First Principles

AFI has Tootsie and The Graduate in the top 10 funniest movies of all time. Right above The Killing Fields and Yentl.

It’s like watching Jewel with her guitar on her lap for the purpose of discussing VH1’s “greatest songs of the 90s”. The pretentiousness is funnier than the no. 1 on the list.

Where the fuck is Lebowski, man?

nice. like it all.

i especially agree with bama not winnin it all. too much to lose on D, and i read somewhere that their last 6 opponents all have byes before they play em. thats not good for bama.

and for the movies- solid top 10. i gotta add the Big Lebowski tho, as it is one of the best movies ever made. and office space. and i prefer night at the roxbury over zoolander. but good nonetheless.

“youre Lebowski. I’m the Dude, man”

I forgot to consider Office Space but I’m okay still with it’s omission. There are more than 10 laugh out loud comedies in the world.

Team America has already been quoted a lot here so I’ll refrain, but agree that few films make me laugh harder. “Surprise cock-fags!” Damn, couldn’t help it.

2012 deserves honorable mention, best special effects in a comedy. ever.

Bad News Bears …you can take your apology and your trophy and shove ’em straight up your ass

Offhand I’d have to have Animal House, Office Space, Big Lebowski the Tao of Steve, Blackbeard’s Ghost and Old School on any list. Stripes and Caddyshack would be in the running.

I could see good arguments for Airplane, Blazing Saddles and Python.

I am completely baffled by the love for Napoleon Dynamite.

Smokey and the Bandit

Lebowski is number 1, hands down.

“Uli doesn’t care about anything. He’s a Nihilist.”
“Ah, that must be exhausting.”

“Yeah, a friend with a cleft asshole?”

“Mr. Treehorn treats objects like women, man.”

“You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in ’Nam of course.”

The whole Bama repeat thing is a little lazy. @ Arkansas looks like a solid upset possibility.
 
My comedies:
 
Blazing Saddles – Pushed the limits in every way and never apologized. Mel Brooks is the man.
 
A Fish Called Wanda – Otto is my personal hero. This flick is an excellent marriage of sophisticated and silly; a good Anglo-American confluence of distinctive humor styles.
 
The Big Lebowski – John. F’ing. Goodman.
 
Monty Python & Holy Grail – A list without it may as well put Tootsie in the Top 10.
 
The Life of Brian – Two Python films? You bet. Scathingly funny, particularly the more you know about the Middle East & religious history. And…Bigus Dickus!
 
Animal House – Perfectly captures college sensibilities. I’m a particular fan of Otter.
 
Caddyshack – Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Ted Knight are all perfectly cast. Not so sure about the gopher, but I’m a forgiving sort.
 
Dr. Strangelove – Peter Sellers at his peak. Nothing else like it.
 
Personal faves, perhaps unworthy of immortality:
 
Chasing Amy – What’s a Nubian? Black rage! Black rage!
 
Best In Show/Waiting for Guffman – The core group of actors is without peer in mocking small people with big dreams.
 
The Pink Panther (only Peter Sellers versions) – If the Cato/Clousseau dynamic doesn’t make you laugh, I cannot comprehend your sense of humor.
 
Slapshot – Any scene with the Hanson Brothers is the funniest stuff ever put on film. The rest of the movie is a solid B.
 
Top Secret – I can’t help it. I just crack up. I break out singing Skeet Surfin’ sometimes.
 
Tropic Thunder – Just really well done across the board.

And so it begins— football, basketball, spring football, list making—I hate this time of year.

How can you leave out Superbad?

Napoleon Dynamite sucks.

I did a semi-formal survey among about 50 friends 10 years ago regarding top comedies, and the winner was Raising Arizona. Animal House and Vacation were in the top 5, but I don’t remember how everything else fell out.

Hard to believe no one has included Fletch. This hurts my heart.

I’ll repeat the love for Blazing Saddles and Life of Brian.

GhostBusters remains underrated.

Robert Downey’s Never Go Full Retard speech from Tropic Thunder puts me in tears everytime.

Napoleon Dynamite is not just unfunny, it’s a bad movie.

How can a bunch of sports buffs not mention Major League?

