# Bravo: You suck. Wedding Singer is not funny.
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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 30, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778 "2006-05-30T19:14:13Z")
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### Author:  [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/1 "2006-05-30T19:14:13Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/2 "2006-05-30T19:21:00Z")
I could be wrong, but it looks like a nitpick that it’s the["100 Funniest Movie Moments"](http://www.bravotv.com/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.
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### Author:  [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/3 "2006-05-30T19:45:47Z")
And another WTF? Napolean Dynamite made it into the top ten funniest movies of all time…yeah that list has credibility :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/4 "2006-05-30T20:06:34Z")
> [@stpauler](#):
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> I could be wrong, but it looks like a nitpick that it’s the["100 Funniest Movie Moments"](http://www.bravotv.com/100_Funniest_Movie_Moments/).
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.
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/5 "2006-05-30T20:09:23Z")
> [@stpauler](#):
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> I could be wrong, but it looks like a nitpick that it’s the["100 Funniest Movie Moments"](http://www.bravotv.com/100_Funniest_Movie_Moments/).
No, he’s right, it was the 100 Funniest Movies. Check the [schedule](http://www.bravotv.com/Schedule/daily.bravo?start_date=2006-05-29&end_date=2006-05-29) 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.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/6 "2006-05-30T20:11:34Z")
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.”
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/7 "2006-05-30T20:15:33Z")
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?
Jim
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### Author:  [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/8 "2006-05-30T20:18:05Z")
> [@What Exit?](#):
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> 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?
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> Jim
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.
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/9 "2006-05-30T20:19:14Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/10 "2006-05-30T20:20:42Z")
> [@What Exit?](#):
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> How far down was Young Frankenstein and Holy Grail?
>
> Jim
In the incomprehensible thirties and forties, if memory serves. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/11 "2006-05-30T20:22:10Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/12 "2006-05-30T20:22:11Z")
On further review:
Holy Grail is number 40…between Austin effing Powers and Mrs. fucking Doubtfire. Young Frankenstein is 56. That’s right, 56.
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### Author:  [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/13 "2006-05-30T20:23:45Z")
If you feel like writhing in righteous agony, the list, in it’s all-knowing, all-seeing glory:
1. Anchorman
2. The Birdcage
3. School of Rock
4. Happy Gilmore
5. Four Weddings and a Funeral
6. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
7. Waiting for Guffman
8. The Aristocrats
9. Father of the Bride
10. Revenge of the Nerds
11. Clueless
12. Slapshot
13. Team America
14. The Kentucky Fried Movie
15. Zoolander
16. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
17. Silver Streak
18. Sister Act
19. Tootsie
20. Half Baked
21. Lost in America
22. Three Amigos
23. Bananas
24. Flirting with Disaster
25. Ghostbusters
26. Dumb and Dumber
27. Trading Places
28. City Slickers
29. Moonstruck
30. Roxanne
31. The Nutty Professor (Eddie Murphy)
32. The Blues Brothers
33. Broadcast News
34. Kingpin
35. Dazed and Confused
36. Office Space
37. This is Spinal Tap
38. Manhattan
39. The Pink Panther
40. Election
41. When Harry Met Sally
42. Police Academy Series
43. Private Benjamin
44. Swingers
45. Young Frankenstein
46. Bull Durham
47. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
48. Dr. Strangelove
49. Meet the Parents
50. National Lampoon’s Vacation
51. The Princess Bride
52. American Pie
53. American Graffiti
54. 9 to 5
55. The Incredibles
56. Raising Arizona
57. Sixteen Candles
58. What About Bob?
59. Harold and Maude
60. Austin Powers
61. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
62. Mrs. Doubtfire
63. Best In Show
64. Dodgeball
65. Good Morning Vietnam
66. Beetlejuice
67. Rushmore
68. Clerks
69. Groundhog Day
70. The Big Lebowski
71. The 40 Year Old Virgin
72. Legally Blonde
73. Annie Hall
74. A Fish Called Wanda
75. Wayne’s World
76. Meet the Fockers
77. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
78. Big
79. Beverly Hills Cop
80. Shampoo
81. The Jerk
82. Wedding Crashers
83. Stripes
84. M_A_S\*H
85. Old School
86. Fast Times At Ridgemont High
87. Napoleon Dynamite
88. Naked Gun Series
89. The Producers
90. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
91. Arthur
92. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
93. Blazing Saddles
94. The Wedding Singer
95. Airplane
96. South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
97. There’s Something About Mary
98. Shrek
99. Caddyshack
100. Animal House
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### Author:  [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/14 "2006-05-30T20:25:00Z")
Wait. I just forgot that Shrek was number 3. Shrek.
_shakes fist at sky_
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### Author:  [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/15 "2006-05-30T20:28:37Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/16 "2006-05-30T20:33:47Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/17 "2006-05-30T20:36:35Z")
Two questions:
1. So what was number 1?
2. When do we invade the Bravo facilities and rearrange these movies in the proper order?
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/18 "2006-05-30T20:38:12Z")
> [@stpauler](#):
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> 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.
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?
Jim
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/19 "2006-05-30T20:38:44Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/20 "2006-05-30T20:40:06Z")
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.”
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