tell me, LJ...

[snugglekitty]

What's your favorite funny movie?

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Funny movie....

[elkor.livejournal.com]

Clue.

Other top contenders are:
Princess Bride
Court Jester
A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum

Re: Funny movie....

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

Clue! Oh, yes, Clue. It's been too long. :)

Amusing anecdote...

[elkor.livejournal.com]

One time in college, the movie group decided to show Clue. It wasn't until we watched it that we realized they had sent us a theatrical release of the film.

Which only had one ending.

It makes me wish I had seen the movie when it was originally released. I can only contemplate the conversations that happened when people realized that different showings had different endings.

Favorites are <i>hard</i>.

[harlequinaide.livejournal.com]

"The Court Jester." Or possibly "The Princess Bride." Or "Sliding Doors." Or "A Knight's Tale." Definitely one of those four.

I'm a bi-poly-switch and you want me to pick one?

Re: Favorites are <i>hard</i>.

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

I'm a bi-poly-switch and you want me to pick one?

No, actually, this is exactly what I was hoping would happen. I want lots of funny movie suggestions, but saying "What are your top five funny movies?" felt a little intimidating.

Sliding Doors?

[elkor.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have thought of that as a funny movie.

I liked it more for its artistic merit and unusual hook of following diverging timelines.

Knight's Tale is more "Pulp movie" to me. "Look, it's what the Middle Ages are if you believe Renfairs are accurate historical portrayals!

Re: Sliding Doors?

[harlequinaide.livejournal.com]

I have a pretty broad definition of funny. Pretty much everything that happens to everyone else, as Will Rogers said. I remember "Sliding Doors" made me happy, for example. When I need a pick-me-up, I watch "Knight's Tale." Your mileage, as the say, may vary.

[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

Lately I've been renting a lot of Eddie Izzard stand-up. He's funnier, IMO, than any narrative type of movie.

[omnia-mutantur.livejournal.com]

I agree with the Eddie Izzard, and on the non-movie front the series Coupling.

Though not explicitly comedies, I find the entire ballet-meets-street dancing genre full of awesome. Also, Stick It and the entire Bring It On franchise.

Dodgeball and The New Guy for straight-up comedies, and The Covenant for a hysterical mess of a movie.

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

I have a real fondness for Young Frankenstein.

[pink-pet.livejournal.com]

Just watched Galaxy Quest the other night. That is a very funny movie.

I also loved:

40 Year Old Virgin
Superbad

And from a while back:

Blues Brothers
Animal House
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python's Meaning of Life

[opn.livejournal.com]

Most recently, Hot Fuzz. I remember laughing long and hard while watching both Noises Off and Bubble Boy, in the theater and at home. Princess Bride is also up there on my list.

[arachne8x.livejournal.com]

Shaun of the Dead, Madagascar, Over the hedge

[clonetwin.livejournal.com]

Drop Dead Gorgeous

[clonetwin.livejournal.com]

Best in Show, too.

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

Drop Dead Gorgeous . . . Best in Show, too.

Are you bragging, or naming funny movies?

[chienne-folle.livejournal.com]

Well, if you look a bit further back, there's

Some Like It Hot -- some group of film critics recently pronounced this the funniest movie ever. It stars Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, and Tony Curtis, and it has a much more modern feel than one might expect, given the era in which it was made. Do NOT miss the very last line!
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Bringing Up Baby

Somewhat more recent but still older than most of those suggested:

Ghostbusters
Tootsie

Then there's one of my favorite movies ever. It's not exactly a comedy, but I don't know what else you'd call it, either. It's Don Juan de Marco, in which a young Johnny Depp is convinced that he's Don Juan. An aging Marlon Brando is his psychiatrist, and it's not clear whether Brando will get Depp to join ordinary reality or whether Depp will get Brando to join his. Fay Dunaway is Brando's surprised and happy wife. It has a sort of Man of LaManchaish feel to it, sort of like, "One the one hand, he IS crazy, but on the other hand, his world seems better than ours. Maybe he knows something we don't?" I have this on videotape. I should invite a bunch of people over to watch it sometime.


I also read many, many more books than I see movies, so just the fact of going to a movie is sorta fun, regardless of how the movie actually is.

[curly-chick.livejournal.com]

In no particular order:

When Harry Met Sally
Princess Bride
Major League
Best in Show
Galaxy Quest
Dodgeball (for every kid who was horrible in gym class)
Spaceballs
Seasons 1-3 of Coupling (British version)
Anything by Eddie Izzard or Lewis Black

[chienne-folle.livejournal.com]

I forgot one I really like: All of Me with Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin. I have this on tape (though I've had it for awhile, so I can't promise that the tape is still good).