# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/141 "2013-06-15T16:46:15Z")
> [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](#): > > The Producers is probably my fave movie ever. Dick Shawn, Kenneth Mars, everyone in that flick is hysterical. I forgot to mention in my post upthread about another big hit in Germany - The Producers. Even the musical version was a big hit. As you may or may not know, American film titles are often changed in other languages. The title of The Producers in German? “Frueling Fuer Hitler!” (Springtime For Hitler!) I have to admit, seeing that title on a movie theater marquee in Berlin, and in all the ads in the newspapers, was almost worth a gut busting laugh on its own! ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/142 "2013-06-15T16:48:12Z")
The Pink Panther series. Peter Sellers died way too soon to suit me. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/143 "2013-06-15T17:08:03Z")
Another vote for\* Office Space\*. Never, ever get tired of watching it and it ranks up there in quotability with other gems (not my official favorite ONEs but close) like _Princess Bride_ and _Clue_. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/144 "2013-06-15T17:17:37Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > FAIL! > > See above. Yeah, well **Sauron** started it! ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/145 "2013-06-15T17:45:36Z")
_It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World_ ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/146 "2013-06-15T17:45:49Z")
Well, if you want to measure it on laughs per number of words used basis Caveman starring Ringo Star is a contender. Zug Zug. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/147 "2013-06-15T18:02:13Z")
Man, I have got to watch me some Marx Brothers! ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/148 "2013-06-15T18:13:37Z")
Probably _Animal House._ But, it was a combination of the times (I had just graduated High School, heading to college), the radical treatment of the subject (it was the first of the raunchy teenage comedies), and the audience (a packed house of kids like me). The laughter in the audience was so loud and so long that I missed a lot of the dialog, but the movie was so damn funny that I was belly laughing along with everyone else. I have the 25th Anniversary edition, and I love it, but it’s one of those movies that you really had to experience first-hand. Great memories. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/149 "2013-06-15T18:25:24Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > [QUOTE= C K Dexter Haven] > BRINGING UP BABY is my first That’s funny. If I had been asked what your favorite Cary Grant comedy was, I would have guessed _Arsenic and Old Lace_. [/QUOTE] Really? I would have guessed [Philadelphia Story](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032904/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm#cast). Not his funniest comedy, but one of his best movies. Roddy ---
**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, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/150 "2013-06-15T18:32:57Z")
Great selections here! I’m not at all surprised to see _Airplane_ and _Blazing Saddles_ so highly regarded; they’re both funny as all get out! My choice is after the page break… ---
**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, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/151 "2013-06-15T18:35:53Z")
Since I’m the OP and I haven’t weighed in yet, I’d like to present my selection. This film has never failed to reduce me to tears, even in very public settings. I’ve seen it literally hundreds of times, and it always has the same effect on me. I first saw this film back in 1999 or 2000 and then it took me a couple of years to track it down and get my own copy. When smartphones came out, I immediately ripped it so I could watch it whenever I wanted; it is the only piece of video or film that I always have on both my iPhone and my iPad. I give you: [Billy’s Balloon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rag-RGSYq6I#t=3m05s). ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/152 "2013-06-15T21:07:08Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I give you: [Billy’s Balloon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rag-RGSYq6I#t=3m05s). Watched it. How does that saying go? “Dying is easy, comedy is hard.” Sorry - but that didn’t even get a slight grin from me, let alone a laugh. Well, different strokes…guess that is why Pauly Shore and Andy Dick still make money - there are people who even find them funny too. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/153 "2013-06-15T21:56:53Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I give you: [Billy’s Balloon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rag-RGSYq6I#t=3m05s). Yeah, that’s a real knee-slapper… Seriously, like Dmark it didn’t even raise a smile for me either. Different strokes indeed. Great thread though! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/154 "2013-06-15T22:26:41Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I’d vote for _The Party_. Funniest. Movie. Ever. [This one?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063415/?ref_=sr_1) “Birdie num nums” Yes, this was very funny. Sorry, I can’t narrow it down to one movie. Different movies seen at various times of my life, or even just various moods of my day to day existence, will either be totally hilarious to me, even on multiple viewings, or barely get an internal “yeah, that’s funny” reaction from me. I bet a similar thought is why so many people in this thread are offering multiple titles. It’s not to spite the OP, it’s just how some of us perceive humor. I will agree with almost any choice in this thread (except for the next one.) . ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/155 "2013-06-15T22:34:41Z")
What about short subject cartoons? Buggs Bunny were made for movie theatres. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/156 "2013-06-15T23:20:20Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > What about short subject cartoons? > > Buggs Bunny were made for movie theatres. Buggs Bunny isn’t as funny as Yo Sammity Sam. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/157 "2013-06-16T00:17:48Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > What about short subject cartoons? > > Buggs Bunny were made for movie theatres. Dang you! Dang you to heck! (I actually like those.) ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/158 "2013-06-16T00:28:02Z")
_Airplane!_ is not only the funniest movie of all time, it’s the greatest movie of all time, period. The greatest movie of THIS millennium, though, has got to be _[Shallow Hal](http://www.rogermwilcox.com/ShallowHal.html)_. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/159 "2013-06-16T02:50:02Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Buggs Bunny isn’t as funny as Yo Sammity Sam. Huh?!? :dubious:😕 ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2013, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877/160 "2013-06-16T03:32:41Z")
Yosemite Sam? > **[Yosemite Sam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_Sam)** > > Yosemite Sam (/joʊˈsɛmɪti/ yoh-SEM-ih-tee) is a cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of short films produced by Warner Bros. His name is taken from Yosemite National Park. He is an adversary of Bugs Bunny. He is commonly depicted as a mean-spirited and extremely aggressive, gunslinging outlaw or cowboy with a hair-trigger temper and an intense hatred of rabbits, Bugs in particular. In cartoons with non-Western themes, he uses various aliases, including "Chilkoot Ani... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-single-funniest-movie-youve-ever-seen/660877.md?page=9)