Funniest Movie Ever

[pfrduke]

What movie made you laugh the hardest?

For entire movie experiences, my top two are Anchorman and Airplane!. For specific scenes, I'd say everything that happens at the baseball stadium in Naked Gun, and (to pull out more of a wildcard) the scene in Drop Dead Gorgeous where Denise Richards sings and dances around on stage with a plush Jesus-on-a-cross on wheels.

[hc5duke]

Team America, South Park Bigger Longer Uncut, Blades of Glory

[pamtar]

The hardest I've ever laughed at a movie was when I was 9 and saw Home Alone at the theater. However, my favorite comedy ever has to be.....

I cant decide right now. This will require research.

[billybreen]

Coming to America

Mods, feel free to lock this thread. The discussion is over.

[rthomas]

Just about anything by Peter Sellers, but The Party is one of my all time favorite comedy films.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063415/synopsis

[riverside6]

Office Space

[devillighter]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

for scenes:
the end of Little Miss Sunshine
the last twenty minutes of Dr. Strangelove

[HaveFunExpectToWin]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

I'll second that. I saw it run at the AFI theater in Silver Spring this past January. Still as funny as the other 50+ times I've seen it.

[DevilAlumna]

I think for laugh-out-loud guffaws, I have to go with Airplane!, Hot Shots, Caddyshack as classics.

For movies that I can't help but giggle throughout (probably because they're so darned quotable:

Raising Arizona ("Son, you got a panty on your head")
Fish Called Wanda ("The central message of Buddhism is not every man for himself")
A Christmas Story ("fra-jeel-ay - must be Italian!")
and Bull Durham ("lollygaggers!").

Anything Monty Python is good, but not at the top of my list.

WAIT! I can't believe I forgot "Better Off Dead" -- that falls under both LOL and giggly/Quotable.

[dukepsy1963]

I have to agree with those of you who mentioned these:

Airplane
Holy Grail
Naked Gun (Leslie Nielson stuff in general, including TV comedy work)

Anything with Peter Sellers (including the Lavender Hill Mob and a host of others he made before he was "discovered" by American cinema.)

I would add an old one that very few ever mention but at the time was good for many laughs....It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. It's too long, but there are some wonderful scenes with some "old school" comics. Plus, the dry wit of Spencer Tracy as the detective was memorable.

[billybreen]

Naked Gun (Leslie Nielson stuff in general, including TV comedy work)

Thank you, I just had it stuffed.

I liked all of those slapsticky movies, but perhaps I'm too Gen X/Y -- they just feel like they're trying a bit too hard.

[billybreen]

Raising Arizona ("Son, you got a panty on your head")

Hey, these blow up into funny shapes at all?

Well, no, unless round is funny.

[ChrisP]

Just about anything by Peter Sellers, but The Party is one of my all time favorite comedy films.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063415/synopsis

Up until now, I thought I was the only one who'd ever even HEARD of that movie. Very much a period piece (VERY late 60's) but no less hilarious.

Aside from The Party, I'd have to list the following (no way I can pick just one):

Raising Arizona - "Hi, you're young and you got yer health...what do you want with a job?"

Caddyshack - "Don't sell yourself short judge - you're a tremendous slouch"

Animal House - "It's time for someone to put their foot down...and that foot is me"

Christmas Vacation - "He's got a little Mississippi Leg Hound in him. You don't wanna be around him if you're wearin' short pants, if you know what I mean"

Office Space (that movie changed my life!) - "I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are. Having to look up money laundering in the dictionary"

Trading Places - "Like oh sure, HE went to Harvard!"

Talladega Nights - "What's 'implication' mean?"


But...dude...Blades of Glory? Seriously?

[riverside6]

Caddyshack is definitely on my list as well. Let me also add Nat'l Lampoons Christmas Vacation as well.

[ArkieDukie]

The movie that immediately came into my mind was the original Beverly Hills Cop. Hi-larious.

[JBDuke]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
...

I'll second that. I saw it run at the AFI theater in Silver Spring this past January. Still as funny as the other 50+ times I've seen it.

I'll add my vote as well. I was talking about this with a friend not too long ago. There are individual scenes from other movies that are funnier than anything in Holy Grail, there are movies with funnier concepts than anything in Holy Grail, but no movie I've seen makes me laugh at every scene from beginning to end like Holy Grail does.

[billybreen]

The movie that immediately came into my mind was the original Beverly Hills Cop. Hi-larious.

It's serious, because it's very im-por-tant piece.

[hc5duke]

But...dude...Blades of Glory? Seriously?

Will Arnett + Amy Pohler alone sold it for me; Jon Heder + Will Ferrell was also a really good combination... cmon it was full of gems!

Chazz: Mind-bottling, isn't it?
Jimmy: Did you just say mind-bottling?
Chazz: Yeah, mind-bottling. You know, when things are so crazy it gets your thoughts all trapped, like in a bottle?

Bryce: You smell like urine.
Chazz: A lot?

Jimmy: I see you got fat.
Chazz: I see you still look like a fifteen year old girl, but not hot.

Katie Van Waldenberg: Great! That'll give me time to get my jugs waxed.

Chazz: The night is a very dark time for me.
Jimmy: It's dark for everyone, moron!
Chazz: Not for Alaskans or dudes with night-vision goggles.

Jimmy: They're laughing at us.
Chazz: Hey. They laughed at Louis Armstrong when he said he was gonna go to the moon. Now he's up there, laughing at them.

Jimmy: When I was eight, my dad had me get a circumcision to minimalize air resistance.

It was totally worth sneaking out of work for

[DevilAlumna]

How could I forget "Stripes"?

"Barnicky? Barnicky?! He owes me money!"

"Have you ever had the Aunt Jemima treatment"?


And while we're on Bill Murry/Harold Ramis movies, did "Ghost Busters" already get its props?

[dukepsy1963]

You tube snips for you Pink Panther/Sellers fans.....worth a watch...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZPyDY5aZyXs

And Airplane

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WdEmmXiB7ew

Hold Grail (black knight):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2eMkth8FWno