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

Movie that made me laugh the hardest in recent years (and which I omitted in my earlier list of omissions, much to my shame): Appropriate Behaviour.

Young Adult is p great tbh, and I am far from a Reitman stan

It's good. Best Charlize Theron work though.

anyway one of these:

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
A Mighty Wind (2003)
School Of Rock (2003)
I Heart Huckabees (2004)
Knocked Up (2007)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Shaun Of The Dead (2004)
Frances Ha (2012)
Superbad (2007)

Adaptation is totally comedy wtf.

Top ten is genuinely awful.

Oh wow Black Dynamite is in there, jeez that might have my vote. I laughed pretty fuckin' hard

I think Black Dynamite has almost Airplane-level lols-per-minute but I also liked Nacho Libre so ymmv

black dynamite is amazing, def voting for it

yeah the first 20 minutes of that are all-time if you ask me. but then again I loved Kung Fury so yeah it's my kind of movie

Moonrise Kingdom & The Fantastic Mr. Fox are funnier Wes Anderson movies than the two they picked.

Yeah actually The Lego Movie would have been my pick.

Yes to Lego Movie.

Also yes to Young Adult, which had an awful lot working against it on paper but which I thought was actually a legitimately good movie. That I'm not sure I think of as a comedy. And Theron was indeed fantastic.

I hated Young Adult

something about that whole dynamic between Theron and the Patton Oswalt character really bothered me, the redemption-via-sex thing was just gross

mean girls prob

Dan: the second Magic Mike is legit funny.

Force Majeure was a comedy?!?

I haven't seen so many of these.

FRANCES HA at #4?????????????????????????

voted Zoolander. perfect movie shot for shot, word for word. sequel was dogshit. lots of great movies here though

Force Majeure was a comedy?!?
--Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings)

I think the premise and character are meant to be funny although it's not Airplane! LOLs, it's not an Ordinary People drama remotely either.

I didn't care much for Frances Ha as a movie, but "Ahoy, sexy!" is deserving enough of comic catchphrase immortality.

Seen 24 of these. I probably laughed more at Bad Santa, but voted Kung Fu Hustle. What We Do in the Shadows is the only one I've seen that I think is overrated poot.

surprised Adventureland isn't here.

people really came around to High Fidelity didn't they? reviews were pretty sniffy on release iirc.

Half of these aren't comedies. They should split off the dramedies for a separate list, but some of them don't even fit that category. And Ocean's 11, for fuck sake? Just because Patton Oswalt is in Young Adult...that makes it a comedy?

It's between these for me):

3. In The Loop (2009)
4. Best In Show (2000)
5. Shaun Of The Dead (2004)
11. Superbad (2007)
17. In Bruges (2008)
18. Mean Girls (2004)
23. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
27. Idiocracy (2006)

Shaun of the Dead is the best film of the bunch, but I laughed the hardest at In the Loop. Walk Hard is the most quotable.

But really it's between Superbad and Mean Girls for me: two generational touchstones. Prob gonna go with Superbad cause I was the same age as the characters when the movie came out.

List needs Klown too.

I've seen everything on here except Offsides, Obvious Child and Young Adult. I think Bad Santa is probably the funniest film on here. Lot of these films are barely worth one laugh if that though and the three foreign films in the forties definitely don't belong with garbage like Zoolander.

mean girls ~~ iconic, quotable, really watchable as a movie and story, great characters, funny

it's weird to pit character comedies vs jokebook comedies

so you're the one they call ILE Morbius!

idg anyone who laughs at wes anderson movies, the most he has ever made me laugh was bcz of this
http://www.theonion.com/video/wes-anderson-reteams-with-favorite-objects-for-gra-34340

IMO Napoleon Dynamite is the most glaring omission.

Mean Girls & Superbad are the best as far as what makes a classic movie, regardless of joke-quality or lolz-per-pound.

Black Dynamite & Wet Hot American Summer are the lolz-per-pound winners IMO, as far as what fits best with my sense of humor anyway.

Punch-Drunk Love is also great, but I don't think it's a comedy at all.

Freddie Got Fingered and Pootie Tang seem to me to be the most glaring omissions not yet mentioned.

Voted Bad Santa since I have watched it the most of any movie on this list and I'm still not sick of it.

Enjoyed all of these:

Best In Show
Shaun Of The Dead
Frances Ha
Anchorman
Superbad
Adaptation
The Grand Budapest Hotel
In Bruges
Ghost World
Idiocracy
Bad Santa

Voted for Ghost World

xp Yeah true, Freddie Got Fingered was strangely ahead of its time and is pretty amazing although there should probably be a separate category & list for most wtf/bizarre/absurd/adultswim-style comedies since 2000 since very few are included here.

I mistakenly thought Freddy Got Fingered came out in the late '90s. I would rep for its inclusion but I doubt somehow that you'd have very many other takers.

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.

that version of this list would have The Room at #1

Yes.

imo the big omission is "pirates! band of mistfits"

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.

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.

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.

WHAS would still be #1 I think

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.

It doesn't travel very well, in space or time.

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