What's the funniest movie of all time?

[WillParkinson]

Right now I'm going with The Princess Bride.

Your pick?

[chrisesq]

1. Kingpin always makes me laugh even though Ive seen it dozens of times

[ALago1]

Airplane!!!

So many comedic gems in that flick...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

69. Chalk another one for Airplane! (nt)

[FarmerOak]

2. The Producers

I loved this movie long before Broadway, long before most people had even heard of it.

I just hope the musical re-make of it doesn't suck.

[salinen]

3. The Producers

Airplane, Blazing Saddles.

[VelmaD]

4. Blazing Saddles...

the writing was brilliant and the actors had great delivery.

[WillParkinson]

65. Alright...alright...

I'll rent it and check it out.

[Bertha Venation]

98. 'scuse me while I whip this out.

:gasp:

Lily von Schtupp: "It's twoo! It's twoo!" (RIP, Madeline)

[SnohoDem]

108. Friends: They said you wuz hung!

Sherrif: They was right!

[hyphenate]

100. You've NEVER seen Blazing Saddles?

Ohmigod--I didn't think any one existed who hasn't seen it at least once!

Rent it--TONIGHT!!!!!!!

[WillParkinson]

106. Not tonight, dear...

I have to work.

[TahitiNut]

117. Yup.

1. SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)

2. TOOTSIE (1982)

3. DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964)

4. ANNIE HALL (1977)

5. DUCK SOUP (1933)

6. BLAZING SADDLES (1974)

7. M*A*S*H (1970)

8. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)

9. THE GRADUATE (1967)

10. AIRPLANE! (1980)

11. THE PRODUCERS (1968)

12. A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1935)

13. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)

14. BRINGING UP BABY (1938)

15. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)

16. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)

17. THE ODD COUPLE (1968)

18. THE GENERAL (1927)

19. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)

20. THE APARTMENT (1960)

21. A FISH CALLED WANDA (1988)

22. ADAM'S RIB (1949)

23. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY… (1989)

24. BORN YESTERDAY (1950)

25. THE GOLD RUSH (1925)

26. BEING THERE (1979)

27. THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (1998)

28. GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)

29. THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984)

30. ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944)

[kodi]

5. blazzing saddles.

followed by monty python's holy grail

[indigobusiness]

6. Goin' South

Jack Nicholson's Directorial debut. Hand's down funniest movie ever.
John Belushi was a riot. But Jack stole the show.
One of few movies I never tire of.

[ellie]

42. Goin' South was great!

So many quotable lines! Approximate (I am the queen of the misquote)

Hey Peachy!

Vultures can fly. And they keep the desert clean!

Why don't you go down to the Mexican side of town and see what the beans are jumpin' on?

Nature is the great provider!

I asked you out ten times and all I got was the back of your hand! Shit!

I like to think of canning apricots. I don't know why. Apricots seem to work best.

I feels sorry for the grass!

Ooh nasty!


I love this movie! I have it on VHS. I wonder if there are any extras on the DVD? Probably not, since it was made so long ago.

[indigobusiness]

46. I'm so hungry I could eat a frozen dog.

I'll see if we got one already froze...

[jobycom]

7. A Fish Called Wanda, but Princess Bride is one of my favorites.

[MissMillie]

105. Gets my vote too

But I also love Raising Arizona.

[alvis]

8. Brain Donors

One of my favorites. John Tuturro was great as always :)

[A HERETIC I AM]

12. Brain Donors was great! but it was a remake of "A Night at the Opera"

by the Marx Brothers. Funny as hell nonetheless.

My vote?

A tie between Airplane and Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[alvis]

21. I thought I was the only one

Who liked it!

[mom cat]

9. The Groove Tube

[SnohoDem]

26. I saw the Groove Tube when it was new and I was 18 -

and I fell out of my chair, I was laughing so hard.

Now I prefer more refined, adult comedy like (ahem) Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Airplane, and Animal House...

Hilarious movie for its time. It introduced many of us to 'sketch comedy' as well as Brown 25.

[wtmusic]

10. Spinal Tap or Young Frankenstein

[SheilaT]

11. The Odd Couple.

I laughed so hard when I saw it I'd miss the next three or four lines.