The Jerk, Princess Bride, first Austin Powers, Ferris Buehler deserve mention

Any liist that doesn’t include Kentucky Fried Movie, Young Frankenstein, History Of The World, Animal House, and Caddyshack is irrelevant…batter swing, batter miss.

The last act of the pre-Browadway show “The Producers” made me laugh harder than anything I had ever seen before or since.

I have trouble taking any list seriously that doesn’t include King of Kong.

Caddyshack,Spaceballs?

Easy Money…Can I call you daddd now?

But its a good list and everybody has their preferences. Im glad it doesnt include gay ass movies like Van Wilder and The Longest Yard

TAWP #1. Absolutely! It’s been my favorite movie for years now.

The list is solid with the exception of Napoleon Dynamite. Fortunately, we rented the DVD so we were only out $4 but I couldn’t even sit & watch the whole thing.

Maybe it doesn’t count because it’s a documentary and not a fictional narrative, but the day after I saw The Aristocrats, I had to call in sick to work with pulled abdominal muscles from laughing so hard.

A Fish Called Wanda. Excellent call. “Don’t call me stupid”

Commando was hilarious! Because of that movie, any athlete with the last name Bennett becomes “BENNNNEETTT!, I’LL KILL YOU BENNETT!!” in just about my entire circle of friends. Also, when Matrix throws that saw blade and turns that guys head into a trapezoid I crack up. Oh, and the aerial gymnastics that occur when Matrix throws grenades at the compound.

Nap Dynamite wasn’t that funny, but I liked the movie, kind of like Juneau.

Best in Show was funny. “C’mon, what do you think I bench press?”

My favorite usually rotates between Team America, Anchorman, and maybe Something About Mary. Matt Dillon in that was hilarious.

Most of my favorites are mentioned above, with the exception of

The In-Laws (1979)—the Peter Falk/Alan Arkin comedy, rather than the more recent one of the same title.

The following is what I imagine a BC board meeting to look like, with Scipio as the President:

What’s with the Tootsie hate?

The Mel Brooks Triple Crown

The Producers, BlazingSaddles, Young Frankenstein

“What’s with the Tootsie hate?”

Mrs. Doubtfire made it obsolete. Kind of like how all anyone wants to talk about is Kickboxer 2, rather than 1.

Having ’Bama ranked #1 is ok, I guess. Nobody seems to be a clear cut favorite, so they might as well go with them, but they lost a lot and if the choice is ’Bama or the field, you gotta go with the field. Personally, I like our chances better.

No love for Trains, Planes, and Automobiles?

Can’t argue with most of the list, except for the glaring omission of Lebowski.

check that: planes, trains, and automobiles.

I’m on board with all of the list except Napoleon Dynamite. I have only walked out of the theater for two movies, and one was that one.

I’m pleased with the inclusion of Dumb & Dumber. That movie is genius and is too often dismissed as sub-low brow.

Who exactly did you think would bitch about missing “Arsenic and Old Lace?”

I’d add Clerks, Big Lebowski, and Happy Gilmore. That’s right, Happy Gilmore FTW. Shit is funny.

Zoolander, Napolean Dynamite and Dumb & Dumber are bad movies.

Notable omissions – Caddyshack, Animal House, Big Lebowski, Office Space, Something About Mary, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Top Secret! & Naked Gun -

“When I see 6 weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy to death in the park, I shoot the bastards. That’s my policy! " “Those were Shakesperian actors rehearsing a scene from Julius Caesar, you idiot!”

That’s right, Happy Gilmore FTW. Shit is funny.

Happy Gilmore has the whole “Stay out of my way. Or you’ll pay. Listen to what I say” gag, which I thought was pretty damn unique. I’d not seen anything like that in another comedy, so it gets points for that.

His Girl Friday (Cary Grant). Hysterical.

N.B. Believe it or don’t, comedy was not first discovered in the 1970s.

My list-
1. Dumb and Dumber
2. Old School
3. Office Space
4. Anchorman
5. Caddyshack
6. American Pie
7. The Hangover
8. Napoleon Dynamite
9. A Fish Called Wanda
10. Zoolander

I’ve never seen a more divisive movie than Napoleon Dynamite (I own it, and have seen it probably five times).
If you’re not laughing at Uncle Rico, then….

