Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit reading Fark.

Keep 'em at 24000.

No, feet.

Hey, you know what they say "See a broad to get that booty yak 'em: Gotta' leg her down and smack 'em yak 'em! Cold GOT to be! Sheeeeeeeit."

/Golly.

Does anyone here speak jive!?

Johnny, what can you make out of this?

Voiceofreason01: As funny as Airplane! is what really impresses me is that a movie with tits, numerous drug references (including a woman doing lines off a mirror) and an endless stream of sex jokes(two involving children) managed to get a PG rating. I'd like to see a filmmaker try that now.

PG-13 didn't exist back then, so "brief nudity" was actually okay in a PG film.

jchic: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Two words: Young Frankenstein

Raise: Blazing Saddles

Raise: The Blues Brothers

Don't worry, they are on instruments:



/Nielsen's "soul face" kills me every time

toraque: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Two words: Young Frankenstein

That's another type of comedy altogether.

That's another type of comedy.

Would like a recount.

There's a sale at Penny's!

bluorangefyre: Voiceofreason01: As funny as Airplane! is what really impresses me is that a movie with tits, numerous drug references (including a woman doing lines off a mirror) and an endless stream of sex jokes(two involving children) managed to get a PG rating. I'd like to see a filmmaker try that now.

I raise you Peter Grant's f-word and c-word tirade, Robert Plant picking up two joints (not to mention his children naked in the beginning), and Jimmy Page's occult-laden intro and fantasy sequences in the PG-rated The Song Remains the Same.

/plus there was not a PG-13 rating back then

I call with Cannonball Run's constant drinking and driving recklessly, including Jackie Chan and Terry Bradshaw loading CASES of beer into their car for a cross country run. Try making that movie today.

NuttierThanEver: This is a confusing list.
Johnny what can you make out of this?

Tax Boy: Johnny, what can you make out of this?

I can make a hat or a brooch or a teradactyl

The reason why Airplane is so funny--and so many of the really good Simpsons are so funny--isn't so much because of content but pacing. Timing is everything. And Airplane was very well timed.

Excuse me, I speak jive.

NuttierThanEver: This is a confusing list.
Johnny what can you make out of this?

A brooch or a pterodactyl....

dahmers love zombie: 1. Airplane - 3 Laughs A Minute

2. The Hangover - 2.4 Laughs A Minute

3. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad ! - 2.3 Laughs A Minute

4. Superbad - 1.9 Laughs A Minute

5. Borat - 1.7 Laughs A Minute

6. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy - 1.6 Laughs A Minute

7. American Pie - 1.5 Laughs A Minute

8. Bridesmaids - 1.4 Laughs A Minute

9. Shaun of the Dead - 1.3 Laughs A Minute

10. Life of Brian - 1.2 Laughs A Minute

Life of Brian is lower than Shaun of the Dead. Yeah, I don't have to say anything more than that.

well, Shaun is a funnier film.

/look, I love the Pythons, but let's not pretend that they didn't blow their load with "Holy Grail". The other stuff is passable at best, brilliant in moments, but nothing they have done compares to Grail.

karmaceutical: Used Cars

An unjustly forgotten movie from the golden age of comedy.

"What we need is a politician who's not afraid to go out there and tell the people exactly what they want to hear."

/$15,000 dollars! Too farking much!

no Yellowbeard??? what kind of list is this?
I fart in its general direction

Summoner101: Does anyone here speak jive!?

oh Summoner101 i do!

And it had an appearance by Mrs. Romney and her guest.

Oh, it's a big pretty WHITE plane with CURTAINS in the windows and WHEELS...and it looks like a big Tylenol!

Whoever created that list obviously has a drinking problem.

I've bought three DVDs in my life, Airplane, DieHard and Band of Brothers series.

So.

So!?? Let's dance!!!

Look, FARK, don't start with your white zone shiat again.

Just kidding!

phlegmmo: jchic: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Two words: Young Frankenstein

Raise: Blazing Saddles


Neither of these made the top 10? Superbad was number 4? That's farked up.

While I have no problem with Airplane! being the funniest, those should both definitely be on the list, or at the very least, Blazing Saddles should be on there if only one can be included.I got through about 17 minutes of Superbad, saw nothing worth continuing to watch the movie for. In my opinion, it was super bad.

Surely Airplane is funniest movie of all time

Roger, Roger.

Get the clearance, Clarence.

What's the vector, Victor?

Mentat: toraque: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Two words: Young Frankenstein

That's another type of comedy altogether.

It's another type of comedy.


It's another type of comedy.

Tax Boy: Johnny, what can you make out of this?

I can make a hat, a brooch, or a pterodactyl...

Boudica's War Tampon: The reason why Airplane is so funny--and so many of the really good Simpsons are so funny--isn't so much because of content but pacing. Timing is everything. And Airplane was very well timed.

Exactamundo. It's no secret that the Zucker brothers and Abrahams studied people like Groucho Marx and Jack Benny to get that timing down. It's a lost art nowadays.

/altho I get props to Simon Pegg and Nick Frost

Joey, do you like movies about Gladiators?

I wonder how precisely they calculated or weighted "laughs" in this study.

