# Movie recommendations, bring the funny **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-recommendations-bring-the-funny/820263 "2018-08-25T18:48:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Turble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-recommendations-bring-the-funny/820263/41 "2018-08-26T14:11:18Z")
Nuts in May ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-recommendations-bring-the-funny/820263/42 "2018-08-26T14:22:13Z")
**Little Miss Sunshine** (2006). The running gag with the VW bus had me howling. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-recommendations-bring-the-funny/820263/43 "2018-08-26T14:27:40Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > **What We Do In The Shadows** is one of the few recent movies that I found totally hilarious. Just go in blind and enjoy it. It gets better and better as it goes. Came here to recommend this one. Was going to link the trailer but Mahaloth is right, better go in blind. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-recommendations-bring-the-funny/820263/44 "2018-08-26T14:28:53Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > One of my favorite movie lines of all time: “WE BEAT PENECILLIN!” I still use “it’s made from monkey cum you know?” every time i see my brother eating something. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-recommendations-bring-the-funny/820263/45 "2018-08-26T14:57:46Z")
[Some Like it Hot](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/?ref_=nv_sr_1) is still funny after 60 years [[Young Frankenstein](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072431/?ref_=nv_sr_1) IMHO one of the top five comedies ever produced. Gene Hackman as the Blind Monk was almost completely ad libbed and stands out as maybe the funniest five minutes ever filmed [Blazing Saddles](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/?ref_=nv_sr_1) Mel Brooks at his funniest, also in my top five. Sheriff Bart meeting the Waco kid for the first time a close runner up to Hackman as the Blind Monk Bart: “The drunk in number five is awake!” He finds the Waco Kid hanging by his knees from the top bunk Bart: “Are we awake?” Waco Kid: “We’re not sure. Are we…Black?” Bart: “Yes, we are.” Waco Kid: “Then we’re awake but we’re very puzzled…” ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-recommendations-bring-the-funny/820263/46 "2018-08-26T14:58:06Z")
If you like political comedy, try _Children of the Revolution_ (the 1996 Australian comedy, not the 2002 Swazi documentary or the 2010 Irish documentary) or _Ninotchka_ ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-recommendations-bring-the-funny/820263/47 "2018-08-26T18:00:33Z")
If you like really really dark comedy I recommend the movie Otis. It’s not going to be on too many peoples radar but it is a keeper. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-recommendations-bring-the-funny/820263/48 "2018-08-26T18:24:33Z")
An overlooked gem: _Waking Ned Devine_. Sweetly charming, not laugh-out-loud funny, but plenty of hearty-guffaw moments. On a darker note: Netflix’s _War On Everyone_. It’s like Jerry Seinfeld and Quentin Tarantino sat down together to bang out a _Lethal Weapon_-esque dirty cop story. The dirty cops (Michael Pena, Alexander Skarsgard) are the protagonists. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-recommendations-bring-the-funny/820263/49 "2018-08-26T18:30:34Z")
You might look at older screwball comedies: > **[Screwball comedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screwball_comedy_film)** > > Screwball comedy is a film subgenre of the romantic comedy genre that became popular during the Great Depression, beginning in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1940s, that satirizes the traditional love story. It has secondary characteristics similar to film noir, distinguished by a female character who dominates the relationship with the male central character, whose masculinity is challenged. The two engage in a humorous battle of the sexes, which was a new theme for Hollywood an Th... For example: Bringing Up Baby: > **[Bringing Up Baby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bringing_Up_Baby)** > > Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicaments involving a scatterbrained heiress and a leopard named Baby. The screenplay was adapted by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde from a short story by Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10, 1937. > The script was written specif... Nothing Sacred: > **[Nothing Sacred (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Sacred_(film))** > > Nothing Sacred is a 1937 American Technicolor screwball comedy film directed by William A. Wellman, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March with a supporting cast featuring Charles Winninger and Walter Connolly. Ben Hecht was credited with the screenplay based on the 1937 story "Letter to the Editor" by James H. Street, and an array of additional writers, including Ring Lardner Jr., Budd Schulberg, Dorothy Parker, Sidney Howard, Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman an... His Girl Friday: > **[His Girl Friday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Girl_Friday)** > > His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and featuring Ralph Bellamy and Gene Lockhart. It was released by Columbia Pictures. The plot centers on a newspaper editor named Walter Burns who is about to lose his ace reporter and ex-wife Hildy Johnson, newly engaged to another man. Burns suggests they cover one more story together, getting themselves entangled in the case of murderer Earl Williams as Burns desperatel... ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-recommendations-bring-the-funny/820263/50 "2018-08-26T18:40:53Z")
For dark comedy I always liked **Eating Raoul.** ---
