Posted on 11/02/2023 12:58:42 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Animal House
The National Lampoon masterpiece continues to set the bar for cinematic depictions of collegiate debauchery. See John Belushi in one of his greatest roles as a fraternity brother at the riotous Delta house, as the brothers fight a college dean who wants to see their charter revoked and their house disbanded.
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“NONE from the 1940s.” — No kidding. The great era of comedy and slapstick. I just watched the Jack Lemmon “Operation Mad Ball” which was hilarious.
“This is a list by someone given an assignment who knows little about cinema or its history.” Yep. Probably a 23 year old.
Richard Pryor in his standup talked about when they were at the pentientiary preparing to film Stir Crazy:
Gene Wilder loved to jump in the middle of the killers and start talkin’, “Hi guys! How ya doin’?”
I said, “Gene, bring your ass out.”
“What do you think they’d do to us if we were here, Rich?”
I say, “____ us.”
And Gene said, “I’m not homosexual.”
“Homosexual ain’t got nothin’ to do with it. They don’t ____ you ‘cause you like it. They just ____ you just to see that look on your face.”
Or "Hollywood Shuffle", with the "Black Acting School", and "Sneaking Into The Movies".
Semi-fiction. Some of it was based on the experiences of one of the writers.
And what about the original THE PRODUCERS, BRINGING UP BABY, DUCK SOUP,A CHUMP AT OXFORD, and oh so many more?
Better Off Dead
I'm Gonna Get You Sucka
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Brain Candy (from 'The Kids In The Hall')
Zoolander
This Is Spinal Tap
Groundhog Day
The Return of the Pink Panther
Hardbodies.
SPOT ON and in spades!
Just for the Japanese guy speaking like Howard Cosell.
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
My Man Godfrey
Anything Monty Python or Mel Brooks
The Bank Dick
If those aren’t funny what do you consider funny because I laughed the first time I saw Animal House and still laugh today
A Fish Called Wanda
THE APARTMENT isn’t funny and was NOT meant to be.
“What hump?”
The Death Of Stalin
7 years of college down the drain
Midnight Run
Galaxy Quest
Man vs. Bee
Absurd list.
No Buster Keaton.
No Harold Lloyd.
No Charlie Chaplin.
No Arsenic and Old Lace.
No Laurel and Hardy
No Steve Martin.
No Mr. Bean.
No Woody Allen.
To name a few.
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