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

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....

Biggest snub is Hot Rod

xp good call. I wonder if the sequels dampened everyone's enthusiasm for the original

also this:

jackass 1, 2, & 3 are the funniest movies of this time period

dlh otm

How High should be on there if only for the whole digging up and smoking the corpse of John Quincy Adams sequence.

How High rules.

My personal list would include Observe & Report and 21 Jump Street, and even though it's not a "good movie" by any stretch, I'd also put Grandma's Boy just for being so quotable. And iirc I learned about all 3 of those from ILX bc at the time I didn't have any TV or cable signal, so I had virtually no access to movie ads.

over time i've come to realize that i never really liked rogen/apatow movies in the first place but of that slice of the canon i accept superbad as pretty great

pineapple express is their best tho

cosign except "over time"

I can't think of any movies from the Rogen/Hill/Apatow crew that I rate particularly highly. Certainly nothing I'd call a favorite. The ones I've seen have been okay at best.

of the movies on this list i would say bridesmaids is pretty easily the funniest

Snatch was on cable last night, listed as a 2000 release so it oughta be here too. style over substance, sure, but really fucking funny and quotable.

fwiw Borat is astute about America, and yes, pretty funny.

https://www.comedy.co.uk/images/library/comedies/300x200/t/trigger_happy_tv.jpg

i've seen 35 of these, and only have a seething hatred for Punch-Drunk Love, and an intense dislike for Knocked Up. Superbad was OK but ruined by too many Rogen-Hader cop scenes.

The paucity of foreign films is typical. The Lobster, which I like very much, is only there bcz it's mostly in English, has Anglo-American movie stars in it, and came out 2 months ago.

Thought Bridesmaids was really poor (ditto Spy). Perhaps because both were over hyped. Of those sort of movies, Knocked Up is pretty funny but from the list it's a straight up choice between KKBB or TGBH for me.

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.

― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, July 12, 2016 11:48 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ppl are worried abt being problematic

movie is great tho

bridesmaids is 1000x funnier than knocked up

think you forgot to include "less" before funnier

Unless you're saying both suck but Bridesmaids sucks less. The movie was endless and that airplane scene -- ugh

The paucity of foreign films is typical

Wow, you and I actually agree on something. Would love to have seen the two OSS 117 movies on there, of course they're hugely "problematic."

yeah those >>>> The Artist, by a lot

watched offside last night thanks to this thread. did not disappoint at all, loved it.

"God...This is Jonah Hill...from Moneyball..."

The price of being a middlebrow pseud is having to pretend a bunch of snoozy late era Christopher Guest movies and wack Apatow shit is somehow funnier than like actually funny movies like MacGruber, Pootie Tang, Freddy Got Fingered, Jackass 3, How High, Let's Go to Prison, etc

I see this has been covered

Echoing upthread, where's "The LEGO Movie"? I'm a pretty highbrow guy but my daughters came out of the cinema and said "dad you laughed harder than any of the kids in there".

I really hated Borat and Napoleon Dynamite in the theater, but I won't say this isn't a personal distaste for humor built around awkwardness.

Between In The Loop, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Bad Santa for me.

49. Songs From The Second Floor (2000)

51. Children of Men
56. The Road
74. Time of the Wolf

Obviously none of us are letting our personal tastes interfere - for shame, Milo!

"God...This is Jonah Hill...from Moneyball..."

^^^^

movie is so underrated

Okay I just noticed that somehow Burn After Reading (which has a few funny bits) is on here and A Serious Man (which has more huge laughs than almost anything on here) is not. Sad!

^otm

Burn After Reading was entertaining alright but not really all that funny, IMO of course

Serious Man is def funnier

Probably a bunch of goys at the Onion.

i seem to like Soderbergh's experiments more than the avg ilxor, but The Informant! was almost disaster-level.

49. Songs From The Second Floor (2000)

51. Children of Men
56. The Road
74. Time of the Wolf

― Wes Brodicus, Thursday, July 14, 2016 7:16 AM (9 hours ago)

Eh, Songs From the Second Floor definitely has comedy as one of its genres, though personally I love it for its bleakness. Basically I have the same argument about Andersson as I do about Beckett, which is that yes, I do know their work is funny, but overplaying the funnies just ruins the whole point about the desperate and horrific absurdity of existence.

Obviously I voted for it.

in before somebody's point about [some proper comedy] also being about the desperate &c

Obviously I voted for it.

So did I.

Only half-kidding about Children of Men, that movie is funny as hell; it's just that the lulz make things worse for the viewer.

Hot Rod is funnier than like 90% of these. Criminally underrated.

OK, finally watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and its a lot of fun. I probably like it better as an action movie than a straight-up comedy, but that is mostly because I like even fewer action new movies these days than I do new comedies (honestly, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is the only other action pic from the last decade that I can think of that I even liked). Extra credit for its genuine and non-condescending empathy for its female characters. Kilmer's character needs his own series.

*new action movies

have seen most, but far from all, of these. reading the list these are the only ones ive seen that i would watch this evening:

Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
In The Loop (2009)
Adaptation. (2002)
Mean Girls (2004)
Ghost World (2001)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Bad Santa (2003)

I guess I'll vote for Wet Hot American Summer. I would not be comfortable calling it the funniest movie of the century though.

I went with Superbad because the question is asking "best," not "funniest."