Funny how many older movies have been mentioned. Nothing current?
There are moments in comedies where I laugh, but I can’t think of any that are start to finish knee slappers. Airplane! Animal House. Blazing Saddles. Those I laugh more than usual.
Tootsie had some funny scenes, though I suppose it’s considered more of a romantic comedy. There is an older, little known movie with Elaine May, Reni Santori, and Jose Ferrer called Enter Laughing (based on Carl Reiner’s early career) that has some hysterical scenes! “and they WONDER why I drink!”
I did laugh at much of Borat. My elderly mother and I watched it on TV, she was about 80 at the time, and she laughed SO hard I was afraid she’d break a rib! Mom loves Joan Rivers, and comedy central ‘roasts’, so…no surprise there!
Not even an honorable mention for Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb?
“Mr. President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.”
It’s all the more hilarious for much of the dialog and the basic scenario of the “Doomsday Device” being taken essentially verbatim from the lecutres of Herman Kahn. Just the sheer audacity of making apocalyptic destruction as the core element of satire deserves consideration.
I nearly sprayed the keyboard with coffee when I read this. I thought I was the only person to remember that movie. I don’t like ‘modern’ comedies, but WUD, to this day is still laugh out loud funny to me.
The comedies of the 1930s are far more to my tastes as a rule.
The world lost one of it’s best comedic writers yesterday.
RIP Harold Ramis.
Animal House, Caddyshack, Vacation, Ghostbusters, Meatballs, Groundhog Day, the list goes on and on.
In his honour, I will go with my personal favorite Stripes.
I thought I was the only person to remember that movie. I don’t like ‘modern’ comedies, but WUD, to this day is still laugh out loud funny to me.
“WUD”?