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Simple one here. Following a conversation with some mates at the weekend the topic of funniest film of all time came up. Now obviously there was no clear answer but it got me thinking. So what in your opinion is the funniest film of all time?
In reply to Frank4short: life of brian
In reply to Frank4short:
Depends on what mood I'm in. Right now Monty Python and the Holy Grail or Withnail and I, but that could change any second.
Depends on what mood I'm in. Right now Monty Python and the Holy Grail or Withnail and I, but that could change any second.
In reply to Frank4short: Blues Brothers
In reply to Frank4short:
Duck Soup
Mon Oncle
Les Diner des Cons
National Lampoons Animal House
Holy Grail
Impossible to pick just one.
Duck Soup
Mon Oncle
Les Diner des Cons
National Lampoons Animal House
Holy Grail
Impossible to pick just one.
In reply to Frank4short: Me, Myself and Irene.
In reply to Frank4short: South Park the Movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Cliffhanger (from a climber's perspective it's hilarious).
In reply to Frank4short: "in bruges" has some brilliant moments but its quite sad in parts but definitely worth a look in.
In reply to Frank4short: Clerks
everytime!
everytime!
In reply to Frank4short:
Can't answer your question but I can recommend "In the loop" - VERY funny.
Can't answer your question but I can recommend "In the loop" - VERY funny.
In reply to Frank4short:
young frankienstien
or is that frankienstein
seriously funny film over and over again
as is blazzing saddles
jokes layered uopn jokes layered upon jokes
almost every line in them both makes you laugh
young frankienstien
or is that frankienstein
seriously funny film over and over again
as is blazzing saddles
jokes layered uopn jokes layered upon jokes
almost every line in them both makes you laugh
In reply to Frank4short: Cant pick just one!! So many make me cry with laughter!
As an insight into my humour...
Most films with:
Jim Carey or
Gene Wilder and Richard Prior or
Eddie Murphy or
Steve Martin or
John Candy
Plus films like Airplane sequels, Life of Brian, Spaceballs etc.
As an insight into my humour...
Most films with:
Jim Carey or
Gene Wilder and Richard Prior or
Eddie Murphy or
Steve Martin or
John Candy
Plus films like Airplane sequels, Life of Brian, Spaceballs etc.
In reply to Frank4short:
forgot to mention "water boy" which is brilliant.
forgot to mention "water boy" which is brilliant.
In reply to Frank4short: vertical limit?? otherwise its got to be Dr strangeglove.
In reply to Frank4short:
sir henry at rawlinson end is one of the funniest films i've ever seen... simple genius in action.
otherwise
withnail
spinal tap
holy grail
sir henry at rawlinson end is one of the funniest films i've ever seen... simple genius in action.
otherwise
withnail
spinal tap
holy grail
In reply to Frank4short:
For real belly laughs a lot of the silent movies were absolute crackers. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's early work is cracking as is loads of Chaplin'c stuff.
Unfortunately in these days of special effects "mere" slapstick genius doesn't get a look in.
For real belly laughs a lot of the silent movies were absolute crackers. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's early work is cracking as is loads of Chaplin'c stuff.
Unfortunately in these days of special effects "mere" slapstick genius doesn't get a look in.
In reply to Frank4short: For me the Pink Panther films, timeless, effortless and comedy genius.
In reply to jonoh:
oh yeah, you reminded me... doctor strangelove is incredible.
oh yeah, you reminded me... doctor strangelove is incredible.
In reply to sarah79:
my god, are you serious?? i hated that movie and didnt laugh once
my vote goes to 'planes, trains and automobiles', painful but real laugh out loud stuff
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> Burn After Reading was very funny
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> Burn After Reading was very funny
my god, are you serious?? i hated that movie and didnt laugh once
my vote goes to 'planes, trains and automobiles', painful but real laugh out loud stuff
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Also Scanners.
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> Duck Soup
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> Duck Soup
Also Scanners.