Also A Fish Called Wanda. I catch it on TV every so often, and I laugh and laugh at most of it.

[efhmc]

20. Both of those are classics. I also loved Kingpin.

[Gildor Inglorion]

13. Lately, I'm partial to "Rat Race"

I actually bought it so I can watch it for a guffaw when I need one.

[efhmc]

22. I don't think that I have ever seen that movie. Tell me more, please.

[Gildor Inglorion]

27. It's just a merry bunch of nonsense...

a bunch of billionaires hides $2,000,000.00 in a locker in a train station in New Mexico and pick like, eight people at random in a Las Vegas casino & give them keys to the locker. Whoever gets there first gets to keep the money. The billionaires bet on their favorites. The ensuing race is simply indescribable, and some of the funniest people alive are in it, including Rowland Atkinson, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Whoopi Goldberg, John Cleese, Kathy Bates, etc. I recommend it for a couple of hours of laughter.

[maveric]

34. Its like a remake of "Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

A Star studded cast and a race for hidden money. John Lovitz was great in that one.

[Failure]

39. It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world may be my second choice

for the funniest movie ever.


failure.

[lolly]

44. Favorite Scene:

Cuba Gooding Jr. and the bus full of Lucy impersonators . . .

[GregW]

14. Blazing Saddles or Life of Brian

Just 'slightly' different humor :eyes:

[EstimatedProphet]

15. Life of Brian or Animal Crackers

Both good

[Burma Jones]

91. This scene kills me every time

But then, Mrs. Whitehead intrudes, just when Spaulding feels he has Mrs. Rittenhouse on "the five-yard line." He works on Mrs. Whitehead too, complimenting her on her beautiful eyes. He looks toward Mrs. Rittenhouse and includes her, and merges them into one individual: "And so have you." Conversely, he splits himself into two - he describes and then acts out his own facial expressions: "He shot her a glance (he shoots his eyes sideways) - as a smile played around his lips (he flutters his own lips)." He declares that he thinks that they both add up to the ideal woman, with four beautiful eyes:

Yes, I don't think I've ever seen four more beautiful eyes in my life. Well, three anyway. You know, you two girls have everything. You're tall and short and slim and stout and blonde and brunette, and that's just the kind of a girl I crave. We three would make an ideal couple. Why, you've got beauty, charm, money. You have got money, haven't you? 'Cause if you haven't, we can quit right now.


In this scene, he has simultaneously proposed love and marriage to both Mrs. Rittenhouse and Mrs. Whitehead. Mrs. Rittenhouse is again brutally mishandled:

Mrs. Rittenhouse: I'm fascinated.
Spaulding: I'm 'fascinated' too. Right on the arm.

Spaulding then excuses himself for a "strange interlude" during this marriage proposal scene. He mocks the portentiousness of the theatre and parodies Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude with three soliloquies, by speaking in 'interior monologues' directly to the audience. In each one, he starts by stepping forward toward the camera and delivering a monologue, and ends by shooting his eyes up and stepping back.

In the first "strange interlude," he compares them to a couple of baboons:

Pardon me while I have a strange interlude. Why, you couple of baboons! What makes you think I'd marry either one of you! Strange how the wind blows tonight. It has a tintity voice, reminds me of poor old Moslin. How happy I could be with either of these two if both of them just went away!

He returns to the scene with the ladies and proposes to marry both of them: "Well, what do you say girls, what do you say, will you marry me?...Both of you, let's all get married. This is my party. Party! Party!"

In the second interlude, he criticizes heavy theatricality and introspection:

Spaulding: Here I am talkin' of parties. I came down here for a party. What happens? Nothing. Not even ice cream. The gods looked down and laughed. This would be a better world for children if the parents had to eat the spinach. (He steps back and proposes marriage to both of them.) Well, what do you say, girls? What do you say? Are we all gonna get married?

Mrs. Rittenhouse: All of us?
Spaulding: All of us!
Mrs. Rittenhouse: But that's bigamy!
Spaulding: Yes, and that's big-a-me, too...It's big of all of us. Let's be big for a change. I'm sick of these conventional marriages! One woman and one man was good enough for your grandmother, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Nobody, not even your grandfather. Think, think of the honeymoon, strictly private. I wouldn't let another woman in on this. Well, maybe one or two but no men. I may not go myself.
Mrs. Rittenhouse: Are you suggesting companionate marriage?
Spaulding: Well, it's got its advantages. You could live with your folks and I could live with your folks. (To Mrs. Whitehead) And you, you could sell Fuller Brushes.

