A Match Cut Consensus List: Funniest Movies Ever Made

[transmogrifier]

Okay folks, here's the deal. I want you to make a list of the 20 funniest movies ever made. The criteria is simple: list the movies that made you laugh the longest and loudest. That is all. Nothing else matters.

I want recommendations, I want to know your sense of humor, and maybe if we get enough lists, I will make a consensus list.

To start, for me (ordered according to how much they make me laugh, not my overall score for the film):



Life of Brian
When Harry Met Sally
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
The Emperor's New Groove
This is the End
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Fight Club
Ed Wood
Groundhog Day
Dazed and Confused
In Bruges
Annie Hall
Everyone Says I Love You
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
There's Something About Mary
Hot Rod
East is East
About a Boy
Down with Love
Hot Shots!

[Rico]

I love that you have Gremlins 2 so high.

[Peng]

Interesting thought experiment. What I did was looking on letterboxd at comedy genre films in which I gave 4+/5, then whittling them down to "real" comedies (sometimes even a slight part of comedy will have it classified into that, such as Out of Sight) and my own liking. About it having to be 4+/5, I know that great comedy doesn't have to be as great a film, but my own reasoning/criteria is that if the comedy is really that good, it will overpower story's or other weakness to gain at least a 4/5 in my view. That said, my ranking goes the same by you in how hilarious I think/remember the films are, not according to their scores (a couple of 4/5 films above His Girl Friday, which is a 5/5 film for me, for example).

Double spaces separate different personal comedy pantheons.


1. The Emperor’s New Groove
2. Singin’ in the Rain
3. Love and Death
4. A Fish Called Wanda

5. Kung Fu Hustle
6. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
7. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
8. His Girl Friday
9. Groundhog Day

10. Flirting with Disaster
11. Some Like It Hot
12. Chicken Run
13. Sherlock Jr.
14. Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
15. Game Night
16. Gremlins
17. The Grand Budapest Hotel
18. Down with Love

19. Everybody Wants Some!!
20. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday

[Dukefrukem]

1. Ghostbusters
2. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
3. Wayne’s World
4. Young Frankenstein
5. Back to the Future
6. Shaun of the Dead
7. The Princess Bride
8. Hot Fuzz
9. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
10. Kung Fu Hustle
11. Old School
12. Rushmore
13. Dumb and Dumber
14. Groundhog Day
15. Step Brothers
16. Spaceballs
17. Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
18. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
19. Tommy Boy
20. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

[Ezee E]

Amelie
Back to the Future
Barton Fink
Beetlejuice
Christmas Vacation
Clueless
Dumb and Dumber
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Jane Austen's Mafia
The Jerk
Observe and Report
Playtime
Step Brothers
Superbad
Team America: World Police
There's Something About Mary
This is the End
Tommy Boy

[Lazlo]

Sort of like this:

1. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
2. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
4. Step Brothers
5. Young Frankenstein
6. The 40 Year-Old Virgin
7. Blazing Saddles
8. Superbad
9. jackass: number two
10. jackass: the movie
11. jackass 3d
12. Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
13. Office Space
14. In the Loop
15. Booksmart
16. Pineapple Express
17. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
18. Wet Hot American Summer
19.Groundhog Day
20.The Wolf of Wall Street

[Skitch]

1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2. Spaceballs
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Super Troopers
5. Office Space
6. Galaxy Quest
7. Clerks
8. Three Amigos
9. Real Genius
10. Observe and Report

11. Blazing Saddles
12. Heathers
13. Brewsters Millions
14. Coming to America
15. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
16. UHF
17. Trading Places
18. Airplane!
19. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
20. Clue
21. Half-Baked
22. Up In Smoke
23. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

[Dukefrukem]

I didn't even consider the Jackass films. I need to redo my list.

