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Airplane Funniest Film Ever, Research Finds
The Telegraph ^ | 06 Sep 2012

Posted on 09/06/2012 7:27:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

Leslie Nielsen movies are two of the top three. Which figures. Wonderful comedic talent.

I didn’t think The Hangover was that funny. I’d have ranked Caddyshack, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein and Slapshot ahead of it, among others.

I’m not a Will Ferrell fan either but Anchorman was funny (”I’m Ron Burgundy?”). And as a Python fan it’s good to see Life of Brian there even if I do think Holy Grail was funnier.

Ah, subjectivity.


41 posted on 09/06/2012 7:45:52 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Conservatism is not a matter of convenience.)
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To: nickcarraway

Funniest ever made? You got to be kidding!

Too me it would be Harold Lloyd in SAFETY LAST along with several others of his and:

IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD. The scene with Phil Silvers and Don Knotts, in the car,is priceless!

Right now I am watching some very funny old Mack sennett comedies.

AIRPLANE was funny, in a crude PORKY’S sort of way, same for BLAZING SADDLES.


42 posted on 09/06/2012 7:46:12 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: nickcarraway
I'll go with Airplane at #1, but Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein aren't far behind. BTT.
43 posted on 09/06/2012 7:46:23 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: DManA

Doug McKenzie: [to the rough-looking convicts in their jail cell] Chimp here does the killin’. I don’t like to kill. I’m the brains, eh? Like, we got over five billion dollars in our hideout, only some of the money’s marked, eh, so we’re not spendin’ it. We’s just waitin’.

Bald con: Youse guys like a smoke?

Doug McKenzie: No, eh? We want our lungs to be pink when they fry us. Hey, we told ‘em we didn’t want a lawyer. Chimp here probably just kill him anyway.


44 posted on 09/06/2012 7:46:45 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: nickcarraway

Spies Like Us and Spaceballs.


45 posted on 09/06/2012 7:46:45 PM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Your tattoo looks stupid.)
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To: blueunicorn6

Hey, you can get tangled up in those things. They can be pretty dangerous.


46 posted on 09/06/2012 7:47:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Chipper

“You’ve got red on you”


47 posted on 09/06/2012 7:48:15 PM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: DManA

Dimes


48 posted on 09/06/2012 7:49:18 PM PDT by xone
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I agree with you. Safety Last. But his Girl Shy was right up there.
49 posted on 09/06/2012 7:51:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: cripplecreek
It don’t get no better than Max Von Sydow in low budget humor.

"Psst - Act! Act!"

Strange Brew is definitely in my top ten. The others are (in no particular order):

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Raising Arizona
Mystery Men
Ghostbusters

and these Laurel and Hardy films:
Brats
Blotto
Sons Of The Desert
Two Tars

50 posted on 09/06/2012 7:52:33 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (At the end of the day, you have to worship the god who can set you on fire.)
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To: cripplecreek

Ideocracy was too close to reality to be funny:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/27/bloomberg-ac-unit-cool-suv_n_1630281.html

But it was good.


51 posted on 09/06/2012 7:53:10 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD. The scene with Phil Silvers and Don Knotts, in the car,is priceless!

"They had me down a silver mine and tried to drown me!"

52 posted on 09/06/2012 7:53:31 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: nickcarraway

A couple of years ago I worked an event where Karem was attending. When my daughter saw his photo she said she knew him from the Airplane movie. Why was he at a basketball banquet.?

I little bit of me died that day....


53 posted on 09/06/2012 7:54:12 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (I am NOT from Vermont. I am from MA. And I don't support Romney. Please read before "assuming.")
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To: nickcarraway
This looks like the original preview of coming attractions... lots of the best comedy here including the Mayo Clinic
54 posted on 09/06/2012 7:55:18 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: nickcarraway

I liked it a lot but the movie which made me laugh the hardiest was “The Gods Must Be Crazy” I was watching it with a room full of college age students in our boys dorm rec area on TV from a VCR.

Everyone there was laughing, sometimes really breaking up laughing.


55 posted on 09/06/2012 7:56:10 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: nickcarraway

No particular order:
Blazing Saddles
Spaceballs
MP Holy Grail
Goldmember
Airplane
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
Strange Brew
Young Frankenstein
Escanaba in da Moonlight (would be first one bumped off the list if something else comes to mind)


56 posted on 09/06/2012 7:57:06 PM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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57 posted on 09/06/2012 8:02:05 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: SMGFan

“I speak jive.”


58 posted on 09/06/2012 8:06:20 PM PDT by MortMan (Laughter is the best medicine, especially when ridiculing your enemies.)
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To: nickcarraway

The Jerk and Dumb and Dumber are close behind


59 posted on 09/06/2012 8:07:11 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: cripplecreek

Their mouse in the bottle routine gets me every time. LOL! Free beers, eh?


60 posted on 09/06/2012 8:09:02 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (On 5 September 2012 A.D., the communist Democrats tried to kill God and failed.)
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