We're looking for a particular film, though the poll is organized mostly by actor...
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- Bill Murray
- Adam Sandler
- Leslie Nielson
- Animal House
- Robin Williams
- Steve Martin
- Eddie Murphy
- Austin Powers
- Steve Carrell
- Knocked Up guys
- Will Ferrell
- Shuan of the Dead
- Office Space
- South Park
- Some Like it Hot
- American Pies
- Dan Akroyd
- Big Lebowski
- Freakin' etc......
Graetest/Best/Fav Pure Comedy of All-time!?
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Graetest/Best/Fav Pure Comedy of All-time!?
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Only one movie has made me laugh harder than Airplane and thats......matrixman wrote:Nothing in moviedom has made me laugh harder than Airplane! and Airplane II: The Sequel.
Delicate Delinquent with Jerry Lewis..... this was like many many many eons ago, I watched it with my dad, and we were both crippled with laughter.
Must have been something in the moment... at the time.
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rdhopeca wrote:Midnight Run with Deniro and Grodin.
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Holy Grail is possibly the most overrated and overquoted comedy movie of all time. The Knights of Nee are not funny. The Meaning of Life is excellent, but largely Monty Python is just silly.
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ummm....Yes!? (try seeing it for the 1st time drunk, true story!) There's usually two types of comedy...I just can't deliniate cuase I don't remember where I read that, but it did make sense...hmmmm...Loremaster wrote:Holy Grail but largely Monty Python is just silly.
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Silly does not work for me.jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:ummm....Yes!? (try seeing it for the 1st time drunk, true story!) There's usually two types of comedy...I just can't deliniate cuase I don't remember where I read that, but it did make sense...hmmmm...Loremaster wrote:Holy Grail but largely Monty Python is just silly.
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Midnight Run is an underrated classic.rdhopeca wrote:Midnight Run with Deniro and Grodin.
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But the funniest movie ever made is Blazing Saddles. Strong runners-up include Caddyshack, Fletch, and Young Frankenstein.
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What's the point in picking "best" movies? I feel like it unduly inflates certain movies' perception, while devaluing others.
That said, some of my (recent) favorites are "Without a Paddle" and "Scooby Doo". Slightly older would be "When Harry met Sally" and "The Princess Bride." Older still, anything by Mel Brooks ("To Be or Not to Be" being one underappreciated gem).
That said, some of my (recent) favorites are "Without a Paddle" and "Scooby Doo". Slightly older would be "When Harry met Sally" and "The Princess Bride." Older still, anything by Mel Brooks ("To Be or Not to Be" being one underappreciated gem).
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And Lore, you're just saying that because you don't get irony.
And Lore, you're just saying that because you don't get irony.
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Not a real big comedy movie person, but, loved Young Frankenstein.
Nobody has mentioned White Chicks? That one had me roaring the entire way through
Nobody has mentioned White Chicks? That one had me roaring the entire way through
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Murray has been added...
Here's a Q though, is Ghostbusters a "pure" comedy, or is it funny within another genre?
Here's a Q though, is Ghostbusters a "pure" comedy, or is it funny within another genre?
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What the hell?! Given that I'm a massive fan of everthing Palin, Cleese, and Gilliam's did following Python, which is filled with irony (watch Faulty Towers sometimes, which literally is a lesson in irony), that comment is way off, Syl. Besides, I have posted many a time some of the python sketches that I do love (argument sketch, for one).Syl wrote:And Lore, you're just saying that because you don't get irony.
I'm saying that I do not like Monty Python because most of their sketches are childish, and they are not clever.
Come on, Syl. No need to resort to insults about my understanding of comedy. I really take offense to comments like that.
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Sorry, Lore, I thought you'd get that I was being ironic with that statement.
See, whenever an American says he doesn't like British humor, as exemplified by the holy grail that is ...The Holy Grail, we're told that we just don't understand irony (hence American comedies are all stupid and Americans themselves are at best suspect). I've had that argument at least twice here and several times on other boards.
Personally, I'm a pretty big fan of The Holy Grail, but you'd have to do a Clockwork Orange number on me to get me to watch Ab Fab, Fawlty Towers, or even Red Dwarf.
See, whenever an American says he doesn't like British humor, as exemplified by the holy grail that is ...The Holy Grail, we're told that we just don't understand irony (hence American comedies are all stupid and Americans themselves are at best suspect). I've had that argument at least twice here and several times on other boards.
Personally, I'm a pretty big fan of The Holy Grail, but you'd have to do a Clockwork Orange number on me to get me to watch Ab Fab, Fawlty Towers, or even Red Dwarf.
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