[bac0n]

Big Lebowski
Strange Brew
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Emperor’s New Groove
Christmas Vacation
Planes Trains & Automobiles
Uncle Buck
Old School
Airplane!
Dazed & Confused
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Pineapple Express
Top Secret
Police Academy 3
Deadpool
Space Balls
Young Frankenstein
The Mask
Ace Ventura Pet Detective
Borat


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[baby doll]

The first twenty movies that come to mind:

A Dog's Life (Charles Chaplin, 1918)
Die Puppe (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)
Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
Hard to Handle (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933)
La Règle du jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges, 1944)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949)
What's Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones, 1957)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin, 1957)
One, Two, Three! (Billy Wilder, 1961)
Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi, 1964)
PlayTime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (Woody Allen, 1972)
The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May, 1972)
Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982)
Tampopo (Itami Juzo, 1985)
Dick (Andrew Fleming, 1999)
Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, 2004)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)

[baby doll]

Just thought of a couple more:

Taking Off (Miloš Forman, 1971)
W.R. Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev, 1971)
You, the Living (Roy Andersson, 2007)

[baby doll]

Some others that haven't been mentioned yet:

The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Lev Kuleshov, 1924)
I Was Born, But... (Ozu Yasujiro, 1932)
Real Life (Albert Brooks, 1979)
Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip (Joe Layton, 1982)
Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)
Virile Games (Jan Švankmajer, 1988)
Election (Alexander Payne, 1999)
The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki, 2002)
Pas sur la bouche (Alain Resnais, 2003)
Our Sunhi (Hong Songsoo, 2013)
The Forbidden Room (Evan Johnson/Galen Johnson/Guy Maddin, 2015)
Synonymes (Nadav Lapid, 2019)

[Morris Schæffer]

- Midnight Run
- Airplane
- A Fish Called Wanda
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again
- La Grande Vadrouille (aka don't look now, we're being shot at!)
- American Pie
- Road Trip
- Sideways
- Dumb and Dumber
- Bad Santa
- The Naked Gun
- Pulp Fiction
- Hot Fuzz
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Notting Hill
- American Pie 2
- The Last Boy Scout
- Stakeout
- Office Space


Very tough I gotta say, but this about sums it up.

[Skitch]

"MILO?? Where are you calling from, the bottom of the pool??"

:D :D

Sidenote: I should've put Hudson Hawk on my list.

[Grouchy]

1. The Big Lebowski
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. Duck Soup
4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
5. Kung-Fu Hustle

6. The World's End
7. Life of Brian
8. Zelig
9. The General
10. The Day of the Beast

11. The Philadelphia Story
12. Shaun of the Dead
13. Common Wealth
14. Raising Arizona
15. Annie Hall

16. Bad Santa
17. The Cameraman
18. The Kid
19. Modern Times
20. Dying of Laughter

[Grouchy]

Sidenote: I should've put Hudson Hawk on my list.
Hell yeah, moi aussi.

[Morris Schæffer]

"MILO?? Where are you calling from, the bottom of the pool??"

:D :D

Sidenote: I should've put Hudson Hawk on my list.

"You touch me again, I'll kill ya." :D

[Pop Trash]

Ghostbusters
The Jerk
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Uncle Buck
Airplane!
Animal House
Revenge of the Nerds
Police Academy
The Meaning of Life
Modern Times
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
A Fish Called Wanda
North by Northwest
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Raising Arizona
Dumb and Dumber
There's Something About Mary
Rumble in the Bronx
Rush Hour
Not Another Teen Movie
MacGruber
Freddy Got Fingered
Borat
Jackass 1-2
Hot Fuzz
Vacation
European Vacation
Wayne's World
Team America

[Dukefrukem]

I'll be honest, there's only three times in recent memory I remember belly laughing. Those scenes are below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1u3fGLru18


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2JEvQUQIU0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q15cEWaqWcs

[Peng]

North by Northwest

Intriguing choice. It certainly has a bit of comedy from its wrong man plot going screwball at times, but I think from Hitchock oeuvre, Rear Window or The Lady Vanishes have more comedic elements.

[Pop Trash]

Intriguing choice. It certainly has a bit of comedy from its wrong man plot going screwball at times, but I think from Hitchock oeuvre, Rear Window or The Lady Vanishes have more comedic elements.

Cary Grant kills me in that. Drunk Cary Grant. Totally flabbergasted Cary Grant. The scene at the auction. The bits with his mom. Pure gold. Even the scene where he is waiting on the side of the road and realizes the plane is out to get him. Hitch's direction of draaaaaaging it out plus Grant's facial expressions is pure wordless comedy to me. As good as Chaplin and Keaton.

