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What is the best comedy film u have watched?
I want to get a film and want something really really funny
The wife and I had a discussion and she suggested "Hot Fuzz" with Simon Pegg. Can`t disagree. Very funny film.
shaun of the dead
and after last night Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay soo funny!!!
Has to be the contraversial "Life of Brain".. next being the "Holy Grail".
It is funny you brought this up as i noticed a story in the news that a welsh town is trying to have the 30 year ban lifted that has been on the Life of Brian film being shown in there town..It apparently upset many christians when released, but to me this has to be the funniest film man has ever created. IMO anyway.
What is the best comedy film u have watched?
I want to get a film and want something really really funnyBad Santa is a really funny movie, much black and adult humour and well worth watching in my opinion.
Last night we watched 'Run Fat Boy Run' and 'St Trinians', the former was really good, the latter was absolute garbage.
The 51st state....sick but brilliant.
Shrek, any of them
Beetlejuice
Love the Simon Pegg movies...all pure class.
Kevin Milkins
20-Jul-08, 17:46
Twin Town .If you can stick the swearing, Rees Ifons at his youthfull best
And you are Wellcome to borrow it
Melancholy Man
20-Jul-08, 18:41
Where to start? As pure farce, the Naked Gun films were excellent.
Bringing Up Baby, 70 years old, remains absolutely fresh and Kath Hepburn gorgeous.
Barefoot in the Park, with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, had me hooting with laughter the first and second and third times I watched it.
Went the Day Well... okay, it wasn't a comedy, but I did laugh at the sight of a young Thora Hird gunning down German soldiers.
A Shot in the Dark. "But, Chief Inspector Dreyfus, when the call came through I did not know how sensitive it was." "Whom did you send?" "Inspector Clouseau." "Oh my God."
Is Fellini Roma a comedy? The cardinal catwalk certainly was sublime.
Blazing Saddles. "Why don't you play us some of your... African American spirituals?"
The Card, and its little comedy ditty as Alec Guinness drove around on his pony and trap. And Petula Clark! Intelligent women normally un-nerve me, but she was delectable.
DeHaviLand
20-Jul-08, 18:58
Blazing Saddles, Life of Brian and Shaun of the Dead. In that order.
telfordstar
20-Jul-08, 19:30
I loved the american pie films now they made me laugh. Husband loves top secret but me personally dont like it but it has him in stitches. Im sure theres loads more but my minds gone blank:roll:
DeHaviLand
20-Jul-08, 19:47
Just remembered I watched Jackass the Movie last night, and it had me in stitches. Though not as many as the stars of the show. Dont know that I'm happy with calling it a film though, more a compilation of clips.
how could i forget superbad! knocked up and i agree with telfordstar american pie movies
Melancholy Man
20-Jul-08, 20:46
To Be or Not to Be, a satire and ultra-black comedy from 1942 about a troupe of German actors (played, in cases, by German Jews) impersonating Hitler and high ranking Nazis. How on earth did they get away with some of the lines???? "How're the concentration camps?" "Fine, they do the concentrating and we do the camping... ha!".
I haven't seen the Mel Brookes remake, but its Hitler rap sounds fascinating!
Cheers guys
Austin powers is on film 4 @ 9pm tonight
So i think i will b watching that
Off to get comfy
bye for now [lol]
STUDMUFFIN
20-Jul-08, 21:00
gotta be dodgeball and blades of glory
Just for the future.......Bad Boys 2!
As far as I can see, the only reason my daughters will be allowed a boyfriend is so I can open the door and scare the crap out of him like Martin Lawrence & Will Smith do!
~~Tides~~
20-Jul-08, 21:03
Shirley it would have to be Airplane!
old fashioned but:
the old version of st trinians, kind hearts and coronets
George Brims
20-Jul-08, 21:59
Last night we watched 'Run Fat Boy Run' and 'St Trinians', the former was really good, the latter was absolute garbage.
I assume you mean the recent re-make? The original St Trinian's movies were classics.
George Brims
20-Jul-08, 22:07
Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein (Hump? What hump?), The two Benji said, any Peter Sellers Pink Panther except the last one they hashed together after he died, the Will Hay one with the trains - Oh Mr Porter. The Ladykillers (original version with Alex Guinness)
Actually you will get a good laugh out of watching the reaction of the pimply 18 yr old at the video shop when you ask for this list. You will be lucky to find any of them.
Run Fat Boy, Run is coming out in the US soon so I'm looking forward to that one.
Metalattakk
20-Jul-08, 23:22
I loved the american pie films now they made me laugh. Husband loves top secret but me personally dont like it but it has him in stitches. Im sure theres loads more but my minds gone blank:roll:
Your hubby has impeccable taste (in comedic movies at least ;)).
Top Secret is the cream of the crop - there's just so many throwaway one-line gags in there - closely followed by a few of the Zucker/Zucker/Abrahams films that followed: Airplane, Airplane 2 and the Naked Gun films.
