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 ...
Glad to see "Dumb and Dumber" didn't make the grade. While I can appreciate dumb slapstick and let my brain take a vacation for 90 minutes or so, that movie was not funny at all - just dumb.
I also appreciate the subtle humor of the MST3K crew as they riff through really bad movies. That show is a guilty pleasure of mine.
“The Gods Must Be Crazy.” Don’t think I’ve laughed that hard in my life.
On occasion, I've also said "it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care."
FWIW, Human Resources pros have some awesome ninja-like skills when it comes to workplace problems...as I progressed through my career, I've come to appreciate them more.
I am not turning to Forbes to tell me what’s funny and their list proves it.
Missing in action:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Young Frankenstein
Ghostbusters
Space Balls
Blazing Saddles...
I’m convinced those on the Forbes list were the only comedies the list’s author ever saw.
You think he’s gone? He never leaves!
Frequency of laughs ignores magnutude of laughs. You would have to do another list with the loudest laughs. A movie where you laugh often may not be as funny as a movie where you laugh a lot harder. Then there is the laughing-til-you-cry factor.
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
Office Space was great.
The movie that made me last the hardest, and this included getting up and slapping the stairs going up the aisle, was The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin Powers 2.
The scene when Dr. Evil’s space ship is taking off, and everyone’s comments about its “shape”, as well as the tent silhouette scene where Austin and Heather were pulling things out from the duffle bag, were thoroughly awesome!
No Groundhog day? funniest movie i’ve ever seen besides Airplane
Are you Mel Brooks?
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is pretty funny, although it does turn serious/slow down during the scenes with Spencer Tracy at the police station.
The Gods Must Be Crazy was a low budget laugh fest.
Borat is plain stupid, Cohen is more of a shockjock than a comedian.
Blazing Saddles
Trading Places
My Cousin Vinny
No Blazing Saddles?
Bogus.
Thanks for posting this!
Borat is just plain stupid. I had to turn it off.
No Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy or Mel Brookes. This is a lousy list. I only liked three out of the whole list, and I literally hated several of them. American Pie? Masturbating into an apple pie to find out what sex feels like? Disgusting.
I’m dating myself, but “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” is still hilarious.
No Marx Brothers, either. Phooey!
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