Posted on 10/10/2008 7:07:10 AM PDT by Toadman
Hi fellow Freepers. I did a search and did not find this topic. If you know of a previous post, please redirect.
I've been hogging our Netflix (history, documentary, military genres) and realize the wife and kids need some levity.
Would you all take the time and give me an opinion of what you consider to be the best funny movies you've seen. I'm talking from the silent era of Charlie Chaplin up to the most present ala American Carol.
It doesn't matter if it's dark humor to vulgar humor to Walt Disney. Thanks for your input!
I was a little shocked at first at all the profanity at the very start of Superbad (and I have a potty mouth), but movie is so completely hysterical. When they made the kid sing at the party I was dying!
Speaking of Peter Sellars, I can’t believe nobody has mentioned the original Pink Panther.
An oldie, but funny one is Animal Crackers with the Marx Brothers.
PCU
be drunk for both...
The scene where Christopher Walken is driving Annie and Alvie cracks me up every time.
“I have to go now Duane, because I’m due back on planet Earth.”
Speaking of Alan Arkin, he added a good funny anchor as the psychiatrist in Grosse Pointe Blank. That was another funny one. Going to high school reunion, “What am I going to say? ‘Hi, I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork’?”
the first scene in the doctor’s office and the scene in the restaurant with the waitress are two of the funniest i have ever seen.
Idiocracy
An Ethan Cohen (Cohen Bros.) and Mike Judge (Office Space) film.
It's set in the future and the premise is that mankind devolves into stupidity...I used to think it could not happen but with todays politics...
The President's Analyst
invokes one that probably really is.
White Chicks
I forgot
The Waterboy
Home Alone 1 & 2, like watching a classic Looney Tune.
Caddyshack
Back To School
National Lampoon’s Vacation
The Jerk Steve Martin
The Party Peter Sellers
In no particular order:
Smokey and the Bandit
Caddyshack
History of the World Part I
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Strange Brew
South Park Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Clerks
Chasing Amy
Dogma, and...
Fight Club
(yes, Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, the first time I watched it I thought what a great drama, once I got the joke I immediately watched it again and LMAO)
Old School
The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
I would have to say that My Cousin Vinny was hysterical!!
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