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

no shots nate, I love Step Brothers. Definitely the best Ferrell/McKay effort

Remember nothing but critical adoration for Fink!

and yeah, barton fink got great reviews, esp relative to the big lebowski

I based my assertion on a wide sample of reactions: I didn't like it, Kael didn't like it, and, I'm willing to bet, the 10-year-old Springfield demographic didn't like it either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CNyzdmXhe0

Nelson, after sneaking into Naked Lunch: "I can think of two things wrong with that title."

Missed that one. My own equivalent around that age would be something like The Day of the Locust.

I just put the film that made me laugh more than any other film at #1. I'm amazed and sad that it didn't make the top 100.

i rated Raising Arizona & The Big Lebowski over it in terms of lols, but Barton Fink is my overall favorite Coen Bros & was on my ballot as well.

Only 4 people remembered that Harvey exists. To be fair, if I had voted it probably would have stayed where it was because I only remembered it during the top 10 results.

― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Thursday, April 5, 2012 6:18 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Harvey is a good film, but I can't remember laughing at any point during it. In fact, I remember it as being way more depressing than any of the other depressing comedies I did put on my ballot.

used to cry like a baby at harvey right up till i was like idk 19

probably why it was not considered

Bits of it are straight farce - the aunt ending up getting committed instead of Dowd, for example.

btw guys ppl quote from Ghostbusters for the same reason they sing the old Almond Joy/Mars Bar jingle

whereas when I say "I'll be back in a minute and a huff..."

C'mon guys, this is hilarious:

Wilson: [reading from an encyclopedia] "P O O K A - Pooka - from old Celtic mythology - a fairy spirit in animal form - always very large. The pooka appears here and there - now and then - to this one and that one - a benign but mischievous creature - very fond of rumpots, crackpots, and how are you, Mr. Wilson?" "How are you, Mr. Wilson?" Who in the encyclopedia wants to know?

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...it's for the same reason people used to sing the Dr. Tingle's Restorative Tincture jingle?

u keep forgetting to add WOCKA WOCKA WOCKA to yr posts

You're right, I do. My bad.

Ok so I just watched Airplane after shutting it off after 20mns the first time I tried. And nope, try as hard as I can, still not funny. Did not laugh once during the entire movie. I wish i could understand what made ppl choose it as the funniest movie of all time or whatever but there's no explaining comedy.

silby, i'm still with you on team airplane! sucks !

Jibe, I just wanna tell you good luck. We're all counting on you.

Surely you can't be serious.

It's an entirely different kind of comedy, altogether.

it seems kind of obvious to me why people would pick Airplane/ whether you love it or hate it, it's one of the most prominent and most extreme examples of a certain strain of comedy.

if the thread is going to degenerate into us quoting from our favourite films, i will proceed to share with you guys the greatest love letter ever written:

"Dear attractive woman number 2, only once in my life have I responded to a person the way I've responded to you. But I've forgotten when it was or even if it was in fact me that responded.
I may not know much, but I know that the wind sings your name endlessly, although with a slight lisp that makes it difficult to understand if I'm standing near an air conditioner.
I know that your hair sits atop your head as though it could sit nowhere else.
I know that your figure would make a sculptor cast aside his tools, injuring his assistant who was looking out the window instead of paying attention.
I know that your lips are as full as that sexy French models that I desperately want to fuck.
I know that if for an instant I could have you lie next to me, or on top of me, or sit on me, or stand over me and shake, then I would be the happiest man in my pants.
I know all of this, and yet you do not know me. Change your life; accept my love. Or, at least let me pay you to accept it."

It's an entirely different kind of comedy, altogether.

― hot and brothered (Eric H.)

It's an entirely different kind of comedy.

Only 4 people remembered that Harvey exists. To be fair, if I had voted it probably would have stayed where it was because I only remembered it during the top 10 results.

― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Thursday, April 5, 2012 6:18 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Almost made my ballot. I heart that movie.

i haven't seen Harvey in ages but i kinda wish i voted for it.

you didnt laugh ONCE??

part of me thinks that Airplane requires non-grownup brain. And I don't mean that in a condescending way, I just think you sort of have to just relax with it. I get so much childish glee out of that movie...and for years I did NOT get it at all. But I think it was because I was looking for something more than the lines that are delivered. But that's really all it is.

meh, it's not for everyone. but I love it.

It is kind of a mood thing when you see these films as an adult. I had a painful experience trying to get a Z-A-Z neophyte to watch The Naked Gun, and a year or so later came across Hot Shots! on TV with them and they started laughing their ass off.

One of the weird things there is Leslie Nielsen goes from Serious Actor before Airplane, to Airplane, to 8 more years of Serious Actor and also a 6-episode series called Police Squad, to Naked Gun, and then he makes the switch and it's Repossessed / Surf Ninja / Dead and Loving It ad infinitum.

ya - there was def some of the time/place effect mentioned WAY upthread in effect with Nielson.

I still have to go back and watch Police Squad, I got it for Mr Veg for Christmas and have yet to see it.

It is sooo good, better than Flying High or Naked Gun

Mr Veg said the other day when I was watching Naked Gun that it kinda annoys him, bc Nielsen in that is aware of the camera and pulls his jokes, whereas in Police Squad he didn't. I still enjoyed NG though anyway, I'm not too uptight to laugh at all the silly jokes like I was as a teenager, lol

Awesome that my #1 vote won :-)

Leslie Nielsen isn't trying to be "wacky" in Police Squad!, which is why the effect is brilliant, while the NG movies pretty much suck.

Police Squaad >> Naked Gun agreed. a lot of that i found to be due to his sidekick who is some sidesplitting dude in the show but the totally unfunny George Kennedy in the films.

xpost TV > Movies

fuck that anti-george kennedy talk

ZAZ's moviemaking "skills" make all their work TV

George is funnier in Cool Hand Luke and Modern Romance.

yeah I love George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke but he felt weirdly out of place in Naked Gun

For yer fella Britishes: Repo Chick is on tonight

Watched "Mean Girls" again, and yeah, I should have voted for it.

morbs - can you suggest any further godfrey cambridge to check out? i saw cotton comes to harlem the other day and enjoyed it a lot.

watermelon man?

:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSXoSeXslZ4&feature=player_embedded#!

amazing footage...

WGA's top 101 funniest screenplays:

http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=5949

Very usual suspectsish + recency bias; 3 in top 20 predate Mel Brooks... and silent comedies had screenplays too, often. This is most ridiculous tho:

95. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
96. All About Eve (1950)

yeah, about 80 places behind When Harry Met Sally… PIFFLE.

morbs - can you suggest any further godfrey cambridge to check out?

Answering 3-yo questions is my specialty! Hollywood really didn't know what to do with him, and he didn't live long enough to sell out, unfortunately. Of what I've seen, Cotton Comes to Harlem and his brilliant monologue near the beginning of The President's Analyst are essential. Bye Bye Braverman, Watermelon Man have their moments.

And there's always his comedy LPs (might be on Spotify?).

Yeah, All About Eve being 85 slots behind Animal House (much less behind The Hangover and Wedding Crashers) has me feeling like Max the old sour puss.

pro screenwriters voting with box office, nuthin to see here

just wondering if The Miracle of Morgan's Creek has been seen by any more of you since it got FOUR FUCKING VOTES