Your Mount Rushmore Of.................Comedy Movies

[Motor City Sonics]

Pick 4 that would be your Mount Rushmore

 

Mine (in alphabetical Order)

 

 

Airplane

 

Raising Arizona

 

South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut

 

This Is Spinal Tap

 

 

 

 

(four movies, to me, that don't really miss a single joke).  

 

(sorry to have to leave Blazing Saddles and Animal House off the list) 

Edited April 24 by Motor City Sonics

[Hongbit]

I’ll keep mine to the last 25 years.

Anchorman 

Stepbrothers

Borat

Tropic Thunder

Honorable mention to: Superbad, Team America: World Police,  Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. 

[oblong]

so tough because of the genres.  Spoofs?   Satire?  Raunch?  Zany?  Character driven?

 

[Motor City Sonics]

39 minutes ago, oblong said:

so tough because of the genres.  Spoofs?   Satire?  Raunch?  Zany?  Character driven?

 

The four movies that made you laugh the most.     Heck, it could be a drama that was so bad it made you laugh.  

[Shelton]

American Pie

Happy Gilmore

Home Alone

Office Space

 

[oblong]

I know the hardest I ever laughed in the theater came from 3 movies:

Naked Gun (when he was peeing with his mic on)

Dumb and Dumber (when they ate the burger with the hot sauce/peppers)

Something about Mary (the hair "gel")

But I think laughter is not always the best indicator.  I can think something is funny but only chuckle.  Like Fletch.  If I tried to tell someoen who didn't see it why it was funny, they'd just nod.  But if you watch it, you should chuckle throughout.  It's not Airplane funny but I don't think it makes it less funny.  Just different.

Dr. Strangelove is to me an all timer but I get that darker humor and real satire goes over people's heads.  

Superbad is one I finally watched about 3 years ago and really laughed hard.  I missed out on it at the time and just never got around to it. Watched with my son.

 

[Motor City Sonics]

52 minutes ago, oblong said:

I know the hardest I ever laughed in the theater came from 3 movies:

Naked Gun (when he was peeing with his mic on)

Dumb and Dumber (when they ate the burger with the hot sauce/peppers)

Something about Mary (the hair "gel")

But I think laughter is not always the best indicator.  I can think something is funny but only chuckle.  Like Fletch.  If I tried to tell someoen who didn't see it why it was funny, they'd just nod.  But if you watch it, you should chuckle throughout.  It's not Airplane funny but I don't think it makes it less funny.  Just different.

Dr. Strangelove is to me an all timer but I get that darker humor and real satire goes over people's heads.  

Superbad is one I finally watched about 3 years ago and really laughed hard.  I missed out on it at the time and just never got around to it. Watched with my son.

 

Comedy is subjective, like music.   Hardest I ever heard my dad laugh was seeing the movie Big where Thom Hanks is eating the mini corn like a corn on the cob at the Christmas Party.    I mean, it was funny, but not as funny as HE thought. 

 

 

[Motor City Sonics]

I spelled it Thom Hanks.    I've been writing the name Thom Yorke way too much. 

[Hongbit]

There were times at seeing Borat and Tropic Thunder at the theater where my lungs hurt and I had trouble breathing due to laughter.   There was an moment during Borat where I really thought I may  be having a heart attack.

[Mr.TaterSalad]

            

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Now we see the violence inherent in the system. Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

 

Edited April 24 by Mr.TaterSalad

[Screwball]

In no particular order;

Blues Brothers

Up in Smoke

American Pie

Just about anything from Abbot and Costello.

[RandyMarsh]

Office Space

The Big Lebowski

Dumb and Dumber

Anchorman

Office Space and The Big Lebowski will forever be on it but the other 2 could be mixed and matched with about a half dozen or so others.

[CMRivdogs]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Blazing Saddles (it's a tossup between that and Young Frakenstein)

The Big Lebowski (of course)

Some Like it Hot... ("Nobody's Perfect")

 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

51 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Blazing Saddles (it's a tossup between that and Young Frakenstein)

The Big Lebowski (of course)

Some Like it Hot... ("Nobody's Perfect")

 

We had nearly identical lists. My 4th choice was a tossup between Spaceballs and Young Frankenstein (It's pronounced Frank-en-steen).

[CMRivdogs]

34 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

We had nearly identical lists. My 4th choice was a tossup between Spaceballs and Young Frankenstein (It's pronounced Frank-en-steen).

Was not a big Spaceballs fan. I also considered the original version of The Producers, Zero Mostel  and **** Shawn

[chasfh]

Life of Brian

Death of Stalin

Groundhog Day

Trading Places

 

 

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

After I watched Billy Madison with my children for the first time, they both said "now we know where you get 90% of your vocabulary from". LOL!

It's hard to have Billy Madison on the list, but not Happy Gilmore, but I also don't want two Sandler movies on the list...

I also rewatched Superbad recently, and laughed just as hard as before (although I identify more with the cops than I used to).

Spaceballs is another that I have seen countless times, though I'm waffling on including it on my list. I might have to go with Dumb and Dumber and Big Lebowski.

 

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

Spaceballs

Trading Places

Mystery Men

...I dunno, I've never really watched a lot of movies. maybe Ghostbusters? can't come up with much else.