Funniest films you've ever seen?
Funniest films you've ever seen?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 9:04pm
What are your favorite film comedies?
My list (In no particular order):
- KIDS IN THE HALL: BRAIN CANDY - Great great great great great comedy. Some of the best stuff KITH has ever done.
- L'AGE D'OR - Bunuel is a genius and this movie is absolutely hilarious. Don't let the fact that this is a surrealist silent short film scare you, you could possibly be rendered unable to breathe due to its level of funny.
- DR. STRANGELOVE - Best film satire ever? I would think so.
- FREDDY GOT FINGERED - Sorry guys but I gotta admit that I am one of the biggest supporters of this film. I see it as the most perfect parody of high-concept comedies starring former SNL cast-members you could possibly want. Everything about this film is hilarious. Random humor done right.
- ZAZIE DANS LE METRO - Extremely underlooked French classic. Is able to joke about extremely sensitive subject matter (Like pedophilia) in hilarious and cartoonish ways.
- RAISING ARIZONA - Everything about this movie is awesome and purely hilarious. Some of the best dialogue I've ever heard in a movie, comedy or not. I can't believe this was a second film.
Updated On: 6/22/08 at 09:04 PM
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#2re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 9:05pm
Sophie's Choice
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Birth of a Nation
#2re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 9:07pm
BRINGING UP BABY. I was happy for days!
OH, and definitely SOPHIE'S CHOICE. Laughed until I cried.
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#3re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 9:09pm
A Place in the Sun
Brokeback Mountain
The Love Guru
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#6re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 9:13pmLove Story
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
#7re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 9:14pmClue, the greatest comedy of all time. There I said it.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#8re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 9:14pm
I'm not sure I get this thread, but I'll just add.........
Brian's Song?
KFTC!!!!!
#9re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 9:15pmSilkwood
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
#10re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 9:16pmLittle Shop of Horrors with the original ending.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
#11re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 9:18pm
What's Up Doc?
Auntie Mame
The Awful Truth
Young Frankenstein
The Palm Beach Story
His Girl Friday
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#12re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 9:26pmThe scene in Terms of Endearment where Debra Winger says good-bye to her kids.
#14re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 9:30pm
Clue
History of the World, Pt. I
Death at a Funeral
Wrong Turn (awful horror vehicle for Eliza Dukshu (still not exactly sure who the hell she is), featuring inbred mutant hillbillies)
"If there's any answer maybe love can end the madness,
Maybe not, oh but we can only try..."
#15re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 9:41pm
March of the Wooden Soldiers (My seven-year-old self found it impossibly funny.)
Blazing Saddles
And, not a TV show, but I remember watching the Nickelodeon show "Cousin Skeeter" and just thinking it was the funniest thing ever.
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#16re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 10:07pm
Men In Tights
edit: adding Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
Updated On: 6/22/08 at 10:07 PM
#17re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 10:19pm
My Cousin Vinny
Auntie Mame
Aresenic and Old Lace
Arthur
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
mc1227
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/07
#18re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 10:55pm
Blazing Saddles
Caddyshack
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Animal House
Probably nothing in the past ten years for sure.
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mattnyc2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/27/06
#19re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 11:10pm
Funny for the sake of being funny:
Airplane.
Funny for being completely terrible on so many levels:
Showgirls.
#20re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/22/08 at 11:47pm
Death at a Funeral
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
Knocked Up
Caddyshack
When Harry Met Sally
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
The Princess Bride
Happy Gilmore
Some Like It Hot
Step Lively
There are just so many.
Updated On: 6/22/08 at 11:47 PM
Mekroth
Broadway Star Joined: 2/23/08
notsovirginmary
Stand-by Joined: 6/12/04
#22re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:19am
Anyone else really, really enjoy My Man Godfrey?
I got the DVD for my birthday- I hadn't seen it in years. It still cracked me up like crazy.
"A wonky eye, you've got my friend."
#23re: Funniest films you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:53am
Clue
Death at a Funeral
Young Frankenstein
Out In The Sticks
Understudy Joined: 10/13/05
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