Is a guffaw worth the same as a chuckle? How about an sustained giggle? Is a reference to an earlier joke counted as a new laugh or is their a penalty for repetition?

Agrees

also likes ALL the other movies mentioned here


/ we are WAY overdue for an ultra-funny film...c'mon Hollywood!

jchic: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Two words: Young Frankenstein

Raise: Blazing Saddles

I think Young Frankenstein is better, actually.

I put Brooks as Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, The Producers.

Superbad?



Friends like these, huh, Gary?

tonguedepressor: I've bought three DVDs in my life, Airplane, DieHard and Band of Brothers series.

So.

So!?? Let's dance!!!

The world needs ditchdiggers too.

/Where was the Caddyshack love??

Voiceofreason01: As funny as Airplane! is what really impresses me is that a movie with tits, numerous drug references (including a woman doing lines off a mirror) and an endless stream of sex jokes(two involving children) managed to get a PG rating. I'd like to see a filmmaker try that now.

PG-13 didn't exist in 1980.

There are no lines in Anchorman that aren't jokes. They don't all land, but that is how you should do a movie comedy. All jokes, no not-jokes.

Fark that list if Monty Python Holy Grail didn't make top ten. Also Men In Black was good.

tnpir: Look, FARK, don't start with your white zone shiat again.

You know what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.

Frau Blucher....

What the actual fark?

I wont argue Airplanes placement on the list, its good. But Mel Brooks should have 2 movies in the top 10 and Young Frankenstein should be in the top 3.

List fail is fail.

they knew what they were getting into, I say, let 'em laugh

I need the best man on this. Someone who knows this thread inside and out and won't crack under pressure.

I say - Let 'em crash!

Poopy MacPoop: There are no lines in Anchorman that aren't jokes. They don't all land, but that is how you should do a movie comedy. All jokes, no not-jokes.

Plus the gratuitous littering.

Perducci: I wonder how precisely they calculated or weighted "laughs" in this study.

Is a guffaw worth the same as a chuckle? How about an sustained giggle? Is a reference to an earlier joke counted as a new laugh or is their a penalty for repetition?

When I was a kid, I thought the laugh track(Or studio audience, depending on the show) was a laughing guide... For a chuckle, you weren't supposed to laugh, for a regular laugh, you would chuckle, and when they lost their shiat, you could, too. Of course, I also thought that the radio was playing live music, and that if you stepped up close top the TV on soap commercials(Or other shower scenes), you could look down and see the rst of the naked body. This is the weird stuff a 5 year old thinks about watching TV in the 70's, I guess...

bluorangefyre: Voiceofreason01: As funny as Airplane! is what really impresses me is that a movie with tits, numerous drug references (including a woman doing lines off a mirror) and an endless stream of sex jokes(two involving children) managed to get a PG rating. I'd like to see a filmmaker try that now.

I raise you Peter Grant's f-word and c-word tirade, Robert Plant picking up two joints (not to mention his children naked in the beginning), and Jimmy Page's occult-laden intro and fantasy sequences in the PG-rated The Song Remains the Same.

/plus there was not a PG-13 rating back then

These days it would be PG-18. PG-13 basically reflects that 13 year olds are starting to become young adults.

Airplane has tits. A year or two ago, there was a shiatstorm because some 33 year old woman sent a 16 year old boy a picture ... of her tits!

Our society now behaves as if it's run by children who think anyone under 18 are the children. In VA if you boink a 17 year old 3 days before her birthday you can go to jail... wait 3 days and you can shag her rotten. That's a silly legal statute, but our whole society is starting to behave like this is what it actually believes is right and true. We act like 16 year old boys are pure, innocent children, like 6 year olds. Show a 16 year old girl your penis why don't you, while we're at it why don't you let a first grader play with it? It's basically the same thing.

Insane society.

Damn straight, subby.

While all comedy is cultural, Airplane! remains somewhat flawed for only being funny in English, and even then, probably only funny to Americans. (It's amazingly dependent on fast-twitch puns) ZAZ's cultural references were often very specific.

For better or worse, the other films on that list are broader in audience appeal.

I just wanted to say, Good luck. We're all counting on you.

Rev.K: Get me Rex Kramer!

Link

Platoon.

/obscure

WeenerGord: Fark that list if Monty Python Holy Grail didn't make top ten. Also Men In Black was good.

Also Caddyshack

I just wanted to say, Good luck. We're all counting on you.

/oblig

jchic: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Two words: Young Frankenstein

Raise: Blazing Saddles

Call and Raise: History of the World Part I.

All in on: Spaceballs

WeenerGord: WeenerGord: Fark that list if Monty Python Holy Grail didn't make top ten. Also Men In Black was good.

Also Caddyshack

Love Airplane, it is one of my all time favorites. But it is not the funniest movie of all time. All of Monty Python's movies are much funnier. And where the hell is Blazing Saddles? I have to wonder 1) who chose the movies and 2) who was in the audience?

Also....Dumb & Dumber is missing.

Taikoluigi: Surely Airplane is funniest movie of all time

Roger, Roger.

Get the clearance, Clarence.

What's the vector, Victor?

So I was under Ouver and Ouver was under Dunn.

