiller! Together!

[pie-is-good.livejournal.com]

Kevin Smith movies, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy, Happy Gilmore, Caddyshack, The Blues Brothers, Zoolander...Typical Stupid Comedy giants like Will Ferrell and Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler make me laugh way, way too much.

Also, the recent 10.5 movie was full of hilarity...

And I sincerely hope that The Lake House turns out to be as unintentionally comical as the previews make it out to be.

[zeenell]

Hmm...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Killer bunnies win et al)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights


And, well, most "scary" movies from the 50's and 60's. The special effects are so bad I can't not laugh.

[tsuki-no-yami.livejournal.com]

Wakko's Wish, Spaceballs, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, and ditto for Kevin Smith & Mel Brooks movies.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

A big fat WORD in re: A Fish Called Wanda, Airplane! and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

I would add:

Young Frankenstein, which I saw before I watched any of the black and white Frankenstein movies from Universal Pictures, so I can vouch that it is hilarious both as a standalone and as a parody. The scene in which Gene Wilder’s Dr. Frankenstein (“That’s Frahnk-en-steen”) and Peter Boyle’s monster perform “Puttin’ on the Ritz” is one of the greatest things ever.

The Great Race, starring Tony Curtis as the Great Leslie (all in white with gleaming teeth), Jack Lemmon as the moustache-twirling Professor Fate, Natalie Wood as a spunky suffragette/reporter, and Peter Falk as the Professor’s hapless assistant, Max. Among other joys, this movie has the biggest pie fight ever filmed.

Some Like It Hot, the last word in cross-dressing comedies, starring Curtis and Lemmon again, plus Marilyn Monroe poking fun at her sexpot image and Joe E. Brown as the apotheosis of the dirty old man. I have a particular fondness for Curtis’s imitation of Cary Grant while he’s posing as an oil heir.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, because although the later installments of the series fell prey to the law of diminishing returns, the first movie still kills. My favorite joke is one of the subtlest: Austin tells Vanessa Kensington that back in the day he really dug her mother, Mrs. Kensington, “But unfortunately for yours truly, that train had sailed.”

Our Hospitality, starring my sekrit silent film boyfriend, Buster Keaton. He plays a young man, born in the South and raised in New York, who takes a train down to the old homestead when he comes of age and inherits, unaware that he’s the last scion of a family embroiled in a Hatfield-McCoy-style feud. Naturally he winds up a houseguest of the very family that wants him dead, which leads to action/comedy setpieces unsurpassed to this day.

Honorable mentions: The Mask, Kung Fu Hustle

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

I recently went to a middle school recital in which the chorus sang "Putting on the Ritz". Trying to keep from laughing the entire time was one of the hardest things I've had to do in a while.

-blue

[dawning-star.livejournal.com]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Periscope Down
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Spaceballs
Dogma

[cacklebang.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I hate a lot of stupid comedies, but there are a few on my list.

Zoolander, Shaun of the Dead, Dude, Where's My Car?, The Muppet Movie, and The Emperor's New Groove. Which is still my most favorite animated movie.

[fortuna-juvat.livejournal.com]

The Birdcage makes me die laughing every time -
Hank Azaria + Robin Williams + Nathan Lane = AWESOME.

Runner up does go to Shaun of the Dead. Demonstrating how to knock zombies on the head with a cricket bat, and the little "Ow." in the next second is comedy gold.

[musyc]

Out Cold - No better movie about snowboarders out there. "Pigpen, when I want advice about a good Planet of the Apes film or maybe how to get the resin out of my bong I'll come to you ok? But I am not gonna take romantic advice from somebody who cannot spell romantic or advice... or bong."

Liar, Liar - Say what you like, I think Jim Carrey is an absolute master of comedic timing. "The pen is blue!"

Agreed on Real Genius. Definitely in my top ten favorite movies of all time, regardless of genre.

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

Omg yes to Princess Bride and Wanda and Holy Grail. And mine...

Life of Brian. Um. A Cock And Bull Story, which I don't even know if it has been or will be released in the states. Oh, Wallace and Gromit, definitely. A random film called The Actors with Michael Caine and Dylan Moran which I had never heard of until last week but I laughed myself silly all the way through. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (Strangely? All British films. I know there are American comedies I love, they're just not occurring to me right now.)

Lots of things other people have said - Mel Brookses and Kevin Smiths and so on. Robin Hood: Men in Tights (or Prince of Thieves for differing values of funny). History of the World Part 1 is possibly my favourite actually - the Inquisition tap dance, just... yes. And Some Like It Hot, of course.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Lemme take a look at my DVD collection here..

Anything and everything Pixar has ever touched. They are funny, they are touching, they are beautiful without fail. They are Pixar. 'nuff said.

The Princess Bride. There is nothing wrong with this movie. It is PERFECT.

A Fish Called Wanda made me decide I wanted to have Kevin Kline's babies.

Josie and the Pussycats made me change my mind and decide I wanted to have Rosario Dawson and Parker Posey's babies. It also made me realize that orange is the new pink, Heath Ledger is totally jerkin', and that josieandthepussycatsisthebestmovieveer(jointhearmy)!

The Mummy series.

UHF. Weird Al made a movie, people, and it is glorious.

Anything and everything Monty Python.

And last, but not least...

VAN HELSING.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

UHF. Weird Al made a movie, people, and it is glorious.

OMGYES. UHF is a work of comic genius.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

The Princess Bride, Clue: The Movie, Best In Show, Drop Dead Gorgeous and Fierce Creatures (with the same actors as A fish Called Wanda).

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Couple not mentioned yet - Major League never fails to make me laugh. Also, Beetlejuice and the original The In-Laws with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin("Serpentine! Serpentine!").

[heyorion.livejournal.com]

It's still Blues Brothers. Worth it just for the deadpan expressions all the way through, but fab on so many other levels, too.