how im gonna make up something universal, doesnt even make any sense: IT"S THE TOP 100 COMEDY FILMS RESULTS THREAD

tbf network laughs at everything and everyone who isnt william holden

haha ... of course, though, by that logic breezy is even funnier than network

You held out 80 minutes. Positively tantric.

― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 8:03 AM

he's been edging

You held out 80 minutes. Positively tantric.

― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:03 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lollll

btw Strangelove is AFI's #3 comedy so uh

what's uh about that?

oh satire - nevermind. sorry!

You held out 80 minutes. Positively tantric.

i, for one, would like to know what Sting thinks about this poll's results ...

strangelove even had a pie-fight ... though it got edited out. so it's a def. a comedy.

#94 (3-WAY-TIE)

SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS

Preston Sturges
1941
United States
(255 pts, 10 votes)

also, mentioning Sturges without mentioning Sullivan's Travels is surely some kind of criminal activity. Joel McCrea realizing how to get out of jail had me laughing for 20 minutes straight.
also, of course, The Prince of Tides. saw the last 20 mins the same night as Wayne's World, and while I liked that movie the Streisand/Nolte ending was even funnier.
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, August 2, 2003 11:31 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

45 Your Mass In My Ass 2005
This sounds like one of the fake movies from Sullivan's Travels.
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, June 24, 2005 10:24 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the best 50 should all fit with a montage of peoples around the world laughing a la Sullivan's Travels.

also I will volunteer to carve the results on Mack Sennett's tomb.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, February 29, 2012 4:29 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Preston Sturges S/D

some dude, I got a bombshell for ya: the AFI is a really awful source to cite if you're trying to make a point you want people to agree with.

lol @ the thought that knowing the difference between satire and comedy is the sign of a true film maven

Too low. Glad it's on here. I'm always confused at the moment of revelation, though... did people actually think Mickey Mouse was hilarious? Did they laugh out loud at him?

I ended up not voting for that one as my token dark ages pick, but I endorse it's placement for reasons stated in the worst ILX thread ever.

nb: i hope that sullivan's travels isn't the only Preston Sturges film to make the Top 100. though if only one has to make it, then sullivan's is the best one for that.

Huh. I guess Team America got in by being the right era for lots of ilxors to have seen it. I mean, there are a couple of moments that are funny, granted, but it's a generally poor film.

I was gonna challenge Morbs on the musical/satire/comedy thing, but I've realised I can no longer tell when he's joking and when he's deadly serious, so probably best not to go there.

I prefer Lady Eve... hope it places better.

network is a ludicrous movie in which a black militant group is given a primetime television show and everybody talks in a snappy form of personal insult

if satire is not comedy you can get rid of 80% of my ballot

n/m the voting prolly sorted that out anyway

Sullivan's travels, OK don't know that one at all.

I can no longer tell when he's joking and when he's deadly serious

You can't tell when morbs is being funny and morbs is being a satire of morbs you don't say

some dude, I got a bombshell for ya: the AFI is a really awful source to cite if you're trying to make a point you want people to agree with.

― Michael J. Fuxxx (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:10 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

listen i know AFI and the Globes aren't unimpeachable but when you're trying to just tease out some vague sense of consensus about how these things are perceived out in the general public they're better than nothing. either tell me what other source to site or please assume i'm taking it all with at least half as big a grain of salt as you are.

sullivan's travels is 100 times better as a satire on politics and Hollywood than team america ... and it is a lot funnier too.

unfaithfully yours is actually funnier than sullivan's travels ... but overall it isn't as good a film.

I really need to know who put Swingers as their number one.

I voted for Team America.

I love all of the ED movies but it didn't even occur to me to put any of them on this list. Weird. Not that AoD made an appearance. Weird that it didn't occur to me, I mean.

network is a ludicrous movie in which a black militant group is given a primetime television show and everybody talks in a snappy form of personal insult

so you think that it's a sort-of a Juno for 1970's-era grumpy old men.

