What's Your Vote For The FUNNIEST Movie Ever...

A good way to figure it out would be to think of the one movie that always puts you in a good mood no matter how many times you see it. The one movie with jokes, gags and punch-lines that always make you laugh... even though you know it all by heart.

Also... what would your 2nd runner up would be? Honorable mention?


My vote for funniest is... "Life Of Brian".
My 2nd runner up would be... "Young Frankenstein"
Honorable mention: "Airplane".

Best? who knows, but darn good.

which I think is a very deeply spiritual film as well as hysterically funny. I've seen it a half a dozen times. Bill Murray at his very best.

"The Producers" with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder at the peak of their game.

I also like "Life of Brian" that also touches on many serious ideas; Python could slip that in among all the funny absurdities.

"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" of course.

"A Fish Called Wanda" more from The Minister of Silly Walks, John Cleese, my idol.

I thought it was very funny when I first saw it and a couple times since. But it's been a few years since I last saw it. I wonder whether it holds up.
Someone mentioned Groundhogs Day. That movie got better over time. It really is a spiritual movie.

w/Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder

Dumb and Dumber

The Naked Gun

Best in Show

Dr. Strangelove

Young Frankenstein

The Princess Bride

Dr. Strangelove is pretty good, too ;->

2nd runner up: "Life of Brian"
Honorable mention: "Holy Grail"

2nd runner up and Honorable mention are pretty much interchangable in order.

So if I put them together then perhaps "Caddyshack" would get honorable mention

love that movie!

followed by Spaceballs....;)

2nd: Young Frankenstein
Hnorable mention: Airplane!

are all interchangeable with Life of Bri, and Holy Grail

along with Office Space, Napolean Dynamite, O Brother Where art thou.

Winner and still champion.

Honorable mentions to "Head of State," "The Blues Brothers," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," and "Trading Places."

1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Monty Python's Life of Brian

gophers?

I think it was about the kid trying to win the caddy tournament and some sort of scholarship?

who cares, though, it was primarily a vehicle for Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray, Ted Knight, etc.

The Odd Couple
and all the Naked Gun movies!

Funniest: Blazing Saddles
2nd: Monty Python + the Holy Grail
Honorable Mention: So many to pick from... Young Frankenstein, don't sure about this one.

... "it's funny how things turn out, yeah, it's fucking hilarious" :)

:rofl:

... a month :)

I fell asleep during the middle but really didn't miss anything.

laugh out loud. Those two are hard to beat in the laughs department.

is "My Cousin Vinny." And it's been a long time. I might not find it even vaguely amusing now. Most comedies I find pretty poor.

The scene with the parrot and the vacuum cleaner...Clouseau driving that silly little car into the pool...the telephone repairman...Guy Gadois and the mustache.

:rofl: :rofl:


"Holy Grail" would be second.

But some of the 30's and 40 movies, while not LOL funny, are better...

The First Thin Man....

The Philadelphia Story....

Gone With the Wind... It's hilariously silly....

Then "Dogma"
Then "Young Frankenstein"

...but your #'s 2 & 3 are my 1 & 2.

Must be that great minds thing again!

Cant believe no one's mentioned this one yet!

My other choice is The Big Lebowski.

Spinal Tap never fails to make me howl no matter how many times I see it :thumbsup:

And I want to get a new copy but I'm waiting for MGM to reissue it.

I've gone through probably as many copies of that movie as the band has gone through drummers!

he's a teenager, drummer in a band - oh he LOVED it :D

Bad Santa (directors cut)

Super Troopers

Hey, careful, man, there's a beverage here!

I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.

Hahaha, definitely gets my vote.

I think.

Some other great ones listed here, though

Duh, remember the fart scene? And "the sheriff is a n(unintelligble)"

:rofl:

Excuse me while I whip this out...

:thumbsup:

Then "The Jerk"

Then "Amazon Women on the Moon"

I'm trying to name one's people haven't already said. There's a bunch of others I love that have been mentioned by other posters.

It was on AMC last night.



Duke Forrest: Colonel, fair's fair... if I punch Hawkeye and nail Hot-Lips, can I go home too?


Hotlips O'Houlihan: This isn't a hospital. It's an insane asylum!


Painless: I wasn't gonna fool around out here because I got these three girls I'm engaged to back home.

not necessarily in that order

Nobody's perfect. Runner up- "Something About Mary".

If you haven't seen it, you're really missing out!

http://imdb.com/title/tt0073312/

Funniest. Movie. Ever.

mikey_the_rat

Put your heads on my shoulder...

My favorite comedy, dead yorkies aside.

is the first one that comes to mind.

depending upon my royal whims. :hi:

finest.

Best to watch it stoned, too.

Funny thing happened in college. My buddy and I were watching a Fish Called Wanda, stoned out of our faces, and we looked at each other and said "It's too loud." But, of course, since we were both high as kites, neither of us wanted to reach across the coffee table to get the remote and turn the volume down. We both stared at the remote, then at each other, then back at the movie. Suddenly, the green volume bar came on the screen, and the volume started going down, down down, until it was at a reasonable level. What the fuck! we both shouted. And then, fucking cool, man! Needless to say, this fortutitous and magical event perplexed us to no end, even as thwe movie had us cracking up. How the fuck did that happen??? We came up with many, many explanations, most of them involving the force of the universe and some measure of harmony, etc. Yes, it was good shit. Of course, all that had happened was this: When another roommate had taped the film off the same TV two weeks before, he had the TV volume set loud, but halfway through the movie - at the exact same time as we noticed it - he saw that the volume was too high, and so had turned it down. In those days, the VCR captured everything that appeared on the screen, and captured the volume settings too, I guess, because he ended up taping both the green volume measure and registering the volume change on the tape. Of course, we didn't figure this out until we were straight again! Ah, cannabis...

2. Anything else by the Marx brothers.
3. The Producers.
4. Bedazzled (the original, with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore)
5 Naked Gun.

Look at all the stars in that movie. Jimmy Durante, Sid Caeser, Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Spencer Tracy, Terry-Thomas, Jim Backus, Ethel Mermen, Phil Silvers and Milton Berle just to name a few. A classic.