Kevin's Watch

How did I forget "O Brother, where art thou?"

In no particular order,

Galaxy Quest ("You can't believe Gilligan's Island is real!" "Those poor people.")
Young Frankenstein ("Damn your eyes!")
Arsenic and Old Lace (the Gold standard of black comedy)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (we trot out "I'm not dead yet" for zombie movies)
Ghostbusters ("What about the twinkie?")
Airplane (never had a movie packed so many jokes into 90 minutes)
Murder By Death (old campy comedy that still makes me laugh)
Spaceballs (but only for the John Hurt cameo)

Got to agree with: Cable Guy, Dogma, and Galaxy Quest.

Good call on Spaceballs.

Ferris Buhler's Day Off.

Damn, I loved that movie.

--A

Murder By Death

LOL... I almost put that on my list. But I think it's a little dated now.

Nothing To Lose-I usually can't stand Martin Lawrence>but this is a dang funny movie!

Usivius wrote:

Murder By Death

LOL... I almost put that on my list. But I think it's a little dated now.

Hell, Murder By Death was dated when it came out in '75. Nick Charles, Charlie Chan, Sam Spade were just names. I learned about them later, which increased my appreciation of the movie. Even with the silliness. Especially with the silliness.

Peter Falk did Bogie better than Bogie.

and Truman Capote as the billionaire eccentric



heh, going to have to take a another recent look at that...

"Murder By Death" was really funny the last time I saw it, but that was easily 15 years ago. I doubt it's aged well.

"Team America" needs to be mentioned.

"America....f' yeah!"

I have to throw in:

PORKEY'S
(Uncut)
&
Kingpin

Oh Hell yeah. "Porky's" was great.

And I may be alone on this, but "Tapeheads" is an unknown classic.

Speaking of John Cusak, don't forget "Better Off Dead" and "One Crazy Summer", with an awesome cameo by Count Floyd (cannot remember the actor's name, he'll always be Count Floyd).

Count Floyd was played by Joe Flaherty. SCTV had so many memorable characters.

The original Airplane! has been mentioned often, and I love it, but if anything, Airplane II: The Sequel made me laugh even harder. Anyone else think the second film is funny? Hello? Testing, testing...

Top Secret! and the first Naked Gun round out the Abrams-Zucker zaniness on my list.

Galaxy Quest belongs on my list, too (no doubt much to the annoyance of dlbpharmd).

Guess not too many Woody Allen fans here. His Manhattan Murder Mystery was the most laugh-out-loud funny film of his I've ever seen. Mighty Aphrodite was pretty funny as well, though one might say it had a mean edge to it.

Whit Stillman's Metropolitan is an overlooked gem. Brilliant, "talky" humour.

If I'm including a sci-fi comedy like Galaxy Quest, then I must include a supernatural comedy like Ghostbusters as well. But I can't leave Groundhog Day and Stripes out in the cold, so that's 3 Bill Murray films on my list.

I loved Airplane II! But,

Galaxy Quest belongs on my list, too (no doubt much to the annoyance of dlbpharmd).

Manhattan Murder Mystery

yah, that was a very good WA movie, but the only two of his that made me laugh out loud were 'Bananas' and 'Love & Death'.