What's the most UNFUNNY comedy in movie history?

Oh hell, Waterboy isn't even Sandler's worst comedy.

[italic]Eight Crazy Nights[/italic] was worse by far, but I had blocked its existence.

Speaking of SNL alums, anything with Will Ferrell in it.

[italic]Semi-Pro[/italic] was awful. [italic]Blades of Glory[/italic] was okay.

First Family (1980)

Animal House

I can't remember a single line from that movie that doesn't have profanity in it, R5.

Movie 43 is pretty fucking awful. I was forced to sit through it on a date, otherwise I would have walked out. My date found it mildly amusing, so needless to say, I didn't fuck him.

Rhinestone, It's Pat, Caddyshack II, Leonard Part 6 are some of the worst.

Martin Short's Clifford...The money used to make this film should have been burned to produce warmth for the homeless.

I couldn't even finish [italic]D.C. Cab[/italic].

The one with that person where she dresses like a mousy little man. So unfunny, I heard from someone who said he saw it. I don't know if I ever knew her name, or the name of the movie.

Knob?

Protocol with Goldie Hawn

Presenting, For Honourable Mention, a choice between: Baby Mama and Bridesmaids.

I like all SNL leading ladies and their gal pals here, but as movies, I always get they underdelivered.

Spielberg's 1941 is a catastrophic disaster.

"Scenes From A Mall": it's almost unbelievable that a film with Woody Allen and Bette Midler has exactly one funny moment in the entire film.

Runner up: "Mixed Nuts"

Drowning Mona

Blues Brothers

Anything with Jerry Lewis except The King of Comedy.

That terrible Bruce Willis movie where he's trying to steal something made by DaVinci. Sandra Bernhard is in it as a villain. I want to say 'Ford Fairlaine'?

Sad to say, Troop Beverly Hills. Just pitifully unfunny and desperate. As funny as an autopsy.

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

The one with Adam Sandler playing someone AND his sister.

[quote] That terrible Bruce Willis movie where he's trying to steal something made by DaVinci. Sandra Bernhard is in it as a villain. I want to say 'Ford Fairlaine'?

Hudson Hawk. Ford Fairlane (which starred Andrew Dice Clay) was arguably even worse.

Another vote for ANY Adam Sandler movie. Pick one, any one. They’re all awful.

Silver Streak with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor is especially dreadful.

This may not sit well with some, but I also nominate It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World. It’s pretty much 3 hours of people screaming at each other.

Legally Blonde 2.

No "bend and snap" can save this piece of shit.

I was severely depressed the first time I watched it, so no doubt that colored my perception, but I detested every minute of The Great Race. Even a DL icon could not redeem it for me)

Steve Martin's The Jerk

The Producers.

Not the original, but the play-to-the-back-row musical.

The Jerk and Silver Streak are great movies.

And here I've always had complete nostalgia for "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"! I especially always loved Ethel Merman, even if she was shouting all the time.

Fatso.

Spies Like Us

The Quiet Man

I like a lot of these movies for what they are, mindless entertainment with a few laughs. Maybe I am easily amused.

However, I really didn’t like Foul Play with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase. No laughs at all.

Ahhh r35 blasphemy! I love Protocol too r13, although I know it loses a lot of steam towards the end (that’s the problem with most comedies, actually - even good ones)

I've forgotten what it was called. I think it was either by Nora Ephron or Nancy Meyers.

Three shrieking middle-aged cunts, who think acting like hysterical thirteen-year-olds is cute and adorable. Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan and (I think) Lisa Kudrow. Each more unbearable than the other. Not a single funny moment. I switched to the torture scenes in the Idi Amin movie as those were less painful to watch.

North. Easily the worst excuse for a comedy I have ever seen and the only comedy that made me angry while watching it. Roger Ebert said it best in this now famous review:

"I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering, stupid, vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it."

I came here to post North but just got beaten to it. I got into a screeening for free and it was so bad I wanted my time back.

Cadillac Man (1990) starring Robin Williams and Tim Robbins was the worst, most UNfunny "comedy" I've ever seen. Horrible movie.

I've never seen North and this post (and others) make me insanely curious.

Is it worth hate watching?

I couldn't imagine enjoying North even on a "so bad it's good" level.

How could anyone put Animal House or Protocol on this list?

They are terrific.

I avoid Sandler movies now but I did enjoy the golf one and where he went to elementary school. I've been told before this was the perfect place to stop.

My list would include:

The Birdcage, Team America, the Scary Movie sequels after the Wayans family left, those awful Meet The Parents films...

Donny & Marie Osmond - "Goin' Coconuts" The perky Mormons battle one ethnic caricature after another. It's so repulsive, no one has ever watched all of it.

Thunder Force with Melissa McCarthy. It was one of the most dreadfully unfunny movies - shockingly so. I'm a huge Melissa McCarthy and I really didn't even smirk once during this horrid movie.

[quote] Spielberg's 1941 is a catastrophic disaster.

The very worst kind!

