I love comedy movies but nothing in recent memory has made me belly laugh. Bridesmaids was fun. My favourites are Ruthless People and Throw mamma from the train. I like Melissa McCarthy ( when shes not starring in her hubbys projects..please STOP doing that Melissa; its commendable but its ruining your legacy). I like the back and forth banter of old screwball comedies and I like Cary Grants comedic talents. Goldie Hawn is a favourite as is Death Becomes her. So, what movies made you LOL?
What is your Favourite comedy movie
by Anonymous | reply 216 | November 3, 2024 3:11 PM |
Melissa McCarthy - Spy
PeeWee’s Big Adventure
Mrs. Doubtfire
Emperor’s New Groove
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 21, 2024 11:11 AM |
Some Like It Hot
by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 21, 2024 11:19 AM |
Pretty much any Mel Brooks movie, especially the two pillars of Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. His wit is so sharp, the set designs are charming and evocative, and the acting is perfect down to the extras and supporting players in the town of Rock Ridge and in Transylvania.
I’ve mentioned this movie before but Hot Fuzz is absolutely brilliant - the editing, the subtle clues throughout, the silliness - I will watch it again and again and still howl with laughter.
Animal House, Blues Brothers, Stripes, and Caddyshack hit when I was in late junior high/early high school so of course we memorized them and acted out various scenes at school while cracking each other up: “I was booooorn to love you, I was booooorn to lick your face…” and I still laugh at the anarchy in each of these movies. I miss that.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 21, 2024 11:21 AM |
Some like it hot is one of my favourites. Emperors new groove is an interesting choice. I dont know how we havent gotten a Spy 2? Mrs Doubtfire is lovely and cozy...like Splash.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 21, 2024 11:23 AM |
I was too young and probably too gay for the Stripes, Animal House kind of movies. Is Hollywood unable to make us laugh or has everything been done? This Laurel and Hardy scene makes me howl with laughter. I showed it to a bedridden friend who soon after died and he laughed so much. Its a moment, his family say, brought them all a lot of joy at the time and remembering it. Is it the writers or maybe we dont have good comedy actors now? Kevin Harts shtick is funny enough but done to death now. Remember Whoopi in Ghost? Hysterical. The bank scene is class. Why do I have to go back that far to reference something funny?
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 21, 2024 11:32 AM |
[quote]please STOP doing that Melissa; its commendable but its ruining your legacy
A legacy of fat girls shitting themselves and being stuffed into gorgeous gowns?
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 21, 2024 11:34 AM |
In Bruges (2006). It's my favorite comedy and in my top five favorite movies. Watching it always puts me in a good mood.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 21, 2024 11:36 AM |
Fatal Attraction
G as a sex kitten never fails to make me laugh
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 21, 2024 11:36 AM |
Woody Allen’s early, funny movies
by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 21, 2024 11:37 AM |
R6 Yes..its a style of comedy called gross out. its usually male driven and i never cared for it...but Bridesmaids had heart. I love Mel Brooks...genius. Ive recently discovered Larry David and watched all episodes and loved it....but thats TV..and again both rate and 20 years old.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 21, 2024 11:40 AM |
oops...rare..not rate ... Do you think its an age thing? Or more specificly a decade thing. And we remain in love with m9vies that were aimed at us then..and they arent aimed at us now? My dads still rewatched 60s and 70s comedy movies when i was a kid...Mel Brooks and Woody Allen a lot. But surely funny is funny. The Marx brothers, Laurel and Hardy were well before my time but I love them. Who is making the people lol nowadays...and i'll check them out.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 21, 2024 11:46 AM |
I love Spy, and The Heat.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 21, 2024 11:56 AM |
Do you laugh more if you are watching it in a crowded movie theatre vs at home alone?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 21, 2024 11:56 AM |
Home alone because I'm free to laugh at the really stupid stuff or the stuff that's not meant to be funny.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 21, 2024 12:27 PM |
Airplane
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 21, 2024 12:28 PM |
The Producers..a classic but still hilarious. The Nazi musical number could never be done today. . Bridesmaids, Caddyshack, the last 20 minutes of Tootsie.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 21, 2024 12:31 PM |
Duck Soup
Bringing Up Baby
Raising Arizona
The General
Jacque Tati's Playtime
by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 21, 2024 12:46 PM |
John Waters’ Hairspray from 1988
by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 21, 2024 1:11 PM |
Thank You For Smoking is pretty good.
