Kevin's Watch

We're looking for a particular film, though the poll is organized mostly by actor...

Some Options:
- 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......

Gotta go with Something About Mary, although Lebowski and Holy Grail are so close (pardon the experssion) it ain't funny.

Nothing in moviedom has made me laugh harder than Airplane! and Airplane II: The Sequel.

matrixman wrote:Nothing in moviedom has made me laugh harder than Airplane! and Airplane II: The Sequel.

Only one movie has made me laugh harder than Airplane and thats......








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.

Midnight Run with Deniro and Grodin.

"I got two words for you...shut the f**k up"

rdhopeca wrote:Midnight Run with Deniro and Grodin.

"I got two words for you...shut the f**k up"

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.

Loremaster wrote:Holy Grail but largely Monty Python is just silly.

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...

Blazing Saddles OR Ghostbusters. I can't decide.

jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:

Loremaster wrote:Holy Grail but largely Monty Python is just silly.

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...

Silly does not work for me.

rdhopeca wrote:Midnight Run with Deniro and Grodin.

"I got two words for you...shut the f**k up"

Midnight Run is an underrated classic.

But the funniest movie ever made is Blazing Saddles. Strong runners-up include Caddyshack, Fletch, and Young Frankenstein.

Waddely said Ghost Busters! You should have mentioned Bill Murray too-Stripes, Caddyshack, What About Bob? Just to name a few-The Life Aquatic...Scrooged. I didn't get Rushmore, but that's just me...

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).

Grandma's Boy

And Lore, you're just saying that because you don't get irony.

Also 48 hrs with Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte.

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

Murray has been added...

Here's a Q though, is Ghostbusters a "pure" comedy, or is it funny within another genre?

Syl wrote:And Lore, you're just saying that because you don't get irony.

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).

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.

*looks around awkwardly* Mom, they're fighting again!

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.