2 nominees, “First Family” and “Joe vs. the Volcano”.
Lifetime achievement award… Chevy Chase
Amen to that. The first thing I thought of was Spies Like Us and Cops and Robbersons. Dan Akroyd has to be way up there too, although he has had a handful of decent performances.
Other contenders:
Hot to Trot
Caddyshack II
(The only 2 movies I’ve ever walked out of!!!)
I dunno man, those Ernest P. Worrell movies would give the two in the OP a run for their money I think.
Ernest Goes to Camp
Ernest Saves Christmas
Ernest Goes to Splash Mountain
Ernest Goes to Jail
Ernest Scared Stupid
Ernest Rides Again
Ernest Goes to School
Slam Dunk Ernest
Ernest goes to Africa
Ernest in the Army
And while not an “Ernest” movie, he was in the spectacular crapfest Fast Food.
Jim Varney may even give Chevy Chase a run for the lifetime achievement award. (Although he does get bonus points for voicing Slinky Dog in the Toy Story movies.)
Black Sheep was about as unfunny as anything ever released by a major studio.
I always found Multiplicity extremely depressing for a comedy.
Then there’s Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid. A true spectacle of tastelessness to behold.
Most boring British comedy (and that’s saying something): Clockwise. I’d rather watch hockey than have to see this again. Honest to God, hockey!
You want to give a studio a lifetime underachievement award?
Troma all the way, baby.
Gung Ho w/Michael Keaton. I had forgotten how bad this movie was until I saw it on tv the other day.
Otto Preminger’s “Skidoo,” a mobster meets hippie yuckfest.
Beating out Chevy Case for lifetime acheivment: post-buzz-cut Jerry Lewis’ ciriculum vitae in his Vitalis years.
Meet The Parents.
What a waste of talent.
Harry and the Hendersons
Three Amigos
Baby Boom
** Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me **
Could it have been any dumber? Seth Green left Buffy and went on to that. Terribly sad.
The John Candy movie Delirious. Awful, just God awful. And I paid to see it in the movie theatre too. 10 years later and it still upsets me.
Couldn’t we just give the award to Lorene Michaels? I mean, how many bad movies has Saturday Night Live been responsible for? And when will they strike again?
They must be stopped.
While I’ve seen movies that were worse, having gone to it the theatre I’m going to have to say “The Blair Witch Project.” The thing about this type of thread is that I know going in someone’s going to suggest movies I like.
Blair Witch, a comedy? What did I miss?
I can’t believe I skipped that word in the thread title. Still, it is a much better movie if you try to laugh through the whole thing.
What, did none of you see “Dirty Work?” The Norm MacDonald travesty from a few years back?
Was “Oscar” (with Sylvester Stallone) supposed to be a comedy? I hear that was awful beyond description, but I refuse to see it so I’ll never know.
“North”
The inspiration for the title of Roger Ebert’s book, “I Hated Hated Hated Hated Hated This Movie.”
A snippet from Roger’s review: I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.
Officially killed the Diceman’s career.
A thread sometime ago asked for lowest box office take of a regular Hollywood film. It also turns out to be a comedy:
“It’s Pat” $35,000
All others mentioned pale by comparison $-wise. And again it’s another SNL-related movie.
Lifetime acheivement award might go to the Burt Reynolds / Hal Needham for running the moderately amusing “Smokey and the Bandit” into the ground.
Try “Stroker Ace”. Looks like bad home movies.
Certainly the biggest comic commercial flop of all time might be “Ishtar”, but it’s not really THAT bad.
“Leonard Part 6” WAS that bad.
Chevy Chase - hey, I LIKED “Fletch”. And “Skidoo” is one of those bizarre films that is hard to apply an objective label to. It’s interesting in being a pyschadelic pro-counterculture thing brought out largely by the commercial establishment of the late 60’s - directed by Otto Preminger, with Jackie Gleason and Carol Channing. Gleason’s impression of having dropped acid is hilarious, whatever else you might think of the movie. And anything which Harry Nillson did an original score for, and has the credits SUNG can’t be all bad.
"And Harry Nillson played a …
Tower Guard".
Twins
Junior
and I didn’t see it, but just based on the previews and commercials: Jingle Bells (that’s the name of the Arnold Christmas “comedy”, yes?)
And if Kuffs was supposed to be a comedy, add it to the list, too.