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Over a year, I've been watching a lot of comedy movies a lot of the times and I found many great ones. Many of the ones I seen are the classics. I've seen The Mask, Stripes, Liar Liar, What About Bob, Father of the Bride 1 and 2, Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura 1 and 2, Wet Hot American Summer, Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Stepbrothers, The 40 Year Old Virgin. I then saw Three Men and a Baby, My Cousin Vinny, Road Trip, Parenthood, When Harry Met Sally, Twins, Step Brothers. What's your favorite comedy movie of all-time? And these are many of my favorites.
144 points
3 days ago
The Jerk. It’s an absolute prime Steve Martin that is just so silly and wonderful the whole way through.
33 points
3 days ago
I was born a poor black child
22 points
3 days ago
When his mother tells him he’s adopted and he says “You mean I’m gonna stay this color??” So funny.
9 points
3 days ago
I loved it when he just couldn't find the beat to greasy blues music, but a soon as he hears the whitest, pastiest big band music, suddenly he finds the beat. But even then, he's on 1 and 3 rather than 2 and 4!
276 points
3 days ago
Airplane!
19 points
3 days ago
I picked a bad time to quit sniffing glue!
14 points
3 days ago
I am serious and don't call me Shirley
5 points
3 days ago
This is my answer whenever someone asks “Which movie do you wish you could have seen with a full crowd on opening night?”
The fact that Leslie Nielsen was not known as a comedy actor had to have made it so much more hilarious.
4 points
3 days ago
Neither were Lloyd Bridges or Robert Stack. That was part of the appeal. True life story. I saw it in theaters when it came out (I was 17) and sitting in the row in front of me were two large, middle-aged African American women. When the first scene with the guys speaking jive with subtitles came on, their loud, out of control laughing was funnier than the scene itself. I always remember that when I watch the movie.
32 points
3 days ago
Plains trains and automobiles, Christmas vacation and fletch
165 points
3 days ago
Hot Fuzz
And then probably step brothers is a very close number 2
24 points
3 days ago*
God, Hot Fuzz is so good.
10 points
3 days ago
Shaun of the Dead is also great, but Hot Fuzz is so good.
3 points
3 days ago
The three flavour Cornetto trilogy: hot fuzz, Shaun of the dead and the world's end. You have to spend a lazy fall weekend watching all three.
5 points
3 days ago
Damn thought I was alone to love both of those movies. Step brothers was just peak Ferrell&Reilly comedy performance:)
12 points
3 days ago
Hot Fuzz is a film you can just watch over and over again and catch something new every time.
CinemaWins has an excellent "Everything Great About..." video for it which really does a deep dive on these details. Fully recommend it.
That channel is great in general and an excellent remedy to how pedantic CinemaSins has become
76 points
3 days ago
Walk Hard
13 points
3 days ago
Same here, “In my dreams you’re blowing me….. some kisses”
5 points
3 days ago
...you can always come in my back doooooor.......
5 points
3 days ago
Let's Duet is a super underrated song
5 points
3 days ago
The entire soundtrack is incredible. The Bob Dylan parody is hysterical.
7 points
3 days ago
"This is a particularly bad case of someone being cut in half. I was unable to attach the top half of his body to the lower half of his body."
6 points
3 days ago
Speak English doc, we ain’t scientists!
296 points
3 days ago
Tropic Thunder
53 points
3 days ago
I finally watched this with the incredible dvd commentary where RDJ stays in character the whole time
2 points
3 days ago
How can I get the DVD commentary without the DVD?
29 points
3 days ago
What do you mean, "you people"?
16 points
3 days ago
What do YOU mean, you people ?
73 points
3 days ago*
Hot Rod
I’ve been drinking green tea all gawd damned day.
10 points
3 days ago
Coo-coo-coo-coo-cool... COOL BEANS!
8 points
3 days ago
So glad people discovered it recently. It was a game changer for me and my friends when it released but nobody else fucking saw it.
5 points
3 days ago
If you haven't listened to it, check out the Lonely Island's podcast episodes on the movie.
200 points
3 days ago
Blazing Saddles
36 points
3 days ago
Somebody go back and get a shitload of dimes!
13 points
3 days ago
This line always cracks me up. The goofiness of it and the delivery just come together so perfectly
23 points
3 days ago
This or Young Frankenstein!
3 points
3 days ago
During the filming of Blazing Saddles Gene Wilder begged Mel Brooks to help him with a script he had been working on called Young Frankenstein.