"I speak jive."

Okay, got my obligatory quote from Airplane out of the way. Now then, any film comedy list attempting to determine funny by counting the number of laughs per minute of film is just wrong. What were these laughs they counted? Were they giggles, guffaws, rib ticklers, cackles of belly laughs. Did they allow the laugher to remain in the seated position with the service trays in the upright position or did they force the laugher to fall out of his or her seat and begin rolling around on the floor?

Next, in what alternate universe are such pedestrian chucklefests like Hangover, Superbad and Anchorman listed while Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein and Animal House go unmentioned?

I just actually read the included list in the article. What a bunch of shiat. What kind of group did they measure this with? The retards who laugh uproariously at the movies when previews of the newest Ice Cube / Adam Sandler family movie are being shown?

Where the fark is Super Troopers.

bluorangefyre: edgesrealm: jchic: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Two words: Young Frankenstein

Raise: Blazing Saddles

Call and Raise: History of the World Part I.

All in on: Spaceballs

I call and raise YOU The Hangover.

/how am I playing two hands of poker at the same time again?

No idea. I call and raise you 21 Jump Street.

My personal list, no particular order.

Foot Fist Way
Idiocracy
Gentlemen Broncos
Anchorman
Grandma's Boy
Blazing Saddles
Robin Hood MiT
Sleepaway Camp Series (yes, these are comedy)
Hot Rod
The Big Lebowski.

That's all folks.

Drexl's Eye: [manilovefilms.com image 512x288]

That. Raising Arizona was a classic. Definitely way funnier than most of the movies in that list.

Give me Hamm on 5, hold the Mayo.

/Love that movie so freakin' much.
//Long Haul Edition is fun.

The Jerk.

"P.S. Is grandma still fartin'?"

UHF? UHF!

Bridesmaids? Really? I didn't necessarily hate this movie, but I don't remember it being a real laugh riot, especially compared to some of the others that are obviously missing from the list (as posted above by others)

fruitloop: If we're ranking these as laughs per minute, what about the Jackass movies? They may be dumb, but you'll laugh your ass off.

/Air Israel, please clear the runway

I would love the Jackass movies a whole lot moreif they would skip over the nasty stuff and shorten the setup time between stunts - more like a long compilation of stunts in rapid successions. America's Funniest Videos does this well. Just get to teh funny.

Also, Out Cold

Mikey1969: phlegmmo: jchic: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Two words: Young Frankenstein

Raise: Blazing Saddles


Neither of these made the top 10? Superbad was number 4? That's farked up.

While I have no problem with Airplane! being the funniest, those should both definitely be on the list, or at the very least, Blazing Saddles should be on there if only one can be included.I got through about 17 minutes of Superbad, saw nothing worth continuing to watch the movie for. In my opinion, it was super bad.

ok, I am no huge Michael Cera fan, and I really just can't stand Jonah Hill, but if you didn't laugh at Superbad, your sense of humor is broken. The scene about the dick lunchbox is one of the funniest things I have ever seen in a comedy. The scene with the blood is hilarious. The entire McLovin plot is just brilliant.

This list sucks. I haven't felt this awful since I saw that Ronald Reagan film.

/No Blazing Saddles, really!? GDIAF

bluorangefyre: Voiceofreason01: As funny as Airplane! is what really impresses me is that a movie with tits, numerous drug references (including a woman doing lines off a mirror) and an endless stream of sex jokes(two involving children) managed to get a PG rating. I'd like to see a filmmaker try that now.

I raise you Peter Grant's f-word and c-word tirade, Robert Plant picking up two joints (not to mention his children naked in the beginning), and Jimmy Page's occult-laden intro and fantasy sequences in the PG-rated The Song Remains the Same.

/plus there was not a PG-13 rating back then

I further raise you 'Barbarella'.

Most of my top 10 have been covered.

Missing:



And anyone's personal top 10 for anything always has a wild card.
Mine for this:

Elaine, you're a member of this crew. Can you face some unpleasant facts?

Cyberluddite: karmaceutical: Used Cars

Truly one of the most hilarious movies that almost nobody has heard of.

Sample (NSFW)

Rent or download it today. You won't be sorry.

bluorangefyre: edgesrealm: jchic: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Two words: Young Frankenstein

Raise: Blazing Saddles

Call and Raise: History of the World Part I.

All in on: Spaceballs

I call and raise YOU The Hangover.

/how am I playing two hands of poker at the same time again?

No. The Hangover LOOKS funny... But isn't really all that funny if you're paying attention. It's the perfect movie for when you're drunk and with your buddies, and maybe using the film to reminsce about your recent trip to Vegas, but when you're sober, and just got home from a long day at work, it is NOT a good movie at all.

OldRod: Bridesmaids? Really? I didn't necessarily hate this movie, but I don't remember it being a real laugh riot, especially compared to some of the others that are obviously missing from the list (as posted above by others)

This. I found BM mostly awkward and depressing with scant funny scenes and not moving at all.

I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.

Why isn't "The Exorcist" on that list?

/Keeps gettin' funnier...

fruitloop

What about me? Wee-oo-wee...!


