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Title: Comedy movies
Post by: jamesjones626 on March 19, 2010, 01:13:16 am
What are comedy movies make you laugh no matter how many times you see them?  For me it was Coming to America.  Here are my two favorite scenes.
MAYBE NSFW FOR LANGUAGE



Joe Louis was 137 yrs old (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdjblkRkoPU#)
Randy Watson (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoS8j9eNMZU#)
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: danny_galaga on March 19, 2010, 08:39:47 am

Clerks

Clerks Movie Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNd8nvnmhyM#)

Withnal and I

WITHNAIL AND I TRAILER (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L95MAROlcqg#)

(",)

Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: HanoiBoi on March 19, 2010, 09:18:13 am
"Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle" - but I'm sure you all know that.

"Miss March" - don't watch the trailer...watch the movie!  The trailer doesn't do it justice, and can be a spoiler of sorts to some funny parts.

"Employee Of The Month" - The one with Dane Cook.  'Where'd you get those stocking?...."

"Borat" - still funny

Very enjoyable, but not necessarily 'bust-a-gut'; Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Better Off Dead, BASEketball, Beerfest, Forrest Gump, Harold And Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 19, 2010, 09:26:02 am
Just to name a few...

The View-Askewniverse: Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks II

What About Bob?

Christopher Guest Mockumentary Trilogy: Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind

This is Spinal Tap

The Princess Bride

Dazed and Confused

Slums of Beverly Hills

Saving Silverman

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Schindler's List
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: massive88 on March 19, 2010, 09:40:56 am
Blues Brothers
Blues Brothers - Penguin (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hlm6)

Office Space
Office Space: Meeting "The Bobs" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOJzpeCMJzs#)

The Life of Brian
Monty Python - Life of Brian - The Haggle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n3LL338aGA#)

Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: javeryh on March 19, 2010, 10:13:21 am
Superbad, Old School and The Hangover are some really funny recent movies.  I will always get suckered into watching if they are on TV.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: HanoiBoi on March 19, 2010, 10:21:46 am
+1 on Superbad.  Tuck it in the waist band.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: LLUncoolJ on March 19, 2010, 10:26:58 am
I could watch 40 Year Old Virgin once a week if I had the time. But here are a few others that make the grade:

Caddy Shack, Ferris Bueller, Animal House, The Jerk, Anchorman, Beerfest, Fast Times @ Ridgemont High, most of the National Lampoon Vacation series, Clerks, most of the Judd Apatow movies, altough I don't know if they'll stand up over time.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: JeepMonkey on March 19, 2010, 05:19:45 pm
Kingpin

BaSEketball / Orgazmo

Kevin Smith

Blazing Saddles
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: shmokes on March 19, 2010, 05:35:28 pm
Oh man . . . no Groundhog Day so far.  Criminal.

Raising Arizona
Tommy Boy
Wedding Crashers
Forgetting Sarah Marshall


A bunch of others.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 19, 2010, 05:48:22 pm
---steaming pile of meadow muffin---....how could I've forgotten to list the Coen Bros?
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 19, 2010, 05:49:04 pm
Oh man . . . no Groundhog Day so far.  Criminal.

I was going to, but stopped before I started putting too many.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: RayB on March 19, 2010, 08:31:50 pm
I quit enjoy "Just Friends".

Vacation and Christmas Vacation can't be left off the list either.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 19, 2010, 08:50:32 pm
Vacation and Christmas Vacation can't be left off the list either.

I don't know why, but it always bugs me when people leave off the "National Lampoon's" at the beginning.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: RayB on March 19, 2010, 08:52:50 pm
Vacation and Christmas Vacation can't be left off the list either.

I don't know why, but it always bugs me when people leave off the "National Lampoon's" at the beginning.
It always bugs me to have to type or say the long version. It's not like the movies are remakes.

Which reminds me, anyone seen Walt Disney Presents Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland? I loved it.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 19, 2010, 09:48:40 pm
Saying Christmas Vacation (and European Vacation, Vegas Vacation) is fine, but National Lampoon's Vacation just being called "Vacation" -- I wouldn't even know what movie someone was talking about in casual conversation if that's all they said.

