Funniest Comedy

Wedwood

Listened to a poll on the radio the other day that listed Woody Allen's Annie Hall as the funniest movie. It's a good Woody Allen film, but hardly the one I'd watch to get a good laugh.

Funniest movies for me:

Trading Places. The best Christmas comedy IMHO.

Stir Crazy. Gene Wilder and Richard Prior's best movie.

Return of the Pink Panther. Peter Sellers on top form, with Herbert Lom's hilarious descent into madness.

Airplane. Brilliant cast and rapid fire gags throughout.

razorblunt

Life of Brian
Holy Grail


They're about the only comedies I own on DVD that I rewatch a few times a year.

Big fan of Airplane and Naked Gun too, if I ever come across them on tv, I'll hang around that channel (normally forget to go back after a break) but I'll definitely need to add them to the collection.
I tend to like comedies but never really go back to view them repeatedly.

lee_baby_simms

Spinal Tap. Close thread.

Orion

Trading Places is a classic. As is Life of Brian.

Have to throw in Anchorman for consideration too.

Howard the Duck

Office Space , cult classic

A Night at the Roxbury, love this movie think it is very underrated

The Brady Bunch Movie, same as above.

King Pin , prefer this to Something about Mary

joeguevara

Love Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Old School never gets old for me
Step Brothers, I have seen about 30 times
Planes, Trains and Automobiles extremely funny with a lovely ending

Theboinkmaster

joeguevara wrote: »

Love Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Old School never gets old for me
Step Brothers, I have seen about 30 times
Planes, Trains and Automobiles extremely funny with a lovely ending

Planes, Trains and Automobiles for me.

Also love My Cousin Vinny.

Theboinkmaster

Wedwood wrote: »

Trading Places. The best Christmas comedy IMHO.

Nope that would be Planes, Trains and Automobiles!

Frynge

My cousin vinyl has to be up there but also (and I might get slated for this) the parole officer.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Theboinkmaster wrote: »

Nope that would be Planes, Trains and Automobiles!

Planes Train and Automobiles is based around Thanksgiving.

6541

Gonna keep an eye on this thread for movie suggestions. Duck Soup Marx brothers, in fact most of the Marx Brothers !

Dirty Dingus McGee

My Cousin Vinny has my favourite joke of all time in it.

Don't think it's hard to work out which bit.

Theboinkmaster

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Planes Train and Automobiles is based around Thanksgiving.

In and around the Xmas season!

Theboinkmaster

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

My Cousin Vinny has my favourite joke of all time in it.

Don't think it's hard to work out which bit.

There's so many.....what's a ute

AryaStark

My favourite comedy movie of all time has got to be Me, myself and Irene

kunst nugget

Howard the Duck wrote: »

A Night at the Roxbury, love this movie think it is very underrated

I remember watching that thinking it was absolute muck at the beginning and thinking it was just brilliant by the end.

Spinal Tap gets my vote as well as Step Brothers - it gets better with each watch.
Bad Grandpa was one of the last ones to have me laughing out loud.
What We Do in the Shadows is another recent highlight.
Harold and Kumar get the Munchies
The Big Lebowski
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Blades of Glory
Borat
Zombieland
Team America
Tucker and Dale vs Evil

If you're watching comedies on Netflix, I'd recommend the 2 stand up shows by Bill Burr and the one by Louis CK.

callaway92

Superbad

Bassboxxx

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Turtyturd

Bad Santa is easily the funniest Christmas movie.

brevity

Withnail & I

I really didn't get the fuss about it when I first watched it but on subsequent viewings I found it very very funny.

Yakkyda

For me, airplane... Just constant throwing the gags out, one liners and visual, the works. Never really let's up the entire length. Pretty much all hitting the mark imo.

