Someone should have told Sammy Petrillo and Duke Mitchell (a Martin and Lewis ripoff)...
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!
Captain Ron
So I Married An Axe Murderer
I did. See post 136. Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss are hilarious.
Just hearing that makes me LOL.
Great film!
That brings back memories. And I’ll bet Nancy Parsons had to do several takes of that scene before getting through it.
Perry Como LOVED this skit BTW and wrote Eugene a nice letter thanking him for letting people know that he was "still alive." LOL!
Is that you, Sinatra1976 ? ;-)
Reminds me of when I went to an Andy Williams concert at his theatre in Branson three years ago (featuring a septuagenarian Petula Clark). It took Andy a little while to warm up. I was (at 31) the youngest person in the audience. Most of the audience was between 65-90. My father joked if somebody yelled “fire” in there, most of the audience would’ve keeled over from heart attacks before they’d reach the emergency exits...
“Raising Arizona.”
“Bowfinger.”
“The Music Box.”
Didn’t that one have a gorilla that chased them around? A gorilla is a classic sign that a comedy team has jumped the shark.
Sorry, looked it up. “The Music Box” was great. I was thinking about a later on where they are up in the alps trying to move a piano and for some reason a gorilla was there. Not good.
Their last one, I believe it was called "Atoll X" was both awful and sad; a French film with dubbed dialogue (other than The Boys), and horrible, horrible film quality. Obviously, they needed the money at that time.
Add to that, Laurel looked like he was at death's door.
Of the L&H classics, I'd probably rate "Music Box" #1 (an easy pick, their only Oscar), followed by "Sons of the Desert", "Way Out West", and then "Helpmates."
But the list of great ones is very long, IMO.
“Cinderfella” and “Which Way to the Front?” Jerry Lewis at his comedic best.
“Used Cars”
I’ve never seen that. I will check it out.
Another great movie with Dom DeLuise as the king of all mental patients is “The End” starring Burt Reynolds, Joanne Woodward, Kristy McNichol, Robby Benson, and Sally Field. Myrna Loy plays Burt’s mom! My parents let us kids watch that one. (I marvel at how my sense of humor was formed.) Of course, you used to get these movies semi-expurgated on tv; those days are over.
“How-dy cow-boy!”
err “How-dy pard-ner!”
I think it says a lot about Richard Roeper as a film critic that he does not like the Our Gang comedies (A) because they are in black and white (yep, a film critic said that), and (B) “they are racist”.
You might want to check out the original Death Race 2000, with Sylvester Stalone and David Carradine. It was a satire written by Charles Griffith, the same guy who wrote Corman's horror-comedy trilogy: A Bucket Of Blood, (the ORIGINAL) Little Shop Of Horrors, and Creature From The Haunted Sea.
The cross-country road race thing was tackled in Gumball Rally (also a comedy) and Cannonball. I think Caradine was in Cannonball before Death Race 2000 and I think they all pre-date Cannonball Run.
Someone should have told Sammy Petrillo and Duke Mitchell (a Martin and Lewis ripoff)...
It wasn’t supposed to be funny then, but “ Death Race 2000” gets my vote.
Sly Stallone as Joey Faturbo is HI- freakin-larious!!
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