# Top Five Wall-to-Wall Funniest Films **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 1, 2000, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624 "2000-12-01T19:15:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/41 "2000-12-02T18:04:44Z")
My list, of course, starts with Monty: Monty Python and the Holy Grail Young Frankenstein A Fish Called Wanda The Gold Rush And finally, I’m torn between which Marx Bros. movie to pick. Duck Soup, A Day at the Races, A Night at the Opera, etc. Insert your favorite here. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/42 "2000-12-02T18:06:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dignan \* > \*\*I wish that I’d chosen Future Man for my user name. Oh well. \*\* You can email, **TubaDiva** and ask her to change it. Your name will change, but post count and everything else stays the same. Don’t change it on your own though, email an admin and ask them to do it for you. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/43 "2000-12-02T18:34:08Z")
Seems like the rest of the Dopers have the same taste as me; with one exception, all the movies I would have picked in my Top Ten have already been mentioned in this thread. The exception: _Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown_ by Pedro Almodovar. I’m not even sure how to describe the movie, only that everyone needs to see it at least once. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/44 "2000-12-02T20:35:17Z")
1. The Ref, which I consider the best Xmas movie ever. 2. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie - It’s toobular boobular JOY! 3. Airplane! 4. The Kentucky Fried Movie 5. The original 1967 version of Bedazzled(Now available on VHS for $6.99 in my area) ---
**Author:** ![Totoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/45 "2000-12-02T20:51:55Z")
Okay, this is waaaaaay too hard to do, but I’ll do it by one’s I remember. Please excuse groupings of movies, not just specific titles, because I have so many favorites. No Order At All: 1.The Jersey Movies (Clerks, Mallrats, etc. I know there’s 4, shut up!) 2.Bottle Rocket (This movie made me decide I wanted to be a robber, even if just for fun.) 3.Canadian Bacon (As if I don’t make enough fun of canada…) 4.Raising Arizona 5. Every single Mel Brooks movie ever made. It’s all classic. Please excuse me leaving off some obvious choices. ---
**Author:** ![Jello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@Jello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jello)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/46 "2000-12-02T21:11:10Z")
In no particular order: Airplane! The Naked Gun The Naked Gun 2 1/2 Clerks Dogma Honorable Mention: Mallrats, Spaceballs ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/47 "2000-12-02T23:59:38Z")
1 **The Villain** (this was probably the first comedy i ever saw, my Grandpa showed it to me before i was even in kindergarten and its still hilarious to this day. “Whats your name?/Handsome Stranger, i was named after my father./He mustve been a wonderful man./I dont know i never met him”) 2 **Mallrats** Well, i couldn’t pick _all_ of Big Kev’s movies for a list of 5 but as any true Kevin Smith fan can tell you, 'Rats is the only movie he ever made that was worth a shit anyway 😃 3 **Spaceballs** No explanation needed. 4 **BASEketball** I almost hate to pick this one because im a HUGE Trey/Matt fan and this was the one movie they were in that they didn’t actually write but they did do ALOT of improv on the set and since this was a David Zucker movie i dont have to save a spot on my list for Airplane 😃 5 **Don’t Be a Menace…** almost everyone i know hates this movie. I’ve seen it over 100 times, i had it on tape and now i have it on dvd. i love it i love it i love it. If you dont like it, chances are you dont _get it_. If you’ve seen it and didnt like it, (re)watch all the early/mid nineties ‘hood’ movies and then watch it again. ok i gotta do 6… **The Stoned Age** You either get it or you dont…I can recite this entire movie word by word, its absolutely great, i doubt very many people have ever seen a single movie as many times as ive seen this movie, i dont think i would be stretching it to say ive seen it 300+ times. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/48 "2000-12-03T06:47:41Z")
In order: **A Fish Called Wanda Airplane! Animal House Some Like it Hot Wayne’s World 2**] I know I stand alone on that last one, but it gets me every time: “I crossed all the t’s and dotted all the…lower-case j’s.” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/49 "2000-12-03T08:20:51Z")