"You, Me and Dupree"

I have a long standing fascination with Problem Child. Got my roomie to watch it during lockdown. Amy Yasbeck steals the show. It’s one hell of a shitty film.

There are those who have a great affection for 1941. Maybe because it's Spielberg.

[quote] I'm a huge Melissa McCarthy and I

So is she.

Cabin Boy

Burn Before Reading

All those spoofs from the 00s. Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, Dance Flick, Disaster Movie, Superhero Movie, Movie Movie, etc.

Movie 43 is perhaps the worst movie I've ever sat through. And that's saying a lot.

The remake of The Out of Towners with Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin.

Spaceballs. The only movie I paid to see and left before it was over.

[quote]Spaceballs

Another classic!

Sophie's Choice........... didn't laugh once.

[quote] reaching it’s peak

Oh, dear!

Bueller.

THREAD CLOSED

Anything with Seth Rogen, James Franco, and everyone else in their "stoner stable". I guess their stupid movies are only funny if you're baked out of your mind.

Even then, they're nothing to write home about.

The Big Lebowski

The absolute worst and unfunniest? No contest. Joan Rivers' Rabbit Test.

I somehow doubt that was Henry Winkler's actual ass in The Waterboy, but one can still fantasize. I remember seeing that movie around 12 or 13 years old, and getting a boner when he pulled his pants down and flashed it.

Eddie Murphy's Norbit. It's not just that it's unfunny, it's vicious and unfunny. It's weird because people didn't just dislike it, it really brought out the ugliness in the audience.

R65 the sad part is that’s far from his worst movie. Of the ones I’ve seen it has to be Big Daddy. Jack and Jill doesn’t get it just because of the scenes with Pacino (which you can see pretty much all on YouTube anyway).

Crash

Baby Geniuses

[quote] Eddie Murphy's Norbit. It's not just that it's unfunny, it's vicious and unfunny. It's weird because people didn't just dislike it, it really brought out the ugliness in the audience.

And it probably cost him the Oscar for [italic]Dreamgirls[/italic].

R70 it shouldn’t have though. I know that’s the politics of the Oscars but your other work should have nothing to do with the performance the Academy was voting on. Not to mention, All About Steve didn’t cost Sandra Bullock the Oscar for the Blind Side (which was questionable to begin with , but I guess it was a weak year).

Which reminds me I have to look up if Alan Arkin is still alive.

Hudson Hawk. WTF movie?!

R70, R71, I think Murphy should have won for Dreamgirls in that he actually created a character that wasn't Eddie Murphy but an amalgamation of great R&B performers. He blended those into one character seamlessly whereas in Norbit, he played like 50 Eddie Murphy characters and all were terrible. People hated Norbit with a passion.

The only Coen Bros. comedy I liked was Barton Fink, but that's really gothic horror posing as comedy.

r38, r39 and r41, didn't North basically ruin Rob Reiner's film directing career? I know he still directs but he really did lose a lot of credibility (and lost a lot of momentum) because of it. It wasn't quite Gigli-level of career suicide - - which seems to have ended Martin Brest's career - but it was a huge embarrassment for Reiner.

It couldn't even outgross a movie that had Donald Trump in it.

"The Artist"

It was so cloyingly dreadful. I wanted to leave but thought my friend, who likes all things French, was enjoying it. He was not and wished I had said something.

I thought "The Artist" was charming r77

[quote] didn't North basically ruin Rob Reiner's film directing career? I know he still directs but he really did lose a lot of credibility (and lost a lot of momentum) because of it. It wasn't quite Gigli-level of career suicide - - which seems to have ended Martin Brest's career - but it was a huge embarrassment for Reiner.

His next film was The American President which was a good rebound. The two after that are what sank him.

[quote]The two after that ..

Which were r79? (I'm lazy)

I think one of them was The Deep End of the Bathtub

[quote] Which were [R79]? (I'm lazy)

The Ghosts of Mississippi and The Story of Us

[quote]I think one of them was The Deep End of the Bathtub

Oops, wrong Pfeiffer bomb.

Thanks r82

Yeah r83/r84 that’s about right. The North setback was temporary but then the end of the 90s sunk him. Now just have to be content seeing him on Bill Maher.

A shame because he had a really good run.

Considering Rob Reiner started with Spinal Tap, there was really nowhere to go but down. But North was a pretty precipitous fall.

R18- The original 1980 review in the NYT called the movie 🎥-

OVERPUFFED and OVERSTUFFED

I love Waterboy Big Daddy and Adam Sandler

Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video. Michael O’Donohue’s parody of Mondo Cane. Just weird fucking movie.

How about the Love Guru? Mike Myers can be funny, but NOT in this!

Strangers with Candy, the movie. Eye-watering bad.

Beverly Hills Ninja

Strangers With Candy, the film, was so disappointing because the TV show was brilliant.

The only part that made me laugh:

Jerri: Faaag.

Mr. Noblet: Why did you just call me?

Jerri: What do you think I just called you.

Mr. Noblet: I'd rather not say.

Jerri: Then, I guess we'll never know.

Ten. It was the first movie I ever walked out on.