# Worst movie comedy ever? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2001, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018 "2001-11-18T02:26:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/1 "2001-11-18T02:26:37Z")
2 nominees, “First Family” and “Joe vs. the Volcano”. Lifetime achievement award… Chevy Chase ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/2 "2001-11-18T02:36:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimboguy \* > \*\* > 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!!!) ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/3 "2001-11-18T02:38:51Z")
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](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0092974) [Ernest Saves Christmas](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0095107) [Ernest Goes to Splash Mountain](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0238206) [Ernest Goes to Jail](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0099512) [Ernest Scared Stupid](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0101821) [Ernest Rides Again](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0106827) [Ernest Goes to School](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0109739) [Slam Dunk Ernest](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0114469) [Ernest goes to Africa](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0119068) [Ernest in the Army](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0129908) And while not an “Ernest” movie, he was in the spectacular crapfest [Fast Food](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097335). 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.) ---
**Author:** ![Bossk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@Bossk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bossk)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/4 "2001-11-18T02:53:47Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/5 "2001-11-18T03:04:21Z")
_Gung Ho_ w/Michael Keaton. I had forgotten how bad this movie was until I saw it on tv the other day. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/6 "2001-11-18T03:13:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/7 "2001-11-18T03:14:39Z")
**Meet The Parents.** What a waste of talent. ---
**Author:** ![Medievalist2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@Medievalist2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medievalist2)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/8 "2001-11-18T05:14:23Z")
Harry and the Hendersons Three Amigos Baby Boom ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/9 "2001-11-18T06:21:58Z")
\*\* Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me \*\* Could it have been any dumber? Seth Green left Buffy and went on to _that._ Terribly sad. ---
**Author:** ![More\_Cowbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@More\_Cowbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/More_Cowbell)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/10 "2001-11-18T07:54:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/11 "2001-11-18T10:22:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimboguy \* > \*\* > Lifetime achievement award… Chevy Chase \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![tronvillain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@tronvillain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tronvillain)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/12 "2001-11-18T10:33:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/13 "2001-11-18T12:11:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tronvillain \* > \*\*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.” \*\* Blair Witch, a comedy? What did I miss? ---
**Author:** ![tronvillain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@tronvillain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tronvillain)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/14 "2001-11-18T14:49:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/15 "2001-11-18T14:55:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/16 "2001-11-18T15:34:53Z")
“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.** _ ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/17 "2001-11-18T15:46:08Z")
[Brain Smasher…A Love Story](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0106475) Officially killed the Diceman’s career. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/18 "2001-11-18T17:33:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/19 "2001-11-18T17:34:08Z")
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". ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018/20 "2001-11-18T18:05:22Z")
_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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-comedy-ever/94018.md?page=2)