Funniest Movies Ever Made

[Amnesiac]

This thread is like the first two, but a leeeeeeeeeetle bit different. Here's how:

1) You have to list the funniest movie(s) you've ever seen. And by that I mean, hands-down, balls-out, tear-streaming, gut-bustingly fall-on-the-floor, piss-your-pants, can't-breathe-no-more all-out funniest goddamn fucking movie you've ever seen.

2) You have to provide a brief description of the absolute funniest scene from that/those movies in order to validate it.

HERE'S MINE...

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
When I was 10 years old, this was the funniest goddamn thing I'd ever seen, and to this day it stands strong.

The funniest fucking scene from the movie is when Clark Griswold plugs in the 4.6 million Christmas lights on the house and calls for the entire family to come out and see them. As soon as they step out the door, his wife unknowingly cuts off the switch on the fuse box, killing the entire display before it can be seen. Unspeakably frustrated at seeing an entire day's worth of work seemingly shot to hell, he goes beserk and in front of his relatives, proceeds to punch the plastic Santa Claus in the face, kick him into the trees and beat the antlers off the reindeer while screaming incoherent obscenities; of course, his wife kicks the switch back on and all becomes well, but not before one of the best scenes I've ever seen transpires.

This scene was so absolutely fucking hilarious that I had to turn off the VCR before I soiled myself. To this day, I still have to.


HONORABLE MENTION: Cheech & Chong's Next Movie (1980)

The movie itself is not that funny, but this scene deserves mention. Cheech is driving the van and Chong has a giant plastic bag of coke, and resting in between the seats is a jar of urine for a drug test given by a pregnant woman. Cheech cajoles Chong into giving him a whiff of the powder and smashes it in his face, only to find out that the powder is actually soap. Desperate for something to drink, Ching gives him the jar of piss and Cheech starts to drink it...only to spew it back over himself upon realizing what it is. After a few seconds, Cheech becomes distracted by the bubbles coming out of his nose and Chong tricks him into drinking from teh jar a SECOND TIME only to re-spew it back over himself...all teh while still driving.

I had to turn the VCR off on that one too.😀

 

[The Pianist]

Its a short film called:

Rejected.

Its just really wierd and stuffed up, but I couldn't contain myself from the word go. It can't really be described properly... except that its a series of pencil drawn cartoons that were drawn for the family entertainment channel or something and each one of them were rejected for one reason or another.

An example:

Two people facing each other.
Pencil Blob One: It's nearly Tuesday. Do you Have your Coat?
Pencil Blob Two: I am feeling Fat... and Sassy.

End of sketch.


It really has to be seen.

 

[Prime]

Blazing Saddles.

As discusting as it sounds the camp fire seen comes to mind...lol
All the guys sit around the camp fire eating beens and passing gas. I believe someone asks for more beans and the foreman of the group says..i think you guys have had enough..or something close to that...its kind of another one that you have to see. the overall movie was hillarious..it poked fun at everyone.

 

[milagros317]

For me, the funniest film that I ever saw was "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Forum". It was made in 1966, and features Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Patricia Jessel, Myrna White, and Buster Keaton.

 

[mykal]

Animal House

In this movie, just about any scene with Belushi in it is funny. However, my favorite scene is the one where they put the horse in the Dean's office, where the horse has an untimely heart attack. There's a lot more to the scene than that, but if you saw the movie, you know what I'm talking about. And if you haven't seen it, go buy it or rent it (it was just re-released), my words just can't do it justice.

 

[JPie1]

History of the World was hysterical.

I also liked

Beverly hills cops

Animal house

 

[Oblesklk]

Monty Python's Life of Brian. That movie just kills me.

 

[mykal]

Caddyshack

Bill Murray fantasy of being the Cinderella story of Augusta.
And let's not forget the wisecracking Rodney!

 

[BigBrownEyes]

The funniest movie ever was "The Sunshine Boys." The second one was "The In-Laws."

Blazing Saddles was pretty funny too. "Excuse me while I whip this out..."

"They said you was hung," "and they was right!"

 

[giggleygirl25]

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Shrek

Animal House

and a few others that i can't think of off the top of my head

 

[AphxA]

funniest movie of all time

1) south park the movie
2) ace ventura 1 and 2
3) scary movie 1 and 2
4) pretty much any jay and silent bob type film🙂

 

[bellebuttonking]

The Burbs
High school High

Dang i cant think of any funnie movies Right now just thoses two!🙁

 

[pghtickleguy]

I personally loved Meet The Parents. It was hysterical. Also for clean fun Houseguest was pretty funny as well as a movie called Greedy.


pghtickleguy

 

[Limeoutsider]

A Life Less Ordinary with Ewan McGregor and Cameron Diaz, when she's teaching him how a kidnapper makes a ransom call

 

[Prime]

I also have to vote for monty python and the holy grail...it was hillarious...Tis but a scratch...lol.

 

[phfttklr]

Lifetime Achievement Award for Comedy goes to: Monty Python
any movie and sketch by them.