I used to show clips from it to my American Government students.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 21, 2024 1:39 PM |
The Awful Truth
by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 21, 2024 2:23 PM |
I completely neglected Buster Keaton’s entire catalogue, Duck Soup, and Bananas - Woody Allen was at his best when showing his deep Marx Brothers influence and Bananas is so absurd it makes me cry with laughter.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 21, 2024 2:30 PM |
What's Up, Doc?
by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 21, 2024 2:36 PM |
1. What's Up Doc? 2. Young Frankenstein 3. Showgirls
by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 21, 2024 2:38 PM |
The movie that was like a carnival ride from start to finish, I'm So Excited. Also, Women on the Verge
by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 21, 2024 2:43 PM |
Great choices everyone!
I’ll add The Producers and Bullets Over Broadway
by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 21, 2024 2:46 PM |
Woody Allen was the KING from Take The Money And Run to Bananas, to Sleeper (a comic masterpiece), to Love and Death, to Annie Hall, to Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, which is a criminally underrated sidesplitting BLAST of a film, to Zelig (another masterpiece), to Broadway Danny Rose. That streak is unbeatable. And then the Judy Davis scene in Husbands and Wives where she starts raging about men at the home of her prospective opera date, just phenomenal. Nothing touches Woody when he's on form.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 21, 2024 2:54 PM |
Best in Show
by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 21, 2024 3:11 PM |
Drop Dead Gorgeous. Not a big success but it’s lasted and I’ll watch it every few years.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 21, 2024 3:12 PM |
Shaun of the Dead
Young Frankenstein
Death Becomes Her
Arsenic and Old Lace
by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 21, 2024 3:37 PM |
I love the Minnesota accent Kirstie Ally does in Drop Dead Gorgeous.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 21, 2024 3:46 PM |
What’s Up Doc ?
by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 21, 2024 3:53 PM |
Waiting for Guffman, and another vote for What’s Up, Doc?
Unintentional comedy: Mommie Dearest, and another vote for Showgirls.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | October 21, 2024 4:01 PM |
Serial Mom!
by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 21, 2024 4:04 PM |
I have watched Horrible Bosses more times than should be allowed, and I laugh until my stomach hurts every time. The three leads have insane chemistry together, and I am an eternal sucker for Jason Bateman's straight man schtick. He's just inherently so goddamn funny. Also always a pleasure to see Kevin Spacey doing comedy.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | October 21, 2024 6:26 PM |
Clue is my favorite comedy movie. Coming to America is a close second.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 21, 2024 7:02 PM |
Now Voyager
by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 21, 2024 7:21 PM |
Sweet Home Alabama is a fun movie. It's a nice feel-good movie with a cute gay storyline.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 21, 2024 7:33 PM |
What's Up Doc, Arthur (the Dudley Moore one), Play it Again Sam, the Full Monty. I'm sure there are more but I can't think of them. I don't like those horrid "hangover" type movies. They're just not funny. They're just stupid.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | October 21, 2024 8:04 PM |
Election, To Die For, The Lonely Guy, Zoolander
by Anonymous | reply 42 | October 21, 2024 8:16 PM |
Sophie's Choice.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | October 21, 2024 8:17 PM |
Another Horrible Bosses fan here. The sequel wasn't nearly as good. Office Christmas Party was hilarious too.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | October 21, 2024 8:24 PM |
Another vote for What's Up Doc. I've been on DL for years, and I would bet WUD is the #1 favorite on here.
Albert Brooks' Lost in America is another favorite of mine.
OP, I totally agree with your assessment of Melissa McCarthy's career. I think she's brilliant in Spy and The Heat, but the movies she makes for her husband are awful! She must really love the guy to partake in them.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | October 21, 2024 8:27 PM |
Tootsie (1982)- For me it’s a movie I can watch over and over.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | October 21, 2024 8:28 PM |
What about 9 to 5? That's a classic.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | October 21, 2024 8:33 PM |
I tried to watch 9 to 5 fairly recently. I couldn't get thru it. It seemed dated and stupid.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | October 21, 2024 8:45 PM |
Working Girl
by Anonymous | reply 49 | October 21, 2024 8:50 PM |
The Graduate
by Anonymous | reply 50 | October 21, 2024 8:51 PM |
Oh my god, R38 of course, CLUE is one for the ages. One of my all-time favorites, I can't believe I forgot about it.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | October 21, 2024 8:52 PM |
I remember thinking The End was hilarious when I was a kid. Tried to watch it recently and I had to turn it off.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | October 21, 2024 8:53 PM |
Jerry Lewis' "Cracking Up" is one of my favorite films ever. It's not everyone's cup of tea but some of those scenes/characters have stayed with me for decades. The entire opening credits sequence of him sliding off the furniture in the therapist's office, omg. It just goes on and on. Jerry was a one-man comedy army.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | October 21, 2024 8:57 PM |
Most of mine have been mentioned already:
Animal House
Horrible Bosses
Arthur
Best in Show
Spinal Tap
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The Hangover
Meet the Parents
Princess Bride
by Anonymous | reply 54 | October 21, 2024 9:03 PM |
Porky's
by Anonymous | reply 55 | October 21, 2024 9:04 PM |
The Austin Powers movies. There are 2 types of people in the world. You either crack-up at them in a good way, find them extremely funny as I do, or you can't get over how unfunny and stupid the comedy is -
The last time I truly tears producing, belly-laughed at a movie is during the Jerry Springer scene in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | October 21, 2024 9:20 PM |
Follies
by Anonymous | reply 57 | October 21, 2024 10:05 PM |
Hot Tub Time Machine splits my sides and fills my Gen X horndog heart.