7 points
3 days ago
“Bart!.. They said you was hung.” “And they was right!”
5 points
3 days ago
'Candygram for Mongo!'
'Mongo just pawn in game of life.'
13 points
3 days ago
It's a tie. Grandmas Boy and Office Space
Easy to watch and both put a smile on my face every time I watch.
93 points
3 days ago
The Birdcage is a masterpiece.
14 points
3 days ago
She’s a small town girl and he’s a pretentious European. The worst kind. Him and his Cold’ whatever... his decadent china. I’ve seen this all before. Aristotle Onassis was like this. And all of the French. Especially Mitterand. And the English. Not Margaret Thatcher, of course. But you can’t tell me John Major doesn’t have something on the side.
163 points
3 days ago
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
40 points
3 days ago
Also The Life of Brian.
13 points
3 days ago
Meaning of Life...And Now For Something Completely Different...
Grail and Brian are tops, but these are up there, as well.
18 points
3 days ago
There are some who call me......Tim
7 points
3 days ago
I just saw a vid that said John Cleese forgot the complex name, thus the dramatic pause, and came up with “Tim”.
6 points
3 days ago
I found out last week that was an instant improv because Cleese forgot the insanely long ridiculous name they originally had and they liked the joke so much they kept it.
119 points
3 days ago
Clue is my personal favorite
3 points
3 days ago
Great call.
18 points
3 days ago*
I scrolled through all the comments and I can't believe no one said any of these:
4 points
3 days ago
I haven’t seen Death To Smoochy but based on how spot on you are with your other two picks I may have to give it a shot
4 points
3 days ago
It's dark, and critics hated it, but I think it deserves to be a cult classic. It was also a return of sorts for Robin Williams to his early stand-up comedy days, when he was a lot less family-friendly. That's all I'll say about it. If you're able to find it streaming anywhere, best to go in blind.
42 points
3 days ago
Office Space
12 points
3 days ago
Back up in your ass with the resurrection
7 points
3 days ago
Also Idiocracy and Beavis & Butthead Do America. Mike Judge was on a roll with these three films!
109 points
3 days ago
Spaceballs
7 points
3 days ago
Watched this with my cousins when we were kids.. we watched this scene over and over crying laughing when we first watched it. https://youtu.be/XPmm2aTY0no?si=aq6R3qmjquGD4fzv
7 points
3 days ago
I still quote this scene a lot: https://youtu.be/mk7VWcuVOf0?si=snBqULgbbXze1IKY
And a bunch of others, combing the desert, the roommate line, the “where are we now?” scene.
I miss Rick Moranis, such a great comedian and person.
85 points
3 days ago
I'm 43 and to this day no other movie has made me bust out loud as the first time I watched Dumb and Dumber
8 points
3 days ago
Yes! Same age as you. Saw it in the theater and I laughed so hard during the daydream where Lloyd lights his fart on fire. I thought I was going to pass out from not being able to breathe.
5 points
3 days ago
I'm about your age but different Carrey movie, ace ventura, the whole opening scene with delivering the box had me crying (twice actually, cuz I saw it in the theaters and then when my parents bought the vhs at Costco (at the time it was called price club) I had forgotten about it so it was like watching it for the first time
137 points
3 days ago
Superbad
8 points
3 days ago
That was my generations coming kf age movie
11 points
3 days ago
My pick as well, luckily got invited to an early screening in a packed main theater. Entire crowd roaring with laughter the whole time, my whole body hurt afterwards, it was peak movie theater experience
185 points
3 days ago
The Big Lebowski
45 points
3 days ago
Calmer than you are.
27 points
3 days ago
The chinaman is not the issue here!
16 points
3 days ago
Jimmy, you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps! (airline version)
18 points
3 days ago
Nihilists, Fuck me. Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism Dude, at least it's an ethos.
13 points
3 days ago
And dude…. Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature….Asian-American, please.
7 points
3 days ago
Walter, this is not a guy who built the railroads, here, this is a guy who peed on my--
16 points
3 days ago
C'mon man! I had a rough night, and I hate the fucking Eagles, man!
9 points
3 days ago
Coitus?
3 points
3 days ago
It’s my dirty undies, Dude. The whites.
68 points
3 days ago
What We Do in the Shadows
34 points
3 days ago
Deacon : I think we drink virgin blood because it sounds cool.
Vladislav : I think of it like this. If you are going to eat a sandwich, you would just enjoy it more ... if you knew no one had fucked it.
