# What is the single funniest movie you've ever seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 13, 2013, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877 "2013-06-13T04:08:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/121 "2013-06-14T18:43:48Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Now [Project Grizzly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WWiPiks1sU)is comedy gold. I snorted at :23 when I first saw it. I’m sorry but seeing a guy get his ass beat does not a comedy make for me. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/122 "2013-06-14T18:52:36Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > I’m sorry but seeing a guy get his ass beat does not a comedy make for me. He’s not getting his ass beat. Its product testing. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/123 "2013-06-14T19:18:22Z")
Man, it’s hard to pick just one … although it’s tempting to list several just to hack off a few posters in this thread. Many of my favorites have been named - \*Young Frankenstein, Airplane!, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Animal House \*- so I’ll pass over those and pick something I don’t think has been listed yet. Not a theatrical release, but a special on one of the pay channels (HBO or Cinemax or something like that) many years ago. Steven Banks Home Entertainment Center. I think the full hour-long show is on YouTube; treat yourself if you have the time. I’m STILL in awe of the sheer creativity he displays in this one-man show, and it never fails to make me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/124 "2013-06-14T19:31:47Z")
> [@Sauron](#): > > Steven Banks Home Entertainment Center. I think the full hour-long show is on YouTube; treat yourself if you have the time. I’m STILL in awe of the sheer creativity he displays in this one-man show, and it never fails to make me laugh. Well, if we’re going to go to comedy specials (though I think it did play theatrically) _[Bill Cosby: Himself](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083652/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)_ was the funniest single performance by a comedian I have ever seen, with Mitch Hedberg’s special a close second. _“…my wife stood up in the stirrups - grabbed my upper lip - and yelled YOU DID THIS TO ME!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/125 "2013-06-14T19:47:04Z")
I am quite fond of some of the classics mentioned upthread. The Producers is probably my fave movie ever. Dick Shawn, Kenneth Mars, everyone in that flick is hysterical. I saw YF again recently and didn’t laugh once. Sometimes it happens that way. But the movie that I thought was going to kill me I was laughing so hard was Borat. Brilliant stuff, sight gags, gifted physical comedy, sheer outrageousness. Can’t beat it. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/126 "2013-06-14T20:13:58Z")
We saw Fantasia in a theater during one of its periodic re-releases, about 1970. During the “Dance of the Hours” segment, we laughed like never before and never again. The obese hippos and the hairy-legged ostriches dancing around like top-end ballerinas. Hyacinth Hippos’s swan dive onto her waiting crocodile would-be swain. The dancing elephants. Brings tears to my eyes just remembering it. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/127 "2013-06-14T20:14:42Z")
Le Diner de Cons, released here as “The Dinner Game”. Even thought it’s in French and I only speak 8 words of French, it’s the funniest movie I’ve ever seen. It was remade here as “Dinner for Schmucks”, but the two movies should never be mentioned together. In fact, “Dinner for Schmucks” should never have been made and I’m doing my best to forget it. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/128 "2013-06-14T20:15:49Z")
Airplane! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/129 "2013-06-14T22:51:35Z")
_Little Miss Sunshine_–although it does have a very dark undercurrent. ---
**Author:** ![dubs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dubs)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/130 "2013-06-15T00:06:51Z")
Gotta go with _Young Frankenstein_. I convinced my son to watch Bride of Frankenstein with me awhile ago and then when it was over I showed him the clip of Gene Hackman and Peter Boyle in the blind man segment. He doesn’t laugh at much but that scene made him smile. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/131 "2013-06-15T00:11:12Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Of all the contenders, I’d have to go all the way back to a silent: Buster Keaton’s _The General._ I can’t even imagine my second-funniest. I think some of his films may have more laughs (Harold Lloyd, too), but only by a razor-thin margin, and since this is probably my most favorite movie ever, it gets my vote, too. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/132 "2013-06-15T01:51:43Z")
> [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](#): > > I saw YF again recently and didn’t laugh once. Sometimes it happens that way. Well, there’s no disputing matters of taste. Unless you failed to chuckle at PUNNN ON DA RISSS, in which case there’s something wrong with you. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/133 "2013-06-15T03:23:52Z")
> [@Sauron](#): > > Man, it’s hard to pick just one … although it’s tempting to list several just to hack off a few posters in this thread. > > Many of my favorites have been named - \*Young Frankenstein, Airplane!, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Animal House \*- so I’ll pass over those and pick something I don’t think has been listed yet. Not a theatrical release, but a special on one of the pay channels (HBO or Cinemax or something like that) many years ago. > > Steven Banks Home Entertainment Center. I think the full hour-long show is on YouTube; treat yourself if you have the time. I’m STILL in awe of the sheer creativity he displays in this one-man show, and it never fails to make me laugh. BBBBBBBBRRRRRAAAAAAAAAPPPPPP! FAIL! Shot for broadcast is not a movie. Your answer is rejected (despite the fact that said video is hilarious; it is; I’ve seen it). I’ve been refraining from commenting on the multiple choice posters, but this was a broadcast special not a movie. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/134 "2013-06-15T03:25:46Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Well, if we’re going to go to comedy specials (though I think it did play theatrically) _[Bill Cosby: Himself](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083652/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)_ was the funniest single performance by a comedian I have ever seen, with Mitch Hedberg’s special a close second. > > _“…my wife stood up in the stirrups - grabbed my upper lip - and yelled YOU DID THIS TO ME!”_ FAIL! See above. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/135 "2013-06-15T03:47:53Z")
The single funniest moment of any movie ever for me was Without A Clue: “Arty Morty!”, I laughed so hard and so long I couldn’t breath. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/136 "2013-06-15T04:09:38Z")
Freebie & The Bean. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/137 "2013-06-15T04:17:07Z")
I’ll concede that without _Blazing Saddles_ it would never have existed, but _Rustler’s Rhapsody_ was funnier. ---
**Author:** ![nachtmusick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@nachtmusick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nachtmusick)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/138 "2013-06-15T05:37:46Z")
So many to choose from, but I only get one, so: There’s Something About Mary. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/139 "2013-06-15T16:28:15Z")
**What About Bob?** Hilarious and very quotable. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/140 "2013-06-15T16:29:19Z")
> [@krunen](#): > > “The Gods Must Be Crazy” from South Africa. I laughed so much my throat locked up. Don’t watch it alone. My mom and I love that film! Thanks for the reminder…I need to buy it on DVD. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877.md?page=8)