A big shout for Blazing Saddles too, even though the ending didn't work for me. :confused
And don't forget This Is Spinal Tap either!
I'm afraid the American Pie series of films just left me cold. Where are the gags? The funnies? It's just no more than smut, and descended into soft porn even more so as the series went on.
Love a good funny film - anything Cary Grant (Philadelphia Story, Arsenic and Old Lace or Monkey Business.........). Airplane brings back so many happy memories - relived the whole film on a bus journey to Inverness with a friend once - laugh! (Dunno what the other passengers might have thought tho :roll:)
The Man With Two Brains - Steve Martin. Any Shrek!!! Marx Bros! Run Fat Boy Run.
Must watch Hot Fuzz tho - bought it for OH but not had a lookie myself yet!
Melancholy Man
21-Jul-08, 09:22
It is funny you brought this up as i noticed a story in the news that a welsh town is trying to have the 30 year ban lifted that has been on the Life of Brian film being shown in there town..It apparently upset many christians when released, but to me this has to be the funniest film man has ever created. IMO anyway.
'Tis Aberystwyth. And the mayor is Sue Jones-Davis, who played Brian's girlfriend Judith Iscariot. I kid you not.
When I saw it at the cinema I was rolling on the floor with a belly ache from laughing: something about mary.
Loch not Lock
21-Jul-08, 11:10
Tony Hancock in The Rebel. A true British classic.
Shirley it would have to be Airplane!
I agree any one of the series including Naked gun and hot shots, silly humour but darn funny :)
Your hubby has impeccable taste (in comedic movies at least ;)).
Top Secret is the cream of the crop - there's just so many throwaway one-line gags in there - closely followed by a few of the Zucker/Zucker/Abrahams films that followed: Airplane, Airplane 2 and the Naked Gun films.
A big shout for Blazing Saddles too, even though the ending didn't work for me. :confused
And don't forget This Is Spinal Tap either!
I'm afraid the American Pie series of films just left me cold. Where are the gags? The funnies? It's just no more than smut, and descended into soft porn even more so as the series went on.
I agree 100% except for I found American pie funny, though the sequels didnt work for me! The apple pie scene is hialrious ;)
Shirley it would have to be Airplane!
Don't call me Shirley!
telfordstar
21-Jul-08, 11:53
Your hubby has impeccable taste (in comedic movies at least ;)).
Top Secret is the cream of the crop - there's just so many throwaway one-line gags in there - closely followed by a few of the Zucker/Zucker/Abrahams films that followed: Airplane, Airplane 2 and the Naked Gun films.
A big shout for Blazing Saddles too, even though the ending didn't work for me. :confused
And don't forget This Is Spinal Tap either!
I'm afraid the American Pie series of films just left me cold. Where are the gags? The funnies? It's just no more than smut, and descended into soft porn even more so as the series went on.
Cheers im not sure to take the first part in a good or bad way about his taste:lol:
That top secret has got to be one of the unfunniest film ive seen one line that sticks im my mind is " I know a little german he`s sitting over there" not funny at all.
Trains, planes and automobiles is quite funny this is in the catagory my hubby calls classics......
futurelegends
21-Jul-08, 13:19
'There's Something About Mary'
'We've got a bleeder' and the 'Hair Gel' Scenes are a scream.
I have to say that 99% of "Comedy" movies are garbage. Most of the modern efforts are smutty/very low brow affairs.
Airplane, Blazing Saddles and Local Hero are probably my three against a very weak field.
As an aside, and I kid you not, I knew a guy who thought that the Hot Shots movie was a documentary.
Melancholy Man
22-Jul-08, 00:19
Airplane, Blazing Saddles and Local Hero are probably my three against a very weak field.I don't really think of Local Hero as a comedy, or at least not in the same category as that others discussed which represent (or attempt to) the absurd. Instead it's one of those very gentle, mellow film which gets better the more you think about it.
Up there with The Station Agent and The Dish.
Time for me to kid people not again. I know the scriptwriter for the Liz Hurley offence, Mad Dogs and Englishman. I considered taking out a contract on his life.
I don't really think of Local Hero as a comedy, or at least not in the same category as that others discussed which represent (or attempt to) the absurd. Instead it's one of those very gentle, mellow film which gets better the more you think about it.
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My thoughts exactly MM. Local Hero is a beautiful film in more ways than one. And to anyone who says differently, "and are there 2 g's in .............."
;)
I'm afraid the American Pie series of films just left me cold. Where are the gags? The funnies? It's just no more than smut, and descended into soft porn even more so as the series went on.
smut and soft porn.... no sense of humour maybe:confused
Must admit I still find the 'Road' movies with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby very funny.
telfordstar
22-Jul-08, 10:50
smut and soft porn.... no sense of humour maybe:confused
well said:lol:
Metalattakk
22-Jul-08, 12:13
smut and soft porn.... no sense of humour maybe:confused
I take it you haven't seen the latest effort that goes under the 'American Pie' banner then? :roll:
I don't really think of Local Hero as a comedy, or at least not in the same category as that others discussed which represent (or attempt to) the absurd. Instead it's one of those very gentle, mellow film which gets better the more you think about it.
