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 ...
Burt, Dom, Sammy, Dino...”Cannonball Run.” Prove me wrong not the funniest...especially the outtakes of Burt slapping Dom.
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Nowadays, you have to watch yourself with that line because of what follows, and Woody is a POS (but funnier than Borat) but it's still funny.
Oh yeah that was comedy gold.
That was a classic.
The sad thing about that movie is I remember real people like these characters in the 1980s. Haha!
Office Space was like my first corporate job.
His boss Lumbergh drinking a cup of coffee while having sex with his girlfriend was hilarious.
What about revenge of the nerds? Looks like it wasn’t fiction after all
A few more funny movies:
Putney Swope
The Love Guru
Strange Brew
Yeah ... that scene was so funny — Peter’s dream. (Wrong Lumbergh - LOL!)
Plan 9 from outerspace. A satirical look at the Biden admin.
What buffoon made up this list, the Marquis de Sade?
"And it just keeps getting funnier, every single time I see it!"
Sadly the world has forgotten some really funny cheapo movies from the past.
Ghosts on the Loose (who can forget when Sach came down with German Measles)
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The Bowery Boys meet the Monsters.(1954)
Judy Canova in Lay that Rifle down!(1955)
Then there was the Maw and Paw Kettle movies....
Wonderful forgotten movies from the past.
There is a wonderful out take from THE JERK in which Gaylord Sartain asks Steve Martin for money to fix the Upholstery in his aircraft so he can take his friends to the Superbowl in the style they were accustomed to.
It upstaged Martin so bad it was cut from the movie. it is found on line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huOBOkN8jVA
Some of us have to work today!
Blazing Saddles
BFL
One of my favorites. I worked with a group overseas who were all fans. One Major could do a perfect Lumberg while a Navy CDR did a side-splitting Milton.
We ordered the Office Space kit from ThinkGeek. It had an Initech coffee mug, a Jump to Conclusions mat, a tablet of TPS cover sheets, some flair and even a PC Loadletter sticker which we promptly affixed to our department printer.
Sniff.... Poor people ...Sniff.
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