Gopher-chuks!

frepnog: /look, I love the Pythons, but let's not pretend that they didn't blow their load with "Holy Grail". The other stuff is passable at best, brilliant in moments, but nothing they have done compares to Grail.

"Every Sperm is Sacred" dance sequence, alone, blows Shaun right out of the water.

bluorangefyre: Voiceofreason01: As funny as Airplane! is what really impresses me is that a movie with tits, numerous drug references (including a woman doing lines off a mirror) and an endless stream of sex jokes(two involving children) managed to get a PG rating. I'd like to see a filmmaker try that now.

I raise you Peter Grant's f-word and c-word tirade, Robert Plant picking up two joints (not to mention his children naked in the beginning), and Jimmy Page's occult-laden intro and fantasy sequences in the PG-rated The Song Remains the Same.

/plus there was not a PG-13 rating back then

but the Rain Song performance makes up for all of that, and Page's double neck guitar/violin bow, and and and

WeenerGord: WeenerGord: Fark that list if Monty Python Holy Grail didn't make top ten. Also Men In Black was good.

Also Caddyshack

Overrated... yeah, I said it!

WeenerGord: frepnog: /look, I love the Pythons, but let's not pretend that they didn't blow their load with "Holy Grail". The other stuff is passable at best, brilliant in moments, but nothing they have done compares to Grail.

"Every Sperm is Sacred" dance sequence, alone, blows Shaun right out of the water.

Another vote for "Meaning of Life" - the short feature "Crimson Permanent Assurance" is one of the most brilliant things they ever did.

/never resist the cheap shot

/Love that dry British humour.

OldRod: Bridesmaids? Really? I didn't necessarily hate this movie, but I don't remember it being a real laugh riot, especially compared to some of the others that are obviously missing from the list (as posted above by others)

there is one good scene in bridesmaids, when the girl shiats in the street.

but seriously, if you have to go to scat for laughs, you really had nothing.

Bridesmaids sucked.

frepnog: ok, I am no huge Michael Cera fan, and I really just can't stand Jonah Hill, but if you didn't laugh at Superbad, your sense of humor is broken.

Nothing by Apatow has really struck me as amazing, but maybe I'll try Superbad again.

Have difficulty believing Bridesmaids has 1.4 laughs in the whole movie.

Also..

♫ Holiday Roooooooooooooooaad...♬ Holiday Rooooooooooooaad♫

/my cube wall

List should've went to 11.

This guy killed it!!!!

WeenerGord: frepnog: /look, I love the Pythons, but let's not pretend that they didn't blow their load with "Holy Grail". The other stuff is passable at best, brilliant in moments, but nothing they have done compares to Grail.

"Every Sperm is Sacred" dance sequence, alone, blows Shaun right out of the water.

It is a funny scene but it really goes on too damn long. The song should have been shortened for the film. as it is, it goes on long after the "every sperm is sacred" stops being funny. it is almost like a Family Guy stretch joke.

No Blades of Glory? Funnier than Anchorman.

There are some Jerry Lewis movies that are pretty damn funny.
Same with Marx Brothers.
I know. I'm old.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World? Hilarious.

stonicus: WeenerGord: WeenerGord: Fark that list if Monty Python Holy Grail didn't make top ten. Also Men In Black was good.

Also Caddyshack

Overrated... yeah, I said it!

A lot you farking know, D'Annunzio.

frepnog

OldRod: Bridesmaids? Really? I didn't necessarily hate this movie, but I don't remember it being a real laugh riot, especially compared to some of the others that are obviously missing from the list (as posted above by others)

there is one good scene in bridesmaids, when the girl shiats in the street.


WTH?? THAT is the "good scene" in a movie so many people think is OMG HI-LARIOUS!!...?

That's just awful.


Previews looked terrible. Did not watch.

Let's not forget National Lampoon's Vacation series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2_tJIgfnDA

Nordberg boat scene

otto the bull: No Blades of Glory? Funnier than Anchorman.

There are some Jerry Lewis movies that are pretty damn funny.
Same with Marx Brothers.
I know. I'm old.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World? Hilarious.

Anchorman makes Blades look like a drama. Seriously, I enjoy both films and call myself a Will Ferrell fan, but come on.

/except for the fight scene in Anchorman. I hate that scene, and wish I had a fan edit that removes it. Much like how I love the film "Pick of Destiny" but absolutely HATE the mushroom scene.

sew_buttons: The Jerk.

"P.S. Is grandma still fartin'?"

I hated that movie. On the other hand LA Story is one of my favorite movies.

/this is a tudor mansion and this is a fourdoor mansion

Have e you ever been kicked in the head with an iron boot? No, of course, you havn't, Dumb question.

halfof33: Platoon.

/obscure

Sgt. Barnes is one of my role models

Unscientific survey finds subset of movies funnier than larger, unconsidered subset. S.O.P.

/Young Frankenstein not making the list invalidates the list.
//I'd say the same for Blazing Saddles but my younger friends all think it's too racist to be funny.
///the black guy/underdog wins in the end, kids. Give it another chance.

otto the bull:

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World? Hilarious.



Agreed.