Girls Trip and Office Christmas Party will do in a pinch, too.
Oh, and Fun Size. I love Fun Size.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | October 21, 2024 10:22 PM |
This is Spinal Tap along with the rest of the Christopher Guest mockumentaries.
Young Frankenstein and History of the World Part I by Mel Brooks
The Frisco Kid starring Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford. This one may not be well known. A Rabbi and a bank robber have to get to San Francisco in the old west. Just trust me.
Dogma
by Anonymous | reply 59 | October 21, 2024 10:36 PM |
Defending Your Life. If you see one movie before you die...
by Anonymous | reply 60 | October 21, 2024 11:06 PM |
r56, I find most of his movies get funnier upon viewing, especially "So I Married an Axe Murderer".
by Anonymous | reply 61 | October 21, 2024 11:39 PM |
Raising Arizona
by Anonymous | reply 62 | October 21, 2024 11:40 PM |
This is Spinal Tap and the two Brady Bunch movies. They always make me laugh.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | October 21, 2024 11:47 PM |
r61, So many have told me to watch SIMAAM and now you've praised it, too.
For sure, it's going on my This Winter Snowy Saturday Afternoon watch list.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | October 22, 2024 12:35 AM |
I love a lot of the movies mentioned above. I also really love Barb and Star, Clockwatchers, Big Tease, Bottoms, Harold and Kumar, Home For the Holidays, The Daytrippers.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | October 22, 2024 12:59 AM |
R65 It's great. Criminally underrated.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | October 22, 2024 1:03 AM |
Serial Mom was great. Most movies by John Waters are funny.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | October 22, 2024 1:13 AM |
Some like it hot, and Clockwise.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | October 22, 2024 2:54 AM |
R58 I second Office Christmas Party cuz Jason Bateman can do NO WRONG
by Anonymous | reply 70 | October 22, 2024 10:29 AM |
R44 Oh now, it was pretty funny. Not as funny, no, but some hilarious moments. Particularly when they went to the motel to meet the "hitman" that Dale found for $250. And when Bateman is in the dentist office and ends up getting roped into the sex addict circle. OMG he's just so fucking funny!
by Anonymous | reply 71 | October 22, 2024 10:34 AM |
The Heat, This is 40, Knocked Up, and Team America World Police.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | October 22, 2024 10:42 AM |
Nice Girls Don't Explode
Zelig
Love & Death
What's Up, Doc?
by Anonymous | reply 73 | October 22, 2024 12:12 PM |
A Sinful Life In the Spirit
by Anonymous | reply 74 | October 22, 2024 3:19 PM |
Little Miss Sunshine
by Anonymous | reply 75 | October 22, 2024 4:00 PM |
Harvey. I love Jimmy Stewart and Josephine Hall in this. It had an excellent cast that understood comedy.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | October 22, 2024 4:45 PM |
The Egg and I (Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, 1947).
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (Cary Grant and Myrna Loy, 1948).
Topper (Cary Grant and Constance Bennett, 1937).
The Thin Man (William Powell and Myrna Loy, 1934).
by Anonymous | reply 77 | October 22, 2024 7:16 PM |
If we're talking purely about a movie that makes me laugh more than any other movie: Stepbrothers (2008).