Also, no mention of The Naked Gun? Obviously in my top ten, were I to get off my lazy ass and make one.

Napoleon Dynamite is the only movie my brother has recommended to me that I on the whole did not particularly like. It has a couple of good scenes, but I was pretty disappointed. The list is good, though I would have Strangelove at #1. IMO Life of Brian is MUCH better than Holy Grail. The latter has classic bits, of course, but there are parts of it that are just plain bad. LoB simply does not have a weak moment, other than the bit with the aliens.

I would also throw in Planet Terror. The self-parody, especially by Bruce Willis and Michael Biehn, is unbelievably good for somebody who teethed on 80s action movies. I haven’t laughed out loud like that in years. And the Machete trailer on the front end is classic.

Fitzhume,

You’re a Canadian, your opinion on humor is irrelevant. Martin Short fan, imo.

I’m surprised no one has mentioned Bad Santa. It’s a classic in my book. It’s not as quotable as some of the others, but good nonetheless.

“Willy: …and I went to my father. And you know what he did? He kicked my ass. And do you know why?
Kid: Because you went to the bathroom on mommy’s dishes?”

I’m rooting for the Bama – TX rematch. The pundits will jizz in their pants.

Reno 911! Miami, very underated….anyone?….please?

I think Barcelona is very funny. It’s from Whit Stillman, who wrote Last Days of Disco, which is also funny but not as good. It’s mostly funny because I’ve never seen anyone portray insecurity better than he does. Not high-school insecurity, which is just awkwardness, but that deep-seeded, the world is against me insecurity.

Personal favorite that is probably not worthy of the top 10 – ¡Three Amigos! With Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short, how can you go wrong?

Whoa.

I’m having an out-of-body experience. Never saw a movie list I agreed with so much, ever. Just sub Ace Ventura for Dumb and Dumber and then add one to every movie on the list and stick Big Lebowski in as number one. Yeah, and stick Naked Gun somewhere in the middle.

Now, I have to decide whether I must go out of my way to meet Nickel Rover, author of this list, or take extreme measures to make sure that possibility never happens…

Oh, and as someone who sat through the Graduate in Austin as a college sophomore its opening week, I can assure you it was fucking hilarious. Then it wasn’t. Now that I’m older than the Robinsons, it’s funny again but in a sad, pathetic way.

Lebowski uber alles. No other film is as well-suited to repeated viewings as this masterpiece. But it takes a solid 3-4 viewings to get hooked.

Airplane. So many classic lines. It’s oddly timeless, in a very dated way.

Python’s Holy Grail is a classic, but I actually prefer Life of Brian. That’s probably because it gave comedic legitimacy to my teenage struggle against Catholicism. And, no, that is not a priest molestation reference. I wasn’t handsome enough to be groped by the local clergy.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Zero Mostel is a master of comedy. Musicals aren’t usually my thing, but this one is worth the hokey sing-songy shit.

Naked Gun 2 1/2. The original was very good, but I believe the sequel surpassed it. The song “Besame Mucho” will forever make me chuckle.

Old School, Wedding Crashers and Hot Tub Time Machine are all in the same vein, and all very, very funny.

Office Space is another classic. Unfortunately, it’s one of those movies you have to relate to. The first time I saw it, I was an undergrad at UT. The whole “working in a cubicle farm” lifestyle didn’t resonate with me. The second time I saw it, I was working in a cubicle farm in the DFW suburbs. Needless to say, I enjoyed the second viewing much more.

Blazing Saddles is hysterical and a bit of a family tradition. One of my favorite memories growing up was my parents hosting a Blazing Saddles costume party. They had the whole backyard decorated like a scene from Rock Ridge. (“Rock Ridge, Rock Ridge. Splendid. Splendid!”) It was one of the very rare occasions I witnessed my folks getting lit up with their friends. Good times.

Adam Sandler gets on my nerves, but I’m a big fan of Happy Gilmore. Caddyshack is good, but I really haven’t ever taken the time to sit down and watch it all the way through. Obviously, I am not a golfer.

This is Spinal Tap. I grew up a metalhead, listening to the “old stuff” of bands who were already well past their prime by the time I discovered them. So I could certainly relate to Tap’s dedication to irrelevance.