"oh, it's all right dear, I talk jive"

loudymacloud

Anchorman - definitely has to be on that list

Airplane of course too

The Pink Panther Movies are excellent also

3 of my personal favourites are Hot Shots, Top Secret and Blazing Saddles.

there are so many more that could go on this list

MRnotlob606

I like the first American Pie film, thought it was a brilliant concept.

I also liked Old School with Will Ferrell .

Theboinkmaster

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

I like the first American Pie film, thought it was a brilliant concept.

Have you seen it recently, it really hasn't aged well.

pheasant tail

Great to see nobody mentioned anchorman. Very hard to get a good comedy anymore. The other guys and Due Date are two that's always crack me up

Duggy747

The older spoofs for me;

Airplane!
Top Secret!
Naked Gun movies
Hot Shots
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood has good sight gags in it.

shazzerman

Safety Last
To Be or Not to Be
His Girl Friday
The Court Jester
Midnight Run
Young Frankenstein

bloominballix

Major League

JustTheOne

40 year old virgin is a good one.

readyletsgo

Zoolander. So simple, so funny. Love it!

And the sequel looks just as good! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0CrEda-BB4 can't wait!


Oh, and National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. Watch it every year.

greensausage

Team America
The jerk
21 jump street
This is the end
Coming to America
Walk hard

Ash.J.Williams

i'd like to add Freddie got fingered to the life of brian/holy grail, airplane, naked gun list!!

saintsaltynuts

There's Something About Mary
Planes,Train's and Automobiles
Trading Places
Coming To America
Animal House
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Ghostbusters
Crocodile Dundee
Airplane
Withnail And I

Old Perry

Hot fuzz and sean of the dead i have found stand up pretty well on repeat viewing. Dont know if it counts but i had a bit of a laugh at ant man recently.

Will be watchin withnail and i soon enough again thanks to this thread.

I liked a lot of will ferrels films on first viewing but dont think ive ever sat through any a second time round. Hoping twolander will be good when it comes out.

Edit...in bruges and intermission cant be forgotten either. And the Guard.

tastyt

Dumb and dumber is a classic

Frynge

Tropic Tunder.

IvaBigWun

Theboinkmaster wrote: »

In and around the Xmas season!

Thanksgiving and Christmas are two very different things. Thanksgiving is as big in the States as Paddys day is here.

IvaBigWun

Bassboxxx wrote: »

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Always thought it was under rated.

Rock Lesnar

Laurel and Hardy i loved when i was younger, so the wife bought be a box set of all their movies a few years back.

I still haven't opened it.

Also loved the naked gun films, and the files of police squad to, but The 1st Dumb and Dumber is my favourite, still laugh thinking of some of the scenes now

breffni bogballer

hear no evil see no evil
american pie[1]

Charlie19

Recently enough movies, I would have to go with:

Stepbrothers.
Or
Due date.

Whitewinged

It has to be Clerks for me. Even the second one was really funny.

JayWalsh

Blazing Saddles.

tommy100

I agree with alot of the mentioned comedies. Classics. My fav tho is THE LIFE OF BRIAN and see no evil, hear no evil is brill.

mickmackmcgoo

Some like it hot
King Pin
Life of Brian

Technocentral

adox wrote:

Very well written and acted, corny as hell at times, but it's a fantastic show none the less. Some fantastic characters in it, you'll finish an episode with a smile on your face more often than not.

I'd defo put Annie Hall at No. 1, masterpiece.

Gwynplaine

American Psycho, one of the funniest films ever made.

JRant

Hercules Returns is an absolute classic.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CO66i6oAXmI

Ash.J.Williams

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Always thought it was under rated.

you don't want any part of that sh1t mannnn

JP Liz V1

I like the spoof slapstick laugh out loud comedies, really enjoyed Spy recently, love also Happy Texas and The Ref

Ash.J.Williams

I remember an entire cinema losing their minds laughing at team america, i enjoy all the trivia too such as the movie exec shouting "they f***ed us" after watching the intro crap puppet scene....and the trees in the panama scene were actual weed!