Funniest film you've ever seen?

Ivor Ballokov said:
oh and as I brought christmas films into it, Muppets christmas carol and national lampoons christmas vacation are both great.
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I making a point of watching this every year. Not always at Christmas time either. It is actually amazing.
 
This thread has become largely about Adam Sandler...He's very marmite isn't he. Personally I hate marmite so there you go...

Thing about this kind of question is that 'funniest film' is different to 'best comedy'....Dr Strangelove for example is a much better film than Role Models...But I laughed out loud more at Role Models..So therefore it was funnier. It just wasn't a better film.

Juvenile films are invariably funnier as there is a higher joke per minute ratio...it may be scatter gun, but you'll laugh harder and more often at a film like that than you will at many of Christopher Guests films, which to me are mostly fecking brilliant, but more chuckle humorously to yourself type things

For me Holy Grail sticks out as the one I can watch repeatedly and almost always laugh....Nothing with Adam Sandler in has ever left me thinking anything but 'how is this man so successful?'
 
MockneyRevil said:
This thread has become largely about Adam Sandler...He's very marmite isn't he. Personally I hate marmite so there you go...

Thing about this kind of question is that 'funniest film' is different to 'best comedy'....Dr Strangelove for example is a much better film than Role Models...But I laughed out loud more at Role Models..So therefore it was funnier. It just wasn't a better film.

Juvenile films are invariably funnier as there is a higher joke per minute ratio...it may be scatter gun, but you'll laugh harder and more often at a film like that than you will at many of Christopher Guests films, which to me are mostly fecking brilliant, but more chuckle humorously to yourself type things

For me Holy Grail sticks out as the one I can watch repeatedly and almost always laugh....Nothing with Adam Sandler in has ever left me thinking anything but 'how is this man so successful?'
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I love the "feck you Miss Daisy" part
 
The counselor is hilarious as well....The Hangover, which is the the film that presumably instigated this thread, had a few brilliantly hilarious moments..All the scenes with Tyson in had me almost crying..as did the "They gave out rings at the Holocaust?" line
 
I'm gonna see that film tomorrow, cant wait to see it, based on all the hoopla
 
CassiusClaymore said:
Gonna have to say Anchorman.

If that makes me a kid then I'll go play in my sand pit.

In Bruges is probably the funniest film I've seen in the last year or so.
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I didn't even realize In Bruges was a comedy

But I did laugh out loud when Farrell karate chopped the midget :lol:
 
beardsleybob said:
Yes, but as a distressed man that becomes suicidal after shooting a child dead. His pain was there to see. How is that funny? It doesn't belong in a comedy
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Its a Black Comedy...there shouldn't be comedy in Steve Buscemi's ashes blowing back into John Goodmans face in the Big Lebowski but there is....

It's a very funny film, with that one bit of pathos in there, and because it's in there very briefly, and brilliantly acted, it makes it all the more poignant...There's more funny than serious in that film
 
MockneyRevil said:
Its a Black Comedy...there shouldn't be comedy in Steve Buscemi's ashes blowing back into John Goodmans face in the Big Lebowski but there is....

It's a very funny film, with that one bit of pathos in there, and because it's in there very briefly, and brilliantly acted, it makes it all the more poignant...There's more funny than serious in that film
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Spot on.

He's got his knockers as ol Farrell but he nails it in that movie. Brilliant chemistry with Brendan Gleeson too.

The writer/director Martin McDonagh seems to specialise in black comedy and I was gutted that I missed 'The Pillowman' when it was on here at the Theatre. Check out the synopsis on that if you want 'black'.
 
CassiusClaymore said:
Spot on.
The writer/director Martin McDonagh seems to specialise in black comedy and I was gutted that I missed 'The Pillowman' when it was on here at the Theatre. Check out the synopsis on that if you want 'black'.
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Just have....feck me!...If it's as well written as In Bruges though I'm sure it worked
 
Sure these have been mentioned, but I can't be arsed to trawl through the thread.

Withnail & I
The Big Lebowski
Life of Brian
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Ghostbusters
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
 
Hard to name the funniest of all time. All of the movies below made me laught a hell of a ot when I watched them, and still do today for that matter.

Animal House
Porky's
Meet the Parents
Life of Brain
Stir Crazy
Blazing Saddles
 
I am gonna have to go with Old School, one of the reason certainly was that I was stoned out of my mind for the first time in months and overall the just general atmosphere great. I was crying during the you got a fecking dart in your neck man part
 
Guest House Paradiso - I watched it drunk one night and it's the only film ever to cause me physical pain through laughing so much.
 
40 Year old Virgin
Meet the Parents
Shaolin Soccer

I thought Yes Man was alright too
 
His Girl Friday
Bringing Up Baby
Anchorman
Raising Arizona - "I love him so muuuuuuuch"
Little Miss Sunshine
Police Squad - "Nice beaver"
Austin Powers esp Goldmember
The History of the World Part 1
The Producers
Young Frankenstein
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
School of Rock
Toy Story
The Life of Brian (do, de do, de do, de do de do)
For an all time favourite though, it is still Airplane - it still makes me laugh, but at least now I can watch it without snorking the contents of my dinner out of my nostrils "what a pisser".
 
"That guy's a menace to everything in the air!"

"Yeah, birds, too."
 
Waterworld followed very closely by The Postman. The unintentional comedy is spectacular.
 
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