Mine has to be “Caddy Shack.” It had everything and lots of funny people in it. I guess it was so funny because they made such a mockery out of such a serious game. Well that is my vote what’s yours?
I almost forgot what is one of the funniest lines you remember from the movie. How about this one from “Caddy Shack.” How about when Judge Smells told Danny during his lecture “I sent alot of young people like yourself to the gas chamber didn’t want to but I felt I owed it to them.” TOO funny!
I don’t want to insult anyone, but I really don’t think Caddyshack is all that funny. I could easily live without seeing it again.
My choices for funniest movie?
-- A Night at the Opera. Prime Marx Bothers
-- What's Up, Doc? I still love this one. Written by Buck Henry, directed by Bogdanovich. And I don't care what anyone says, it's not a retread "Bringing up Baby"
-- Arsenic and Old Lace. Superb off-the-wall comedy. The way he moves the characters around is marvelous, and his overturning of conventional reality and morality is stunning.
-- Kentucky Fried Movie, Airplane, Top Secret, and Naked Gun (and the Police Squad TV series), but not the other Abrahams and Zucker films. I also loved Airplane II, even though it wasn't theirs. "Amazon Women on the Moon" wasn't theirs, either, although John Landis (of KFM) directed, it wasn't as good. Although I'll give them big points for "The Son of the Invisible Man" segment.
I’m glad to see another What’s Up Doc? fan out there. I watch that movie several times and year and it never gets stale. “I am Hugh.” “You are me?” “No, I am Hugh.” “Will you please stop saying that.”
My vote may have to go to “Raising Arizona.” The characters, dialoge (“Son, you’ve got a panty on your head.”), action, and staging are just so good.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the only movie I know that’s funnier than the Marx Brothers at their best - their best being Monkey Business, Horsefeathers, Duck Soup (surprised?), and A Night at the Opera (in chron order; which one’s my favorite changes with the weather).
Other favorites of mine include Airplane and Blazing Saddles.
I’d have to cast an additional vote for Airplane!, as well as votes for:
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, which never fails to double me over with laughter.
A dark horse candidate, A Hard Day’s Night. Every time Paul’s grandfather glances at his buxom companion at the gambling club and remarks, “I bet you’re a great swimmer,” it kills me. A very, very funny movie.
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[li]Duck Soup–the funniest of all the Marx Brothers films[/li][li]Blazing Saddles[/li][li]The Producers-“Springtime for Hitler” and Dick Shawn as LSD[/li][li]Monty Python and the Holy Grail “I’m only 37, I’m not old!”[/li][li]South Park-Bigger, Longer, and Uncut[/li][li]The Court Jester-“The flagon with the dragon holds the brew that is true”[/li][li]Airplane-“Don’t call me Shirley”[/li]A Fish Called Wanda–“I’ve known sheep who could outwit you, Otto”
How could I have forgotten to at least mention South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut? Thanks for reminding me, Phil - it definitely belongs in the top 10!
“Step one, 'stead of ‘ass’, say ‘buns’,
like ‘kiss my buns’ or ‘you’re a buns-hole’…”
(Wonder if anyone ever gave Dubya that advice! ;))
An obscure film called The Party starring Peter
Sellers. It’s hysterically, laugh out loud funny.
At one point, he’s running around trying to
find a bathroom and spots a kitty litter box.
I said “Oh no” and my ex said “He wouldn’t
stoop so low.” The whole movie is really funny,
even without that unintentional Freudian slip.