Animal House probably got cut because of the bar scene with Otis' band, and Bluto's peeping Tom escapades. Or, it was omitted, because leftists are exactly like Greggie and Dougie and the other Hitler Youth.
Posted on 11/21/2021 6:44:51 AM PST by DoodleBob
Admit it, you’ve done this: sat around with friends for hours, trying to come up with the definitive list of the funniest movies ever. Well, now here’s an – almost, sort of – statistical solution: the Laugh a Minute rating.
It comes from Lovefilm, the London-based video streaming and DVD subscription service. Lovefilm polled its members for the 10 movies that made them laugh most. Then, says spokesperson Helen Cowley, the company convened a panel to watch the movies and note "how many times [each film] made us giggle." Divide the number of laughs by the film’s length in minutes, and voilà: the Laugh a Minute score.
Even if the results aren't universal - the panel members were affiliated with the company - the methods are certainly more scientifically rigorous than sitting around chatting with your buds over beers at 11:30 at night.
Without further ado, the envelope, please.
Topping the list at three laughs a minute: the 1980 airline disaster spoof Airplane!, followed by the original Hangover and Naked Gun movies at 2.4 and 2.3 laughs per minute respectively.
Here's the full Top 10:
1. Airplane! - 3 laughs/minute
2. The Hangover - 2.4 laughs/minute
3. Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! - 2.3 laughs/minute
4. Superbad - 1.9 laughs/minute
5. Borat - 1.7 laughs/minute
6. Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy - 1.6 laughs/minute
7. American Pie - 1.5 laughs/minute
8. Bridesmaids - 1.4 laughs/minute
9. Shaun of the Dead - 1.3 laughs/minute
10. Life of Brian - 1.2 laughs/minute
"Interestingly," Cowley said, "while Lovefilm members voted Life of Brian as the funniest film, our research shows that for Laughs a Minute...Airplane! beats the Monty Python epic hands-down."
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Very funny movie, but it’s also very long which kills the LPM score.
That made me LOL.
For me, something about Mary is number two just below blazing saddles. Those are the only two movies I ever watched where at the end of the movie I could not believe how much laughing I did.
Another great mention. That movie nailed the corporate culture of the 1990s. And yes, you really have to have worked in the cubicle jungles of a big corporation to fully appreciate that movie. Every big corporation had at least a few Bill Lumberg types who seemed to do absolutely nothing but walk around the cubicles harassing the hell out of the worker bees. For a while, red staplers would quietly appear on the desks of employees who needed to "step it up a notch" and be more of a team player. It was mostly in good humor but one of the recipients complained and so HR put out a memo ordering the practice to stop.
The TV show "The Office" is also a great show that parodies corporate culture. That show hits home for me because I work in a company where we have multiple branches with a big corporate HQ that would - at least before the pandemic - spew suits to the branches for "quarterly reviews" and HR initiated seminars for the employees. One time with hilarious results, we were subjected to a "safe driving" seminar after a slew of fender benders with company vehicles. After the seminar, one of the employees collided in the parking lot with the poor HR woman that was sent to conduct the course!
Most of his stuff, but Talladega Nights was hilarious
Animal House
Easy Money with Dangerfield and Pesci
MP and the Holy Grail
Although he’s a jerk, Woody Allen’s Bananas was great
Meatballs was excellent
and the funniest thing ever . . . any recent Joe Biden press conference and how the Corporate Media tries to explain it away
And there's a great commentary on how good the Reagan years were.
Major Payne gave me some big laughs last night.
Blazing saddles is almost as good as airplane — I think they got the #1 right. However, as someone else posted, how My Cousin Vinny is not on this list is beyond me — that is one of the funniest movies ever. The prison seen where they meet Vinny for the first time had me laughing so hard, I was crying...and the judge, Holy crap.
A classic! The whole laugh-a-minute thing is shot-to-pieces by movies like this!
Today’s “humor” critics wouldn’t know good humor if it slapped them in the face. A laugh a minute doesn’t mean anything. The Three Stooges were hilarious! Sure, they were violent and silly, and as a kid I laughed like crazy at their antics. As an adult, they are still just as funny, but when I think of the planning, script writing and execution that went into their films, I marvel , and that makes it even more enjoyable.
The ingenuity of the comics of the past can’t be beat by “laughs-a-minute”.
I could go on and on with this. At any rate, laughing is good for the soul…
Yeah, they don’t have a single Mel Brooks movie! The Producers is also hilarious. Hubby and I always say: that’s our Hitler, when we find what we need.
Agreed on both points.
I thought Meatballs was adorable. Also The Ghost and Mr. Chicken has always been one of my favorites.
I got the memo...
Naked Gun and any of the Airplane type of movies with Leslie Nielsen. One that I like is Hot Shots part Dieux.
Animal House probably got cut because of the bar scene with Otis' band, and Bluto's peeping Tom escapades. Or, it was omitted, because leftists are exactly like Greggie and Dougie and the other Hitler Youth.
Probably the hardest and longest laugh I ever had was in Monty Python’s “Life of Brian”. The “Biggus Dickus” scen.
“I have a vewy good fwend in Wome named... Biggus... Dickus...”
“He had a wife, you know...”
Young Frankenstein! Became a classic.
its a mad mad world
National Lampoon Vacation oughta be in there.
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