# Bravo: You suck. Wedding Singer is not funny. **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/41 "2006-05-31T00:06:02Z")
Nice simulpost. ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/42 "2006-05-31T00:09:15Z")
I had the show on for a while. What I find harder to figure out than their selections is their broadcasting schedule. The show was broken up into 4 one hour segments, and they then ran the whole thing **eight** times in a four day period! They ran four hours of it on Friday (also running five hours of _The 100 Greatest TV Characters_). Twelve hours on Saturday and eight hours each day on Sunday and Monday. Yikes! What’s the matter, Bravo? Was the tape library destroyed in a fire and this was the only show you had left, or what? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/43 "2006-05-31T00:34:47Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] More like 1970. (One or two 1968-ish titles.) _The Thin Man_ is my nomination for an egregious oversight. [/QUOTE] \*Arsenic and Old Lace 1,2,3 Some Like It Hot The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek The Awful Truth . . . . . . \* ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/44 "2006-05-31T01:49:11Z")
[QUOTE=Lochdale] Bravo my hole. [/QUOTE] I don’t know why we need to applaud _your_ hole. A lot of people have holes that could put together a better list of comedies than this one. I am sure **Eve** ’s nostrils and some of my pores could do better, for example. It would be hard to make a “50 Great Movies on Bravo’s List” List. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/45 "2006-05-31T02:37:46Z")
BTW, in re: **Otto** ’s first post, heck, one thing that was specially irksome was the large amount of pieces for which they apparently could not even get rights to show anything but publicity stills (e.g.: Stripes; M_A_S\*H). This was too lame for words. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/46 "2006-05-31T03:15:46Z")
These lists are always silly, but this one sets new records for stupidity. Plenty of oversights, of course: **Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, The Great McGinty, The Inspector General, M. Hulot’s Holiday, Playtime, Love and Death, The Bank Dick** , etc. They list **The Bird Cage** but ignore the vastly superior original **La Cage au Folles**. No mention of **The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe**. Eddie Murphy’s bland **Nutty Professor** is there, but Jerry Lewis’s is missing. No Chaplin, no Keaton, no Marx Brothers, And the rankings: There is no way in hell that **The Wedding Singer** and **Ace Ventura** deserve to be in the top ten. This is a list for and by twelve-year-olds. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/47 "2006-05-31T04:42:02Z")
[QUOTE=carterba] The list is so wrong that it makes me wonder if its main purpose was advertising movies produced or distributed by Universal (which own Bravo, IIRC). Anyone know how many of the top 100 Universal has a stake in? [/QUOTE] Bravo is indeed owned by NBC Universal. Because I love useless research, I’ve decided to tally up the list by current owning studio (thanks, **Birdmonster**!) Both Paramount and Dreamworks are owned by Viacom due to a recent purchase, and both Columbia and MGM are owned by Sony due to a recent merger. New Line is a division of Time Warner. Instead of listing the various brand names they’ve released films under, I’ve clumped all Disney films under “Disney.” 1. Anchorman (Dreamworks) 2. The Birdcage (MGM) 3. School of Rock (Paramount) 4. Happy Gilmore (Universal) 5. Four Weddings and a Funeral (Universal) 6. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (New Line) 7. Waiting for Guffman (Sony) 8. The Aristocrats (ThinkFilm) 9. Father of the Bride (Disney) 10. Revenge of the Nerds (Fox) 11. Clueless (Paramount) 12. Slapshot (Universal) 13. Team America (Paramount) 14. The Kentucky Fried Movie (Anchor Bay) 15. Zoolander (Paramount) 16. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (MGM) 17. Silver Streak (Fox) 18. Sister Act (Disney) 19. Tootsie (Columbia) 20. Half Baked (Universal) 21. Lost in America (Warner) 22. Three Amigos (MGM) 23. Bananas (MGM) 24. Flirting with Disaster (Disney) 25. Ghostbusters (Columbia) 26. Dumb and Dumber (New Line) 27. Trading Places (Paramount) 28. City Slickers (Columbia) 29. Moonstruck (MGM) 30. Roxanne (Columbia) 31. The Nutty Professor (Eddie Murphy) (Universal) 32. The Blues Brothers (Universal) 33. Broadcast News (Fox) 34. Kingpin (MGM) 35. Dazed and Confused (Universal) 36. Office Space (Fox) 37. This is Spinal Tap (MGM) 38. Manhattan (MGM) 39. The Pink Panther (MGM) 40. Election (Paramount) 41. When Harry Met Sally (MGM) 42. Police Academy Series (Warner) 43. Private Benjamin (Warner) 44. Swingers (Disney) 45. Young Frankenstein (Fox) 46. Bull Durham (MGM) 47. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Paramount) 48. Dr. Strangelove (Columbia) 49. Meet the Parents (Universal) 50. National Lampoon’s Vacation (Warner) 51. The Princess Bride (MGM) 52. American Pie (Universal) 53. American Graffiti (Universal) 54. 