The film is Robbins' directorial debut, and is based on a short segment of the same name and featuring the same character that Robbins did for Saturday Night Live on December 13, 1986.
― Henry David Thorough (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
Stuart Saves His Family is hella underrated
― action bronieson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
there are like five movies on this list, including ladies man, that are better than blues brothers.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
It's Pat to steal this no question.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
i have literally never heard of the first movie on this list
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
its really hard to remember the time that The Ladies Man was like the most popular SNL thing in years. Tim Meadows was already on the show like 8 years on some Darrell Hammond shit and hadn't done like one memorable thing since Def Magic Show Jam, and then he got to be Wayne and Garth for a year
― action bronieson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not saying ladies man is great btw, i'm saying blues brothers blows
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
o_O
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
Running time 133 minutes
― action bronieson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
I remember whenever it was on TV, with commercials it was like three hours.
― action bronieson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0maWXkLzIIY
― Henry David Thorough (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
if this thread is going to be filled with challopsy hate for the Blues Brothers then I will take it upon myself to be Carrie Fisher with a flamethrower.
maybe.
or I'll chicken out and just unbookmark the thread :)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
anyway BLUES BROTHERS IS THE GREATEST
Wayne's World, no question. Even though one could blame it for turning Mike Myers into a star and thus paving the way for "The Cat in the Hat", which is offensive on a metaphysical level.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
Also you're missing the one w Chris Kattan.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
I really need to see It's Pat; it's been too long
― dies irate (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
Corky Romano
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250310/
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Corky Romano wasnt an SNL sketch, just part of the mercifully short bubble where people gave Chris Kattan money
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
fuck Blues Brothers
^
― dies irate (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
voted Stuart, with Coneheads 2nd
Corky Romano wasn't a character originated on SNL though, was it? That was just a Chris Kattan movie.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
I remember whenever it was on TV, with commercials it was like three hours.You had to rent two tapes from Blockbuster.
― pplains, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
THEYRE WHITE GUYS WHO SING THE BLUES BAAAAAUGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
WERE GETTING THE BNAD BACK TOGETHER GAHHHHHHHHUUHHHHHHHHH
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
i understand the backlash against the blues brothers (which in my mind is mostly b/c of how it's been embraced by the same sort of person who thinks that diana krall/elvis costello records ripping off old-school New Orleans music is where it's at maaaaan), but i'm still voting for it. the only other SNL film on this list that comes close is wayne's world.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
anxiously awaiting the "What's Up With That?" movie
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
^ this!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
Lol.
Looking over this list, I actually think the maxim of SNL skits being too little material to stretch over a full movie is kinda bunk. SNL isn't really that funny and has never really been that funny. Most of these movies are more successful about entertaining you over an hour and a half.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
It's Pat is great, such a wonderfully stupid movie all the way through
"Is that a banana in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?""Nope, it's a banana..."
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, March 23, 2012 12:25 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I mean, if the movie could be 60 minutes of backstory and then an actual 30 minute episode of What Up With That, it might be the funniest movie ever made
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
I should see It's Pat. I mean, I watched the fucking Roxbury movie ffs. I should at least see the movie of a character I actually liked.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
I'll pay to see the What Up With That? movie five times over if it's 90 minutes of this:
http://www.cigarettesandcoffee.com/storage/WhatUpWithThat_5.gif
― Henry David Thorough (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
when he jumps into frame I lose it every fucking time
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
There is exactly one amazing line in Roxbury
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
they never got around to a Sprockets movie, which may be the greatest loss to Western Civilization since they burned down the Library of Alexandria ...
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
I think the thing with SNL is when it's not funny, there'll be something on in a few minutes that might be? Which is not the case with a lot of these movies.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
But I am reasoning straight from "It's a sketch show", I've never actually seen a full episode.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Especially given the apocryphal story that the failed struggle of making it caused Mike Myers to say "fuck it" and start making shovels-full of cinematic shit.
― Henry David Thorough (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
SNL is kind of shit tbh
― dies irate (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
mr... mike's... mondo... video...?
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
I remember when that came out, played for a week, and disappeared
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
― action bronieson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, March 23, 2012 11:46 AM (59 minutes ago)
ha, I was just repping for it in comedy poll thread
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
Ladies Man and Roxbuy were cool but I voted WWI
Whiney's idea for a WUWT movie is brilliant - maybe like a mockumentury kind of thing
― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
Narrated by Morgan Freeman
― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, March 23, 2012 12:27 PM (18 minutes ago)
I'm picturing the usual group of freaks growing larger and larger until they bust out of the studio and end up at a local stadium with parliament/funkadelic doing backup and 30 foot models of hitler and churchill having a light saber battle overhead also the entire audience is porpoises
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
FUCK YES
― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
Never seen an episode of SNL. Voting for Wayne's World
― Number None, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
Fuck. Everyone.
http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/carrie.jpg
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
voted Bob Roberts, wd accept either Wayne's World.
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
Morbs, I'm sure we'll all do the right thing and run future ballots by a WWII vet before submitting.
― General Scheherazod (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
apparently CHEVY CHASE IS THE GREATEST FILM COMEDIAN OF ALL TIME
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
Nobody's saying that, Morbs! We're saying he's the greatest comedian of all time full stop.