by Anonymous | reply 78 | October 22, 2024 9:06 PM |
Uncle Buck. I miss John Candy so much.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | October 22, 2024 9:41 PM |
Fatso
by Anonymous | reply 81 | October 22, 2024 10:13 PM |
any of Jean Arthur's comedies She was fucking brilliant.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | October 22, 2024 10:26 PM |
The Producers (zero mostel/gene wilder is my absolute favorite. Arthur (the original) and the Marx Brothers (Horsefeathers is my favorite)
Guilty pleasure comedy—the first Jackass movie. I literally cried laughing in the theater.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | October 22, 2024 10:45 PM |
Just came on here to say Stepbrothers, R78. Mary Steenburgen elevates the insanity and allows for a humane, beating heart to live at the center of the chaos.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | October 22, 2024 10:49 PM |
Miss Firecracker with Holly Hunter. It's rare when I laugh in a movie as much as that one.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | October 22, 2024 11:04 PM |
r83 How could I forget the first Jackass flick? I laughed until it hurt.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | October 22, 2024 11:17 PM |
Just rewatched Neighbors from 1981 with John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd. My mom had taken me to see the movie at the theater when it first came out. I was 8 years old and thought it was the most sidesplitting film EVER. Upon a rewatch, it is still very funny, if incredibly dated. Akroyd's "Vic" character is iconic, like next-level brilliant. And Belushi as straight man is wonderful.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | October 22, 2024 11:50 PM |
Probably ‘Beaches’. ‘Meatballs’. Not the whole film but the part where Bill Murray eats feces in a public swimming pool;I believe it centered around ritzy tennis 🎾 courts. Oh, “Continental Divide” is the best thing John Belushi ever did, same with “The Toy” when it comes to Richard Prior.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | October 23, 2024 12:08 AM |
The Toy was fantastic, R88 but Stir Crazy is arguably the funniest Richard Pryor film. He and Gene Wilder were a folie à deux of comedic chemistry.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | October 23, 2024 12:40 AM |
Mortimor's brother Teddy never fails to make me laugh in Arsenic and Old Lace. It tickles my funny bone.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | October 23, 2024 1:02 AM |
Mel Brooks: The Producers, To Be or Not to Be, Young Frankenstein, and History of the World Part 2
by Anonymous | reply 91 | October 23, 2024 1:16 AM |
Using the criterion of which comedy movie have I re-watched the most, my favorite is Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | October 23, 2024 1:57 AM |
His Girl Friday, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and How to Marry a Millionaire.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | October 23, 2024 2:04 AM |
I was nuts about him. Know what he did to me. First he gave me a phony name. Second, he was already married. Third, the minute the preacher said amen, he never did another tap of work. Then he stole my TV set and gave it to a car hop. When I asked him about that, he hit me with a chicken.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | October 23, 2024 2:08 AM |
Christopher Reeves and Michael Caine in DEATHTRAP
by Anonymous | reply 95 | October 23, 2024 3:01 AM |
This Is Spinal Tap
by Anonymous | reply 96 | October 23, 2024 4:57 AM |
OP here. I love 90% of these choices. R78 I saw Harvey during covid..josephine Hall was utterly wonderful..i think she got the oscar but died without making another movie soon after. Sleeper is fun. So, is it a lack of writers or actors good at comedy that is todays problem? We need more comedy movies 😃 Borat made me laugh while my friend was stone faced. Is there a good comedy in the past 5 years? I like Horrible bosses also..love the cast.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | October 23, 2024 5:29 AM |
Trading Places still makes me laugh.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | October 23, 2024 5:38 AM |
It’s a crime how few of these I have actually sat and watched. I guess that should be on my bucket list. Austin Powers is one that is so dumb I have to laugh at it.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | October 23, 2024 6:18 AM |
Something about Mary.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | October 23, 2024 6:36 AM |
Helen Martin (Pearl Shay from 227) in Don’t Be A Menace. This is one of my all time favorite clips.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | October 23, 2024 9:30 PM |
Just watched Murder By Death today, it's pretty great. Insane casting. Peter Sellers, James Coco, Alec Guiness, Estelle Winwood, Truman Capote, Peter Falk, Eileen Brennan. There is a scene where Falk's character, Sam Diamond, is in a guest bedroom room with his lady, Brennan. Feeling neglected sexually throughout the film, she finally says "Why do you always have so many male muscle magazines in your office, Sam?" and he responds without even a blink, "Suspects. Always looking for suspects."
Peter Falk is THE BEST.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | October 23, 2024 9:42 PM |
Some Like it Hot
Victor/Victoria
Tootsie
When Harry Met Sally
Modern Times
The General
Harold & Maude
Shampoo
9 to 5
Trading Places
Caddyshack
Coming to America
Fargo
My Cousin Vinny
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Birdcage
Camp - Mommie Dearest
1939 The Women
by Anonymous | reply 103 | October 23, 2024 9:45 PM |
"It's a Gift" W.C. Fields
by Anonymous | reply 104 | October 23, 2024 9:49 PM |
I hadn't thought of including "Harold and Maude" but yeah, R103 it's one of my all-time favorites, too.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | October 23, 2024 9:59 PM |
"Bringing Up Baby"
"The Man Who Came to Dinner"
"Car Wash"
"High Anxiety"
by Anonymous | reply 106 | October 24, 2024 12:12 AM |
I was crying when I saw, "A Fish Called Wanda", then tried viewing it many years later. It didn't age well.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | October 24, 2024 12:15 AM |
I love Bowfinger because of so many inside film jokes. Roxanne was great too.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | October 24, 2024 12:17 AM |
Napoleon Dynamite
by Anonymous | reply 109 | October 24, 2024 1:53 AM |
I laughed so hard at the scene in Bowfinger of the dog in high heel shoes they're using for audio effects.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | October 24, 2024 2:07 AM |
Waiting For Guffman
"That's what you are, you're just bastard people and I'm going home and I'm gonna... I'm gonna bite my pillow is what I'm gonna do!"
by Anonymous | reply 111 | October 24, 2024 2:16 AM |
I Love You to Death 1990 Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, River Phoenix, William Hurt, Keanu Reeves, Joan Plowright
by Anonymous | reply 112 | October 24, 2024 7:04 PM |
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World. It never gets old to me.
