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Top 10 Funniest Movies Ever (As Measured In Laughs Per Minute)
Forbes ^ | September 21, 2021 | Andrew Bender

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: airplane; funniestmovies
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To: DoodleBob

I kinda found Mel Brooke’s HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 1 very funny and eminently quotable.

I wonder why he never made Part 2...


141 posted on 11/21/2021 8:04:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: billyboy15

You are correct


142 posted on 11/21/2021 8:04:28 AM PST by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: bigbob

I kind of thought A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was funny.


143 posted on 11/21/2021 8:04:49 AM PST by refermech
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To: DoodleBob

Baseketball.

“Wake up bitch, you’re my new best friend”
“Really? Can we go to the zoo?”


144 posted on 11/21/2021 8:06:02 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DoodleBob
Idiocracy was funny - not top 10 but maybe top 50 -

No Blazing Saddles no list.

145 posted on 11/21/2021 8:06:43 AM PST by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: DoodleBob

You can tell this was written by someone who has never really watched any good comedy movies. Bob Hope (several to chose from), Rodney Dangerfield (Back to School), The Marx Brothers, just to name a few,


146 posted on 11/21/2021 8:06:58 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: mjp
Kung Pow knocks them all out...


147 posted on 11/21/2021 8:07:57 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Flick Lives
My favorite scene in "What About Bob" is when Dr Leo Marvin dumps Bob on the side of the road after he is released from the "mental hospital" thinking he is rid of him forever and then Leo gets a flat tire and drives into a ditch further up the road. Meanwhile, Bob catches a ride and passes him along the way to further ingratiate himself with Bob's family.

That was a great black comedy.

"Who's the Crazy One now!"

148 posted on 11/21/2021 8:08:16 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 10 days away from outliving Holly Dunn)
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To: Caipirabob

Taco Bell, reminds me of “Demolition Man”.

“You do not realize that Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the franchise wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell.”


149 posted on 11/21/2021 8:09:30 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s supposed to be out on Hulu in 2022.


150 posted on 11/21/2021 8:12:06 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: libertylover
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world.

I saw a wide-screen version of that at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood in 1964--an unforgettable experience.

151 posted on 11/21/2021 8:18:02 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: dfwgator

152 posted on 11/21/2021 8:18:32 AM PST by EEGator
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To: DoodleBob

How many of them could be made today?


153 posted on 11/21/2021 8:19:32 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: EEGator

I must admit, it was hillarious how the Missouri coach trolled Mullen after the game with the Light Saber.

I totally forgot about how Mullen put on a Darth Vader costume after beating Missouri last year. What a doofus.


154 posted on 11/21/2021 8:21:32 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

The 1st Austin Powers was the best one to me.


155 posted on 11/21/2021 8:21:46 AM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: dfwgator

Yep, karma...


156 posted on 11/21/2021 8:22:51 AM PST by EEGator
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To: MayflowerMadam

I despise printers to no end.

Evil incarnate.

Ditto Lotus Notes.


157 posted on 11/21/2021 8:23:03 AM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: BullwinkleMoose

Police Academy I.


158 posted on 11/21/2021 8:23:37 AM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: glennaro

Come on everybody, we’re gonna get laid!


159 posted on 11/21/2021 8:23:39 AM PST by struggle
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To: glennaro
...along with pretty much any scene in any movie Rodney Dangerfield was in.

Natural Born Killers, excepted.

160 posted on 11/21/2021 8:24:25 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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