# What is the funniest movie ever? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 30, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320 "2005-11-30T02:43:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/41 "2005-11-30T09:16:47Z")
> [@Happy Lendervedder](#): > > For my money, I have to go with ‘Old School.’ > > This movie makes me laugh like no other movie. Oh hell yeah, Old School and Bad(er) Santa are two of my most favorite movies! I’m currious though, How old are you **Happy Lendervedder**? (If you don’t mind me asking) I’m 35 myself, I’m wondering if this movie is like a “generation thing” that make me love it so much. Because I tell ya’ ,50% of that movie I can identify with so much. Especially Will Ferrels character. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/42 "2005-11-30T09:30:49Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > If DVDs of TV shows count, SNL’s **The Best of Eddie Murphy** is great. Mr. Robinson, Velvet Jones, Tyrone Green, and my personal favorite- James Brown’s Celebrity Hot Tub Party- are all on it. That’s a favorite of mine and my entire family. We used to rent the Best of Eddie Murphy tape from Blockbuster so many times, and even my mom cracks up. I ought to buy my parents the DVD some time. Other than that, I’d have to go with: Airplane! A Night at the Opera (I haven’t seen all the Marx Brothers movies, but this is by far my favorite that I’ve seen) Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure Ghostbusters This Is Spinal Tap Pulp Fiction (violent, sure, but also very funny) Office Space The 40-Year-Old Virgin (funny as hell, but also heartwarming, and I could relate A LOT as a fellow late bloomer and adult action figure collector) Harold and Kumar (I thought I would hate it, but it was hilarious) Mystery Men (underrated superhero parody with a killer cast) Clerks / Mallrats (tie) ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/43 "2005-11-30T10:52:21Z")
Ruthless People ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/44 "2005-11-30T13:03:49Z")
To tell the truth, I find a numb er of the suggestions here surprisingly _Un_-funny. The Ruling Class??!! I’ve seen it, and it’s interesting, but a side-splitting slap-your-knees funny it ain’t. My choices: \*\*A Night at the Opera A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum What’s Up, Doc? Kentucky Fried Movie Airplane Airplane II, Top Secret! The Naked Gun What’s Up, Tiger Lily?\*\* ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/45 "2005-11-30T13:20:18Z")
**Dodgeball.** I’ve seen it twice, and both times it made my stomach muscles and jaw ache from laughing so hard. \*\*Office Space Not Another Teen Movie \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/46 "2005-11-30T13:23:25Z")
> [@SHAKES](#): > > Because I tell ya’ ,50% of that movie I can identify with so much. Especially Will Ferrels character. I’m 33, and married, and I know exactly what you mean. When he tells all those college kids he’s got a real nice day planned, he’s going to go to Home Depot and and maybe Bed, Bath & Beyond and next thing you know he’s doing funnels. . .man, I can relate. My submissions: When I first saw _Dazed & Confused_, I laughed the entire time. I also think _Clueless_ is a perfect comedy, but more for it’s satire than being laugh out loud funny. ---
**Author:** ![Keweenaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Keweenaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keweenaw)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/47 "2005-11-30T13:29:47Z")
You’re all wrong 😉 [Planes Trains and Automoblies](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093748/) is the funniest movie ever. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/48 "2005-11-30T13:30:28Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > To tell the truth, I find a number of the suggestions here surprisingly _Un_-funny. The Ruling Class??!! I’ve seen it, and it’s interesting, but a side-splitting slap-your-knees funny it ain’t. Interesting point. I have already said that I think _The Producers_ is one of Mel Brooks’s least funny movies and 2 weeks ago I rented the new DVD of _The Party_ to introduce my 16YO son to the delights of this underrated classic. While we sat watching it I felt embarassed for having lauded it - it was very,very pedestrian. He looked relieved when I suggested, after a long laughless time, that we watch something else. ---
**Author:** ![Redsland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de0a6/32.png) [@Redsland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redsland)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/49 "2005-11-30T14:52:44Z")
_South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut_. Non-stop, laugh-out-loud hillarity. Nothing comes close. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/50 "2005-11-30T14:52:53Z")
I wouldn’t call _Harold and Kumar_ the best comedy, but it’s surprisingly funny. I thought it was going to be another Farrelly Brothers-type movie (nothing but toilet humor throughout), but it was pretty amusing. With the exception of the very end, _Blazing Saddles_ is probably right up there. And _Anchorman_ worked out very well for a simply wacky movie. (Even if I am getting tired of seeing Will Ferrell taking Jim Carrey’s position as Hollywood’s One-Trick Pony.) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/51 "2005-11-30T14:56:44Z")