Spy with Melissa McCarthy. I love that movie.
Fargo
Burn After Reading
Mel Brooks, The Producers, the original with Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel
Grand Budapest Hotel
by Anonymous | reply 113 | October 24, 2024 7:12 PM |
It's Pat
by Anonymous | reply 114 | October 24, 2024 8:52 PM |
Bowfinger should be more celebrated, Steve Martin as the broke producer who makes the actors pay to audition is hilarious.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | October 24, 2024 8:56 PM |
R115, my favortie part is when they're trying to recruit crew by having a van by the Mexican border and trying to get the fleeing immigrants in the van. They get their crew, who know nothing at all about filmmaking, and by the end of the film, they're all talking about Kubrick's ouvre and lenses.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | October 24, 2024 9:09 PM |
Dr Strangelove
Withnail & I
Kind hearts and Coronets
The Ladykillers (1955)
by Anonymous | reply 117 | October 24, 2024 9:16 PM |
Oh year my other film based comedy is, "Living in Oblivion" with a strangely attractive Steve Buscemi.
Also how could I forget, "American Movie"?
by Anonymous | reply 118 | October 24, 2024 9:19 PM |
Ahemmm. Do I really need to say?
by Anonymous | reply 119 | October 24, 2024 9:22 PM |
R117 I love Withnail & I.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | October 24, 2024 9:23 PM |
Op here..Bowfinger is great. I love Christine Baranski in it...its very funny.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | October 24, 2024 9:29 PM |
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | October 24, 2024 9:29 PM |
Stalin’s Funeral.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | October 24, 2024 9:30 PM |
Forgot about Dr. Strangelove! I can still hear Peter Sellers, "Dimitri!"
Reminds me. I should list the first three Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers. Dear God. Herbert Lom's Dreyfus was hysterical!
by Anonymous | reply 124 | October 24, 2024 10:37 PM |
What About Bob
The Burbs
Tootsie
by Anonymous | reply 125 | October 24, 2024 10:43 PM |
Only the Lonely
by Anonymous | reply 126 | October 24, 2024 10:52 PM |
Not a specific movie, per say, but I am addicted to MST3K and Rifftrax. The Rifftrax episode with The Guy From Harlem (blaxpoitation) makes me heave with laughter. Right now I can't bear to watch the news, I am only doing comedy, and these funny people are getting me through the days.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | October 24, 2024 10:58 PM |
The Brady Bunch movies.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | October 24, 2024 11:02 PM |
What About Bob!! What a great suggestion. I'd forgotten all about it and it was hilarious.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | October 25, 2024 3:14 AM |
My top 5:
Coming to America, Groundhog Day, Friday, There’s Something about Mary, Top 5
by Anonymous | reply 130 | October 25, 2024 3:16 AM |
the funny Melissa McCarthy movies
Bringing Down the House with Dana Owens and Steve Martin
Death Becomes Her
There is a movie I watched a long time ago. I remember it vaguely but it was very funny. It's set ina hotel or apartment building somewhere and people go from room to room etc...wished I remebered the name- its an old movie with various storylines and actors
by Anonymous | reply 131 | October 25, 2024 3:23 AM |
Precious
by Anonymous | reply 132 | October 25, 2024 3:36 AM |
Anybody remember “Big Business” 1988 Lily Tomlin/Bette Midler just silly but a lot of fun-
by Anonymous | reply 134 | October 25, 2024 4:26 AM |
I'm surprised there's no love for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
by Anonymous | reply 135 | October 25, 2024 4:31 AM |
Ethel in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was a fucking revelation..
by Anonymous | reply 136 | October 25, 2024 4:36 AM |
Plenty of favorites already listed. I'll add SIXTEEN CANDLES and RUTHLESS PEOPLE if they haven't been mentioned yet
by Anonymous | reply 137 | October 25, 2024 4:38 AM |
Bitches are sleeping on Soapdish here. I’m disappointed.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | October 25, 2024 4:58 AM |
Speedy
Our Hospitality
Seven Chances
Duck Soup
Libeled Lady
The Palm Beach Story
Midnight
Trouble in Paradise
The Pink Panther
Female Trouble
Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap
by Anonymous | reply 139 | October 25, 2024 5:00 AM |
Nurse Betty
by Anonymous | reply 140 | October 25, 2024 5:03 AM |
I like Knocked Up - lots of good moments
by Anonymous | reply 141 | October 25, 2024 5:07 AM |
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is up there too.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | October 25, 2024 5:09 AM |
Ed Wood.
