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		Surely Airplane is the funniest movie of all time (telegraph.co.uk)		371
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RoyHobbs22		2012-09-07 02:41:33 AM

haken a tsheinik: Kingpin. That is all.

One of my personal favorites as well, along with Caddyshack and The Big Lebowski. I can see why these can't compete with the laughs per minute of Airplane! but Randy Quaid, Rodney Dangerfield and John Goodman should have been given Academy Awards for their performances.

Gleeman		2012-09-07 07:07:54 AM

WeenerGord: mjones73: No Respect I Tell You...

Hey, Wang, I think this thread is restricted, so don't tell em you're Jewish, alright? OK!

Hey everybody, we're all gonna get laid!

Cortez the Killer		2012-09-07 09:16:48 AM

Drowning Mona is an awesome comedy that no one seems to ever know about it. One of my favorites.

Tuco'sTacos		2012-09-07 09:30:49 AM

The Jerk
Blazin Saddles
Step Brothers (stupid, but I love it)
Christmas Vacation
Friday

Savage Belief		2012-09-07 10:23:53 AM

So if you're a film maker, and you must get to the top of the list on some shiatty blog, go for the cheap laugh.

Jackpot777		2012-09-07 10:56:08 AM

Gyrfalcon: Dog Welder: 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.

The line I always found jaw-dropping--even then--was the little girl saying she takes her coffee "black. Like my men."

WeenerGord		2012-09-07 11:19:36 AM

Gleeman: WeenerGord: mjones73: No Respect I Tell You...

Hey, Wang, I think this thread is restricted, so don't tell em you're Jewish, alright? OK!

Hey everybody, we're all gonna get laid!

Hey, who stepped on a duck?!

Saberus Terras		2012-09-07 11:19:51 AM

My list, in no real order:

Spaceballs _{Absolute favorite movie. Period.}
Blazing Saddles _{Two words: Campfire scene.}
Young Frankenstein _{Oooooh, sweet mystery of life! At last I found thee!}
Super Troopers _{I've made cops lose their shiat laughing when I crack out "Farva!"}
Airplane! _{Studied pacing from masters, became the new standard in comedic pacing.}
NL Christmas Vacation _{Jelly of the month club rant...}
Princess Bride _{Too many quotable lines}
Evolution _{Great Googa Mooga!}
Silent Movie _{The only spoken line is from a mime. The beautiful irony.}
Dont' Be a Menace (to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood) _MESSAGE!

The Bird		2012-09-07 11:42:57 AM

In (sorta) chronological order:

The Bank Dick
The Strawberry Blonde
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Man who Came to Dinner
Father of the Bride
No Time for Sergeants
Mister Roberts
Some Like it Hot
One, Two, Three
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Tom Jones
Dr. Strangelove
A Shot in the Dark
Morgan!
The Producers
What's Up, Doc?
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Animal House
Slap Shot
1941
Broadway Danny Rose
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
In the Spirit
Hollywood Knights
A Fish Called Wanda
Used Cars
The Money Pit
Midnight Run
The Commitments
Delicatessen
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Baby's Day Out
Mystery Train
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
Grosse Pointe Blank
Brain Donors
Rat Race
Mystery Men
The Three Stooges

Demise		2012-09-07 11:50:05 AM

Add Dodgeball to the list and we're good.

And it's quotable.

/If you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball.
/And will someone catch a goddamn ball? It's like watching a bunch of retards trying to hump a doorknob out there!

Pants_Optional		2012-09-07 01:42:42 PM

Thresher: List fails without....too bad the rest of their movies were shiat
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I loved Beerfest.

frepnog		2012-09-07 01:48:34 PM

Demise: Add Dodgeball to the list and we're good.

And it's quotable.

/If you can dodge ~~traffic~~ a wrench, you can dodge a ball.
/And will someone catch a goddamn ball? It's like watching a bunch of retards trying to hump a doorknob out there!

there, FTFY

Rocket To Russia		2012-09-07 06:48:58 PM

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Ab-so-tively!

Rocket To Russia		2012-09-07 07:54:26 PM

"Life of Brian" isn't even the funniest Python movie.

I would add to the list:

Black Dynamite
Kung fu Hustle
Hot Fuzz
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

darch		2012-09-07 09:16:00 PM

Like the poster above, the most shockingly ribald, nay illegal, line in Airplane! is the little girl telling the little boy that she takes her coffee black... like her men. I mean, fark!

Kenny B		2012-09-07 09:59:05 PM

Sylvia_Bandersnatch		2012-09-07 10:12:47 PM

brantgoose: It would be interesting to see the list that they would get if they showed movies to an intelligent audience instead of the kind of schlubs that laugh at Hangover.

As it is, this reminds me of the top ten movies box office lists or the list of movies that are playing in town at any given time. You get a couple of blockbusters that everybody likes, about six stupid movies that idiots like (mostly male idiots, 14-25) and then maybe, if you are lucky, one or two movies that smart people like. It's a great honour to be number 25 on a list of movies that idiots like. It means you are not only good, but better than most of the top twenty.

You may comfort yourself that the movies you found funniest are not on this list or any list like it. They are smarter and appeal to a finer sense of humour. Although Airplane! is a funny movie, the jokes are broad and obvious and not particularly good. Almost any one of the movies named above in this thread are really better and funnier.

And I have always maintained that Young Frankenstein is the most perfect movie parody, if not movie, ever made. Not the best or the funniest, perhaps, but the most perfect: perfect writing, casting, acting, props, music, everything. Even the choice of B&W rather than colour is brilliant. It couldn't have been done better. Only idiots despise movies that are not in colour. Colour adds very little to most movies and subtracts from the great movies that were made intentionally in B&W or with B&W taken into consideration by the people who made the movie from the producer down to the lighting man and the best girl.

'Young Frankenstein' is on a very short list of films that get better for me every time. Also on the list, among comedies, the overlooked and underrated 'Better Off Dead.' Not in Young Frankenstein's class, but still good.

macadamnut		2012-09-07 10:19:20 PM

pute kisses like a man		2012-09-07 10:22:02 PM

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/ funniest and greatest movie of all time

rwc0cwr		2012-09-08 12:31:36 AM

I still think Legends of the Fall is the least funny film of all time

Kurmudgeon		2012-09-08 07:44:45 PM

The Banana Thug: Have you watched it recently? It hasn't aged very well. Just hearing "yeah baby yeah" is absolutely cringe-inducing.

Not in awhile, I got wore out quite some time ago. If I hear him say, "oh behave", one more time, I'll want
very badly to hit him with a red dodgeball that goes "doink" when it connects.
I think the problem is Myers oversaturation more so than the original film.
He even played that character he does in every movie, in Inglourius Bastards.
That took me right out of the movie for just a bit. He's typecast himself.

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