A.V. Club's "The 50 best comedies since 2000"

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!

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.

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!

I never saw an entire theater laugh as loud as they did during Borat, especially during the hotel scene, you know the one.

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.

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

Fucking abhor Borat

yup

baffled at praise for garbage like Napoleon Dynamite and Freddie Got Fingered as well

Pootie Tang also a mess of a film

The Boss of It All would have been a great addition to this list

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

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.

'whiplash with mascara' i called it

the joke is that it is a better film than whiplash

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.

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

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).

(Which is not to suggest that I think FGF is in the same league as MOL.)

Fucking abhor Borat

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yup

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I'm not either but I still laugh at the "wizard's sleeve" line.

*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.

I'm not either but I still laugh at the "wizard's sleeve" line.

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

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.

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.

baffled at praise for garbage like Napoleon Dynamite and Freddie Got Fingered as well

i barf at your baffle.

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.

Baron Cohen worked day and night to fuck up any legacy, in fairness.

i barf at your baffle.

we are friends again, hey!

the movie i laughed at the hardest in this period was probably wizard people, dear reader

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!

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.

this list makes a horrible argument for modern american comedy

jackass 1, 2, & 3 are the funniest movies of this time period

also: meet the parents

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.

Surprised first Hangover not on here actually....

Biggest snub is Hot Rod

xp good call. I wonder if the sequels dampened everyone's enthusiasm for the original

also this:

jackass 1, 2, & 3 are the funniest movies of this time period

dlh otm

How High should be on there if only for the whole digging up and smoking the corpse of John Quincy Adams sequence.

How High rules.

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.

over time i've come to realize that i never really liked rogen/apatow movies in the first place but of that slice of the canon i accept superbad as pretty great

pineapple express is their best tho

cosign except "over time"

I can't think of any movies from the Rogen/Hill/Apatow crew that I rate particularly highly. Certainly nothing I'd call a favorite. The ones I've seen have been okay at best.

of the movies on this list i would say bridesmaids is pretty easily the funniest

Snatch was on cable last night, listed as a 2000 release so it oughta be here too. style over substance, sure, but really fucking funny and quotable.

fwiw Borat is astute about America, and yes, pretty funny.

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i've seen 35 of these, and only have a seething hatred for Punch-Drunk Love, and an intense dislike for Knocked Up. Superbad was OK but ruined by too many Rogen-Hader cop scenes.

The paucity of foreign films is typical. The Lobster, which I like very much, is only there bcz it's mostly in English, has Anglo-American movie stars in it, and came out 2 months ago.

Thought Bridesmaids was really poor (ditto Spy). Perhaps because both were over hyped. Of those sort of movies, Knocked Up is pretty funny but from the list it's a straight up choice between KKBB or TGBH for me.