Watching a scene with Martin Landau, I convulsed with laughter, aspirated my saliva, blacked out, face-planted, and came to with carpetburn on my forehead. I guess that counts as LOL.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | October 25, 2024 5:11 AM |
Mother with Debbie Reynolds, Albert Brooks, and Rob Morrow. Albert Brooks, freshly-divorced, wonders where it all went wrong with women, for him. He moves back in with his mother to get to the root of the woman problem. They go food shopping together and he cannot stand Mother's cheapness when it comes to food (generic sherbet, freezer full of frozen cheese).
by Anonymous | reply 144 | October 25, 2024 5:20 AM |
Dumb and Dumber
by Anonymous | reply 145 | October 25, 2024 5:27 AM |
Since when do gringos have a sense of humor?
by Anonymous | reply 146 | October 25, 2024 5:33 AM |
Airplane! is a movie I never get tired of watching. I'd say Clue would be second.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | October 25, 2024 1:01 PM |
Op here, brilliant choices. I want to watch many of these again like Clue, What about Bob, Arsenic and old lace and Soapdish. Never seen Mother with Debbie Reynolds and am seeking it out right now. Still nothing in the past 5 or 10 years mentioned.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | October 25, 2024 1:26 PM |
Money Pit
Overboard (Goldie and Kirk)
It's Complicated
Something's Gotta Give
The Devil Wears Prada
My Best Friend's Wedding
by Anonymous | reply 149 | October 25, 2024 1:58 PM |
Idiocracy. It gets funnier upon successive viewings. Unfortunately prescient as well.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | October 25, 2024 2:02 PM |
R150 Speak on it. If that film ain’t prophecy of today’s world…
by Anonymous | reply 151 | October 25, 2024 2:08 PM |
The Party with Peter Sellers has about 5 laugh out loud set pieces.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | October 25, 2024 2:10 PM |
OK, this is old and it's kind of off beat, but I think it is one of the best comedies I've seen. It should be a classic. The Good Girl with Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhaal. Mike White wrote it and he's in it too.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | October 25, 2024 11:01 PM |
R153 how is this movie funny?
by Anonymous | reply 154 | October 25, 2024 11:06 PM |
Vacation still works - over 40 years later.
Young Frankenstein
40 Year Old Virgin
And I still love scenes from Eddie Murphy's family in Nutty Professor 1 &2.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | October 26, 2024 12:30 AM |
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
by Anonymous | reply 156 | October 26, 2024 12:34 AM |
R155 Nutty Professor is fkin hilarious yo. It’s not a great movie plot wise but some individual scenes contain some of the funniest moments in cinematic history.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | October 26, 2024 12:37 AM |
R157 - well, it WAS a remake - most of the plot is the same as the Jerry Lewis 1963 film - even the main character's name, Buddy Love.
But for me, there will never be a funnier character than the Grandma - oh gawd, every FUCKING scene was GOLD!
by Anonymous | reply 158 | October 26, 2024 12:45 AM |
I just watched the 1st Scooby-Doo film after not seeing it in over 20 years & LOL'd at so many things in it.
I don't recall it being that funny the first time around.
They really crammed lots of stuff in this one.
Scooby in grandma drag was hilarious.
by Anonymous | reply 159 | October 26, 2024 12:51 AM |
Being There
by Anonymous | reply 160 | October 26, 2024 1:19 AM |
Tom Hanks’ Lady Killers.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | October 26, 2024 3:40 AM |
Just watched Moonstruck. It was fun.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | October 26, 2024 3:54 AM |
The Great Outdoors
The Nutty Professor (1996)
Ghostbusters (2016, extended director's cut)
by Anonymous | reply 163 | October 26, 2024 4:16 AM |
OP/ R148, for more modern comedies I can recommend Don't Look Up (2021), Masterminds (2016), and....
GAME NIGHT (2018)!!!!!!!! Starring my favorite guy, Jason Bateman along with Rachel McAdams Michael C. Hall, Billy Magnussun, Michael Cyril Creighton, Chelsea Peretti and Jesse Plevens. Game Night is one of those chaotic films where everything spirals out of control real fast, and it's glorious.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | October 26, 2024 8:13 AM |
What about Bob
by Anonymous | reply 165 | October 26, 2024 11:40 AM |
Drop Dead Gergeous
by Anonymous | reply 166 | October 26, 2024 12:16 PM |
Waiting for Guffman
Best in Show
Bingo! (Dog movie)
by Anonymous | reply 167 | October 26, 2024 12:17 PM |
Let's Go to Prison
by Anonymous | reply 168 | October 26, 2024 12:18 PM |
Serial Mom
by Anonymous | reply 169 | October 26, 2024 12:19 PM |
What's Up Doc?
by Anonymous | reply 170 | October 26, 2024 12:20 PM |
I love that Christopher Guest is getting a lot of mentions.