> [@Tracy Lord](#): > > _Animal House_ is the movie that gets the most consistent, biggest laughs from me. One week Spike TV played a three-night marathon, and by the third time around I was laughing so hard I could barely breathe. > > _Harold and Kumar_ is still in the new falling-on-the-floor-in-hysterics stage for me. I’ll reserve judgement until a few years have gone by. 🙂 Neil Patrick Harris’s lines in that movie will neveer get old. Nor will the image of Doogie Howser snorting coke off a hooker’s ass. “Yeah… FURburgers!” ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Battery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@Dead\_Battery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Battery)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/52 "2005-11-30T15:01:30Z")
Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie is the funniest movie I’ve ever seen (many, many times). SO many hilarious scenes… Chong getting baked off roaches (lol, his face and reaction after the first hit… and then he goes for another one) and then going mental with the guitar brings me to gut-busting tears every time. The South Park movie would have to be a serious contender too. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/53 "2005-11-30T15:02:27Z")
I agree with the Airplane(/Top Secret/Naked Gun… all the same movie in different settings, really), Night at the Opera, Monty Python (pick your favorite), lists. I just want to throw out _The Pink Panther Strikes Again_. Haven’t seen it in a while, maybe it hasn’t aged well, but it made me laugh as long and hard as any of the others in my top movies. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/54 "2005-11-30T15:08:30Z")
> [@Sophistry and Illusion](#): > > I need a ruling from the OPer–does MST3K count? The movie isn’t supposed to be funny, but the MST3K version is supposed to be. If this is legit, then I have to recommend _Monster A-Go-Go_, with the preceding short clip _Circus On Ice_. I think at least MST3K-The Movie should count, and I opened this thread to nominate it. I _never_ heard so much non-stop laughter from a theater audience in my life. But I think this movie needs the audience experience; I saw it again on tape later and wasn’t nearly so amused. Could be because I heard the jokes before, too. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/55 "2005-11-30T15:14:50Z")
I don’t watch many funny movies, the last thing that mad me laugh like a loon was the unrated Dodgeball. When Rip Torn clocked the skinny kid with a wrench I almost wet myself. Top of my list is [Noises Off](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105017/) I watched it with a group of friends and we laughed so hard I missed whole scenes. It’s the only movie I’ve ever rewound and watched again back to back. ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/56 "2005-11-30T15:32:39Z")
So many good movies here! Robin Hood - Men in Tights So damn funny!! had early Chappelle in there Authur When he shows up drunk at the wrong house is the funniest 5mins… Airplane! What can you say? The best Naked Gun Again, a movie on its own pedestal. Dumb and Dumber The snowball fight had me pissing myself! Something About Mary The fight with the dog made me laugh the rest of the movie just thinking about it. Monty Python Holy Grail, or Life of Brian 20+ years old, and still holds up to good laughs Dodgeball/Old School I loved both movies, but both had some slow points. Put them together tho and you have 90mins of some damn good funny stuff! Ace Venture - When Nature Calls I know, I know…but come on! JC is annoying, but I still laughed my ass off at the whole Rhino scene. And him with the bat? Come on! its funny Spaceballs “Evil always wins because Good is stupid” great movie! ---
**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:** [November 30, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/57 "2005-11-30T15:47:31Z")
What is enlightening about threads like these is what other people find funny. Part of me wants to correlate the age of the poster with what they chose, but that is a mug’s game. Remember the OP, folks. A few funny moments doesn’t cut it. The movie **as a whole** has to be a gut-buster. But I just will never rate any Cheech & Chong movie, or anything Mel Brooks did after _History of the World, Part 1_ as being in the Top 100 of funny movies. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/58 "2005-11-30T15:52:49Z")
Minute for minute, I’d have to say **The Fatal Glass of Beer** , with W.C. Fields. But there are only 18 minutes. For feature length films, it’s got to go to the Pythons. **Holy Grail** is probably their strongest overall, but **Life of Brian** ’s Latin grammar lesson and Biggus Dickus bits had me doubled over. For sheer stupidity (up there with **Airplane** , I’ve always loved **Carry On Cleo** , which is apparently not well known in the US. In the 60s, WJW in Cleveland got hold of a bunch of Carry On movies, and this one really got me. Early on it has a Roman legion marching, with Sidney James shouting out “sinister, dexter, sinister, dexter,” and it just gets dumber from there. ---
**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:** [November 30, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/59 "2005-11-30T17:23:58Z")
> [@SHAKES](#): > > Oh hell yeah, Old School and Bad(er) Santa are two of my most favorite movies! > > I’m currious though, How old are you **Happy Lendervedder**? (If you don’t mind me asking) I’m 35 myself, I’m wondering if this movie is like a “generation thing” that make me love it so much. > > Because I tell ya’ ,50% of that movie I can identify with so much. Especially Will Ferrels character. It probably is generational. I’m 30, and can totally relate to this movie. Plus, Will Ferrel just makes me laugh like nobody else can. Happy ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320/60 "2005-11-30T21:43:43Z")
[Team America: World Police](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/), hand’s down. I never laughed so much at a movie that I missed parts… the “romance” scene is by far the funniest ever! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-movie-ever/333320.md?page=4)