Oh, and that's
Walt Disney Presents Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland in Breathtaking Disney 3D starring Johnny Depp and a Bunch of Other People
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: crashwg on March 19, 2010, 10:19:15 pm
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

I once was watching that movie and had to pause it so I could stop laughing!
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: SNAAKE on March 20, 2010, 03:56:00 pm
grandma's boy

one of the funniest(underrated) movie ever. watch it like right now!
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: ark_ader on March 20, 2010, 04:11:58 pm
Blazin Saddles, Young Frankenstein.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ_pKqiB5Rg

Abbi who?
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Cakemeister on March 20, 2010, 07:15:15 pm
Airplane!
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: DaOld Man on March 20, 2010, 11:40:52 pm
Blazzin saddles
Space balls
Old School
Idiocracy
Stripes
caddy shack
What about Bob?
Rat race
Animal House
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: danny_galaga on March 21, 2010, 12:35:27 am
Blazin Saddles, Young Frankenstein.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ_pKqiB5Rg

Abbi who?

FrankenSTEEN! FrankenSTEEN!
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: danny_galaga on March 21, 2010, 12:38:06 am

Schindler's List


You are one sick puppy  ;D

I forgot about 'Life of Brian'. Office Space i've only just discovered. Watched it twice in two weeks, but haven't seen it enough times to say i'll always find it funny. I hope so, because it really struck a chord with me, even though i've hardly ever worked in an office...
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: shmokes on March 21, 2010, 12:57:40 am
I wouldn't put Life of Brian on the list.  I wouldn't put any Monty Python on the list.  Even their best, of which Life of Brian definitely is one, make you suffer through non-stop rapid-fire utterly unfunny joke after joke.  Then they hit you with something gut-busting that has you in tears.  But then it's back to misfire after misfire after misfire for twenty minutes till the next bout of hilarity. 
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: DaOld Man on March 21, 2010, 09:13:36 am
Idiocracy trailer: (Warning, due to foul language and sexual suggestions, this one is not for the kids.)

Idiocracy - Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0yQunhOaU0&feature=PlayList&p=61BD46E4083F5888&index=0&playnext=1#)
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Malenko on March 23, 2010, 12:05:21 pm
other then everything listed,

National Lampoon's Black Ball (no ones ever heard of it)
Half Baked, now the movie as a whole is just alright, but one of the first scenes is EPIC, right as hes feeding the horse....best dialog EV4R

most of my faves are already listed: Grandma's boy, ground hog day, clerks,etc
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 23, 2010, 12:08:37 pm
Half Baked

I actually saw it at the theater. Great movie!
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: massive88 on March 23, 2010, 12:49:48 pm

Forgetting Sarah Marshall



A very underrated movie from the Apatow group, or at least some of them.  Ranks right up there with Superbad for me, great movie.

"If you get bitten by a shark, you arent just going to give up surfing are you?"
"Well, yeah probably."
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Malenko on March 23, 2010, 01:37:28 pm
just remembered Role Models and I love you, Man
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: RayB on March 23, 2010, 02:38:41 pm
Is this just a list of comedies? I thought it was for best comedies.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 23, 2010, 02:49:53 pm
Is this just a list of comedies? I thought it was for best comedies.


Yeah, some of the stuff listed has me scratching my head.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: shmokes on March 23, 2010, 02:53:17 pm
Oh yeah . . . Harold and Maud!  Not only one of the great comedies, but probably a top 10 all-time greatest romances in the history of cinema.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 23, 2010, 03:04:32 pm
Oh yeah . . . Harold and Maud!  Not only one of the great comedies, but probably a top 10 all-time greatest romances in the history of cinema.

Alright, something we can agree on!  :cheers:
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: RayB on March 23, 2010, 03:10:33 pm
Oh yeah . . . Harold and Maud!  Not only one of the great comedies, but probably a top 10 all-time greatest romances in the history of cinema.
Have you heard about the Apatow remake?   oh boy...

no, not really. i made that up
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Blanka on March 23, 2010, 03:15:50 pm
Office Space +1
Dumb and Dumber
South Park the Movie (very serious at the same time)
Borat (even more serious at the same time)
Holy Grail
True Lies (not only comedy, but best in every genre)
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 23, 2010, 03:17:04 pm
Oh yeah . . . Harold and Maud!  Not only one of the great comedies, but probably a top 10 all-time greatest romances in the history of cinema.
Have you heard about the Apatow remake?   oh boy...

I only like three things Apatow was associated with:
1) Freaks and Geeks (greatest show ever)
2) Undeclared
3) Heavyweights

My wife and I *WALKED OUT* of the 40 Year Old Virgin, btw.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: massive88 on March 23, 2010, 04:08:33 pm


I only like three things Apatow was associated with:
1) Freaks and Geeks (greatest show ever)


I tried watching Freaks and Geeks, and wanted really hard to like it, but it just wasn't all that great.