**Author:** ![snoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-recommendations-bring-the-funny/820263/51 "2018-08-26T22:24:53Z")
[Flirting with Disaster (1996)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116324/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_10). Early ensemble comedy by David O. Russell (\*Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, \*etc.). ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-recommendations-bring-the-funny/820263/52 "2018-08-26T23:18:59Z")
[_The Emperor’s New Groove_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120917/) is just about the funniest movie I’ve ever seen - it’s well up there with _Blazing Saddles_. Very silly, cheerfully anachronistic, and laugh-out-loud good. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-recommendations-bring-the-funny/820263/53 "2018-08-26T23:46:50Z")
_Rat Race_ is a remake of \*Scavenger Hunt \*which I found funny. Well, some years ago anyway. For amusing westerns there’s always _The Hallelujah Trail_, _The Cheyenne Social Club_ and _Cat Ballou_. Lee Marvin is great in the latter but the drunken horse is my favorite part. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-recommendations-bring-the-funny/820263/54 "2018-08-27T00:18:41Z")
_ **The Frisco Kid,** _ with Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder is VERY funny, and has some touching moments too. I don’t know if you have a taste for silent films, as I do. But if you will give it a shot, then Buster Keaton’s _ **Seven Chances** _ is fantastic. Keaton is a guy whose business is failing, then he finds out that he’ll inherit a huge fortune from his grandfather if he marries by his 27th birthday, which is TODAY. If that plot sounds familiar it was remade with Chris O’Donnell as _ **The Bachelor** _. Take my word for it, the silent film is better. ---
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Just thought of a comedy duo that I remember enjoying and will take a look to see how they’ve stood the test of time-- Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. I remember laughing stupidly over Silver Streak and Stir Crazy but damned if I can remember a single thing about the actual movies themselves. Thinking of Gene and Richard brought up a movie I remember and still find very funny: Trading Places. And Eddie and Dan remind me of _another_ movie I laughed very hard at: Beverly Hills Cop. But I only came up with BHC because I was thinking of Eddie teamed up with another white guy, Nick Nolte. 48 Hrs. made me laugh but I’m not sure I’d call it a comedy. Totally on a tangent, 40 Year Old Virgin is the funniest movie ever. ---
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> [@PastTense](#): > > You might look at older screwball comedies: > [Screwball comedy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screwball_comedy_film) “It happened one night” is a good one. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-recommendations-bring-the-funny/820263/57 "2018-08-27T02:45:13Z")
_Bad_ (1977) - [Bad (1977) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075679/?ref_=nv_sr_6) “Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women to do hit jobs.” _Forbidden Zone_ (1980) - [Forbidden Zone (1980) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080752/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_52) “The bizarre and musical tale of a girl who travels to another dimension through the gateway found in her family’s basement.” _SLC Punk!_ (1998) - [SLC Punk! (1998) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133189/?ref_=nv_sr_1) "In the early 1980s Stevo and Heroin Bob are the only two dedicated punks in conservative Salt Lake City. " _Snatch_ (2000) - [Snatch (2000) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208092/?ref_=nv_sr_1) “Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.” _Amelie_ (2001) - [Amélie (2001) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/?ref_=nv_sr_1) “Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.” _Crime Spree_ (2003) - [Crime Spree (2003) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310924/?ref_=nv_sr_1) “A French gang of thieves flies over to Chicago for a one time job. However, things seem to get out of hand soon.” _Kamikaze Girls_ (2004) - [Kamikaze Girls (2004) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416220/) Japanese girl obsessed with Rococo forms an unlikely friendship with a rebel biker girl. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-recommendations-bring-the-funny/820263/58 "2018-08-27T03:19:12Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I rewatched the original (1942) **To Be or Not to Be** last night. > > The scenes in which Jack Benny impersonates first Colonel Erhardt of the Gestapo and second, the Nazi spy Professor Siletsky, start off damn funny and then escalate into total hilarity. By the time they get to the beard-pulling you’ll be gasping for breath. Sig Ruman topped himself in this one. This is my all-time favorite movie. And speaking of screwball comedies, you can’t go wrong withe the pairing of Irene Dunne and Cary Grant in two wonderful movies, _The Awful Truth_, and _My Favorite Wife._ If your answer to subtitles was “OK!” then try _Women of the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown_. It’s hysterically funny, and you will get to see Antonio Banderas when he was still making movies in Spain. He plays kind of a geeky character, before Hollywood tried to remake him into a Latin sex symbol. If you have not seen _Victor/Victoria_, you should see this. It’s very, very funny. When you watch it, try to bear in mind that it was made in _1982_. It was far ahead of its time. Not a movie, but if you want something that will make you laugh, and you happen to have missed it, see the TV show _Absolutely Fabulous_. ---
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> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Shaun of the Dead World’s End ---
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