# Pre-Poll: Funniest Movie Of All Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300 "2011-10-11T14:58:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/41 "2011-10-11T17:20:01Z")
[_Le Dîner de Cons_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_D%C3%AEner_de_Cons_%28film%29). I have been showing this to people for 13 years and no movie has more consistently produced such loud, sidesplitting laughter. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/42 "2011-10-11T17:21:46Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Well most of my favorites have been said, so I will go with underrated comedy. _The Party_, with Peter Sellers. Once again, this thread isn’t for listing all your favorites, whether they’ve already been said or not-it’s for listing _your one favorite movie_, even if it has already been chosen. if you list something only because it hasn’t been said yet, then your _real_ favorite might not make it to the poll. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/43 "2011-10-11T17:25:21Z")
Caddyshack ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/44 "2011-10-11T17:26:14Z")
Dr. Strangelove, c’mon, people! Funniest movie ever! For the car chase in costume sequence, Pink Panther. This is Spinal Tap for the Stonehenge sequence (which I need to rewatch to see if I can show to my third graders to explain the importance of double-checking math work) ---
**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:** [October 11, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/45 "2011-10-11T17:37:18Z")
One more vote for Young Frankenstein ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/46 "2011-10-11T18:06:53Z")
Annie Hall ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/47 "2011-10-11T18:17:35Z")
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) \*Neal: He says we’re going the wrong way… Del: Oh, he’s drunk. How would he know where we’re going? \* ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/48 "2011-10-11T18:30:22Z")
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/49 "2011-10-11T18:31:37Z")
“The Breakfast Club” I still crack up every time I see it. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/50 "2011-10-11T18:34:06Z")
I’ll be one of about three on here who’s seen it, and maybe the only the only one who thinks it was so great. But for all-around laughs per minute, the speed and timing of the dialogue and hi-jinks in **“[Bringing up Baby](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bringing_Up_Baby)”** is truly stunning. I laughed myself silly the first time I saw it at about six years old, and I’ve done the same about once every five years since. Which comes to _mumbles_ times and still helpless with laughter each time. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/51 "2011-10-11T18:35:45Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > Going old school: > > Arsenic and Old Lace Going new school: Old School ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/52 "2011-10-11T18:40:41Z")
Dogma ---
**Author:** ![WPA-Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WPA-Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WPA-Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/53 "2011-10-11T18:47:22Z")
Want to change mine to: **Animal Crackers** _Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west, and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh… Now you tell me what you know._ ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/54 "2011-10-11T18:52:16Z")
The Big Lebowski Also: Bedazzled (original, not the horrible remake) Team America: World Police ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/55 "2011-10-11T18:52:35Z")
The correct answer is: **A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum** ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/56 "2011-10-11T18:54:26Z")
Hot Fuzz Top Secret! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/57 "2011-10-11T18:57:19Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > Hot Fuzz > > Top Secret! Which one? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/58 "2011-10-11T19:10:22Z")
If a poll were posted with the names already mentioned, I would have to vote for about five of them, but would probably end up with _Raising Arizona_ on some sort of tie-break system I’d come up with. And even though it doesn’t produce a laugh a minute throughout, I have never laughed harder and longer than at Lee Evans in [Funny Bones (1995).](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113133/) The movie suffers from too much Jerry Lewis (as does any movie he’s in) in a decidedly unfunny role. But if you can bypass that negative, it’s a scream of a movie with Evans going places that other physical comics never went. I’d like to see other reactions to this particular movie, if others may have happened to see it. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/59 "2011-10-11T19:34:15Z")
Anchorman ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300/60 "2011-10-11T19:38:57Z")
**The Princess Bride** I don’t remember ever having more fun watching a movie in a theater when I first saw this. I’m absolutely _shocked_ that it took 60 posts for this to be mentioned. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-funniest-movie-of-all-time/599300.md?page=4)