Spaulding leads into his third soliloquy by speaking of his future with the wealthy Mrs. Rittenhouse, and a strange solemn speech about ghostly shares of stocks going up and down dusty corridors:

Living with your folks. Living with your folks. The beginning of the end. Drab dead yesterdays shutting out beautiful tomorrows. Hideous, stumbling footsteps creaking along the misty corridors of time. And in those corridors I see figures, strange figures, weird figures, Steel 186, Anaconda 74, American Cane 138...

He spryly asks both of them again: "Do you think we really ought to get married?" Mrs. Rittenhouse and Mrs. Whitehead both refuse - they believe marriage is a very "noble institution" and "the foundation of the American home." Spaulding replies with a contemptuous, politically-inappropriate retort:


Yes, but the trouble is, you can't enforce it. It was put over on the American people while our boys were over there and all our girls were over here.

[EstimatedProphet]

104. By God that movie is a work of genius

For anyone that hasn't seen it, that scene just described takes all of a minute or two. It is THAT fast-paced.
Thanks for posting this. It brought a smile to my face.

[Burma Jones]

112. You're Welcome, fellow Deadhead

[m-jean03]

16. Silver Streak?

I don't know about the FUNNIEST, but it ALWAYS makes me crack up. :-)

[Az]

17. The Producers

No contest. Even out funnies Holy Grail.

[flamingpie2500]

18. Blazing Saddles gets my vote as well

[Jim Sagle]

19. Escape from New York.

[PragMantisT]

23. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

I saw it when it came out and have owned it in every media I have had.

Caddyshack and Blues Brothers are damn good too.

Dr. Strangelove is right up there too.

[HEyHEY]

40. amen!

[nickgutierrez]

48. I second that n/t

[Commendatori]

92. I third it (n/t)

[Rooktoven]

110. I 4th it.

I thought we were an autonomous collective...

[achtung_circus]

111. You're just fooling yourself NT

[mitchum]

24. "The Lady Eve" or "This Is Spinal Tap"

[Raenelle]

79. Absolutely. I came on to post "The Lady Eve" but Spinal Tap

is up there too.

[mitchum]

84. You've got good taste, Raenelle

:)

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. Beavis and Butthead / or South Park

Those are the ones that I rolled with laughter the most. During Beavis and Butthead I had a moment I was laughing so heavily, so uncontrollably, I was almost out of my chair and actually had serious thoughts that I might pass out because I couldn't get any breath. What a F-ING brilliantly funny movie.

All the other movies listed here are very funny, that is quite true, and much more cleverly and subtly funny (especially Young Frankenstein, Airplane, Blazing Saddles, Marx Brothers Movies, Smokey and the Bandit, Monty Python), but Beavis and Butthead and the South Park movie are the two that had me almost dead from laughter.

[Gildor Inglorion]

28. I forgot "Raising Arizona"

that has to rank right up toward the top somewhere.

[moof]

29. What's Up Doc

[WoodrowFan]

67. don't you know the meaning of the word propriety?

Steve?

[moof]

83. Oh No !! I hope it's not his COCKyx

[WoodrowFan]

88. they're not much to see really

we're inside a Chinese dragon.

[camero]

30. Strange Brew and Blazing Saddles

eom

[lpbk2713]

31. Car Wash

Aside from some of the others above.

[SarahB]

32. Monty Python always does it for me

Especially The Meaning of Life. Funny stuff.

[Donkeyboy75]

33. Too many to choose from

I can't decide between The Big Lebowski, Strange Brew, Blazing Saddles, The History of the World Part II or The Life of Brian...

[solinvictus]

35. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas..

Period.

[Failure]

38. OH GOD........

Did you eat all this acid???





That's RIGHT....MUSIC!


failure.

[Failure]

36. National Lampoon's Vacation.....<nt>

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[ProudGerman]

41. I thought that movie sucked

Not enough sitegags

I'm gonna nominate Army of Darkness, simply because it hasn't be nominated yet. Bruce Campbell being the best comedic actor alive has a bit to do with it too. His talent is simply not recognized enough.