Better TV shows in my opinion:
The Wire (the real greatest show ever)
Firefly
24 (season 1, when it was original)
Dexter
Cosby Show
Seinfeld

And if you want teenage centered drama, Friday Night Lights first season is better than all of Freaks and Geeks.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: MaineEvent on March 23, 2010, 04:12:21 pm
Step Brothers
Tommy Boy

are the only ones that I can think of that haven't been mentioned to these other CLASSICS
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 23, 2010, 04:15:32 pm
I tried watching Freaks and Geeks, and wanted really hard to like it, but it just wasn't all that great.
And if you want teenage centered drama, Friday Night Lights first season is better than all of Freaks and Geeks.

Agree to disagree. Obviously "greatest show ever" was a bit of a stretch on my part, but it's an awesome series that died too early a death. Great writing, both dramatic and comedic. Most of the cast has gone on to do some great work, but none as great as what they did in those 18 episodes.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: patrickl on March 23, 2010, 04:21:34 pm
I like the TV show "The Big Bang Theory" and a recent comedy movie would be "The Hangover".

Some oldies I like are LA Story and the Holy Grail (more so than Life of Brian even), but I'll admit they are not to everyone's taste.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: RayB on March 23, 2010, 06:31:01 pm
Since we're delving into TV land... I'm really digging "Community".
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 23, 2010, 08:20:39 pm
Since we're delving into TV land... I'm really digging "Community".


I can't get into it, but love Parks and Recreation.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: protokatie on March 23, 2010, 09:38:02 pm
Dr Strangelove was a good dark comedy that I didnt see in the list. It's not Ha-ha funny, but it gets me everytime, esp the scene where the british officer is ordering the american guard to shoot the lock off of the coca-cola machine :D "If you are wrong, you will have to answer to the cocacola corperation"

Dr Strangelove and The Producers are prolly my favorite "dark" comedies, even tho the only thing dark about the producers is how it makes fun of Nazis.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 23, 2010, 09:51:04 pm
Dr Strangelove is great. One of my favorite Kubrick films.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: hypernova on March 23, 2010, 10:17:22 pm
Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison.

RayB, it was comedies that always make you laugh no matter how many times you watch it.

How about Spaceballs?
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: polaris on March 23, 2010, 10:43:31 pm
The finest film and comedy ever made, though i doubt many have seen it, if any of you.

TWIN TOWN 

NSFW lots of swearing


Twin Town kid beaten up scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKpZS90x3G0#ws)


Pretty ---smurfy--- City (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmRTW2mmXr0#ws)
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Malenko on March 24, 2010, 08:40:54 pm
Ace Ventura and the sequel Ace Ventura : When Nature calls

the only Jim Carey movies I can watch.


ALLLLLLLLRIGHTY THEN!
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: shmokes on March 25, 2010, 09:58:15 pm
I remember liking the first Ace Ventura but hating the second.  I was in junior high or high school when I saw the first, though, so I'm not really sure whether it was actually good.  But he has unquestionably been in far better movies.  Truman Show is amazing.  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a ---smurfing--- masterpiece.  Man on the Moon was pretty good too.


Edit: Except the scene where he's conducting surveillance from a fake rhino and the fan breaks and he can't get out and then the rhino gives birth to him.  If that was in the 2nd movie, it at least had one good scene.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Blanka on March 26, 2010, 03:26:59 am
Ace Ventura and the sequel Ace Ventura : When Nature calls

the only Jim Carey movies I can watch.

LOL, for me its the only ones I can't watch (and cable guy of course). D&D, LL, TMS: that's my picnic.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: danny_galaga on March 26, 2010, 03:53:07 am
The finest film and comedy ever made, though i doubt many have seen it, if any of you.

TWIN TOWN 

NSFW lots of swearing


Twin Town kid beaten up scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKpZS90x3G0#ws)


Pretty ---smurfy--- City (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmRTW2mmXr0#ws)

I saw Twin Town and really couldn't understand what was so funny, maybe it's a cultural thing  :dunno
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Malenko on March 26, 2010, 08:10:10 am
I remember liking the first Ace Ventura but hating the second.  I was in junior high or high school when I saw the first, though, so I'm not really sure whether it was actually good.  But he has unquestionably been in far better movies.  Truman Show is amazing.  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a ---smurfing--- masterpiece.  Man on the Moon was pretty good too.


Edit: Except the scene where he's conducting surveillance from a fake rhino and the fan breaks and he can't get out and then the rhino gives birth to him.  If that was in the 2nd movie, it at least had one good scene.