My personal list:

Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Freshman (1925)
The General (1927)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Trouble In Paradise (1932)
Duck Soup (1933)
Dinner At Eight (1933)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
The Thin Man (1933)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Twentieth Century (1934)
It's A Gift (1934)
The Merry Widow (1934)
A Night At The Opera (1935)
The Good Fairy (1935)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Modern Times (1936)
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Way Out West (1937)
Easy Living (1937)
Pygmalion (1938)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
You Can't Take It With You (1938)
Holiday (1938)
Ninotchka (1939)
Midnight (1939)
The Bank Dick (1940)
Christmas In July (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Road To Singapore (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Road To Morocco (1942)
Woman of the Year (1942)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Hail The Conquering Hero (1944)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
Blithe Spirit (1945)
Wonder Man (1945)
A Foreign Affair (1948)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Adam's Rib (1949)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Harvey (1950)
Born Yesterday (1951)
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)
Roman Holiday (1953)
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
The Ladykillers (1955)
Mon Oncle (1958)
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1960)
The Apartment (1960)
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
The Pink Panther (1963)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Marriage, Italian Style (1964)
A Shot In The Dark (1964)
Carry On Screaming (1966)
Bedazzled (1967)
Neil Simon's 'The Odd Couple' (1968)
Mel Brooks' 'The Producers' (1968)
Harold and Maude (1971)
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Harry and Tonto (1974)
Mel Brooks' 'Blazing Saddles' (1974)
Mel Brooks' 'Young Frankenstein' (1975)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Nuts In May (1976)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Real Life (1979)
The Jerk (1979)
Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian' (1979)
Airplane! (1980)
Arthur (1981)
The Man With Two Brains (1983)
Top Secret (1984)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
The Naked Gun: From The Files of 'Police Squad!' (1988)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Midnight Run (1988)
Waiting For Guffman (1997)
The Castle (1997)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Best In Show (2000)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
In The Loop (2009)
Four Lions (2010)

Englebert Slaptyback: frepnog

OldRod: Bridesmaids? Really? I didn't necessarily hate this movie, but I don't remember it being a real laugh riot, especially compared to some of the others that are obviously missing from the list (as posted above by others)

there is one good scene in bridesmaids, when the girl shiats in the street.


WTH?? THAT is the "good scene" in a movie so many people think is OMG HI-LARIOUS!!...?

That's just awful.


Previews looked terrible. Did not watch.

it is funny precisely because it is so terrible. Personally, I can laugh at any scene in a comedy that is a gag that I haven't seen before, and I have never seen a woman in a bridal gown squat in the street to shiat.

/much like the dick lunchbox in superbad. this is also why crap like American Pie is so UN funny to me. I liked that movie much better when it was called Porky's\Animal House. There is not one gag in that movie barring the pie farking scene that I hadn't seen before, and the pie farking was just stupid.

PawisBetlog: bluorangefyre: Voiceofreason01: As funny as Airplane! is what really impresses me is that a movie with tits, numerous drug references (including a woman doing lines off a mirror) and an endless stream of sex jokes(two involving children) managed to get a PG rating. I'd like to see a filmmaker try that now.

I raise you Peter Grant's f-word and c-word tirade, Robert Plant picking up two joints (not to mention his children naked in the beginning), and Jimmy Page's occult-laden intro and fantasy sequences in the PG-rated The Song Remains the Same.

/plus there was not a PG-13 rating back then

I call with Cannonball Run's constant drinking and driving recklessly, including Jackie Chan and Terry Bradshaw loading CASES of beer into their car for a cross country run. Try making that movie today.

Terry Bradshaw: Yeah, but did you bring enough food for all of this beer?

Mel Tillis displays bag of Cheetos and replies: P-P-P-Plenty!

Bridesmaids makes the list & Holy Grail doesn't......seriously?

Why am I not on this list?

am I seriously the only person that still thinks Coming to America is possibly the funniest movie ever made??

I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.

Just reading this list:

'S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! Jackin' me up

jchic: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Two words: Young Frankenstein

Raise: Blazing Saddles

You got my vote - Blazing Saddles was farkin hilarious!

I also thought Blues Brothers was hilarious even though some people might not consider it a "comedy"

AceThunder: Why am I not on this list?

[www.jonathanrosenbaum.com image 780x439]

because that movie has about 5 laughs in the whole film, and most are in the first 15 minutes.

Amazon Women on the Moon and Kentucky Fried Movie have alot of laughs

blatz514: Beerfest too

Look at the size of this graduated cylinder!

For some reason that line kills me every time. I love Broken Lizard.

Comedy is like any other subjective measure, tastes will differ. I was raised on Python, Mel Brooks, and Zucker Bros. Not to mention the Marx Brothers. Comedy is an art form.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west, and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.

But Julius "Groucho" Marx was the funniest human being to ever grace this planet with his presence.

crzybtch: jchic: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Two words: Young Frankenstein

Raise: Blazing Saddles

You got my vote - Blazing Saddles was farkin hilarious!

