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."
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Blazing Saddles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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The clear top two, neither of which made this lame list.
Yup, Duck Soup should be up there.
“PC Load Letter? What the f—k does that mean!?”
I laughed so hard at that. We saw that every day on our HP laser printers. Nobody — but NOBODY — knew what it meant. But there it was.
That’s a great one, and very well written.
Animal House?
“I’ve also said ‘it’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care.’”
You have no idea how often I say that. LOL! And it’s usually true.
Angel’s Revenge, both the 3K and Rifftrax versions.
I never “got” those Austin Powers movies. Is it a guy thing? (Are you a guy?)
Office Space summed up how I feel about printers.
They gave us the rate of laughs number, but not the absolute quantity of laughs number, or the degree of funniness number.
But when Mr Creosote exploded, I don't think I ever laughed that hard in my life. AND, people were walking out in disgust, which further fueled my laughter. I mean, it is MONTY PYTHON...what were you expecting?
I appreciate that scene even more after learning that Quentin Tarantino said that the Mr. Creosote scene was the only time he had been disturbed by a graphic or gruesome film sequence. What a wuss.
Seriously Sasha Cohen is so overrated at everything. He reminds me of a twelve year old that just got a video camera from the 1980’s.
Tommy Boy belongs in the top five. I don’t think there was one scene that didn’t end up having us rolling.
Bowfinger should be on the list instead of Borat. It is one of Eddie Murphy’s funniest movies, and it makes fun of Hollywood and Scientology.
Oh, that was hilarious. Perhaps it is because it related closely to what I’ve experienced.
+1
For me, the most laughs per minute was the almost forgotten Silent Movie. The creators of this list couldn’t find ANYthing before 1980?! My Man Godfrey is from the ‘30s and has ages well.
It’s the combined send up of James Bond and Swinging Sixties London movies.
honorable mention- Planes trains and automobiles, Stripes, and of course Slapshot.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1Sx4lxkV5Y
I loved Murphy's "Trading Places" and "The Nutty Professor". He could have done either film sans plot, just the barbershop scene for the whole movie in the former, and the family table scene in the latter.
"Hercules, Hercules, Hercules!"
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