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.

[pfife]

Naked Gun

Napoleon Dynamite

first/original Jackass

Big Lebowski

 

Honorary mention 

Talladega Nights

Anchorman 

McGruber

 

Edited Friday at 02:41 AM by pfife

[oblong]

A lot of movies on this list I find hilarious and have watched many times but only for the first 30-45 minutes.  Even some of my all time favorites like a Cohen Bros movie. 
 

[romad1]

Great thread.  

Loved some of these movies.  To get down to 4...that's tough.  

"Death of Stalin" is great but its humor is not as important as it tackling the subject matter.   Very similar to "Doctor Strangelove" in that regard. 

all of the Monty Python movies are great and I love all the humorous movies that Terry Gilliam did since (e.g., "The Fisher King", "Twelve Monkeys"). 

My American Mount Rushmore of Comedy:  I'm going to have to work hard to narrow this down to 4.  

• "This is Spinal Tap"   The police said it was a crime best left, unsolved really - Rob Reiner comedy tree
• "Galaxy Quest"  We've got to get out of her before one of those things kills Guy! 
• "Tommy Boy" 
• "The Big Lebowski" 
• "Office Space" 
• "Stripes"
• "Animal House" and "Vacation" both from National Lampoon
• "The Blues Brothers" 
• "Zoolander"
• "Spy"

My British Trafalgar Square of Comedy

• "In Bruges" 
• The Corneto Trilogy: "Hot Fuzz," "Shaun of the Dead," "At the End of the World"
• All the Monty Python movies:  "Holy Grail" being leader of the pack

[IdahoBert]

The first time I watched Napoleon Dynamite I did not get it and I was annoyed because everyone else appeared to get it.

Given that I have intimate experience of Southeast Idaho where it was filmed - since my wife grew up there and I’ve spent lots of time there - it shouldn’t have been that much of a stretch for me.

I think the innate awkwardness of so many of the characters reminded me more of myself than I was prepared to admit. The faux confidence, and earnestness of so many of them hit too close to home for me.

Learning to laugh at myself is a good thing and this film helped me do that.

Every time I have re-watched it, I have to pause it because I’m hemorrhaging with laughter and I just can’t take it.

[romad1]

Mel Brooks comedy tree:  so many good ones.   I left "Blazing Saddles" off the list above and regret that. 

I notice that he actually fought in the town in Germany in WWII that I was stationed in during the 80s: Baumholder.   

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Stationed in Saarbrücken and Baumholder, the battalion was responsible for clearing booby-trapped buildings and defusing land mines as the Allies advanced into Nazi Germany.^[31][32][25] Brooks was tasked with land mine location; defusing was done by a specialist.^[23] Brooks has stated that when he heard Germans singing over loudspeakers, he responded by singing American-Jewish singer Al Jolson's hit "Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!)" into a bullhorn.^[33][34][35] Brooks spent time in the stockade after taking an anti-Semitic heckler's helmet off and smashing him in the head with his mess kit.^[36] His unit constructed the first Bailey bridge over the Roer River,^[23] later building bridges over the Rhine river.^[24] In April 1945, Brooks's unit conducted its last reconnaissance missions in the Harz mountains, Germany.^[24]

With the end of the war in Europe, Brooks joined the Special Services as a comic touring Army bases and he was made acting corporal, put in charge of entertainment at Wiesbaden,^[6][25] and performed at Fort Dix.^[6] In June 1946, Brooks was honorably discharged from the Army as a corporal.^[25][24]

 

[oblong]

I love Napoloean Dynamite because it's the first movie that my son (now 24) and I both laughed at together. It wasn't just me giving cute courtesy laughs at kids movies.