the bizarro version of this list that would include Wrong Cops and Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie would place FGF pretty close to the top.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 03:28 (seven years ago) link
that version of this list would have The Room at #1
― the lava-staring club (Abbott), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 03:29 (seven years ago) link
Yes.
― Night Jorts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 03:30 (seven years ago) link
imo the big omission is "pirates! band of mistfits"
― the lava-staring club (Abbott), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 03:36 (seven years ago) link
As a big Will Ferrell fan, I would rank Talladega Nights above Anchorman, though the former doesn't appear on this list at all.
The movie where he speaks all his lines in Spanish was great too, even moreso because it alienated much of his audience. I'd rank that somewhere up there.
Also The Campaign is worthy of the list.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 04:40 (seven years ago) link
I've never seen Best In Show but it's the one in this list that's immediately made me think that I need to rectify that.
I've seen most of this list though, don't get the #1 pick at all.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 13:42 (seven years ago) link
WHAS would still be #1 I think
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 13:43 (seven years ago) link
I agree that it's a strange pick for #1 but it's definitely one of those movies that's nonstop laughs and makes the audience feel smart for getting some of the jokes so I guess I understand why AVClub would consider it as such. For some reason it was the Asia (the band) poster on Paul Rudd's wall that sealed it as a great movie for me, for whatever reason it was hilarious to me that the dumb jock character would be into Asia. And it is like, infinitely rewatchable.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 13:46 (seven years ago) link
It doesn't travel very well, in space or time.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 14:07 (seven years ago) link
I'm surprised at all the love for Ghost World here - felt that it totally failed to catch that monochrome limbo zone between adolescence and adulthood that the comic portrayed so well, and by making Enid much more the central character the film sacrificed a lot of the narrative poignancy of two friends drifting apart ("you've grown into a very beautiful young woman") in favour of some rather cheap yocks about nerdish collectordom (ie the Buscemi character, who doesn't figure at all in the comic).
I concur w/ chap that Borat - especially the first half hour or so - got the heartiest audience response I've seen for a comedy film since Airplane!
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
If they were going to throw in one token Romanian comedy Tales From The Golden Age would have been a better choice, although I loved 12:08 as well.
― calzino, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
I never saw an entire theater laugh as loud as they did during Borat, especially during the hotel scene, you know the one.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
xxpost I generally agree that, while it's a fine movie on its own terms, Ghost World is a fairly poor Clowes adaptation inasmuch as it fails to capture what I find appealing about his work. Although it's nowhere near as failed as Art School Confidential.
― Night Jorts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
I liked Frances ha but it would never have occurred to me to class it as a comedy
There are so many movies that didn't make the list which you'd think would be mortal locks....pootie tang, super troopers, adventureland etc
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 15:20 (seven years ago) link
Fucking abhor Borat
― imago, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
yup
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 15:52 (seven years ago) link
baffled at praise for garbage like Napoleon Dynamite and Freddie Got Fingered as well
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 15:53 (seven years ago) link
Pootie Tang also a mess of a film
The Boss of It All would have been a great addition to this list
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
If we're going for 'art movies that caused me to laugh more than anything else ever' then Hard To Be A God is the best comedy maybe of all time except for the Bunuel ones
― imago, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
We are watching Smiley Face tonight. Also maybe Josie and the Pussycats because you'll like it maybe even more than you liked Pitch Perfect.
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:00 (seven years ago) link
'whiplash with mascara' i called it
― imago, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link
the joke is that it is a better film than whiplash
― imago, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:02 (seven years ago) link
I'd put Sound of Noise somewhere on this list, it's very lightweight but consistently funny and enjoyable and some of the musical set pieces are fantastic.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:04 (seven years ago) link
Pootie Tang is wonderful IMO
Freddie Got Fingered OTOH is one of the worst movies I've ever tried to watch and one of the only ones I've ever refused to finish
― http://porno (DJP), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:19 (seven years ago) link
Freddy Got Fingered is at times actively unpleasant and repellent. Pretty sure that's a large part of the reason I enjoy it (see also: Meaning Of Life).
― Night Jorts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:27 (seven years ago) link
(Which is not to suggest that I think FGF is in the same league as MOL.)
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― Οὖτις, Tuesday, July 12, 2016
I'm not either but I still laugh at the "wizard's sleeve" line.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:29 (seven years ago) link
*not a fan either
I've still never seen the movie but feel like I have after years of Austin Powers-esque non-sequitur quote recitations by various office jokesters.
― Night Jorts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
there are some funny lines in there ("wizard's sleeve" is one, "I follow the hawk" is another) but the basic conceit doesn't work for me
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
Pootie Tang is odd in that all of its seams show, it's really obvious where the production broke down and how it got edited to shit, where the direction was lacking, etc. There are good ideas and gags in there and then the execution gets fumbled/muddled and it doesn't really deliver.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:35 (seven years ago) link
There is a deleted scene from Borat in a supermarket where he makes the general manager walk through a gigantic display of cheeses by picking up each one and asking "What is this?" that made me laugh harder than almost anything else I've ever seen.
― http://porno (DJP), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:36 (seven years ago) link
i barf at your baffle.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link
josie and the pussycats hits a wall in the last ~25 mins as it gets around to resolving its plot, but it probably takes place in my favorite corporate dystopia in movies
borat was surprisingly ephemeral; people really did laugh Very Hard at it in the theater but nobody's dared to go back to announce their "funniest movie of all time?" thinkpieces have been vindicated.
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link
Baron Cohen worked day and night to fuck up any legacy, in fairness.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
we are friends again, hey!
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
the movie i laughed at the hardest in this period was probably wizard people, dear reader
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
i reckon they;re trying to do a bit of a re-assessing of the recent cult classics canon; deliberately putting Bad Santa, Zoolander, KFH really low down in the list as they haven't 'aged well' or w/e. not saying they're wrong mind!
― piscesx, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, that was funny, but probably doesn't count. Whoever mentioned Klown probably otm, iirc I liked that a lot more than I thought I would.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
this list makes a horrible argument for modern american comedy
jackass 1, 2, & 3 are the funniest movies of this time period
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:08 (seven years ago) link
also: meet the parents
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
Meet the Parents just makes me feel bad. If I were the protagonist the whole back half of the movie would be me having a pity party and watching movies by myself.
― Evan, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
Surprised first Hangover not on here actually....
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
Biggest snub is Hot Rod
― poolboy skew (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
xp good call. I wonder if the sequels dampened everyone's enthusiasm for the original
also this:
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link
dlh otm
― O, Barack: flaws (wins), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:59 (seven years ago) link
How High should be on there if only for the whole digging up and smoking the corpse of John Quincy Adams sequence.
― methanietanner, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
How High rules.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
My personal list would include Observe & Report and 21 Jump Street, and even though it's not a "good movie" by any stretch, I'd also put Grandma's Boy just for being so quotable. And iirc I learned about all 3 of those from ILX bc at the time I didn't have any TV or cable signal, so I had virtually no access to movie ads.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link