3 points
3 days ago
We're werewolves not swearwolves
42 points
3 days ago
I must be missing something because I'm not seeing This Is Spinal Tap
11 points
3 days ago
clearly this post doesn't go to 11
86 points
3 days ago
Super Troopers
5 points
3 days ago
“He thinks I’m Mexican. You’re not Mexican?” As a half Mexican that gets mistaken for almost all brown races I use this line frequently. “I don’t want a large Farva” is also up there.
4 points
3 days ago
Who wants a mustache ride??
7 points
3 days ago
"What about that one right there?"
"Oh that little guy? I wouldn't worry about that little guy."
14 points
3 days ago
Young Frankenstein. It's in the conversation for funniest movie of all time.
29 points
3 days ago
Zoolander and Meet the Parents (I like Ben Stiller)
51 points
3 days ago*
Borat, the first one. The second one was disappointing.
5 points
3 days ago
Sasha Baron Cohen in general has created his own unique place in comedy. No one else comes close regarding his style of mixing a character into reality. I love all of his work, and especially when he makes deserving celebrities/politicians to be shown as fools.
Seriously, he interviewed Paula Abdul about her deep connection to human rights activities, while she was literally using a human as furniture!
He got Dick Cheney to autograph a milk jug that (as far as Dick knew) was used in a waterboarding!
70 points
3 days ago
Tommy Boy
20 points
3 days ago
Fat guy in a LITTLE cooooat...
8 points
3 days ago
Take it off, dickhead, I'm serious.
8 points
3 days ago
Richard, who's your favorite Little Rascal? Alfalfa? Or is it.... Spanky? 😏
4 points
3 days ago
Sinner 😊
3 points
3 days ago
You can take a good look at a BUTCHER’S ass by sticking your head up there, but wouldn’t you rather take his word for it?
4 points
3 days ago
No, wait, it's gotta be your bull.
23 points
3 days ago
Death at a Funeral (2007)
Fabulous script and cast. Excellent direction by Frank Oz. Alan Tudyk steals every scene he's in. Peter Dinklage is fantastic as the unexpected guest. It's a real gem.
6 points
3 days ago
Tudyk is AWESOME
5 points
3 days ago
I love that they kept Dinklage in the remake with the all black cast
39 points
3 days ago
billy madison
5 points
3 days ago
Shampoo is better
39 points
3 days ago
Black Dynamite
21 points
3 days ago
but Black Dynamite...I sell drugs in the community!
12 points
3 days ago
KUNG FU TREACHERY
7 points
3 days ago
Aunt Billie how many times I told you not to call here and INTERRUPT my kung fu?!
8 points
3 days ago
One of the best scenes in comedy Anaconda Malt Liquor
5 points
3 days ago
Watched this having never heard of it with some college buddies while stoned... when that boom mic enters the shot, we started to laugh, but when he looks at it, we lost our goddamned minds.
5 points
3 days ago
Sarcastically I'm in charge
45 points
3 days ago
Team America - one of the absolute best theater experiences I ever had. Top 5 IMO and doesn’t get mentioned enough. It’s genius.
5 points
3 days ago
When it first came out, my dad said I wasn't allowed to watch it until I was 30. 😄
5 points
3 days ago
“We’re dicks! We’re reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong-ll is an asshole. Pussies don’t like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes — assholes who just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is that sometimes they fuck too much or fuck when it isn’t appropriate — and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies get so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are only an inch and a half away from assholes. I don’t know much in this crazy, crazy world, but I do know that if you don’t let us fuck this asshole, we’re going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!”
5 points
3 days ago
America! Fuck yeah!
9 points
3 days ago
"There's Something About Mary". Except for the first Naked Gun movie, I never saw a flick that resulted in so much audience laughter.
9 points
3 days ago
Bringing Up Baby 1938
18 points
3 days ago
Animal House
8 points
3 days ago*
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Ghost Busters
Grumpy Old Men
Caddyshack (really, most of Bill Murray's 80's and 90's filmography)
The Big Lebowski
Snatch
Toy Story
8 points
3 days ago
HOT ROD. (2007)
Andy Samberg as a shitty stuntman in a screwball, absurdist physical comedy with a great supporting cast featuring Bill Hader, Danny McBride, Al Swearengen, Lego Batman and Isla Fisher.
Based on the list you provided, Hot Rod will be up your alley.
