<p>Shanghai Noon
Bull Durham
Every episode of Fawlty Towers</p>
<p>Hate to admit it but DH and I laughed out loud a lot at The Hangover.
And I will always laugh at Animal House. Maybe it’s because we have two S’s who could have been a part of either movie.</p>
<p>It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Corner Gas – a Canadian sit com </p>
<p>And for the record The Philadelphia Story is a perfect movie. An American Masterpiece.</p>
<p>Happy to see The Gods Must be Crazy, Ferris Bueller, The Producers, My Cousin Vinny up there.
Have to add School of Rock</p>
<p>My parents were born in 1917, and my mom once said that the hardest she ever heard my dad laugh at a movie was at Animal House. </p>
<p>It is one of our favorites, as well. It came out around the time that DH and I started dating.</p>
<p>And my own kids think it is hilarious. </p>
<p>Three generations, and all any of us had to say is, “Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? No!”… And we all crack up. Pretty sure my parents are watching Animal House, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein in heaven right now and cracking up as I write this.</p>
<p>“0.2. Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”</p>
<p>My D loves “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” and “Marriage of Figarro” as well, though neither are movies.</p>
<p>One of my more recent funny movies - “City Island”</p>
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I had forgotten all about that! Too funny. :)</p>
<p>My H and I always laugh at:</p>
<p>Liar Liar</p>
<p>Ferris Bueller (several scenes with the principal)</p>
<p>That Touch of Mink (“Al’s Mote?l…sound’s like a place where you bring your own lightbulbs.” )</p>
<p>There’s something about Mary</p>
<p>Funny Farm, with Chevy Chase</p>
<p>Living in New England, I can’t get over that postcard-perfect Vermont town (“Redbud”), full of absolutely crazy people.</p>
<p>“Cue the deer”
Then again, the classic scene with the lamb fries.</p>
<p>Parenthood with Steve Martin (The original)</p>
<p>You guys are the best! Here’s the (very roughly collated) list. If someone wants to organize further, go at it! XO to you all!</p>
<p>Duck Soup with the Marx Brothers
Blazing Saddles with Mel Brooks
Young Frankenstein
Woody Allen’s Sleeper, the strap on rocket scene.
For TV, I Love Lucy, the William Holden episode; the Vitameatavegamin commercial
Defending Your Life. Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep. It’s about what happens to you after you die. I know, doesn’t sound like a comedy, but it’s really funny.<br>
Tootsie
The Producers (with Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel)
Some Like It Hot
The In-Laws (with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin)
To Be or Not to Be (both versions are laugh-out-loud funny; the Mel Brooks version is faster-paced)
Arsenic and Old Lace
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Adam’s Rib
M<em>A</em>S*H
Space Balls
Witty 1930s screwball comedies full of double entendres:
The Thin Man
Philadelphia Story
It Happened One Night
Bringing up Baby
His Girl Friday </p>
<p>Airplane
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Ruthless People…Bette Midler and Danny Devito
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Steve Martin
Moonstruck
The Full Monty
Victor/Victoria
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World… 1963…Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas , Jonathan Winters, Don Knotts, Jerry Lewis The Three Stooges, Jimmy Durante, Buster Keaton, Andy Divine, Jim Backus, Peter Falk, Edie Adams, Jack Benny. Nominated for 6 Oscars(R),
Some of the silent films- Chaplin and Lloyd- are wonderfully funny.
Something about Mary
The Producers
Blazing Saddles
Duck Soup
Night at the Opera
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Where’s Poppa (listed on IMDB as Going Ape, with the original title Where’s Poppa), with Ruth Gordon & George Segal (directed by Carl Reiner), 1970
I Love You Alice B Toklas, with Peter Sellars (in fact, nearly any Peter Sellars film will do the trick)
Arthur (the original) with Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli & John Gielgud at his best! (1981)
A Fish called Wanda
Jacque Tati - Mon Oncle
Waiting for Guffman
Life of Brian
Zoolander
Bridesmaids
My Favorite Year (1982) with Peter O’Toole as a washed up matinee idol
The 1993 French film “Les Visiteurs” (“The Visitors”) with Jean Reno as a time-traveling knight
Galaxy Quest
National Lampoon’s Vacation
Anchorman
Dodgeball
The Hangover
Woody Allen’s Sleeper is definitely a classic.
Wag the Dog
TV - The Big Bang Theory
Groundhog Day with Bill Murray
Ghostbusters
Best in Show
Bowfinger with Eddie Murphy
All of me, with Lily Tomlin’s voice in Steve Martin
Borat
The Big Lebowski
Make Room for Sergeants with Andy Griffith
Danny Kaye movies (classic)
Animal House<br>
Raising Arizona
Best in Show
The Jerk
Waking Ned Devine
Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss in “What About Bill?”
Strictly Ballroom
It’s Complicated
Talladega Nights
Porky’s: Raunchy, but the “tallywhacker” scene in the principle’s office may be the funniest moment in any movie, ever.
The Birdcage
Caddyshack, Airplane, and Anchorman. Whenever anyone is in a bad or sad mood, we just pull out one of these and start howling. It never gets old.