His films are brilliant.
Comedy is really subjective though and when I saw Best in Show with some British friends they didn't think it was funny at all.
If you haven't seen it, A Mighty Wind is lesser known but it's my favorite. Jane Lynch is very underrated.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | October 26, 2024 2:53 PM |
Jamie Lee Curtis-Guest has entered the chat.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | October 26, 2024 7:29 PM |
Trading Places is also up there. As you can see I’m a big Eddie Murphy fan.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | October 26, 2024 8:22 PM |
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
In Bruges
Trainspotting
Wonder Boys
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
O Lucky Man
Fargo
Shaun of the Dead
Heathers
The Thin Man
Trading Places
Serial Mom
What's Up, Doc?
Most Tarantino films
Despise list highlights: Some Like it Hot; Victor/Victoria; Tootsie; When Harry Met Sally; The Royal Tenenbaums; The Birdcage; Mel Brooks anything; Airplane; Home Alone
by Anonymous | reply 174 | October 26, 2024 11:13 PM |
What's Up Doc, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, European Vacation, Sixteen Candles, The Meaning of Life
by Anonymous | reply 175 | October 26, 2024 11:42 PM |
It’s very dark, but Welcome to the Dollhouse is one of my favourites.
Also, Waiting for Guffman, Austin Powers, The Life of Brian, The History of the World Part One…
For some reason, the Stonehenge scene in Spinal Tap had me laughing so hard when I saw it the first time, I couldn’t stop, couldn’t breathe!
by Anonymous | reply 176 | October 27, 2024 12:17 AM |
Drop Dead Gorgeous
by Anonymous | reply 177 | October 27, 2024 12:38 AM |
[quote]There is a movie I watched a long time ago. I remember it vaguely but it was very funny. It's set ina hotel or apartment building somewhere and people go from room to room etc...wished I remebered the name- its an old movie with various storylines and actors
Not Four Rooms, right?
by Anonymous | reply 178 | October 27, 2024 12:57 AM |
Chuck & Buck
by Anonymous | reply 179 | October 27, 2024 1:15 AM |
[quote] I like Melissa McCarthy ( when shes not starring in her hubbys projects..please STOP doing that Melissa; its commendable but its ruining your legacy).
Will do!
I often come here looking for career tips. Thanks!
by Anonymous | reply 180 | October 27, 2024 1:17 AM |
If I'm being honest, the films I've probably laughed hardest at in my lifetime are:
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
The Naked Gun: 33 1/3 (how often is the third film in a franchise the best?)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
by Anonymous | reply 181 | October 27, 2024 1:21 AM |
Can’t remember the name … Julie newmar and her husband drop out of society but an RV, and go to Vegas , blow their nest egg….
by Anonymous | reply 182 | October 27, 2024 1:49 AM |
Airplane!
This is Spinal Tap
Blazing Saddles
by Anonymous | reply 183 | October 27, 2024 2:20 AM |
r156.
Thanks for reminding me that I love "Down and Out in Beverly Hills".
That it seemed dated already when it was released only adds to its charm.
It has probably my favorite movie Bette Midler performance and I like all of her comedies.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | October 27, 2024 2:56 AM |
R184 - I thought the dog Matisse stole the movie.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | October 27, 2024 3:30 AM |
Yeah, Matisse was very funny, r185.
"The dog is running the house." as said by Dave Whiteman (Richard Dreyfuss) in that exasperated tone to Matisse's therapist makes me crack-up every time.
Richard Dreyfuss is hot or miss with me, but I really like his performance in DAOIBH. He carries the movie, more that Nick Nolte.
by Anonymous | reply 186 | October 27, 2024 3:47 AM |
Ooops. That should be
Richard Dreyfuss is hit or miss with me, but I really like his performance in DAOIBH. He carries the movie, more than Nick Nolte.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | October 27, 2024 3:48 AM |
[quote] Jamie Lee Curtis-Guest has entered the chat.