National Lampoon’s Vacation. Is there a truer homage to the average American family than this movie? Clark W. Griswold might as well have been my old man. We even took our annual summer road trips in a crappy ’78 Oldsmobile station wagon.

1.Blazing Saddles
2.Caddyshack
3.Airplane!
4.The Naked Gun
5.Spaceballs
6.Fletch
7.Monty Python
8.Dr. Strangelove
9.Dumb and Dumber
10.Police Academy (Just the first one. Yeah, come and get me.)

The Naked Gun, number one with a bullet. I watched it when I was, like, 7 and didn’t understand half the jokes. Age, not maturity, only makes it funnier.

“Nice Beaver.”

“Thanks, I just had it stuffed.”

I don’t believe ‘bama will repeat. But ESPN is in love with the idea. "Saban doesn’t rebuild, he reloads." Get ready to hear that ad nauseam. Hopefully they lose as quickly as we did in 2006 and the talking heads will then dispense with the cliches.

If not that, then I’d love a rematch with them.

It’s hard to compare across generations, too. Animal House and Caddyshack are both enjoyable, but don’t have that same laugh out loud factor that something like Anchorman or Team America has.

Not yet mentioned:

Old School: Revenge of the Nerds
New School: South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.

Brick-

It’s a good call about officespace. I took a job in a cubicle farm on North 35 right out of college, right when that movie came out, and it really caught the office dynamics perfectly.

“Good luck with your layoffs, all right? I hope your firings go really well."

Call me crazy, but I laughed more, and harder, in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” than any other. Seems like “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” should fit in there somewhere also.

I’m with Scipio on adding Waiting for Guffman and A Fish Called Wanda. Kevin Kline deserved his Oscar for Wanda, and I think Guffman is one of the top 3 comedies ever. A little dry for some tastes, but every single line in the movie is a joke, there are no wasted scenes.

Ron Albertson: Some people find it ironical that although we run a travel agency, we’ve never been outside of Blaine.

I know I’ll catch some heat for this, but I think Anchorman is one of the most overrated movies ever. I never thought the one-liners in it were as funny as everyone else did. I’d sub Old School in Burgandy’s spot.

Also, The Big Lebowski should obviously be in the top 3.

Raising Arizona
Fletch

Hmmm. After reviewing all the comments I have this to say:

Napoleon Dynamite. I don’t know, it made me laugh very hard and I still enjoy much of it after repeated viewings.
The Big Lebowski: I haven’t seen it.

Happy Gilmore: This is probably my most frustrating omission. I reviewed various “top comedy” lists for ideas so I wouldn’t leave out anything fantastic and I totally forgot about Happy Gilmore. I vary between thinking Sandler is just a loud idiot and thinking he’s a genius but Happy Gilmore I definitely think can rival Napoleon or Dumb and Dumber.

If it lasts more viewings I’m ready to ascend Tropic Thunder into the top 10.
EskimoHorn…get help.

I’m a big fan of Christopher Guest’s stuff, especially the first two. Guffman and Best in Show. However, I do believe the best of the mockumentaries is Spinal Tap.

One little known mockumentary worth checking out, Forgotten Silver by Peter Jackson long before LOTR made him famous. The mockumentary contends this guy named Silver from New Zealand invented a lot of stuff and just never received the credit for it, like inventing his own flying machine a few days before the Wright brothers. And inventing film as we know it in movies today. They go on an expedition to find a lost movie set for an epic, Biblical film he never finished called Salome. Worth checking out for mocku fans.

I turned off Tropic Thunder about 30 minutes in. Other than ‘Simple Jack’ I hated every second of it.

Nickel, the Big Lebowski is awesome on so many levels. Others are on here are right, it takes multiple viewings to truly appreciate.

Southpark was awesome. The acting and songs were about as good as they were on Team America.

1. The Big Lebowski
2. Fletch
3. Blazing Saddles
4. The Naked Gun 2 1/2
5. The 40 Year Old Virgin
6. Airplane!
7. The Hangover
8. Dumb and Dumber
9. Monty Python
10. Old School

I gotta admit, Hangover was probably the funniest movie of last year.

While this probably isn’t top 10 material, I love Tommy Boy. “Fat guy in a little suit.”