I also thought Blues Brothers was hilarious even though some people might not consider it a "comedy"

who are those people, and can we beat them up?

no Schindler's List or Sophies Choice, crappy list

My 10 funniest in no particular order

Airplane!
Top Secret
Dr. Strangelove
Blazing Saddles
The Blues Brothers
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Robin Hood: Men inTights
Spy Hard
I'm Gonna Get You Sucka

No Ernest movies? I miss Jim Varney.

/knowwhatImeanVern?

PirateKing: blatz514: Beerfest too

Look at the size of this graduated cylinder!

For some reason that line kills me every time. I love Broken Lizard.

Comedy is like any other subjective measure, tastes will differ. I was raised on Python, Mel Brooks, and Zucker Bros. Not to mention the Marx Brothers. Comedy is an art form.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west, and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.

But Julius "Groucho" Marx was the funniest human being to ever grace this planet with his presence.

give me a farking break.

The reason why Airplane is so funny--and so many of the really good Simpsons are so funny--isn't so much because of content but pacing. Timing is everyth... aw, dammit!

Where am I on this list Verne?

Pandora's Litterbox: My personal list:

Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Freshman (1925)
The General (1927)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Trouble In Paradise (1932)
Duck Soup (1933)
Dinner At Eight (1933)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
The Thin Man (1933)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Twentieth Century (1934)
It's A Gift (1934)
The Merry Widow (1934)
A Night At The Opera (1935)
The Good Fairy (1935)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Modern Times (1936)
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Way Out West (1937)
Easy Living (1937)
Pygmalion (1938)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
You Can't Take It With You (1938)
Holiday (1938)
Ninotchka (1939)
Midnight (1939)
The Bank Dick (1940)
Christmas In July (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Road To Singapore (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Road To Morocco (1942)
Woman of the Year (1942)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Hail The Conquering Hero (1944)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
Blithe Spirit (1945)
Wonder Man (1945)
A Foreign Affair (1948)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Adam's Rib (1949)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Harvey (1950)
Born Yesterday (1951)
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)
Roman Holiday (1953)
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
The Ladykillers (1955)
Mon Oncle (1958)
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1960)
The Apartment (1960)
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
The Pink Panther (1963)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Marriage, Italian Style (1964)
A Shot In The Dark (1964)
Carry On Screaming (1966)
Bedazzled (1967)
Neil Simon's 'The Odd Couple' (1968)
Mel Brooks' 'The Producers' (1968)
Harold and Maude (1971)
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Harry and Tonto (1974)
Mel Brooks' 'Blazing Saddles' (1974)
Mel Brooks' 'Young Frankenstein' (1975)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Nuts In ...

Damn! Thats a great list!

thisisyourbrainonFark: [imaguitarist.files.wordpress.com image 338x400]

List should've went to 11.

THIS

Speaking of comedys that could never be made today go back and watch the original Bad News Bears. Children drinking beer, smoking, cursing and a prepubescent Tatum O'Neil.

/Didn't bother to watch the new one.

Oldiron_79: My 10 funniest in no particular order

Airplane! (funny but dated. younger people seem to not find it all that funny.)
Top Secret (loved this as a kid, but it is hard to watch now and the laughs are few)
Dr. Strangelove (ok)
Blazing Saddles (mel brooks is a bit overrated IMHO. Spaceballs is funnier than BS, as well.)
The Blues Brothers (ok)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (of course)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (meh. not bad but nothing serious)
Robin Hood: Men inTights (hard to watch. the rapping and singing suck and the parody isn't that funny except for Cary's line about how he can speak with a British accent.)
Spy Hard (just dreadful)
I'm Gonna Get You Sucka (can you pour some in my hands for a dime??)


just my opinions, of course.

You can't compare comedy classics like Airplane with flash-in-the-pan movies like Superbad or Bridesmaids. Movie comparisons like this should never include any movies younger than ten or fifteen years old. That weeds out the movies without staying power.

otto the bull: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World? Hilarious.

Funny thing. For a hilarious movie, if you look at the script, it could've been done as a straight drama (even a tragedy.) But it's hilarious.

Probably the same reason Animal House benefits from the straight-dramatic scoring Elmer Bernstein did.

/dissecting the jokes here...

No one ever mentions Con Air when discussing funny movies. It's got to be one of the most hilarious movies ever made.

tonguedepressor: Damn! Thats a great list!

Thanks.
I tried to make it as complete as possible and then, after sending, I realized I had omitted "...Spinal Tap". D'oh!.

Quantity is not quality. Airplane is more or less a sequence of gags loosely grouped around a very spare story. Many of the jokes are simply based on negation or on taking figures of speech literally.

The Hangover, Superbad, American Pie, and Shaun of the Dead have fully developed plots and interesting characters. The Life of Brian and Borat get points for sophstication or originality. 

Most people wouldn't call it a comedy, but my favorite movie based on comedic value alone is probably Fight Club.

Of course one can be inclined to prefer one kind of comedy to another (slapstick, British, awkward), but I personally feel these should at the very least be honorable mentions:

Ghostbusters
Clue
A Fish Called Wanda
National Lampoon's Vacation
Animal House
Young Frankenstein
South Park, Bigger Longer Uncut
Caddyshack (if you could remove the faux Irish girlfriend)
Raising Arizona

Also, I may get shot for this but I don't think Blazing Saddles is the best representation of Brooks' comedies. Young Frankenstein is much better...Saddles has it's moments but it does drag or is a little too hammy in some places.

mdarius: The reason why Airplane is so funny--and so many of the really good Simpsons are so funny--isn't so much because of content but pacing. Timing is everyth... aw, dammit!

