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

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

I saw it, it was WONDERFUL (I didn't vote in this poll but it led me to seek out a bunch of great movies I'd never seen before, including, last week, Working Girl)

(You took "Working Girl" away with you from this poll?)

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek sounds like some mid-'80s direct-to-video snoozefest starring Wilford Brimley as a grizzled prospector who learns the true meaning of Christmas. No thanks!

pretty sure 'the miracle of morgan's creek' is the slogan for a mid-tier craft bourbon distiller

l@OL

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Miracle_morgan_creek.jpg

This is what they did before comedy, then?

(You took "Working Girl" away with you from this poll?)

Is it not in this poll? I knew of it but had never seen it before, was inspired to by this poll (or whichever poll it appeared in) and finally got around to watching it the week before last. And it's great - really well paced, with some great performances and a smart ending.

Miracle was one of the few movies missing from a Sturges DVD box set I got a bunch of years back. It's really good! Not my favourite Sturges but Right Up There.

I really should watch some Preston Sturges stuff sometime. Did Turner ever get around to colorizing any of them?

^^^ expert troll, surgical precision

I'm loath to break with the tradition of my four year troll roll itt and the precedent nominations thread.

#283 - 77 pts - 2 votes - 1 first place: OSS 117: Cairo nest of spies
Aww. Wondering who the #1 voter was.

someone who has seen one comedy film

this Lebowski shit has got to stop

also wrong Wilder-Lemmon film on top

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170820-the-25-greatest-comedies-of-all-time

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170821-the-100-greatest-comedies-of-all-time

I didn't realize that Gene Wilder directed Grumpy Old Men, but I agree.

If this were held today, which high finishers drop way down on the list? I'd guess Annie Hall, Lebowsky, Rushmore, Superbad, South Park.... what moves up, and what newcomers make the list?

I don't think the backlash against Lebowski has really grown since 2012?

Lady Bird is the only new comedy that I'd be confident would place reasonably high. What might get a look in:

Booksmart
Crazy Rich Asians
The Death of Stalin
The Favourite
Hail, Caesar
Hunt for the Wildepeople
Inside Llewyn Davis
Knives Out
Spy

Don't know how much support it would get, but Appropriate Behaviour is easily the best post-2012 comedy I've seen.

#283 - 77 pts - 2 votes - 1 first place: OSS 117: Cairo nest of spies
Aww. Wondering who the #1 voter was.

― the european nikon is here (grauschleier), Sunday, September 11, 2016 5:44 AM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

someone who has seen one comedy film

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Sunday, September 11, 2016 6:37 AM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Quality years-later Morbz drive-by zing, RIP

Never forget

Really, he was just all-time at those.

otm