Swingers
Curb Your Enthusiasm
As Good As it Gets - Jack Nicholson
Dumb and Dumber
If we can include TV shows I vote for Barney Miller.
They’re raunchy and juvenile, but the American Pie movies always make me laugh
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Monty Python’s Meaning of Life
Mel Brooks’ History of the World Part 1
Woody Allen’s Everything Youi wanted to Know About Sex But were afraid to ask
City Slickers
Scary Movie 2
Chevy Chase’s Christmas Vacation (pretty stupid)
Horrible Bosses
MOST of Adam Sandler’s movies
Mel Brooks…Robin Hood Men in Tights
Young Frankenstein
Christmas vacation
Elf
All seasons of Seinfeld
All seasons of The Office
All seasons of Arrested Development
Waiting for Guffman
Anchorman
Zoolander
Austin Powers
Spinal Tap
Wayne’s World
A Mighty Wind
My Cousn Vinny
Blades of Glory
Anything with Ben Stiller
Napoleon Dynamite
For TV, Doc Martin
Arrested Development
Death at a Funeral
Shaun of the Dead
An Idiot Abroad (TV)
Summer Vacation with Chevy Chase
Car Talk (though not a movie)
Mrs. Doubtfire - Robin Williams at the top of his game.
Waking Ned Devine
Little Miss Sunshine
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Adam’s Rib
MASH episodes
Frasier
Rat Race - " you shoulda bought a squirrel"
The new Arthur with Russel Brand
Shanghai Noon
Bull Durham
Every episode of Fawlty Towers
Animal House. Maybe it’s because we have two S’s who could have been a part of either movie
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Corner Gas – a Canadian sit com
School of Rock
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Marriage of Figarro
One of my more recent funny movies - “City Island”
Liar Liar
That Touch of Mink (“Al’s Mote?l…sound’s like a place where you bring your own lightbulbs.” )
Funny Farm, with Chevy Chase
Living in New England, I can’t get over that postcard-perfect Vermont town (“Redbud”), full of absolutely crazy people.
“Cue the deer”
Then again, the classic scene with the lamb fries
Parenthood with Steve Martin (The original) </p>
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<p>“And for the record The Philadelphia Story is a perfect movie. An American Masterpiece.”</p>
<hr>
<p>xoxoxoxoxoxox</p>
<p>"My parents were born in 1917, and my mom once said that the hardest she ever heard my dad laugh at a movie was at Animal House. </p>
<p>It is one of our favorites, as well. It came out around the time that DH and I started dating.</p>
<p>And my own kids think it is hilarious. </p>
<p>Three generations, and all any of us had to say is, “Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? No!”… And we all crack up. Pretty sure my parents are watching Animal House, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein in heaven right now and cracking up as I write this.</p>
<p>“0.2. Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.” </p>
<p>xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo</p>
<p>Men in Black 1 and 2 (the mail sorting scene in 2). Billy Crystal’s scene in Princess Bride.</p>
<p>Mad, Mad, Mad World – Jonathan Winters destroying the gas station
One Two Three - James Cagney as a Coca-Cola executive in the East Bloc
Local Hero - mermaid in Scotland
The Ruling Class - a mad and sinister Peter O’Toole
The Producers - The Zero Mostel version
How to Succeed in Business – “Got to get than man, before he gets me…”
Earth Girls are Easy – “I’m a sophomore and cheerleader in my 5th year at UCLA.”
Election – “Flick for President”
Help! – The Beatles
The Lady Killers – Alec Guiness
The President’s Analyst – “We liberals will disarm when the right wingers disarm”
Cabin in the Sky – Eddie Rochester Anderson tempted by the devil</p>
<p>I laughed out loud at Losing Control. We saw it at a film festival last summer but it is being released this month and next around the country. It was smart and funny. A female Harvard grad student in biology tries to determine if her boyfriend is the one. Quirky characters, including funny funny parents.</p>
<p>My tastes in comedy are pretty lowbrow and relatively coarse. Favorites include Superbad, Tommy Boy, Zoolander, and Office Space. Sentimental favorites from my youth include *The Shaggy Dog<a href=“1959%20version”>/i</a>. My favorite comedian is Albert Brooks, and I will watch any movie he is connected with. I thought Finding Nemo was cute, but it wouldn’t have been near as good if it hadn’t featured the voices of two of America’s funniest people, Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres.</p>
<p>When I want to lift my brow a bit, my tastes run along the lines of LakeWashington’s! I tried to get my D and my BF to watch Local Hero with me a few months ago. For whatever reason, they weren’t having it, so I will have to queue it up for myself.</p>
<p>Recently watched (for the second time) a hilarious black comedy from the '80s: Withnail and I. Features the other English actor with the last name Grant: Richard E. Grant.</p>
<p>I also love anything written and directed by Preston Sturges (he of Sullivan’s Travels fame). His movies employed the best cast of character actors ever.</p>
<p>absweetmarie, did you see Albert Brooks in “Drive”? A far cry from a comedy but he was excellent.</p>
<p>Did not see Drive! Just put it in my Netflix queue!</p>
<p>Yes! “Withnail and I”!! Also “Parenthood” with Steve Martin and a lot of other stars.</p>
<p>Withnail and I -executive producer George Harrison <3.</p>