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Top 10 Funniest Movies Ever (As Measured In Laughs Per Minute)
Forbes ^ | September 21, 2021 | Andrew Bender

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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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Humor; Society
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To: DoodleBob

Ruthless People has to be one of the funniest movies ever. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World also tickles my funnybone.


61 posted on 11/21/2021 7:13:44 AM PST by tuffydoodle (God's character and moral nature are absolute, eternal, and unchanging. )
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To: Sirius Lee

Correction: The barbershop scene was “Coming to America”.


62 posted on 11/21/2021 7:14:24 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: DoodleBob

Black Panther had more laughs for me than any of those movies (that I have seen anyhow, no borat, bridesmaids, superbad, american pie) and it wasn’t even trying. I must have had at least one belly laugh per minute with that piece of dog squeeze. Worst case of the emperor’s new clothes in show biz I can think of in recent years, to the point it actually got nominated for best picture. All that made it unintentionally hilarious because it was just so outrageously bad and hopelessly ridiculous.

Some more intentionally funny off beat pics would be the big lebowski, raising arizona, a christmas story, dazed and confused. Lots of classics left off the forbes list.

Freegards


63 posted on 11/21/2021 7:14:26 AM PST by Ransomed
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To: libertylover
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world.

Finally: Someone who understands!

Regards,

64 posted on 11/21/2021 7:14:49 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Two more:

The Lady Eve

Bringing Up Baby


65 posted on 11/21/2021 7:14:58 AM PST by Cecily
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To: DoodleBob

LOL! No! There’s a bunch of other ones I’d swap for at least half on that list!

A Christams Story
Taladega Nights
Elf
Zoolander
Tropic Thunder
Top Secret
Team America: World Police
Napoleon Dynamite
The Jerk
Raising Arizona

...all sorts of stuff!


66 posted on 11/21/2021 7:15:01 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

How they put LOB above the Holy Grail - no way

67 posted on 11/21/2021 7:15:18 AM PST by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: Blueflag

Hangover and Borat????

Agreed.

Austin Powers movies and The Jerk were better than either of those.

And once Borat went anti-Trump, he can croak for all I care.


68 posted on 11/21/2021 7:15:38 AM PST by boycott
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To: DoodleBob

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World


69 posted on 11/21/2021 7:15:58 AM PST by Fresh Wind (You are not a horse, you are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it.)
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To: DoodleBob

WHAT? No “IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD?(1964)”

Then there is some wonderful Harold Lloyd and buster Keaton films from the 1920s.


70 posted on 11/21/2021 7:16:13 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (OUT of Facebook Jail! But for how long?)
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To: DoodleBob

Porky’s.


71 posted on 11/21/2021 7:16:31 AM PST by ryderann
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To: DoodleBob

My BIL said “You have got to watch this movie! It is soooo funny.” The movie: Borat.

Hated it.......I would give it a high score on the cringe scale, however.


72 posted on 11/21/2021 7:16:50 AM PST by Donkey Odious ( Adapt, improvise, and overcome - now a motto for us all.)
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To: DoodleBob

“You know you need a cover sheet on your TPS report, Richard! That ain’t a new baby! MotherF.....”


73 posted on 11/21/2021 7:16:52 AM PST by tuffydoodle (God's character and moral nature are absolute, eternal, and unchanging. )
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To: BradyLS

I’m convinced those on the Forbes list were the only comedies the list’s author ever saw.


Forbes is owned by the Chinese now so I am thinking they may not have seen any of them. They were likely more “woke” since the Chinese know that “wokeism” is destructive to our nation.


74 posted on 11/21/2021 7:18:03 AM PST by boycott
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To: rtcram
I’m dating myself, but...

Who pays when you're dating yourself?

75 posted on 11/21/2021 7:18:08 AM PST by Fresh Wind (You are not a horse, you are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it.)
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To: Migraine

Yep. For me the all-time funniest movie I ever saw was blazing saddles. But then it has to do with the time it was produced and my age at the time.


76 posted on 11/21/2021 7:19:56 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: DoodleBob

For a good laugh, I highly recommend Rat Race (2001). Hilarious!


77 posted on 11/21/2021 7:20:16 AM PST by BelleAl (Proud to be a member of the party of NO! NO more deficit spending and government control!)
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To: EEGator

So if you could staple your TPS reports with the cover sheet on top — that would be great.


78 posted on 11/21/2021 7:21:12 AM PST by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
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To: Migraine

Correct, I see a lot of us are thinking the same thing. I literally fell out of my seat laughing the first time I saw Blazing Saddles! Another that is great is the first Austin Powers movie.


79 posted on 11/21/2021 7:21:29 AM PST by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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To: DoodleBob

THE LIFE OF BRIAN, the scene where Stan wants to become a woman named Loretta and have babies was a foretelling of today.

I got 30 days FB jail for posting it and had several other posts pulled for insulting Zuck’s trannies.


80 posted on 11/21/2021 7:21:37 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (OUT of Facebook Jail! But for how long?)
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