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.
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.
Well, if we’re going to go to comedy specials (though I think it did play theatrically) Bill Cosby: Himself 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!”
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.
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.
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.
Airplane!
Little Miss Sunshine–although it does have a very dark undercurrent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
FAIL!
See above.
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.
Freebie & The Bean.
I’ll concede that without Blazing Saddles it would never have existed, but Rustler’s Rhapsody was funnier.
So many to choose from, but I only get one, so:
There’s Something About Mary.
What About Bob?
Hilarious and very quotable.
My mom and I love that film! Thanks for the reminder…I need to buy it on DVD.