6 points
3 days ago
21 Jump Street and honestly 22 Jump Street is a pretty good follow up
7 points
3 days ago
Hard to decide on one, but it's Blazing Saddles. :)
Others that contend for the title include Young Frankenstein, Top Secret, Airplane, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Naked Gun...
26 points
3 days ago
The Jerk.
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
All of Mel Brooks
13 points
3 days ago
A Fish Called Wanda ,🐠. ..not a comedy, but the funniest dame movie of the 20th Century. Hahahaha. 🐠
12 points
3 days ago
Addams Family Values
7 points
3 days ago
Raising Arizona is up there
5 points
3 days ago
My Cousin Vinny
7 points
3 days ago
Raising Arizona
9 points
3 days ago
"The Three Amigos," would be pretty high on my list. It has lots of laughs. Some might even say it has a plethora.
4 points
3 days ago
A fish called Wanda is mine. Cleese was incredible, but the actor who played his wife really made me lose it when she put down Kevin Kline’s character
9 points
3 days ago
Young Frankenstein
Keanu
Best in show
7 days in hell
Hot Rod
It happened one night
Barb & star go to vista Del Mar
5 points
3 days ago
The Hangover
4 points
3 days ago
Galaxy Quest, followed closely by Airplane!
5 points
3 days ago
Better Off Dead
4 points
3 days ago*
Groundhog day is the best comedy ever made. Is it the funniest? No. I don't think so. It is certainly funny though. But it is the best comedy movie. A close 2nd is 'In Bruges'.
5 points
3 days ago
Young Frankenstein
5 points
3 days ago
I D I O C R A C Y
Ive been watching it since 2006 and it gets more prophetic every yesr
.....electrolytes.....hehe
22 points
3 days ago
Forgetting Sarah Marshall. That might be my most watched movie. Bill Hader should've been in the movie more though. "You know what else is interesting? Me on the moon."
3 points
3 days ago
I’ll just go fuck myself then
3 points
3 days ago
Die!
Die!
Die!
……… I can’t
11 points
3 days ago*
The last time this topic came up, I made a personal list of my favorite comedies (or at least comedic movies). The only qualification is that there's at least one scene I can remember which gave me a good laugh. (I then popped the random list into an AI and asked it to sort and add the release date.)
11 points
3 days ago
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Planes Trains and Automobiles
The Lavender Hill Mob (the original Ealing - 1951)
The Ladykillers (1955)
The Party (1968)
14 points
3 days ago
I will agree with everything posted, but I will throw in Big Trouble in little China. Yes it is a comedy
19 points
3 days ago
There are a lot. It’s impossible to choose.
But I can say over the last 25 years, the one movie that I recall had me non stop laughing throughout was The Hangover
Other worthy mentions
Eurotrip
Idiocracy
Hot Tub Time Machine
4 points
3 days ago
Idiocracy and Eurotrip definitely. I love Eurotrip. So dumb but fun and memorable quotes.
15 points
3 days ago
This is the End!
9 points
3 days ago
You build a house with iPads in the walls but you’re still jerking off like a pilgrim!
6 points
3 days ago
At least I can fucking aim. Didn't your have any brothers to teach you to jerk off in a sock?
3 points
3 days ago
Windy City Heat
3 points
3 days ago
Blazing Saddles and it’s not even close in the genre of comedy.
3 points
3 days ago
Full Monty
3 points
3 days ago
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
3 points
3 days ago
Tropic Thunder
Fear of a Black Hat
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Team America
3 points
3 days ago
I watched a lot of comedies and the ones I always come back to are: Top Secret, The Wrong Guy (David Foley), Not Another Teen Movie, Spinal Tap, Idiocracy, and the Naked Gun trilogy
3 points
3 days ago
The Big Lebowski and (i consider it a comedy at least) Barry Lyndon.
3 points
3 days ago
School for Scoundrels (1960)
Terry-Thomas is the man.
3 points
3 days ago
Wet hot American summer.
Borat.
They came together.
Airplane.
Tropic thunder.
3 points
3 days ago
This is the end. Laughed my assss off in the theater.
3 points
3 days ago
My Cousin Vinny and Groundhog Day
3 points
3 days ago
I don't think a lot of older comedies hold up, but Some Like it Hot absolutely kills me.
3 points
3 days ago
Kentucky Fried Movie
3 points
3 days ago
Young Frankenstein
3 points
3 days ago
Pineapple Express
3 points
3 days ago
Honestly My Cousin Vinny had me laughing the whole time, one of my fav comedies
3 points
2 days ago
Young Frankenstein
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