# What Countries Makes The Funniest Movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 10, 2019, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-makes-the-funniest-movies/843226 "2019-11-10T01:48:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-makes-the-funniest-movies/843226/41 "2019-11-12T04:58:22Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > It’s relevant because we should recognize that our sole judgment isn’t enough to determine what’s supposed to be funny, let alone how funny it is. “Obviously” to the former, and “Of course it is.” to the latter. What’s funny, and how funny it is, is a kind of opinion. ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-makes-the-funniest-movies/843226/42 "2019-11-12T12:08:55Z")
Being British I’ll note British TV comedy is the best. But movies? I think a lot of Australian films mix comedy and drama well. **Muriel’s Wedding** , **Strictly Ballroom** , **The Castle** , **Bad Boy Bubby** spring to mind. **Crocodile Dundee** was very funny at the time. Some of the humour - spying on a woman washing - hasn’t aged well. To me New Zealand and Australia are the same thing (not really…) and since I enjoy a good splatter horror comedy that gives \*\*Peter Jackson’\*\*s **Braindead**. TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-makes-the-funniest-movies/843226/43 "2019-11-13T03:32:43Z")
**“What Countries Make The Funniest Movies?”** Well, America _made_ the funniest movies. The silent era comedic trio, Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd were the pinnacle of funny. Their brand of funny crosses time, place, gender and language. An Australopithecus africanus dude, a 25th-century post-apocalyptic AI bot and everyone in between would all laugh heartily at this trio’s films. Examples: [Hot Water](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh3Ooj_njRM) [,Safety Last](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEcTjhUN_7U) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-makes-the-funniest-movies/843226/44 "2019-11-13T07:03:45Z")
> [@TCMF-2L](#): > > To me New Zealand and Australia are the same thing (not really…) and since I enjoy a good splatter horror comedy that gives \*\*Peter Jackson’\*\*s **Braindead**. > > TCMF-2L You’d also get Taika Waititi in that deal, which gets you _What We Do In The Shadows_ and _Hunt For The Wilderpeople_… ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-makes-the-funniest-movies/843226/45 "2019-11-13T11:23:09Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > You’d also get Taika Waititi in that deal, which gets you _What We Do In The Shadows_ and _Hunt For The Wilderpeople_… **Hunt for the Wilderpeople** is exactly what I was talking about with the Antipodean mix of comedy and drama. You have two standard comedy tropes playing out ‘Fish out of water’ (City Kid in rural environment) and ‘The odd couple’ (City Kid and Rural Old Man) when - keeping this to a deliberately vague minor spoiler - a sympathetic character is introduced but departs in genuinely tragic circumstances. TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![DerNils](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DerNils](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DerNils)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-makes-the-funniest-movies/843226/46 "2019-11-13T14:55:51Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I think that’s a bit harsh on German comedy films and comedy in general, though I’m always willing to fight the cliche German=no humor. There ARE some very funny German films, [Schtonk](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105328/)and [Der bewegte Mann](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109255/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) are two of the funniest films I’ve ever seen, and they function universally (though Schtonk, about the Hitler diaries hoax, is a very German story). For more recently produced comedies like [Fack ju Göhte](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2987732/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) or the dreck that maybe producer Til Schweiger finds funny, you’re right, those are cringeworthy and unwatchable. I am with you there, but I think your examples are the exceptions that prove the rule. As mentioned, I am very partial to movies like “Bang Boom Bang” or “Absolute Giganten” (sorry, no imdb linking at work), but would they work outside of their target audience? Maybe, maybe not. And I like Bully Herbigs work on TV, but his movies, well… ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-makes-the-funniest-movies/843226/47 "2019-11-13T17:01:49Z")
“Bad Boy Bubby” is a good movie. Very original. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-makes-the-funniest-movies/843226.md?page=2)