In reply to Frank4short: The Strike, Yellowbeard, revenge of billy the kid, The Jerk....Oh Brother where art thou....
In reply to lynx3555:
The Revenge of Billy the Kid is an awesome film. The kitchen table sex scene is the best.
You don't know Marcus from Skye do you?
The Revenge of Billy the Kid is an awesome film. The kitchen table sex scene is the best.
You don't know Marcus from Skye do you?
In reply to Dom Whillans: my favorite is the fancy dress party with the sergeants are dressed as a zebra. The Zebra proceeds to drink the punch and Peter Sellers pipes up " I will take your stripes ". Then a car chase ensues with a gorilla driving a jeep, followed by a knight and zebra all to the amusement of a local sat outside a bar. That good i have put it on now !!
In reply to Removed User: I know marcus well....In fact marcus and I first watched this film in the cinema on the poly confidence flotel about 1994...I thought it was going to be a western!
In reply to lynx3555:
He is the only other person I have ever met who knows of this film. If you see him say Hi from Stuart, the hitchhiker with whom we took Ike on to the Cioch when Ike was about 9.
Sounds like there ought to be a Skye and Lochalsh TRoBtK appreciation society.
He is the only other person I have ever met who knows of this film. If you see him say Hi from Stuart, the hitchhiker with whom we took Ike on to the Cioch when Ike was about 9.
Sounds like there ought to be a Skye and Lochalsh TRoBtK appreciation society.
In reply to Frank4short:
Oldish -
Life of Brian or Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Newish-
Dodgeball
=D
Oldish -
Life of Brian or Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Newish-
Dodgeball
=D
In reply to Frank4short:
Top Secret, the funniest film ever to contain a badly painted cow in wellingtons as a stand in for a panto cow.
Top Secret, the funniest film ever to contain a badly painted cow in wellingtons as a stand in for a panto cow.
In reply to Wrongfoot: 'Sons of the Desert' - the best Laurel and Hardy film.
In reply to Removed User: Living in Kyle seems to alter peoples views of what is a funny movie...tell 'em your other faves there Lynx !!
In reply to lynx3555: please, no more !!!
In reply to jonoh:
"I will have your stripes for this" - to the zebra, as above
"Does your dog bite?" and the ensuing set-up ("but that is not my dog")
"Sir Hugh Panther, the notorious Pink Lytton"
And Dreyfus spinning his globe in his ofice, cutting the end off his finger in his cigar cutter, the very non-PC Cato quotes ("not now Cato you yellow fool!"). The cod accent remains brilliant and Sellers a troubled genius - especially dismounting from the parallel bars straight down the stairwell....
Another vote for A Shot in the Dark then oh, and Life of Brian, too
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> For me the Pink Panther films, timeless, effortless and comedy genius.
"I will have your stripes for this" - to the zebra, as above
"Does your dog bite?" and the ensuing set-up ("but that is not my dog")
"Sir Hugh Panther, the notorious Pink Lytton"
And Dreyfus spinning his globe in his ofice, cutting the end off his finger in his cigar cutter, the very non-PC Cato quotes ("not now Cato you yellow fool!"). The cod accent remains brilliant and Sellers a troubled genius - especially dismounting from the parallel bars straight down the stairwell....
Another vote for A Shot in the Dark then oh, and Life of Brian, too
B
In reply to Frank4short:
Borat
Borat
In reply to blanchie14c: Blues Brothers - best car chase scenes ever and still holds the record for most cars destroyed in a single film !
Laurel and Hardy - Everything the did !!
The Jerk - Steve Martins best film !
The Pink Panther films - All of 'em !
Laurel and Hardy - Everything the did !!
The Jerk - Steve Martins best film !
The Pink Panther films - All of 'em !
In reply to Tobias at Home: A vote for 'Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines"
In reply to Frank4short:
Pet Detective
Cable Guy
The Brain
Chevy Chase when he plays the Invisible man can't remember the name of film.
