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 ...
Dr Strangelove
Pink Panther Strikes Again
Shot in the Dark
I don’t watch comedies. Why, you ask?
Because they are NOT FUNNY! They are just STUPID! Okay, an occasional laugh, but just nonsense.
Maybe your funny bone is busted, grampy. You should have that checked.
First half of Blazing Saddles induces many laughs per minute. The second half is meh, especially the big production finish, which is a bit tedious, IMO.
Are those all from the same movie?
Borat was a tired, pale, mean attempt to steal genuinely funny, kind-hearted Yakov Smirnoff material from the 80s.
There are some killer scenes in that one too!😀
No Marx Brothers?
You must be a child.
:)
Riotously funny movie.
Yep.
No Buster Keaton?
No Woody Allen? Sleeper was the funniest movie I ever saw.
I still laugh at the comment in Frankenstein when the guy says “Walk this way” And limps away — and so does the guy behind him!
I watched The Thin Man for the first time a few months ago.
That had some great dialog.
Marko
A Day at the Races
A Night at the Opera
White Chicks
The Heat (McCarthy/Bullock)
Spaceballs
My Cousin Vinny
Elf
The Holy Grail
Broadway Danny Rose
Duck Soup
Ah. James Bond. I hate James Bond movies.
The Jerk
“Random bastard”
“He hates these cans.”
“I found my special purpose.”
The Man With Two Brains.
“Why can’t they keep these cats out of the operating room?”
“Dead? We have to get her to a mortuary NOW.”
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
“May I go to the bathroom? .....Thank you.”
“Not Mother?”
For anyone, like me, who lived in a fraternity in the 1960s (yes, the 1960s; I’m an Old Fart with only 2/3 of a farter) “Animal House” is the total winner. The drive in scene where the young lass is manually pleasuring her boyfriend totally cracked me up because it reminded me of the “Tale of the Girl with the Golden Arm” that was well known at my alma mater.
I laughed so hard during that scene I couldn’t breathe, and also during the big chase sequence near the end starting with Christine Baranski confronting Kit on the patio of the restaurant.
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Funny thing is, that movie had such a weird title, that I didn’t even watch it till years later and felt like smacking myself upside the head for in initionaly (sp) putting it off.
A lotta slapstick and gross humor on this list
Addition to my list, of course tested-by-all ages and economic groups, including kids (hand on the fast forward for editing) honorable mention
The Other Guys
Bringing up Baby
His His Girl Friday
Safety Last -Harold Lloyd
Cluless
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