**The General** (Keaton) **His Girl Friday The Lady Eve A Night at the Opera Modern Times** The tally of top vote getters thus far: _Airplane!_: 15 _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_: 9 _Blazing Saddles, The Naked Gun, Young Frankenstein_: 6 _Duck Soup, Kentucky Fried Movie_: 5 _It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; National Lampoon’s Animal House, A Night at the Opera, Raising Arizona_: 4 If you listed more than 5, I only counted the first 5 you listed. ---
**Author:** ![diamud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@diamud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diamud)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/50 "2000-12-03T20:56:12Z")
Life of Brian Young Frankenstein Blazing Saddles Blues Brothers History of the World, Part 1 Yes, I like Mel Brooks. ---
**Author:** ![Revedge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@Revedge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revedge)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/51 "2000-12-04T06:06:23Z")
1. Airplane 2. Young Frankenstein 3. Get Crazy 4. SOB 5. Serial ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/52 "2000-12-04T13:53:36Z")
Eve said: > [@](#): > > BunnyGirl—I am very much afraid that if you and I ever had to decide on a movie to rent, bloodshed and tears would be the end result. Yeah, I know: bad taste! 😃 My husband HATES my taste in movies too! Strange Brew!!! - Great movie “Sorry I puked on your sweater, eh?” ---
**Author:** ![Biffer\_Spice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Biffer\_Spice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffer_Spice)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/53 "2000-12-04T13:59:02Z")
Airplane Spinal Tap Life Of Brian Ace Ventura Withnail & I ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/54 "2000-12-04T16:41:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ArchiveGuy \* > The tally of top vote getters thus far: > > _Airplane!_: 15 > _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_: 9 > _Blazing Saddles, The Naked Gun, Young Frankenstein_: 6 > _Duck Soup, Kentucky Fried Movie_: 5 > _It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; National Lampoon’s Animal House, A Night at the Opera, Raising Arizona_: 4 > > \*\* Or to put it another way: Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker: 26 Mel Brooks: 12 Marx Bros: 9 Monty Python: 9 Veering off tangentially, are Hot Shots 1&deux Z/A/Z? I should’ve listed Hot Shots part Deux on my original list; on the basis of the scenes with Rowan Atkinson as the captive (“they’ve…tied my shoelaces together.” “the bastards”) alone. I’m also surprised that Woody Allen didn’t get more mentions. His stuff in the 70s (TtMaR, Bananas, Sleeper, Play it Again Sam, Love and Death, Annie Hall) was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Phobos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/55 "2000-12-04T17:29:02Z")
**M.P. & the Holy Grail A Fish Called Wanda Life of Brian Mallrats Ace Ventura Pet Detective** honorable mentions… **Sleeper Marx Bros.** (take your pick) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bad_Astronomer)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/56 "2000-12-04T17:45:39Z")
I’ll add “Quick Change”, a movie no one seems to have heard of despite the incredible cast of Bill Murray, Geena Davis and Randy Quaid in his best role ever. I’ll also add with no hesitation “Peewee’s Big Adventure”. The Large Marge scene made me laugh harder than any movie before it. ---
**Author:** ![Hibbins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ce73a5/32.png) [@Hibbins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hibbins)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/57 "2000-12-04T18:52:46Z")
In no particular order: My Blue Heaven Christmas Vacation Princess Bride Happy Gilmour Liar Liar ---
**Author:** ![scratch1300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@scratch1300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch1300)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/58 "2000-12-04T18:57:54Z")
Another I just remembered: _Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me_ was the funniest movie I saw this year. It had me laughing so hard that my insides hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Phobos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/59 "2000-12-04T19:25:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scratch1300 \* > _Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me_ made me remember this… **So I Married an Axe Murderer** ---
**Author:** ![quasar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@quasar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quasar)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624/60 "2000-12-04T19:32:00Z")
They are so many but the all-time best are: ::Drum roll please:: Scary Movie Rocket Man Following their lead we encounter this 3 gems: The Naked Gun–first one. Blue Streak Dumb and Dumber. ## Disclaimer: List subject to updating as soon as I see The Nutty Professor II:The Klumps. **Bingo!** —Leslie Nielsen after extracting a Bingo game piece from Ricardo Montalban’s drawer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-wall-to-wall-funniest-films/43624.md?page=4)