Finally George Forby and that other guy what's his name, older films, in one film (black and white) he tries to join the police force but is not tall enough but ends up impersonating one, in another film colour this time he's a milk man with Horse and cart struggling against a bigger corporation that's trying to put him out of business,in that film shouting "Mr pipkin, Mr Pipkin" . Can anyone remember his name(early morning brain mist).
Pet Detective
Cable Guy
The Brain
Chevy Chase when he plays the Invisible man can't remember the name of film.
Finally George Forby and that other guy what's his name, older films, in one film (black and white) he tries to join the police force but is not tall enough but ends up impersonating one, in another film colour this time he's a milk man with Horse and cart struggling against a bigger corporation that's trying to put him out of business,in that film shouting "Mr pipkin, Mr Pipkin" . Can anyone remember his name(early morning brain mist).
In reply to The brainn:
The ones that have had got me pissing meself in the cinema are:
Blazing Saddles
Airplane (not the sequels)
Dumb and Dumber (and I was soooo determined not to enjoy it...)
The ones that have had got me pissing meself in the cinema are:
Blazing Saddles
Airplane (not the sequels)
Dumb and Dumber (and I was soooo determined not to enjoy it...)
In reply to alan wilson: you didn't mention "the trailer park boys" mr Wilson.....
In reply to Allan McDonald (Gwydyr MC):
The Jerk, is that the one where he grew up with a black family, and cant understand why he havent got any rhytm like his brothers and sisters?
Then runs off to a circus looking for work, then proudly writes home to say he have been offered a blowjob?
The Jerk, is that the one where he grew up with a black family, and cant understand why he havent got any rhytm like his brothers and sisters?
Then runs off to a circus looking for work, then proudly writes home to say he have been offered a blowjob?
In reply to The brainn:
Norman Wisdom??
Norman Wisdom??
In reply to blanchie14c:
Think he is still alive to this day! Very funny guy, memories of watching norman Wisdom films on Saturday afternoons after the wrestling......
(and Harold Lloyd, Lorel and Hardy, St Trinians, Abbot and Costello etc etc)
PS
Don't think it was 'Mr pipkin' think it was 'Mr Grimsdale'. always the same set up in every film though eh - Mr Grimsdale was always some sort of authority in Normans life and as you say, when he panicked it was always - "Mr Grimsdale, Mr Grimsdale...."
Happy daze!
Think he is still alive to this day! Very funny guy, memories of watching norman Wisdom films on Saturday afternoons after the wrestling......
(and Harold Lloyd, Lorel and Hardy, St Trinians, Abbot and Costello etc etc)
PS
Don't think it was 'Mr pipkin' think it was 'Mr Grimsdale'. always the same set up in every film though eh - Mr Grimsdale was always some sort of authority in Normans life and as you say, when he panicked it was always - "Mr Grimsdale, Mr Grimsdale...."
Happy daze!
In reply to Frank4short: the Big Lebowski, Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre in that order.
In reply to pdufus:
I too thought Nacho Libre was funny but it got generally slated?
I tent to like the ironic humour of brit films - Rita Sue Bob too, brassed off etc...
I too thought Nacho Libre was funny but it got generally slated?
I tent to like the ironic humour of brit films - Rita Sue Bob too, brassed off etc...
In reply to Frank4short: Ghost buster's, monty python, or the orignal pink panther films
In reply to Al Evans:
Yeah and I held your rope - hahaha great reply Al
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Yeah and I held your rope - hahaha great reply Al
In reply to Frank4short:
Airplane is the only one I had to watch at least once again. I laughed so much the first time I missed half of it, and was told to shut up as nobody else could hear the dialogue.
Peter Sellers films usually made me laugh, Mel Brookes has the odd moment but not my style.
Lots more have been funny, a lot mentioned on this thread.
Airplane is the only one I had to watch at least once again. I laughed so much the first time I missed half of it, and was told to shut up as nobody else could hear the dialogue.
Peter Sellers films usually made me laugh, Mel Brookes has the odd moment but not my style.