[HEyHEY]

43. That movie wasn't so funny

;-)

[nickgutierrez]

50. Thirty-seven?!?!?! n/t

[chaska]

45. The French movie 'Delicatessen' is a must see.

[The empressof all]

47. Maybe not #1 but

I loved Albert Brooks Lost in America and Mother both were roll on the floor funny

[Nailzberg]

49. Blazin Saddles

"I know, we'll pull a number six on them"


What could be funnier than that?

[arwalden]

51. Life of Brian

[Dover]

52. Any of the early Woody Allen films

.

[Dover]

53. When I was young I used to love Danny Kaye movies...I'd laugh till

my sides ached. Lucille Ball had a similar effect.

[FireHeart]

54. The Court Jester with Kaye

Was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

[WoodrowFan]

89. what movie had "the chalice with the palace"

I'd LOVE to see that one.

[hyphenate]

101. That's Court Jester EOM

[Canuckistanian]

102. Oh, yeah! 'What's Up, Tiger Lily'

Just about wet my pants.

[MrSlayer]

55. Blazing Saddles

Fucking hilarious every single time.

Honorable mention to Young Frankenstein, The Exorcist, Slap Shot, All the Python movies and Fear of a Black Hat among many.

[Rocinante]

56. International House

It featured W.C. Fields, George Burns, Gracie Allen and Bela Lugosi. I believe in the big dance production there is a young sailor played by Sterling Holloway. It's not my favorite Fields film, but the cast is outstanding, and without W.C. Fields the film would have been worthless.

On edit-this is also the film that a young Cab Calloway sang "Reefer Man".

[theoceansnerves]

57. tommy boy

hilarious each and every time.

[MichaelUK]

58. Snatch or Lock Stock and 2 smoking barrells

Not only do they 'ave perf'mances at'll stand t' test o' time, but they've got quotes for all occasions...

"You should never underestimate the predictablility of stupidity"

"A few minutes ago this was the safest job in the world. Now it's looking like a bad day in Bosnia."

"So, you'll be the big dick. And those either side of you will be your mincy faggot balls."

[Angelus]

59. Happy Gilmore.

Greatest. Movie. Ever.

[politicat]

60. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

"Just what this country needs; a cock in a frock on a rock."

"Oh, Felicia, Where the Fuck are we?"

"I no like you anyway. You got a little ding a ling."

The flip-flop dress and the blow-up doll kite.

Hours of good, clean, liberal family fun.

Pcat

[Dogmudgeon]

61. A New Leaf

It's absolutely hysterical. Walter Matthau is a spendthrift playboy who wakes up one morning, broke. He then seeks a rich, but stupid, woman to marry so he can continue his life of dissipation. But it doesn't quite go according to plan.

The marriage proposal is one of the funniest bits in movie history.

You can even buy a copy.

--bkl

[jonnyblitz]

62. for me, Fargo or The House of Yes n/t

[Whitacre D_WI]

63. "Love Story"

[Rabrrrrrr]

73. I'm glad you said that! I was gonna post it.

One of the funniest movies I've seen. Friends and I truly laughed through the whole thing it was so overblown maudlin and emotionalistic. Like a Spielberg movie, but without the budget or the care.

[Whitacre D_WI]

74. "Love means never having to say you're sorry."

"LOVE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY!!!!"

[Twillig]

76. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard."

:)

Ryan O'Neal to Streisand in What's up Doc?.

(after she said 'Love means....')

One of the funniest movies as noted previously. Great car chase.

[Rabrrrrrr]

78. And sometimesx love means taking a shovel to yer head over and over

to spare you, and us, the misery of your existence.

[marigold20]

64. In the last year, I'd add Bad Santa to the list

of funniest movies- only Billy Bob could have played Bad Santa. I think it's coming out on DVD soon but remember, this movie is not for kids!

[slinkerwink]

66. Definitely "The Exorcist!"

[Burma Jones]

114. When I finally saw this baked

It was one of the most hilarious things I had ever seen.

[TX-RAT]

68. Raising Arizona

[terrya]

70. "Airport 1975"

The most unintentionally hilarious movie ever made.

[nini]

71. Young Frankenstein

I LOVE that movie...

especially the Madeline Kahn scenes in the bedroom.

