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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

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To: libertylover

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Very funny movie, but it’s also very long which kills the LPM score.


81 posted on 11/21/2021 7:22:32 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Fresh Wind

That made me LOL.


82 posted on 11/21/2021 7:22:39 AM PST by tuffydoodle (God's character and moral nature are absolute, eternal, and unchanging. )
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To: Caipirabob

For me, something about Mary is number two just below blazing saddles. Those are the only two movies I ever watched where at the end of the movie I could not believe how much laughing I did.


83 posted on 11/21/2021 7:22:40 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: MayflowerMadam
The movie that made me laugh hardest and longest was Office Space.

Another great mention. That movie nailed the corporate culture of the 1990s. And yes, you really have to have worked in the cubicle jungles of a big corporation to fully appreciate that movie. Every big corporation had at least a few Bill Lumberg types who seemed to do absolutely nothing but walk around the cubicles harassing the hell out of the worker bees. For a while, red staplers would quietly appear on the desks of employees who needed to "step it up a notch" and be more of a team player. It was mostly in good humor but one of the recipients complained and so HR put out a memo ordering the practice to stop.

The TV show "The Office" is also a great show that parodies corporate culture. That show hits home for me because I work in a company where we have multiple branches with a big corporate HQ that would - at least before the pandemic - spew suits to the branches for "quarterly reviews" and HR initiated seminars for the employees. One time with hilarious results, we were subjected to a "safe driving" seminar after a slew of fender benders with company vehicles. After the seminar, one of the employees collided in the parking lot with the poor HR woman that was sent to conduct the course!

84 posted on 11/21/2021 7:22:50 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 10 days away from outliving Holly Dunn)
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To: Billie Bud

Most of his stuff, but Talladega Nights was hilarious

Animal House
Easy Money with Dangerfield and Pesci
MP and the Holy Grail
Although he’s a jerk, Woody Allen’s Bananas was great
Meatballs was excellent

and the funniest thing ever . . . any recent Joe Biden press conference and how the Corporate Media tries to explain it away


85 posted on 11/21/2021 7:23:05 AM PST by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business )
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To: BradyLS
Saw Ghostbusters: Afterlife last night. Good sequel to the original.

And there's a great commentary on how good the Reagan years were.

86 posted on 11/21/2021 7:23:39 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain (#notmypedophile)
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To: DoodleBob

Major Payne gave me some big laughs last night.


87 posted on 11/21/2021 7:23:53 AM PST by Track9 (Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
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To: jocon307

Blazing saddles is almost as good as airplane — I think they got the #1 right. However, as someone else posted, how My Cousin Vinny is not on this list is beyond me — that is one of the funniest movies ever. The prison seen where they meet Vinny for the first time had me laughing so hard, I was crying...and the judge, Holy crap.


88 posted on 11/21/2021 7:24:48 AM PST by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
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To: libertylover

A classic! The whole laugh-a-minute thing is shot-to-pieces by movies like this!
Today’s “humor” critics wouldn’t know good humor if it slapped them in the face. A laugh a minute doesn’t mean anything. The Three Stooges were hilarious! Sure, they were violent and silly, and as a kid I laughed like crazy at their antics. As an adult, they are still just as funny, but when I think of the planning, script writing and execution that went into their films, I marvel , and that makes it even more enjoyable.
The ingenuity of the comics of the past can’t be beat by “laughs-a-minute”.
I could go on and on with this. At any rate, laughing is good for the soul…


89 posted on 11/21/2021 7:24:52 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: BradyLS

Yeah, they don’t have a single Mel Brooks movie! The Producers is also hilarious. Hubby and I always say: that’s our Hitler, when we find what we need.


90 posted on 11/21/2021 7:25:00 AM PST by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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To: Billie Bud

Agreed on both points.


91 posted on 11/21/2021 7:25:22 AM PST by caver
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To: LRoggy

I thought Meatballs was adorable. Also The Ghost and Mr. Chicken has always been one of my favorites.


92 posted on 11/21/2021 7:25:28 AM PST by tuffydoodle (God's character and moral nature are absolute, eternal, and unchanging. )
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To: gas_dr

I got the memo...


93 posted on 11/21/2021 7:28:30 AM PST by EEGator
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To: tuffydoodle

Naked Gun and any of the Airplane type of movies with Leslie Nielsen. One that I like is Hot Shots part Dieux.


94 posted on 11/21/2021 7:29:17 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (If you are vaccinated, you cannot get COVID from someone who is not vaccinated. Lighted up Karen!)
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To: BullwinkleMoose; SamAdams76; Mr. Mojo; null and void; BradyLS; mykroar; Migraine; EEGator; ...
I suspect Animal House and Blazing Saddles were omitted for PC reasons. The irony of omitting Blazing Saddles as such is that it very much puts the idiocy of racism on naked display.

Animal House probably got cut because of the bar scene with Otis' band, and Bluto's peeping Tom escapades. Or, it was omitted, because leftists are exactly like Greggie and Dougie and the other Hitler Youth.

95 posted on 11/21/2021 7:29:44 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2 )
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To: DoodleBob

Probably the hardest and longest laugh I ever had was in Monty Python’s “Life of Brian”. The “Biggus Dickus” scen.

“I have a vewy good fwend in Wome named... Biggus... Dickus...”

“He had a wife, you know...”


96 posted on 11/21/2021 7:30:16 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: EEGator

Young Frankenstein! Became a classic.


97 posted on 11/21/2021 7:30:28 AM PST by madison10 (Justice for Kyle! Thank you, Heavenly Father)
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To: BradyLS
In all seriousness, Tom Cruise should have gotten an Oscar for Les Grossman.


98 posted on 11/21/2021 7:31:53 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2 )
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To: DoodleBob

its a mad mad world


99 posted on 11/21/2021 7:32:43 AM PST by rolling_stone
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To: DoodleBob

National Lampoon Vacation oughta be in there.


100 posted on 11/21/2021 7:33:41 AM PST by hercuroc
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