Lots more have been funny, a lot mentioned on this thread.
In reply to The brainn:
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
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>> Chevy Chase when he plays the Invisible man can't remember the name of film.
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
In reply to Al Evans:
Blimey Al, have you really had to wait since 1978 to use that punchline?! Just for the record, could nobody follow it?
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Blimey Al, have you really had to wait since 1978 to use that punchline?! Just for the record, could nobody follow it?
In reply to Frank4short:
Nat Lampoons' Euro Vacation. When national stereotypes was fair game for good humour.
Nat Lampoons' Euro Vacation. When national stereotypes was fair game for good humour.
In reply to Frank4short: Jour de Fete, The Ruling Class, What''s New Pussycat, Withnail, and I'm amazed no one has mentioned Some Like it Hot
In reply to kieran b:
Seconded loudly! Also, Hot Fuzz. Belly laugh fests for me
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> my god, are you serious?? i hated that movie and didnt laugh once
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> my vote goes to 'planes, trains and automobiles', painful but real laugh out loud stuff
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> my god, are you serious?? i hated that movie and didnt laugh once
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> my vote goes to 'planes, trains and automobiles', painful but real laugh out loud stuff
Seconded loudly! Also, Hot Fuzz. Belly laugh fests for me
In reply to Frank4short: I think 2 of Jim Carey's films are the best i have seen
1.Liar Liar
2.Bruce Almighty
1.Liar Liar
2.Bruce Almighty
In reply to Frank4short:
More votes for (Seller's) Pink Panthers (thinking of Salty Sea Dog and Wax? What wax..? for example) Blues Brothers (Is this the new Bluesmobile or what?) and Python.
Got me thinking of anther thread - 'The Office' or 'Phoenix Nights'?
More votes for (Seller's) Pink Panthers (thinking of Salty Sea Dog and Wax? What wax..? for example) Blues Brothers (Is this the new Bluesmobile or what?) and Python.
Got me thinking of anther thread - 'The Office' or 'Phoenix Nights'?
In reply to Rockmonkey680:
which just goes to show that humour is a ver personal thing...we both loved PT&A but i hated hot fuzz, and even left the cinema early!
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> Seconded loudly! Also, Hot Fuzz. Belly laugh fests for me
which just goes to show that humour is a ver personal thing...we both loved PT&A but i hated hot fuzz, and even left the cinema early!
To Alan Partridge fans, this is one of the funniest things I've seen recently - the Rural Alan special feature from the DVD.
Brilliant
youtube.com/watch?v=DBiJDmkpZQc&
Brilliant
youtube.com/watch?v=DBiJDmkpZQc&
In reply to Frank4short:
Blazing Saddles
Airplane
Holy Grail
Hot Shots - part deux
Carry on up the Khyber
Blazing Saddles
Airplane
Holy Grail
Hot Shots - part deux
Carry on up the Khyber
In reply to sarah79: I thought that was poor for them ..not nearly up to their usual standards ... Fargo or Oh brother ..
In reply to Frank4short: mine would have to be ..(like everyone else)
one of the pythons ...Holy Grail or life of Brian.
but Oh Brother where art thou ..has me grinning and chortling all the way through ..
"we thought you was a toad"..."a TOOOAAAD"
one of the pythons ...Holy Grail or life of Brian.
but Oh Brother where art thou ..has me grinning and chortling all the way through ..
"we thought you was a toad"..."a TOOOAAAD"
In reply to Frank4short:
Blazing Saddles
but these never fail to amuse me
The man with two brains
The big Lebowski
Grosse Pointe Blank
Animal house
Blazing Saddles
but these never fail to amuse me
The man with two brains
The big Lebowski
Grosse Pointe Blank
Animal house
In reply to Rourke: Agreed, I literally pissed myself first time a saw D & D.
In reply to bobbybin:
see no evil, hear no evil- or anything with Gene Wilder and Richard Prior together.