[Morris Schæffer]

Haha McGruber! That was also pretty funny. Like when they threaten to put the scissor in his mullet. Lol.

[Peng]

Per belly-laughing:

I didn't put Babe: Pig in the City in my list because overall it's not that full a comedy and I haven't seen since I was like, at most, 15, but I remember that the film is both my first full belly laugh, and also the first film I watched in theater, because I vividly recall laughing myself silly at the bungee jump scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwJV2qcYV8c), at age 7 in theater.

This Singin' in the Rain scene, however, I rewatched just now and still found it hysterical:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6CuBK0cgX4

(Although the filming scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6jsXQm5IrM) is aces too)

[Skitch]

I'll be honest, there's only three times in recent memory I remember belly laughing. Those scenes are below.


Seth may be adjusting his glasses at 1:20, but I will never believe that was anything other than him stifling laughing.

Hot Rod very nearly made my list but I haven't seen it enough.

[Yxklyx]

#1: What's Up, Doc? (Bogdanovich)

Followed by everything else...

I'll see about making a list.

[Stay Puft]

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
The Big Lebowski
Big Man Japan
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
The Birdcage
Ghostbusters
The God of Cookery
Groundhog Day
Hot Fuzz
Hot Rod
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
A Serious Man
Shaolin Soccer
Symbol
A Town Called Panic
Welcome to the Dollhouse
What We Do in the Shadows
Zoolander

[megladon8]

Seeing lists without Young Frankenstein is disheartening.

[Skitch]

It almost made my list but I had to stop.

[Morris Schæffer]

Sidenote: I should've put Hudson Hawk on my list.

Well, that was 95 minutes I can never get back. Willis and Aiello seem to have some sort of chemistry going, but they also break out in song. Twice. This was all over the place, with two of the least tense heists in movie history. Do I exagerate? I don't think so. There's virtually no glue holding some key scenes together. At one point Bruce dangles from a lamppost outside the vatican, falls into a truck filled with chicken which just happens to drive by the vatican, and in the next scene the truck hits a bump in the road, Willis is thrown out of the truck and lands magically into a restaurant chair next to Andie McDowell with whom he had a date. Even though the movie makes zero attempt to establish it had cleared the vatican environs and had entered into a more populated area. Maybe the writers thought because this was Rome that such a coincidence would be totally plausible. I counted one funny line, it came from James Coburn. "Ah Rome! I slashed my first throat here." That cracked me up. But its reputation is warranted. This is a bad movie. Looks like you got more out of it.

[Skitch]

Well, that was 95 minutes I can never get back. Willis and Aiello seem to have some sort of chemistry going, but they also break out in song. Twice. This was all over the place, with two of the least tense heists in movie history. Do I exagerate? I don't think so. There's virtually no glue holding some key scenes together. At one point Bruce dangles from a lamppost outside the vatican, falls into a truck filled with chicken which just happens to drive by the vatican, and in the next scene the truck hits a bump in the road, Willis is thrown out of the truck and lands magically into a restaurant chair next to Andie McDowell with whom he had a date. Even though the movie makes zero attempt to establish it had cleared the vatican environs and had entered into a more populated area. Maybe the writers thought because this was Rome that such a coincidence would be totally plausible. I counted one funny line, it came from James Coburn. "Ah Rome! I slashed my first throat here." That cracked me up. But its reputation is warranted. This is a bad movie. Looks like you got more out of it.

Yeah its great lol

[dreamdead]

The Awful Truth
The Big Lebowski
Blazing Saddles
Emperor’s New Groove
A Fish Called Wanda
Game Night
Grand Budapest Hotel
His Girl Friday
In Bruges
Love and Death
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Office Space
Parasite
Raising Arizona
A Serious Man
Shaun of the Dead
Sherlock Jr.
A Town Called Panic
Walk Hard
What We Do in the Shadows

If anyone questions Parasite's inclusion, I just ask you to rewatch any scene with Cho Yeo-jeong. I crack up in every scene that she's in.