Dedfischer nailed it with King of Kong, that movie had me mesmorized by the extent of nerdity portrayed by real life people. Fuck Billy Mitchell!

you can tell alot about someone from their taste in comedies….as i say that, none of the following, wtf?

-Lebowski
-Kingpin
-Caddyshack
-Revenge of the Nerds

Rushmore places somewhere on a top ten for this guy.
Apparently I loved Tootsie as a child, not sure if this means I have poor taste in movies, humor and time management, or if I have some future hobbies to look forward to ala Buffalo Bill.
Whenever a Knight Rider movie comes out my list will be complete.

Rushmore is fantastic. Probably the out rightly funniest of the Wes Anderson hipster sub-genre.

Not movies that I would put in my top 10 but al movies that I would rate above Anchorman/Napoleon Dynamite:

Rushmore (inspiration for my handle). Slackers. Saving Silverman. Wayne’s World. American Pie. Role Models. Heavyweights. Wet Hot American Summer.

I gotta say trying to make a list of the favorite funny movies of all time is very difficult, because its so hard to classify dry humor and slapstick humor all in one..

So to me if I had to put a list of movies that actually made me laugh so hard my side hurt :

1. Hangover
2. Something About Mary
3 Old School
4. Big Lebowski
5. 40 year old Virgin
6. Billy Madison ( liked it alot better than happy gilmore)
7. Tommy Boy ( It’s fat guy in a little Coat)
8. Meet the parents
9. Zoolander

10. Office Space

has anyone mentioned ‘eating raoul’?

Another reason Bama loses 2 games next year….

6… yes… unless they get changed… *^6* teams have a bye week right before they play Bama. That’s an equalizer.

Wish I could have seen the look on Saban’s face after he found that out.

YOU’RE ALL HIGH!!!

1. Weekend at Bernies
2. FLETCH LIVES!
3. Men at Work
4. Good Burger
5. Mean Girls
6. Cinema Paradiso
7. Deuce Bigalow
8. Bowfinger
9. Big Mama’s House
10. Mask or anything with Tyler Perry.

I must be the only one who still laughs at Hot Shots! Part Deux even after watching it for the nth time, and I’d put Talledaga Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby in my personal top ten, as well.

I kind of thought of Team America as the Dr. Strangelove for a new generation. Dr. Strangelove is number one. Easy to watch many times.

I don’t know if it holds up on repeated viewings, but I put a hand over my right eye because I thought it was going to pop out a couple of times when I was laughing at Borat.

Definitely, Big Lebowski should be in the elite.

have any of you seen WATERHOLE #3? funny/irreverent but rarely viewed. in my opinion way ahead of its time.

Big Lebowski has to make the list.

“Yeah, well, you know, that’s just like, your opinion man”

Gotta have Caddyshack and Vacation as well. I’m good with the rest of the list except for Tropic Thunder, that’s the only Stiller movie I’ve ever hated. I love Napolean Dynamite…definitely a polarizing movie though. You either love it or hate it apparently. I thought it was genius from beginning to end.

alan arkin. i never think of alan arkin that i don’t think of harry roat in ‘wait until dark’.

parlin – I’d never seen the In-Laws or even heard of it, I’m embarrassed to say. I will rent it.
 
I liked Napoleon Dynamite. Saw it with a friend and we laughed uproariously while a half dozen people walked out. It’s like the Andy Kaufman of movies. You’re into it or you’re not.
 
I second the rec for Barcelona.

“Hey … I’m Matt Damon, … Matt Damon ..

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

“Normal view! Normal view! Normal View!”

Greatest movie inside a movie ever.

If you like Stillman, you have to start with Metropolitan, as he did. My favorite of his.

I have to say I am disappointed in you faggots. What a bunch of callow rubes.

Sweet creeping Jesus. A list that proclaims a top 10 list of all time that includes Zoolander?

Granted many of you are very young but cast your net a bit further back than Raising Arizona, which incidentally is in my top 10. Granted I’m deep into the Bombay Sapphire Chooky swung by with but come on.

No WC Fields? No Marx Bros? No Schindler’s list?