Trading places is another perennial favourite. the 80s was golden decade for comedy films.
see no evil, hear no evil- or anything with Gene Wilder and Richard Prior together.
Trading places is another perennial favourite. the 80s was golden decade for comedy films.
In reply to Frank4short:
Old - The Plank, Pink Panther movies and The Life of Brian.
More recent - Gross Point Blank and Talladega Nights.
Old - The Plank, Pink Panther movies and The Life of Brian.
More recent - Gross Point Blank and Talladega Nights.
In reply to Frank4short: Oh and The Full Monty
In reply to Frank4short:
"Team America" has made me laugh the most to date, no doubt I'll see funnier films over time.
"Team America" has made me laugh the most to date, no doubt I'll see funnier films over time.
In reply to Butterfly with a Bomb:
Skin Deep was pretty funny, especially the light sabre scene...
Skin Deep was pretty funny, especially the light sabre scene...
In reply to tom valentine: Fantastic film! L.S.D. and his "group" was my fave bit, and the crazed rooftop- dwelling nazi is one of the all-time classic characters too.
What about the original "Bedazzled" too with Pete & Dud?
What about the original "Bedazzled" too with Pete & Dud?
In reply to overdrawnboy: ahhhhhh, jour de fete! id completely forgotten about that one! used to watch it as a child- remember referring to it as 'the funny french postman film'! never understood a word of it but still remember finding it hilarious! good times!
Dodgeball, Anchorman, Theres something about Mary and Three fugitives (just because its so shit its funny.
Forgot Hotel Paradiso
In reply to Dave Garnett:
I did, Geoff Milburn just watched and declined to solo it.
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> Blimey Al, have you really had to wait since 1978 to use that punchline?! Just for the record, could nobody follow it?
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> Blimey Al, have you really had to wait since 1978 to use that punchline?! Just for the record, could nobody follow it?
I did, Geoff Milburn just watched and declined to solo it.
In reply to Guy:
YEAH BABY!!
youtube.com/watch?v=TJ_Sqj7JUn8&
PP.
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> Blazing Saddles
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> Blazing Saddles
YEAH BABY!!
youtube.com/watch?v=TJ_Sqj7JUn8&
PP.
MST3K: The Movie
In reply to Frank4short: Hot Rod!!! but loads of others are equally as funny.
In reply to vincentvega:
My vote also, a must with any life threatening hangover
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> Anchorman. It cant be watched enough!
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> Anchorman. It cant be watched enough!
My vote also, a must with any life threatening hangover
In reply to bouldery bits:
I remember watching Porky's for the first time, just so happened my parents and their freinds were also watching, I must have been about 14. and the scene with Lassie howling away, whilst the coach is trying not to laugh out loud, superb.
Other than this - The Plank, L&H, Holy Grail, Pink Panther is terrfic, so many.
I remember watching Porky's for the first time, just so happened my parents and their freinds were also watching, I must have been about 14. and the scene with Lassie howling away, whilst the coach is trying not to laugh out loud, superb.
Other than this - The Plank, L&H, Holy Grail, Pink Panther is terrfic, so many.
In reply to Frank4short: Gotta be Planes trains and automobiles
In reply to Frank4short:
The Party is very funny. Peter Sellers is excellent in it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN8FjyvrHY4&feature=PlayList&p=62F77...
The Party is very funny. Peter Sellers is excellent in it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN8FjyvrHY4&feature=PlayList&p=62F77...
In reply to Frank4short: Talledega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby.
So many classic lines:
"Theres a kilo of Columbian Bam Bam under the car, time to be a man, you got hair on your peaches or what"
"Remember when we got kicked out of class for playing with matchbox cars, WHO'S RETARDED NOW!"
"You have to learn to drive with the fear"
So many classic lines:
"Theres a kilo of Columbian Bam Bam under the car, time to be a man, you got hair on your peaches or what"
"Remember when we got kicked out of class for playing with matchbox cars, WHO'S RETARDED NOW!"
"You have to learn to drive with the fear"
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