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

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

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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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....