Actually, for me, it was the fact that the main actors were (trying) to play it straight for the most part. But there was always something off. Either a side character said something, or someone in the background was doing something, etc., that made the scene funny. Like the stewardess playing the guitar and accidentally ripping out the girl's IV. The stewardess was just doing her thing, totally oblivious to the girl gasping for life behind her.

Little touches like that are hilarious to me. And Airplane was absolutely full of them.

Also...



...was a helluva lot funnier than Bridesmaids.

Cyberluddite: Dr. Strangelove (not exactly a comedy, but still makes one laugh)

It was exactly a comedy. A black comedy. It's hilarious.

Also forgot: Toxic Avenger. So insanely funny.

don't understand: No one ever mentions Con Air when discussing funny movies. It's got to be one of the most hilarious movies ever made.

i must agree with you here. I LOVE that movie.

alos, The Devil's Rejects is farking HILARIOUS.

I'm might get flamed for suggesting this addition to the list, but I submit for Fark's approval to movie Clue. Though like some of the others suggested, it does lose a little bit over time.

/The polling metric is all wrong
//Airplane is still one of the funniest movies ever
///Not having MP and the Holy Grail is a miserable failure and destroys the list's credibility.

Now, Hitler... there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in ONE afternoon! TWO coats!

desertgeek: I'm might get flamed for suggesting this addition to the list, but I submit for Fark's approval to movie Clue. Though like some of the others suggested, it does lose a little bit over time.

/The polling metric is all wrong
//Airplane is still one of the funniest movies ever
///Not having MP and the Holy Grail is a miserable failure and destroys the list's credibility.

Clue is brilliant. Made my wife watch it with me not long ago. She loved it.

List fails because the movies whose laugh-per-minutes were counted were chosen by people who visit something called Lovefilm (a website perhaps?).

It seems none of Lovefilm's visitors were born earlier than the 1990's.

IMHO, along with the all-important timing (thank you, Boudica's War Tampon) is its quotability. If none of the dialogue was quotable, people aren't going to remember any of it.

I think that's what gives a movie "cult" status.

The thing is that Airplane never goes more than 30 second without a gag. Many comedies mentioned here have stretches that are just the set-ups for a gag. Yeah, the pay off is huge, but Airplane throws so many gags at you that you're barely done laughing about one and another has already gone by. That said, I think one way of judging a comedy film by is how quotable it is, and in that regard, three of the funniest would have to be Airplane, Young Frankenstein, and Caddyshack, followed perhaps by Blazing Saddles and maybe MP and the Holy Grail. There are lots of great comedies, but those three (Airplane, YF, and Caddyshack), have entered the public lexicon to an unbelievable degree. Just mention lines like "He vas my BOYFRIEND!" or "Stop calling me Shirley" or "Oh, this is the worst-looking hat I ever saw. What, when you buy a hat like this I bet you get a free bowl of soup, huh?" and people start giggling and recalling other lines from the same films.

Also,

If you figure in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, you have to figure in both Beavis and Butt-head Do America and Team America: World Police as well.

In addition, Idiocracy has to be figured in if you are adding Office Space.

// Gotta dig back into the DVD collection this weekend...

I fart in this list's general direction.

TuteTibiImperes: I agree with some of those, never saw Shaun of the Dead or Bridesmaids, and I didn't think The Hangover is good enough to rank a top 10 funniest movies list.

Some I'd consider putting in:

Election
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (good lord that movie sucks.)
Clerks II
PCU
Halfbaked
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle (meh. don't really get why people love this movie)
Super Troopers (hellz yeah)
Fletch (ok, but Modern Problems is funnier if we are going with 80's Chevy)
Three Amigos (meh)
The Producers
Southpark: Bigger Longer Uncut
Blazing Saddles (do people REALLY like this film that much, or is it like the Beatles, where no one much really listens anymore but still claims they are OMFG TEH BEST BAND EVAR?)

I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting, but that'll do for now.

I think that quotability Is the better metric. Python, Airplane, Blues Brothers, Animal House, Spinal Tap, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, etc all rank high.

/orange whip?

author1701: Why isn't "The Exorcist" on that list?

/Keeps gettin' funnier...



Came to see if Kentucky Fried movie, Amazon women on the moon, and Spinal Tap were mentioned here.

/satisfied

frepnog: crzybtch: jchic: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Two words: Young Frankenstein

Raise: Blazing Saddles

You got my vote - Blazing Saddles was farkin hilarious!

I also thought Blues Brothers was hilarious even though some people might not consider it a "comedy"

who are those people, and can we beat them up?

Illinois Nazis.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World? Hilarious.

one of the fereaking best ever, saw that movie at least 3 times with my dad at the Castro, good times

desertgeek: I'm might get flamed for suggesting this addition to the list, but I submit for Fark's approval to movie Clue. Though like some of the others suggested, it does lose a little bit over time.