That's Jamie Lee Curtis-Guest, Oscar-winner [TM] to you, asshole.
by Anonymous | reply 188 | October 27, 2024 4:53 PM |
How could I forget the Mel Brooks classics from the early-mid 70s. Guaranteed to make you laugh and pick up an otherwise lousy day.
by Anonymous | reply 189 | October 27, 2024 4:55 PM |
That's Lady Haden-Guest to you, common wanker R188
by Anonymous | reply 190 | October 27, 2024 4:56 PM |
^ Does she lend the tiara to her soughter?
by Anonymous | reply 191 | October 27, 2024 5:01 PM |
I forgot all about Airplane! YES! It is still funny!
by Anonymous | reply 192 | October 27, 2024 6:36 PM |
R182, I believe you’re talking about Lost in America with Albert Brooks and Julie Hagerty (not Newmar)
by Anonymous | reply 193 | October 27, 2024 7:01 PM |
Fuck. I forgot about Drop Dead Gorgeous. Saw that on an airplane and everyone was laughing so loud. You thought you were at a comedy show.
by Anonymous | reply 194 | October 27, 2024 11:14 PM |
The Out-Of-Towners (the original with Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis; not the dreadful Goldie Hawn remake)
Best in Show
by Anonymous | reply 195 | October 28, 2024 1:33 AM |
A new leaf was pretty funny from what I remember
by Anonymous | reply 196 | October 28, 2024 1:43 AM |
Postcards From the Edge
by Anonymous | reply 197 | October 28, 2024 1:51 AM |
R196, If you mean the movie with Elaine May and Walther Matthau, then yes indeed.
by Anonymous | reply 198 | October 28, 2024 2:05 AM |
I haven't seen it in years, but The Prisoner of Second Avenue had me cracking up when I watched it sometime back in the 90s (and at the time in NYC). Overall, Neil Simon is hit or miss with a proclivity toward schmaltz which thankfully his contemporaries Woody Allen and Mel Brooks would eschew. Speaking of Woody, I love two of his early comedies: Sleeper and Love & Death.
by Anonymous | reply 199 | October 28, 2024 2:14 AM |
Tootsie. Still funny after all these years.
by Anonymous | reply 200 | October 28, 2024 2:19 AM |
Would this ever been able to have been made today?
by Anonymous | reply 201 | October 28, 2024 5:48 AM |
Holy shit, watching r201's link, it IS the Trump campaign.
by Anonymous | reply 202 | October 28, 2024 5:57 AM |
R202, Funny. I thought it was the Left that was anti-Semitic these days...
by Anonymous | reply 203 | October 28, 2024 1:25 PM |
Baby Boom with the hot Sam Shepard
Sneakers with Sir Ben Kingsley, Robert Redford, and Sidney Poitier
by Anonymous | reply 204 | October 28, 2024 3:29 PM |
R201, that was really good, but it was the remake. The original starred Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel. I loved Dick Shawn in this.
by Anonymous | reply 205 | October 28, 2024 7:57 PM |
Spring time douche
by Anonymous | reply 206 | October 28, 2024 9:09 PM |
I tried to watch Clue this weekend. I love the cast but I didn’t find it hilarious. Tim Curry kind of hogged the whole picture with a character hardly seen in the game.
by Anonymous | reply 207 | October 28, 2024 10:00 PM |
Pee Wee
by Anonymous | reply 208 | October 28, 2024 10:16 PM |
I've said this here before but I never really got the love for Clue. Murder By Death is so much funnier to me. I guess it just depends on what you grew up with
by Anonymous | reply 209 | October 28, 2024 10:25 PM |
Murder By Death is iconic, R209. It was on my list upthread. Clue is iconic too, different generations, as you say. I was born in 1973. Murder By Death was 1976 and Clue was 1985, I became cognizant of popular culture in the space between, and though I relate to growing up with more of the with Martin Mull/Michael McKean/Madeline Khan/Tim Curry era, I also resonate with Peter Sellers and Peter Falk. Funny, Eileen Brennan is in both films! I think they are both worthy films, representative of their respective decades.
by Anonymous | reply 210 | October 29, 2024 1:35 AM |
I love Mrs. Poole in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Her turkey impression kills me. THEN SHE CURSES!
by Anonymous | reply 211 | October 29, 2024 3:18 AM |
R193
Thank you. I stand corrected . I don’t see this film streaming as much as I would like, I’ll have to do further research. How I came up with Juliie Haggerty I’ll never know. Who is she anyway? Now that this mystery has been solved …. I can die a happy elder gay
by Anonymous | reply 212 | October 29, 2024 7:23 AM |
R212 - Julie Haggerty was a successful actress in the 80s to early 90s. Pretty, but not really movie star beautiful. She's been in several other noteworthy movies such as "Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy", "What About Bob?" and personal favorite "Airplane!" Mostly a comic actress but she's done drama as well.
by Anonymous | reply 213 | November 3, 2024 2:07 PM |
RASPBERRIES, bitches! Has no-one said Thoroughly Modern Millie yet?
by Anonymous | reply 214 | November 3, 2024 2:52 PM |
I see it as more of a comedic musical than a comedy.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | November 3, 2024 3:05 PM |
r205 the funniest scene in any movie ever.
by Anonymous | reply 216 | November 3, 2024 3:11 PM |