9 to 5 (Fox) 55. The Incredibles (Disney) 56. Raising Arizona (Fox) 57. Sixteen Candles (Universal) 58. What About Bob? (Disney) 59. Harold and Maude (Paramount) 60. Austin Powers (New Line) 61. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Columbia) 62. Mrs. Doubtfire (Fox) 63. Best In Show (Warner) 64. Dodgeball (Fox) 65. Good Morning Vietnam (Disney) 66. Beetlejuice (Warner) 67. Rushmore (Disney) 68. Clerks (Disney) 69. Groundhog Day (Columbia) 70. The Big Lebowski (Universal) 71. The 40 Year Old Virgin (Universal) 72. Legally Blonde (MGM) 73. Annie Hall (MGM) 74. A Fish Called Wanda (MGM) 75. Wayne’s World (Paramount) 76. Meet the Fockers (Universal) 77. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (MGM) 78. Big (Fox) 79. Beverly Hills Cop (Paramount) 80. Shampoo (Columbia) 81. The Jerk (Universal) 82. Wedding Crashers (New Line) 83. Stripes (Columbia) 84. M_A_S\*H (Fox) 85. Old School (Dreamworks) 86. Fast Times At Ridgemont High (Universal) 87. Napoleon Dynamite (Paramount/Fox) 88. Naked Gun Series (Paramount) 89. The Producers (MGM) 90. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (Warner) 91. Arthur (Warner) 92. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (Warner) 93. Blazing Saddles (Warner) 94. The Wedding Singer (New Line) 95. Airplane (Paramount) 96. South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut (Paramount) 97. There’s Something About Mary (Fox) 98. Shrek (Dreamworks) 99. Caddyshack (Warner) 100. Animal House (Universal) That makes 17 for Universal, if my count is correct. Seeing as there is at least one film on the list from every major studio, I’m guessing they couldn’t obtain the rights to show clips from all of them. Usually, in the case of shows like this, they usually show clips from the films or TV shows they have the rights to, while they just show stills from the ones they don’t. (This was the case of an earlier Bravo TV special about the 100 greatest TV characters.) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/48 "2006-05-31T04:43:07Z")
And reading **JJRDelirious** ’s post shows my guess was right. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/49 "2006-05-31T15:22:06Z")
I demand cake, and fine wine… and **Withnail & I**! The other glaring oversight, in addition to older movies, is the near-total exclusion of any foreign films. Of the 100 on Bravo’s list, only \*\*Monty Python & The Holy Grail \*\* and **Dr. Strangelove** qualify as foreign, and both from the UK, although there were many American actors in the secondary roles even in the latter. OTTOMH, **Johnny Stecchino** [Italy], **The Gods Must Be Crazy** [South Africa], and **The Magic Christian** [UK] probably deserve to make any world’s funniest 100 list… \*\*A Taxing Woman \*\* [Japan], maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/50 "2006-05-31T16:50:34Z")
My sister and I watched this program for all of five minutes or so. The exact moment that we saw what #52 was on the list, compared to #53, we both screamed at the television, and turned it to another channel. Everyone else has already stated my complaints about this list (namely, the fact that this shows an understanding of film history equal to that of the common mayfly), so I’ll just sum it up as an utter disgrace. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/51 "2006-05-31T20:11:31Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] The other glaring oversight, in addition to older movies, is the near-total exclusion of any foreign films. Of the 100 on Bravo’s list, only \*\*Monty Python & The Holy Grail \*\* and **Dr. Strangelove** qualify as foreign, and both from the UK, although there were many American actors in the secondary roles even in the latter. [/QUOTE] Not even recent foreign comedies, that got a reasonable amount of exposure in the US, like {b]Amelie{/b] and **Love Actually**. My favourite older movie, **Arsenic and Old Lace** , has already been mentioned, but another unforgivable omission is **Harvey**. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/52 "2006-05-31T20:24:31Z")
Adam Sandler had good bits(opera man ) and shaving your grandmothers beard on SNL. Since then I have been watching for him to do something funny. I am still waiting. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/53 "2006-05-31T21:33:35Z")
1. Naked Gun Series What the…? Isn’t combining three movies cheating? Okay, the baseball scene in the first movie was hilarious. I cannot recall a single joke from either of the other two movies. Which one had Ricardo Montalban? Why not the Airplane! series? Or the Pink Panther series? ACE VENTURA???!!! This list just raised my blood pressure by 30 points. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778/54 "2006-06-01T04:57:18Z")
[QUOTE=Skammer] What the…? Isn’t combining three movies cheating? [/QUOTE] Yeah, but most lists do it. It lets them allow for more diversity and I guess it avoids hard decisions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bravo-you-suck-wedding-singer-is-not-funny/358778.md?page=2)