― General Scheherazod (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
This is between og Wayne's World and MacGruber for me.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, March 23, 2012 10:21 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
me too, tie goes to the movie with ghost porking
current snl is awesome, stefon forever
― arsenio and old ma$e (m bison), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
I would see a stefon movie for real
I think the only one of these I've ever seen straight through is Wayne's World, which was funny but not very funny, and kind of sluggish and forced - for a zany movie based on a sketch comedy show it's not exactly laugh-a-minute. Voting Blues Brothers on the grounds that even if it were less funny than Wayne's World (and from what I've seen of it, it's got some moments?), it has some kick-ass musicians doing pretty decent performances. I'd buy that for a dollar.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
Alice Cooper explaining the history of Milwaukee vs Ray Charles shooting a gun over the head of a shoplifter. I understand both sides.
― pplains, Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
The Milwaukee thing was pretty great, I'll give you that. And the moment when he's like "No, no, stay, guys!" and for a second it seems like Wayne & Garth have been sufficiently turned off by his Milwaukee nerd speech that they actually are going to just politely excuse themselves.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 24 March 2012 05:02 (twelve years ago) link
Mr mikes mondo video is fucking a+++++ FYI guys
― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Saturday, 24 March 2012 05:57 (twelve years ago) link
Wayne's worlds both make me want to die tho so
― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Saturday, 24 March 2012 05:58 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 March 2012 06:02 (twelve years ago) link
Caddyshack or Fletch.
lol those were my #1 and #2 in the comedy poll
just kill me now
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, March 24, 2012 12:02 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
WHY I OUTTA
Listen - They're my favorite funniest movies! I have to say though that in the end I found ranking the 50 a lot harder than picking 50. I wasn't really sure about the order at all - even the top 10. 11-50 ranking was pretty much totally arbitrary.
CHEVY CHASE IS THE GREATEST FILM COMEDIAN OF ALL TIME
When he was on and good he was one of the best, yes.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
"OUTTA"? I haven't had coffee yet. OUGHTA, obv. I haven't had coffee yet.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
Or is it aughta? I think it should be aughta but isn't. OK, coffee. Yes.
wayne's world ahead of ladies man, love blues bros but i dunno is it a very good movie
have always h8d chevy chase's smug smug face
macgruber was pretty awful
― less of the same (darraghmac), Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i refuse to believe MacGruber is actually good
― Number None, Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
It was better than I expected but I wouldn't call it "good".
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
Voted Bob Roberts, but might have gone with The Coneheads cartoon.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
this thread took a rough tumble through the challopian tube. in 9 mos it may give birth to something even more RONG
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
One can only hope
― dies irate (loves laboured breathing), Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
let's just hope Armond White doesn't finally start posting here, coinciding with Momus' return.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
macgruber has more laffs in it than anything in this poll, save the two waynes worlds
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
Wayne's World II would probably win for me. between the Charlton Heston cameo, the roadie, and the sequence of Wayne pickin the Waynestock bands from conveniently placed visual stimuli...classic.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone who's dismissing MacGruber out of hand is doing themselves a grave disservice.
― Arnold Drummond, Process Server (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
i'm dismissing it out of having watched it, yerman is painful to the eye/ear
― less of the same (darraghmac), Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
the Church Lady Trilogy is going to own this when it finally comes out
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
I saw MacGruber, it wasn't really all that funny.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 24 March 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Masterpiece: It's Pat - The MoviePretty damn close: Stuart Saves His Family; SuperstarShame on you for stealing the title of the greatest American film comedy: The Ladies Man
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 29 March 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
But the real question is: does the Lewis Ladies Man hold a candle to It's Pat?
― Calvin Coolranch (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 29 March 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
bozelka back
― some dude, Thursday, 29 March 2012 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
can we just
That same year, her father, C.L. Franklin was shot during an armed robbery of his home, and subsequently spent the next five years in a coma, prompting his daughter to leave L.A. and return home to Detroit. Franklin’s career seemed similarly incapacitated as the new decade dawned.
― ralphs vons williams (get bent), Thursday, 29 March 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
Fab factoid: Dixie Square Mall, in which the car-chase scenes from The Blues Brothers were filmed, chosen for filming because it had just closed down in 1978 only 13 years after it was built, still stands today because nobody wanted to pay to tear it down. It has stood as a derelict, vacant building for over twice as long as it was actually open for business!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Dixie_Square_Mall_Block_B_stores.jpg
― everything else is secondary (Lee626), Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:44 (twelve years ago) link
I kind of loathe Superstar with a gut-wrenching intensity
― dies irate (loves laboured breathing), Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
like KJB repping for it in the same breath as Stuart tempts me to watch it again, but, as it turns out, the thought of ever watching it again is itself a peculiar form of torture
― dies irate (loves laboured breathing), Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
xp A friend of mine grew up near that mall, which was vacant during his whole childhood...except for one night when it was mysteriously, and suddenly, completely lit-up and fully-stocked. A day or two later, it was back to being vacant. He thought he'd dreamed it or was otherwise going nuts until he saw the movie.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
Forget the movie, I kind of loathed the Mary Catherine Gallagher sketches.
― Calvin Coolranch (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
Like, I might have to do a sequel to this poll: Worst SNL Sketch Upon Which a Movie Was Based. Roxbury would probably win. I honestly don't know what Lorne was smoking there for a while.
― Calvin Coolranch (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 30 March 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
I guess not *everyone* hates the Blues Brothers. hmph
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
I can live with that top three.
― The Itchy And Scratchy Glowbo Blow (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 30 March 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
Coneheads should have been a great movie but wasn't at all
― everything else is secondary (Lee626), Friday, 30 March 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
wayne's world deserves its place, but how many were attributable to "anything but the blues brothers" pseudo-challops?!?
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Friday, 30 March 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
also, i'm both happy and sad that a night at the roxbury got 3 pts.