[Bog Frog]

72. Tootsie

[phillybri]

75. Old School

"SPANISH!!!!!!"

[PAMod]

77. "Fletch"

[Ediacara]

80. CLUE

[DoverFrank]

81. Planes, Trains, & Automobiles.

[bif]

82. Tie: Spinal Tap & Wayne's World

Followed by The Producers.

[bigwillq]

85. 'There's Something about Mary' and 'Liar, Liar'

were two movies that I laughed so loud in at the movies.

Also, the first 'Friday' also come to mind.

[ScreamingMeemie]

86. The Main Event....

Woooohoooo! wooooohooooo! Get's me everytime. :hi:

[Endangered Specie]

87. Hot Shots (part deux, preferably) also...

the Naked Gun Series (1 2.5 and 33.333repeat)

[Burma Jones]

90. The Producers

or Sleeper
or Duck Soup
or South Park BLU
or MP and the Holy Grail
or Life of Brian
or Blazing Saddles

[Quahog]

93. "The In-Laws" (Peter Falk/Alan Arkin)

My favorite line from that movie:

"That's IT?!?!? The DENTAL thing?!?!?? I'M A DEAD MAN!!!"

[Bertha Venation]

94. a draw: "Tootsie" and "Young Frankenstein" (age 20-30-ish DUers read!)

Now listen up, youngsters -- you good folks born from, say, '75 and later. You're probably aware of "Young Frankenstein" because it's just that awesome. But maybe you've never seen "Tootsie."

Do yourselves a favor: Don't rent. BUY "TOOTSIE." It is the funniest god-damned movie I have ever seen. You'll laugh your nubile asses off!

[retread]

95. Impossible to answer!! Here's 5-- City Lights, Modern Times, The General

Animal Crackers(hooray for Captain Spaulding) and A Night at the Opera.

[Sequoia]

96. Charlie Chaplin: The Kid

However, "Young Frankenstein" and "The Producers"

[Bonhomme Richard]

97. The Russians are Coming..........The Russians are Coming......

To this day it cracks me up every time I see it.

[Richardo]

99. Emehrgeny! Emehrgency! Everyone to get from street!

"Remark to this, Whittaker Walt. We must have boat. Even now may be too late. This is your island, I make your responsibility you help us get boat quickly, otherwise there is World War III, and everybody is blaming YOU! "

I love this movie! :D

[ThoughtCriminal]

119. Wouldn't it be fun

To show it as a double feature with "Red Dawn":evilgrin:

[Merrick]

103. Underground - Kustarica

Actually I probably wouldnt say this is THE funniest movie of all time, but the few obvious favorites (especially Fear and Loathing in LV, Airplane, Blazing Saddles) were taken already, but I just had to put this one up.

[MI Cherie]

107. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it."

[Mr_Lefty]

109. Big Trouble in Little China

Everybody knows that...

[opiate69]

113. Caddyshack.

'Nuff said.

[minkyboodle]

115. My Top Three

Young Frankenstein, This Is Spinal Tap and Life of Brian
(edited to add Bananas (how did I forget that one) or Sleeper)

[LostInAnomie]

116. Dirty Work or Screwed

Kingpin was great too

[gate of the sun]

118. what about Bob, Heathers, Gilbert Grape (whatever it's called)

but I wouldn't say the funniest. I can't think of the "funniest".

[ThoughtCriminal]

120. Duck Soup

Marx Brothers - Famouse for:

The Harpo/Groucho "Mirror scene"
"We're Going to War!" production number

[tainted_chimp]

121. The Party

Peter Sellers is brilliant.

"Birdy num num"

"Howdy Part-e-ner"

also,

The Out Of Towners.

[tainted_chimp]

122. Flirting With Disaster

and

Meet the Parents

[Lindsey]

123. Best in Show

"Leslie and I can talk or not talk about something all day."

[VOX]

124. Waiting for Guffman, Dr. Strangelove, It's a Gift (W.C. Fields)...

Also Laurel and Hardy's Sons of the Desert, and Abbott and Costello Meet FRankenstein.

Classic stuff!

[opihimoimoi]

125. Blazing Saddles, Up in Smoke, Me, My Self & Irene, and Little Big Man