A few oldies I specifically recommend:

The Philadelphia Story
The Thin Man (and After The Thin Man which was also good but they tapered a bit 3-5)
Sullivan’s Travels (a supremely fine Veronica Lake. Pleasuring yourself to a b/w image of a dead woman is ok, right?)

Also, no mention of Groundhog Day? Fast Times At Ridgemont High? Lost In America? Being There? A complete omission of anything Woody Allen did? No Stir Crazy or Silver Streak?

Hell, Citizen Ruth and Election are funnier than a lot of the tripe foisted above.

Flush out your head gear you twats or I’ll ban you.

No Time for Sergeants.

Awesome. Andy and Don, The Early Years.

Hey now, Sailor. The comedies of old that I like are some screwballs (Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, does It Happened One Night qualify?) and silent ones. The General is brilliant and still a masterpiece in film making, period. I haven’t seen much Chaplin or Marx Brothers, I’m ashamed to say. The Thin Man is hilarious, few movies’ heroes are such blatant and proud alcoholics as Nick what’s-his-name.

Here’s a random one: McClintock starring the Duke and Maureen O’Hara. Old family favorite.

chicagottu- i think the fact that you put “goodburger” as #4 would be greater evidence to suggest that you are high.

Nickel Rover is the man, and his list looks better and better each time someone else puts up a list with a mildly funny movie that they think is in the top 10 of all time.

but you really gotta see the lebowski man.

lol and has anyone seen the haircut on this idiot goin to ou??
really takes a special person i guess

http://recruitocosm.fantake.com/2010/02/21/022010-recruiting-update-oklahoma-junior-day/

The thin man movies are fantastic but they don’t make me laugh out loud like anything I listed in the top 10. I remember seeing “No time for sergeants” as a kid and loving it. Isn’t it Andy Griffith as Forest Gump decades before Tom Hanks?

I feel like Bill Murray should be represented somewhere but it’s not my fault if he didn’t make anything transcendent. The Wes Anderson films make me laugh quietly throughout so it’s hard to qualify their place. I think The Life Aquatic was the funniest and includes Bill Murray so there you go. I rank The Royal Tenenbaums as the best of the class.

When I’ve thought about it it’s possible that something about mary or Meet the Parents should have beat out Zoolander but I’m blinded by the brilliant light of Mugatu. Dear God…it’s beautiful…

you folks who liked ‘no time for sergeants’ and love the great memories of andy and don might enjoy this youtube series of somewhat recent interviews with andy. he talks at length about the old days and how he happened to stumble onto our screens.

series of five, i believe, with this being the first. the others are readily handy, along with interviews of don and ron howard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhI9ReOVemg

interesting that andy doesn’t seem to keen on it all, but the interviewer is really good and andy warms up after a while.

Wow, Seaman Ripley needs to drink Saph all day everyday. Such humorous militancy in that post!

Nickel, Rip’s right, Zoolander no belongo. But, you’re also right, Mugatu was….beautiful. Whenever Ferrell has a smaller role, he usually steals the show. “MOM, MEATLOAF!!”

One of my funnest times at a movie ever was as a freshman at Texas, drunk with a buddy, somehow wandering into a Cannon Hall showing of “Funny Girl” (we expected a comedy). The show was sold out, full of huge (in both senses) Streisand fans. We spent a half hour laughing, chortling, and making comments about Streisand’s appearance until we were encouraged to leave by the mob.

+1 for Top Secret

Nazi on the phone to the hospital: “Very well. Call me if there is any change in his condition.” Hangs up, and says to henchman: “He’s dead.”

The Life of Brian is superior to Grail

Fletch, for sure.

Spinal Tap is my #1.

Will Ferrell has some funny as hell moments, but none of his films belong in a top 20 of anything. Except Top 20 Will Ferrell films.

Sailor -

I have seen Metropolitan. It was hilarious in its own right but the ending was weak. The best part is when the poor kid who seems like he is able to ingratiate himself to the debutant crowd based on his intellectualism admits that he has never actually read any of the works he is quoting, but rather critiques of those works. The whole movie turns on its head in that scene.

Also, to anyone that finds humor in misogyny or sadism, Roger Dodger, Secretary, and The Piano Teacher are very funny, dark films.

“I have to say I am disappointed in you faggots.”