Up there with The Station Agent and The Dish.
Time for me to kid people not again. I know the scriptwriter for the Liz Hurley offence, Mad Dogs and Englishman. I considered taking out a contract on his life.
I think there is enough humour in Local Hero to class it as a comedy. It is not "custard pie in the face" humour, and most definitely not "intercourse with apple pie" humour!!
I must admit that the first time I watched Local Hero, I was expecting the type of gags that were present in Bill Forsyth's earlier films That Sinking Feeling and Gregory's Girl. Local Hero is a warm and subtle film, well worth repeat viewing.
"The plank," "Monsieur Hulot's holiday," Ca ferry anne" "Dr Strangelove," "A home of your own" and "The Steamie" to name a few of my favourites.
peter macdonald
23-Jul-08, 12:04
In no real order
Young Frankenstein.... the Grail ......Mr Porter with Will Hay ... Leningrad Cowboys go America... and (when the beer kicks in) anything by the Three Stooges
PM
i cant really say a fav cause i find a lot of stuff funny but the only ones that come to mind are cheech and chong(up in smoke and nice dreams), death becomes her, american pie all of them i totally luved them, monty python (life of brian -holy grail), van wilder party liason, superhero movie, shanghai noon, 27 dresses, what happens in las vegas i could go on and on lol
northener
25-Jul-08, 19:35
National Lampoons Animal House (only the first one) and The Blues brothers.
Passport to Pimlico, Whiskey Galore, St Trinians and a lot of the old Ealing comedies are absolute classics.....
I'm desperately trying to think of the French comedian/actor who starred in some French comedies made, I believe, just after WW11. One of the films was 'The Postman', brilliant stuff - the guys timing was impeccable.
What the hell was his name?.........
Oh yeah i forgot about national lampoons animal house, and blues brothers, loved police academies too
try www.imdb.com (internet movie database) for info on actors and films Northener it has stopped me pulling my hair out manys a time lol
percy toboggan
25-Jul-08, 19:48
First half-hour of 'Man with Two Brains?'
Carry on Sergeant made a big impression...but I was only nine.
Not big on comedies since ..I'm far too glum and serious.
Life Of Brian, one of the best films ever in my opinion! love it!
others i like would have to be waynes world, and pretty much anything with adam sandler in it! apart from that film i think it was "click" with that remote control that controlled time? wasn't too keen on that
Weird Science, hilarious :lol:[lol]:lol:
National Lampoons Animal House (only the first one) and The Blues brothers.
Passport to Pimlico, Whiskey Galore, St Trinians and a lot of the old Ealing comedies are absolute classics.....
I'm desperately trying to think of the French comedian/actor who starred in some French comedies made, I believe, just after WW11. One of the films was 'The Postman', brilliant stuff - the guys timing was impeccable.
What the hell was his name?.........
Was it this guy by any chance?
http://www.art-et-essai.org/repertoire/soutiens/images/jacques_tati_02.jpg
Jacques Tati
Or, as he was known in Caithness, Jack Tattie.
I would never choose to go to the Cinema to watch a comedy, likewise would never buy a comedy movie on DVD. If one happens to be on the telly I may give it a look, but it is a genre that really does not appeal to me. Strange as I quite like some TV comedy.
percy toboggan
27-Jul-08, 17:43
I saw 'Carry on Camping' over 30 times....it always raised a titter.
I was working as a Cinema projectionist at the time.
As someone else commented...'This is Spinal Tap' was very, very good.
Porkies [lol] another good one lol
just been watchin the 3 mighty ducks films anyone remeber them they are ace all i have been watching last couple of nites am also wearing hockey shirt today found one in my brothers clothes so nicked it luv it its all nice and baggy just the way i like it am gona have to buy a few
Twin Town .If you can stick the swearing, Rees Ifons at his youthfull best
And you are Wellcome to borrow it
'Tis shameful Kevin- a Welshman that can't spell Rhys Ifans lol
Satcomguy333
01-Aug-08, 16:07
My thoughts exactly MM. Local Hero is a beautiful film in more ways than one. And to anyone who says differently, "and are there 2 g's in .............."
;)
Perhaps the best line in a great movie!:lol:
It's got to be the Shrek films they were great!! Anything with Tom Green in is classic, Stealing Harvard ect:lol:
Kevin Milkins
01-Aug-08, 23:26
'Tis shameful Kevin- a Welshman that can't spell Rhys Ifans lol
Yes you are right but I have only just got the hang of spelling my own name.:(
If I spend to much time thinking how to spell somthing I forget what I was trying to spell:confused
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