So I was eating some Indian food with my roommate who has an unhealthy addiction to shows that pretend to make difinitive, all-time lists. Bravo, the network that brought us…Queer Eye…and probably another show too decided they’d name the Top 100 Comedies EVER. A daunting task, to be sure.
But please. You can’t rank Blazing Saddles as number 9 and Wedding Singer as number 8. You really can’t. I don’t care if you put Caddyshack & Animal House as your silver & gold medalists (respectively)—(and anyway, that’s just a safe bet in the first place), you can’t put Wedding Singer before Blazing Saddles and expect me to take you seriously. That’s like putting Jefferson Starship between the Beatles & the Doors. You just don’t do it.
I could be wrong, but it looks like a nitpick that it’s the"100 Funniest Movie Moments". I would reckon that there’d be a lot of overlapping in that field. Even when the movies are dramas, they can have some hilarious moments that would bullet them up to the top.
As for Wedding Singer. Hunh? I don’t remember a great Adam Sandler movie, they’ve all been passable and forgetable to me.
This is a different show than Birdmonster is talking about. It was the 100 Funniest Movies (or Great Comedies or something). And, yeah, it sucked on any number of fronts. For example, The Wedding Crashers was a Top 25 movie. I contend that it is impossible to put a film that recent that high on the list. You have no idea whether it will hold up or not.
No, he’s right, it was the 100 Funniest Movies. Check the schedule at the bottom. For some reason, Bravo’s banished all other mention of the show from their website.
I saw the final episode, and I’m right there with you. As soon as I saw Wedding Singer pop up after Blazing Saddles, I said to my roommate, “That kills Bravo’s credibility right there.”
I think There’s Something About Mary ranked in the slot just above Wedding Singer. Come on, now. It was a funny movie, certainly, but jizz hair gel doesn’t top the entire town of Rock Ridge.
Those sorts of shows should be called, for the sake of truth in advertising, “The 100 Movies Of _____ Genre That We Can License Clips For Without Costing Too Much.”
Or perhaps “The ‘We Ripped Off The AFI’s Concept’ Show.”
The Bravo list was pretty poor. I could not find an explanation for how the list was compiled. Just the fact “Something About Mary” was top 10 was incomprehensible. How far down was Young Frankenstein and Holy Grail?
I’ll put it this way Jim: I saw the top 25. Neither movie was in there. Unless it happened during the smoke break I took.
They kept showing the remake of Father of Bride in the teasers for “What will be our number 1 funniest movie of all time” and I kept having seizures. Thankfully, they didn’t err that egregiously.
During the (admittedly short) slice of time I watched this, I saw no movie filmed earlier than four years ago make the list. All I was was a countdown of stoner, nerd, blonde airhead, and peeping tom flicks. Bof!
I found this while flipping channels yesterday, as they were showing clips from The Blues Brothers. I figured I must have missed most of the show, cuz TBB has gotta be right up there, but nope, it was up in the 60’s. Meet the Fokkers rated higher.
I made a phlbbbt noise and kept flipping channels.
My fault there, I couldn’t find hide nor hare of mention of that show on Bravo’s website so I assumed it was the moments one. If Grail is at 40 (and seriously, what comedy still has as many quotes about it?), then we have one very flawed list.
Yep, your typical asinine, useless “Nothing Before 1960” list. Because, of course, Wedding Crashers is funnier than anything Buster Keaton ever did, and certainly Old School is a wittier film than, say, Monkey Business or The Palm Beach Story.
Feh. This is why I never ever watch those “List” shows.
Well Animal House and Airplane!, but at least they got the 1 & 6 spots.
A truly warped list with no rhyme or reason. Not one truly old classic. It looks like the oldest movie on the list is the Pink Panther. I hope that was the original at least. The list might be too painful to contemplate in detail. Birdmonster: did you find the criteria used?
Am I reading that list too fast? I don’t see Some Like It Hot listed. To my mind, that’s the funniest movie ever made. I second AuntiePam’s phlbbbbt noise.
I can’t find the Marx brothers either. Basically, if I, as a 25 year old, was alive when most of these movies were in the theatres, you can be sure it’s horseshit.
I almost feel like recent & very funny comedies belong where Anchorman is. Kind of like saying, “hey rookie: we like your stuff. Let’s just see if you got the stuff to hang around forever.”