Whoa Sailor. What if we get magnus to promise to do some push-ups and then twit-pic himself cranking a Model T and wearing an old timey hat? Or maybe we just need to cool you down with some smooth Herb Alpert and puree’d vegetables?

Because old movies are great if you’re drunk, I guess. Or old. Otherwise the lack of profanity and the faux-stage acting make them about as interesting as Houston’s topography.

The world would be a sad and wiser place if Sailor Ripley drank gin more often.

Ghostbuster definitely isn’t getting enough love. Recently got to see it in an old theater with a big screen. It still holds up perfectly. I guess people tend to think of it as something other than a comedy though.

“Listen! … Do you smell something?” – Ray Stantz

Lebowski is my all time number one. If you’ve only seen it once do yourself a favor and watch it five or six more times. I’ve seen it at least fifty times (probably closer to a hundred) and I still catch new and hilarious stuff fairly often (down from every single time for the first 30 or so times).

In college my roommate and I had pre-bar drinking games for Lebowski and Dazed & Confused (which, although it is not really a comedy, is freaking hilarious). For D&C we would drink every time someone says “man”. That equaled out to about 9.5 beers, a perfect 90 or so minute warm up for a Tuesday night on the town. For Lebowski we would drink every time someone said “dude”. That was about 11 beers give or take, which was about enough to ensure that at some point later in the evening we would be physically removed from a bar or throw up in public. Good times.

Sailor Ripley Saphired:

“Also, no mention of Groundhog Day? Fast Times At Ridgemont High? Lost In America? Being There? A complete omission of anything Woody Allen did? No Stir Crazy or Silver Streak? "

Throw in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (best physical comedy since the 30s) and Ruthless People. But what started gnawing inside my skull yesterday as a result of perusing this evil thread happened on account of several people listing Animal House.

Two thoughts pop up: Comedy, check! and Has to be number one or at least two. Then a red light flashes and my sub-brain digs in its heels and says, No, different category entirely. (But maybe that’s just because I went to UT in the 60s, and Animal House will forever live as more of a documentary in my mind.)

Same when SR urges Fields and Marx Bros (toss in Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton, Arbuckle, Keystone Cops—all great, great stuff, but part of our filmic legacy, NOT the here and now.

The kink in the dea,l I think: when Nickel Rover said Comedy, he meant our contemporary post-SNL extended-skit play-it-for-the-laughs-over-story genre. Others are taking Comedy in the traditional Blockbuster everything-on-dese-shelves fashion, ie, all light-hearted fare lumped together. How else could you get Philadelphia Story and Zoolander co-existing? Enough good gin will tend to blur any and all categorical boundaries.

Bottom line: I’m sticking with Nickel Rover’s list (provided Big Lebowski moves into a top slot, and Naked Gun is in there somewhere, and I could see adding Hangover), and all you guys with yer Thin Mans and yer No Time for Sergeants, fuggidaboudit. Why not throw in Francis the Talking Mule?

100! In honor of HJ.

Where is he by the way?

I thought What About Bob, was better than Groundhog Day.

When Murray is tethered to the mast going, “Sail, sailing, I sail, I’m a sailer.” Only his voice could make that funny.

There’s a great Laurel and Hardy short, The Music Box, which still kills today, especially if you have boys. Kids love the physical humor.

The Blues Brothers.

My favorite movie as a kid was The Ransom of Red Chief. It’s still one of my favorites.

If we’re lumping Wes Anderson into this category, Bottle Rocket is at the top of the list for me.

So that Sailor doesn’t kick us all off the interwebs, I will say that Sleeper by Woody Allen made me laugh, but I was pretty wasted when I watched it.

16 Candles (classic 80s)
Dumb and Dumber (some people hate it, i love it)
Back to School or Easy Money (big Rodney Dangerfield fan )
Tommy Boy (if you don’t like Farley/Spade you probably won’t like this movie)
Black Sheep (got to like Chris Farley to appreciate this movie)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (classic 80s)
Mr. Mom (Michael Keaton)
Night Shift (Michael Keaton – great 80s flick)

I hate you all and all your assfaces!!!

Corky can do it all. He can sing, dance, and act. There is only one other person who can do that . . . Barbara Streisand.

I had a penis reduction surgery.