You held out 80 minutes. Positively tantric.

Yeah, but I still wouldn't fuck you with Bea Arthur's decaying dick.
THAT'S comedy!

Sullivan's Travels is THE Sturges comedy for ppl who don't otherwise like Sturges, or don't know they don't.

xpost Don't do that.

Sullivan's Travels was the lowest Sturges on my ballot. Slightly overrated i feel but still a classic obviously

Yeah, but I still wouldn't fuck you with Bea Arthur's decaying dick.

Tempting offer tho.

#94 (3-WAY-TIE)

MANHATTAN

Woody Allen
1979
United States
(255 pts, 7 votes)

i watched woody allen's Manhattan four times last week and every time i saw something new.

(this is not supposed to be shocking or sarcastic)
― poortheatre, Thursday, July 19, 2007 1:47 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And speaking of old and prestige pieces, nobody's mentioned Woody Allen, who certainly counts as an auteur. And of course his best films were done in the 70's (Annie Hall, Manhattan).
― Sean, Wednesday, October 10, 2001 7:00 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel like woody allen in manhattan, and you are all diane keaton after the trip to the museum, talking about yr academy of the overrated.
― chev rivera (stevie), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:11 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I hate Woody Allen, he's a fuckhead.
― Ally, Wednesday, October 24, 2001 7:00 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Top Woody Allen films

i like the scene in manhattan where woody+mariel are in the grocery store but woody's so worked up about diane keaton's pretensions (+ in love w/ diane keaton) that he doesn't even look at any of the shelves and his 17-year-old girlfriend has to do all the shopping. i didn't notice it until like viewing fifty and it's so sad/lol.

"on my prom night, i must've gone round this spot fifty times. if i had been with a girl, it would have been an incredible experience."

i didn't vote for this though, unfairly, because i've watched it Too Much.

Probably the reason I didn't vote for it either.

I had 3 WA on my ballot but Manhattan wasn't one of them even though I love it a lot.

I like Manhattan a lot, but it's the first movie to show up here that I have trouble considering a comedy.

Here are the Woody Allen movies I've seen in their entirety: Zelig, Love & Death, Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex.

He just was never a thing I was interested in. You'd think with a buttload of Jewish Noo Yawk relatives, some of whom work in The Biz, I would be, but no.

manhattan is woody's best film, even over annie hall ... but it isn't his funniest (that honor belongs to bananas).

Bananas was one mine. As was one of the ones that Phil listed.

i still placed manhattan (and annie hall) much higher on my ballot than bananas, though.

i think i put three WAs but one of them is #1.

Yeah I put Annie Hall a lot higher too. I trouble ranking mine though. After the fist five it was almost entirely arbitrary.

Voted for Army of Darkness - I wanted at least one Bruce Campbell film in my list. Great/hammy slapstick, great A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court/Gulliver's Travels riffs, great visual gags (mix of skeletons tied on horses and Harryhausen stop-motion animation). Bit of a nostalgic pick, too - it's a film I watched a bunch of times w/friends at uni. Never actually seen the first two Evil Dead movies, should probably rectify that.

i wish that they put broadway danny rose on this poll ... it's my favorite 1980s woody joint, plus it's funnier than manhattan.

I'm pretty sure I only put 2 (maybe 3?) WA films on my ballot. I love a lot of his stuff, but I generally prefer the less overtly-comedic stuff.

Never actually seen the first two Evil Dead movies, should probably rectify that.

Holy crap, RECTIFY THIS NOW.

otm about Bananas being his funniest

I think only two WAs made my ballot.

i can't remember now ... were any of the other Evil Dead films on the poll? i've only seen the 1st one ... which (to get all Morbz-style pedantic here) is a horror/slasher film and not a comedy, though it's funny in the way that all over-the-top gorefest movies are funny.

Evil Dead 2 will probably place

100% agree.

xpost

I put four WA's on my ballot. I fully expect one to show, two to def not.