Balls out funniest movie to make me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe,
"Something About Mary" - the bathroom scene with the "gel"
-nuff said. "Franks and Beans!"

"Almighty Bruce" had a few scenes that did the same to me.

Way too many others to mention so I'll stop there.

 

[4Pawz]

Hmm this is a tough one. I would have to go with Liar Liar and the Ace Ventura movies. Depends upon my mood 🙂

Pawz

 

[phatteus]

my list

In no particular order:

A Hard Day's Night
Vacation
Christmas Vacation
Clerks
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Dogma
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Slapshot
Major League ("Look at this fuckin' guy!")
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Shrek
The Rutles
This is Spinal Tap
A Mighty Wind
Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail
The Great Outdoors
A Christmas Story
The Money Pit
Airplane I & II
Hot Shots / Hot Shots Part Deux
The Naked Gun Trilogy
Mafia! ("Run, Florist!")
and finally:
Jurassic Park III. Funny for all the wrong reasons.

 

[Oddjob0226]

Too many great ones, but Buster Keaton and The Marx brothers did some amazing things. With the Marxes, even their worst films were as good as some other comedians mediocre to good films.

One of the films, though, that had me literally in tears and laughing was Raising Arizona. That AMAZING chase scene! And the bit where Nathan Arizona is being interviewed by the cops..... I'm laughing out loud now just recalling some of the lines....

Another "funniest scene" - anything bit with John Lovits in Rat Race was great, but especially when he's tooling around in Hitler's staff car, meets the women bikers and crashes into the vetran's picnic. Incredibly, bizzarely brilliant!

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Good thread...
1) IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (1963)
2) THE ODD COUPLE (1968)
3) THE LIFE OF BRIAN (1980)
4) CADDYSHACK (1980)
5) ANIMAL HOUSE (1977)
6) EASY MONEY (1983)
7) STRIPES (1981)
8) 48 HOURS (1983)
9) NATIONAL LAMPOON'S "VACATION" (1983)
10)WHAT'S UP DOC? (1972)

 

[sole seeker]

Animal House was terrific!

Blazing Saddles was stupendous!

But nobody has mentioned...

Spaceballs by Mel Brooks

The diner scene. The hero and Mog (half human, half dog - played by John Candy) are at a greasy spoon diner in a space station. The waitress takes their order, and a minute later one guy at the end of the counter starts to act like he's having a seizure. As he collapses on top of the counter this commic space-alien pops out of his chest. The monster begins to kick like he's in a chorus line, holding a straw hat behind his head with one hand, and a cane in the other. He dances down the lunch counter singing, "Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my rag-time gal". As he scoots out of the room, both the hero and Mog rise and say in unison, "Check, please!"

Warping to Plaid. In the same movie, Rick Moranis gives an outstanding performance as "Dark Helmet" (a short, inept Darth Vader). As their cruiser is overtaking our hero's spacecraft, Dark Helmet orders the gunner of his ship to fire a warning shot "across her nose". The shot comes very close to the good guys's ship. DH adminishes the gunner, "I said across her nose, not up it! Who made you a gunner?" The gunner turns around and you can see he's cross-eyed. He says, "Sorry sir, I'm doing the best I can." The second in command says, "I did sir." Dark Helmet asks, "Well who are you?" The officer says, "Asshole, sir, Major Asshole, and he's my cousin, Gunnersmate Phillip Asshole." Dark Helmet then says, "How many Assholes we got on this ship, anyway?" To which the entire bridge crew turns around and says, "Here, sir!" DH says, "Geeze no wonder I'm having trouble, I'm surrounded by Assholes!... Keep firing, Assholes!"

 

[Knox The Hatter]

How can I have been so remiss? The Mel Brooks films, of course, "Blazing Saddles", "Young Frankenstein", "Silent Movie", "Spaceballs", "Robin Hood-Men in Tights".
I also loved "Return of the Pink Panther", "The Big Lebowski", and a film from '89 or so called "The Dream Team", about a group of mental patients who get lost in NYC.
The most famous Woody Allen movies don't qualify as a whole for me...certain scenes, though, are classic, like in Annie Hall, when he's sitting at a table outside a LA bistro, and he asks the waiter for a plate of sun dried yeast...

 

[Maelstrom]

Hard to pick a favorite, but the movie Arthur had moments that I still laugh at even 20 years later. When Dudley Moore played the drunk, well.....he was the master. The sarcastic butler in that was also the perfect foil.

...and Life of Brian was hysterical.

....Mark

 

[Oblesklk]

"The Big Lebowski",

*gives self big D'OH slap*

Indeed, one of the funniest movies of all time. Along with 90% of everyone whose ever watched it, I didn't like it much the first time I saw it. Then the second and third time through really got through...

Good stuff 🙂

 

[WraithTickler]

Since I'm sure no one's mentioned them yet, I'll nominate some of the Marx Bros. movies. Duck Soup, Animal Crackers, Day at the Races, Night at the Opera, among others are pure cinema classics and almost completely forgotten now days.