/The polling metric is all wrong
//Airplane is still one of the funniest movies ever
///Not having MP and the Holy Grail is a miserable failure and destroys the list's credibility.

Fair choice; I prefer Murder By Death.

I think we have a disconnect between "funny", "wit", and "shock". Three quarters of the suggested movies I'm seeing here really aren't "laugh out loud" funny. They make me smile, but laugh a minute? No. I LOVE the intelligence of Monty Python. It doesn't speak down to me or frequently rely on shock value or guttural humor, but does it make me laugh? Yes, but that's not where the brilliance of Python is. Hell, we may as well include Happy Gilmore! Once again, not a "funny" movie... but entertaining none-the-less.

That list is just like, your opinion, man.

angry_scientist: halfof33: Platoon.

/obscure

Sgt. Barnes is one of my role models

Hmmm, maybe it is obscure.

Therefore I win Fark, and Sarah Palin is President and someone has to shop that picture of Barry and Bubba so they are making out.

"Airplane!" worked because of timing, and the concept of playing a 'straight' role for comedic effect. Peter Graves, Leslie Neilsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges - all 'serious' actors, doing funny lines....that are funnier because they're under-played, or played off as serious. Even Kareem-Abdul Jabbar plays it serious...until he snaps and lets everyone in on the joke that hey, it's Kareem! When he passes out, he's in goggles and full LA Laker uniform.

Since they're measuring 'jokes per minute', that's how ZAZ wrote the movie - keep constantly throwing jokes at the audience. Some won't stick, some will fall flat.....but most of them hit. Look at comedies before and after AP - Leslie Nielsen's career was kind of stagnant....but he re-invented himself as a comic actor. Naked Gun, Top Secret!, Hot Shots, etc. are all direct descendants of the Airplane! formula.

there are so many movies on those lists that people have posted that I want to see.

Going to have to copy and paste to a word document so I don't lose them

Pandora's Litterbox - great list

you, too Cyno01 including a few I've never heard of

this whole thread is a great PSA, really

Borat? Unfunny suckfest. Superbad? Meh. American Pie? Meh.

Life of Brian instead of Holy Grail? Mmmm-kay...

Also, I need Blazing Saddles, Zoolander and Top Secret! in that list. Probably Hot Shots, too.

What about undercover blues "My Name is MUERTE!

No love for Grandma's Boy ?

Have you ever seen the inside of a Turkish prison?

Airplane, Animal House, Holy Grail, Mad Mad Mad Mad World - all amazing and iconic.

But you have all forgotten

The In-Laws - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiJAcThiTH8

/FLAMES! There are flames on my car.
//Serpentine, Shel!
///Flies? Flies with beaks? - Oh yes. The natives called them "Jose Grecos del Muertos," the flamingo dancers of death.
////Would you like to kiss Senor Pepe?

phlegmmo: jchic: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Two words: Young Frankenstein

Raise: Blazing Saddles


Neither of these made the top 10? Superbad was number 4? That's farked up.

Spaceballs? Anyone?

This is a bogus list to be sure.

 

surely should be on the list

Uff_Da: No love for Grandma's Boy ?

No. That movie pretty much sucks and the actual plot where the dude tries to steal someone else's game in progress (so easy to prove that one, ok jackass, SHOW ME THE CODE)

AngryJailhouseFistfark: AgentBang: Caddyshack (if you could remove the faux Irish girlfriend)

Biggest whooor on fifth avenue, so OIMM told.


Caddyshack and Animal House: I was a young teenager when they came out and thought they were the funniest goddamn things EVAR. They do not age well. I have since seen 'em and there is far less funny than I remember. Oh sure, there's some priceless lines and bits, but for the most part, not so much funny.

The Air Plane is a funny. And say what you like about him, and about his buddy, but I love the Will Farrell and the John C. Reilly stuff, together and separately. I recently watched Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox story and did laugh most heartily, but that's probably because I'm old enough to get all the 50', 60's, and 70's rock star references. I doubt anyone under 30 would get much out of it unless they're hard core pop-music history nerds.

THIS. I love both films, but I have watched them with my wife (she is 24, has never seen either) and she is just yawning at them. They don't hold up that well at all and honestly, Caddyshack is almost unwatchable in any scene Bill Murray is not in.

Bridesmaids? Really? It had some funny parts, but it hardly warrants a spot in the top 50, let alone top 10.

CognaciousThunk: desertgeek: I'm might get flamed for suggesting this addition to the list, but I submit for Fark's approval to movie Clue. Though like some of the others suggested, it does lose a little bit over time.

/The polling metric is all wrong
//Airplane is still one of the funniest movies ever
///Not having MP and the Holy Grail is a miserable failure and destroys the list's credibility.

Fair choice; I prefer Murder By Death.

Come to think of it, most of what I liked about Murder By Death was Peter Sellers, which is true of a lot of movies on any good comedy list. Quotes (and spoilers): http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0018393/quotes 

/Died way too young.

MaudlinMutantMollusk: Two words: Young Frankenstein

Five words: The sheriff is a ni..BONG!

Favorite Naked Gun quote; "Nice Beaver" "Thanks, I stuffed it myself"