That scene is the second one, and I agree with you, the first was much better, but the second has its moments

Truman show: didnt like or hate it
The Majestic: terrible
The Mask: very meh
Dumb and Dumber: I liked,but not because of him
Batman Forever was just terrible (not his fault)
Me Myself and Irene: was great but not one of my all time fave comedies but its close, add this to the list of JC movies I can watch
Bruce almighty was just plain bad
Man on the Moon: best movie he ever did and I love, not on the list cause not a comedy (more like a biography)
Yes Man: I didn't like it, but I don't have kids to watch it with and I'm sure that's why
The Number 23: Lame
Fun with Dick and Jane: mediocre but again it was the script or lack there of.

Back to Ace Ventura, the whole movie is pretty funny from beginning to end. The open HDS package scene is hilarious, and even some of the more zany parts like the shark tank and lookin at all the dolphin player's rings keep you entertained. Cannibal Corpse cameo? hello?! yes please! :)

The ONLY scene in "Cable Guy" that made me laugh is the scene when he visits matthew broderick in jail and thats only because I saw midnight express (on VHS!)
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 26, 2010, 08:35:47 am
What, no "Once Bitten" love?

Nevermind. I just rewatched it for the first time in a very long time. Bad movie with only a few decent scenes.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: HanoiBoi on March 26, 2010, 03:15:37 pm
Unless I missed it, I don't recall anyone mentioning Something About Mary.  Franks and beans....

That movie really raised the bar on crossing the line.   :applaud:
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 26, 2010, 03:19:19 pm
I used to find it funny, but the last time I watched it, it wasn't that great anymore.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: NiN^_^NiN on March 28, 2010, 12:45:37 am
No love for the 80's comedy whoopee boys?

I wanted to thank you for only giving me the clap. These days it's refreshing to meet a girl with curable diseases.

Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Blanka on March 28, 2010, 03:42:51 am
No love for the 80's comedy?
+1 for Canonball Run
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: danny_galaga on March 30, 2010, 05:21:27 am

I can't believe i didn't think of this

Hardware Wars (1 of 2) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlFOiFLLd0g#)

I first saw this in science class in highschool. Teacher didn't have a lesson. It was on 16mm film (we still had those in school, evn though video players had been around a while already).

If you haven't seen it before, it's only about 17 minutes long. Parts 1 and 2 on youtube are the whole thing (",)
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Dartful Dodger on March 30, 2010, 02:43:53 pm
The Hangover
Wedding Crashers
Role Models
Zombieland
Dukes of Hazzard
Fletch
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: shmokes on March 30, 2010, 03:11:56 pm
Just saw Zombieland.  So effing good.
Speaking of zombies, Shaun of the Dead.  And speaking of that director, Hot Fuzz.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: patrickl on March 30, 2010, 03:19:01 pm
Just saw Zombieland.  So effing good.
Speaking of zombies, Shaun of the Dead.  And speaking of that director, Hot Fuzz.
Yeah, I loved all those too.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 30, 2010, 03:31:22 pm
Speaking of zombies, Shaun of the Dead.  And speaking of that director, Hot Fuzz.

I can't believe I forgot those in my list.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: Loafmeister on March 31, 2010, 02:09:41 pm
Trying to mention movies that have not been mentioned yet.

Kingpin, Army of Darkness (did I miss it? I can't believe it hasn't been mentioned!!!), Evil Dead 2 (to some extent), ANYTHING with Peter Sellers (Pink Panther series were great!), Naked gun movies (might have been mentioned), Top Secret...
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: HaRuMaN on March 31, 2010, 02:41:55 pm
I can't believe no one mentioned:

History of the World Part I  -- "It's good to be the king!"
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: NiN^_^NiN on March 31, 2010, 11:16:58 pm
Gotta love Young Frankenstein

Most of Mel Brooks movies are fantastic in my book
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: jamesjones626 on April 16, 2010, 05:12:35 am
Cheech & Chong Up In Smoke 1978 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWr4NcRN2Uw#)
how can i forget about up in smoke, just watched this last night
"you know you could build you muscle by picking strawberry's, bend and scoop, like the mexicans"
i had to pick garlic as a kid with my parents in the field, damn it sucked.
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: solidteezme on April 16, 2010, 07:51:34 am
Step brothers +1

"The F***ing catalina wine mixer"

The Burbs! legendary Tom Hanks movie.

Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: LLUncoolJ on April 16, 2010, 11:23:31 am
Found myself in a "dude" moment yesterday. I was sitting in traffic when Lookin' Out My Back Door by Creedence came on, so of course I'm slapping the roof of my car.

The Big Lebowski - Lookin' Out My Back Door (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iApz08Bh53w#)
Title: Re: Comedy movies
Post by: solidteezme on April 17, 2010, 09:41:09 am
Bugger i have got the same avatar as you, going to have to change it now.