Bridesmaids sucked badly.
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 ...
1. The Party
The Party
Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Natalia Borisova, Jean Carson. 1968
Tho not “scientifically tested, “What’s Up Doc”
turned on this giggle box. Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars,
Mabel Albertson. OK the two (male, female)leads begin the score with a penalty; Still the movie is for laughs.
“Something About Mary” runs a close second.
“A Shot In The Dark” 1964
Saw it while in the Navy. Laughed so hard I actually slid off my seat in the theater in Great Lakes.
It used to be. Lately it’s been a tedious mess of angry old people.
“Baby steps. Baby steps, board the bus.”
“You think you could do it today, Bob. We have a baby schedule to keep.”
And of course, as mentioned, It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world
My List and not in order
Animal House
The Big Lebowski
Tropic Thunder
The Pink Panther
Kingpin
The Hangover
Christmas Vacation
American Pie
Austin Powers
Wedding Crashers
“Major Payne gave me some big laughs last night.”
Some of Damon Wayans best work!
My kids can still recite the movie nearly verbatim. Gems like “pop yo tittie outta his mouth and let him grow up”.
From the opening where he breaks the wounded soldiers finger to take his mind off his wound to the end scene where the blind cadet and his seeing eye dog were both shaved the movie delivered laughs in just about every scene.
Another good Wayans movie is Bulletproof with Adam Sandler.
I know some don’t like Sandler but the pairing with Wayans was great.
I’m getting the feeling that the people that were polled for the article were much younger than a lot of us.
Bridesmaids sucked badly.
Yup, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein
Funny, funny stuff!
I’ve seen “The Office”, it is funny,but I’m not a devoted fan.
I have NOT seen “Office Space”. I will have to ask my daughter on Thursday if she’s seen it-she is in HR.
I am surprised that “Animal House” was not on the list. I remember watching it in the theater in 1978 and it seemed like the entire audience was laughing continuously.
And speaking of Monty Python, when I first saw “The Meaning of Life”, I laughed for almost a half hour at the Restaurant skit (Mr. Creosote). It was maybe the longest, deepest sustained laughter of my entire life. Luckily, I saw it on video in my own home and was not in their theater (as I probably would have been ejected).
The “Biggus D!cku$” skit in “Life of Brian” may have been a distant second. To this day, I cannot watch that scene without cracking up.
Tropic Thunder
“Animal House?”
Thank you. Came to say the same thing.
Oh, wow! Haven’t thought of that movie in YEARS. Good one. 👍
Maybe I missed it, but no mention of “Step Brothers”???
Just about the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time.
Airplane! is #1? Surely you can’t be serious.
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