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post #1 of 181
7/15/11 at 4:15pm
Thread Starter 

I tried completing this list the other day and barely made it to 80. Wonder if someone else can chime in.

 

Post ONE film, only ONE.

 

In no order...

1. In The Loop

 

Just a masterpiece of one-liners, beautiful bile and adults behaving badly.

 

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post #2 of 181
7/15/11 at 4:21pm

2. Wet Hot American Summer

 

The most quotable, memorable comedy of my lifetime.

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post #3 of 181
7/15/11 at 4:27pm

3. The Aristocrats

 

The anatomy of this secret handshake of a joke, and a better psych profile of our greatest, even not-so-greatest comedians than any A&E biography could ever hope to achieve. It's also one of the most howlingly funny things I've ever witnessed.

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post #4 of 181
7/15/11 at 5:45pm

4. Tropic Thunder

 

No, it's not perfect, but it's still a hilariously ruthless Hollywood satire that also manages to be surprisingly thoughtful about some of the questions it poses. Nearly every cast member here is on fire and having a blast, although the obvious MVPs are Robert Downey, Jr. and an unrecognizable Tom Cruise.

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post #5 of 181
7/15/11 at 6:12pm

5.  Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.

 

Hysterical comedy with an absolute Murderer's Row of talent.   Worth canonization for the Sex Panther sequence alone. 

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post #6 of 181
7/15/11 at 6:22pm

6. The Royal Tenenbaums

 

I don't really think it needs any explanation. Just a gem.

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post #7 of 181
7/15/11 at 6:52pm

7. Bad Santa

 

A filthy, furiously funny, just about perfect comedy with a solid gold heart. Quotable to the hilt.

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post #8 of 181
7/15/11 at 7:11pm

8. Super Troopers

 

Yeah, Broken Lizard's other stuff is hit or miss, but this is them at their best. Plus, Brian Cox in one of his few comedic roles. 

 

 


Edited by JPL - 7/15/11 at 7:22pm
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post #9 of 181
7/15/11 at 9:08pm

Man, picking just one is tough. Well, since Anchorman is taken already...

 

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

 

This was such a great surprise when I first watched it. Just so sharp and witty, and Downey and Kilmer are so, so good. Deserves to be on the list simply on the merits of "I invented dice as a kid" and the "talking monkey" exchange

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post #10 of 181
7/16/11 at 1:07am

Thanks Stelios, because I have problems reading...

 

10. Foot Fist Way

 

The film that introduced people to Danny McBride.


Edited by Evi - 7/16/11 at 1:29am
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post #11 of 181
7/16/11 at 1:13am

Of the 2000s Evi.

 

10. The 40 year old virgin.

 

Hating on Apatow has become the cool thing to do now but there is not a single thing about this movie that doesn't work 100%.

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post #12 of 181
7/16/11 at 1:16am

11.  Superbad

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post #13 of 181
7/16/11 at 3:29am
13. Idiocracy

It's what plants crave.
Edited by Kriegaffe - 7/17/11 at 1:31am
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post #14 of 181
7/16/11 at 6:37am

14. Shaun of the Dead

 

As Bertrand Russell once said, "The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation." I think we can all appreciate the relevance of that now.

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post #15 of 181
7/16/11 at 1:23pm

15. (Danny DeVito, 2002)

Death2Smoochy.jpg

 

It was critically panned (Ebert gave it half a star) and a box office bomb. Robin Williams received a "Worst Supporting Actor" Razzie nomination for his performance as Rainbow Randolph. A dark comedy classic unappreciated in its time.


Edited by Barry Woodward - 7/18/11 at 5:44pm
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post #16 of 181
7/16/11 at 10:15pm

16. "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" (2008)

 

The most endearing of the 'Apatow spin-offs'. Full of heart and insight about relationships, along with some hilarious and astute satire of the entertainment business. Excellent cast, all playing delightfully quirky, yet plausible and eloquent characters. Nicely bookended by scenes involving male nudity (one humiliating, one triumphant), with an adorable puppet show climax between them.

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post #17 of 181
7/16/11 at 11:03pm

DYNAMITE!!! DYNAMITE!!!

 

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post #18 of 181
7/16/11 at 11:32pm

18. HOT FUZZ

 

"Have you ever fired your gun up in the air and gone "ahhrgh"?"

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post #19 of 181
7/17/11 at 12:10am

19. Borat

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post #20 of 181
7/17/11 at 3:51am

20. BURN AFTER READING.

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post #21 of 181
7/17/11 at 8:59am

21. Scary Movie

 

The Wayans Brothers and the Scary Movie franchise get alot of flack but this parody was near brilliant. Of course, not every joke works just like any other parody. But, when the joke lands, it lands very hard. The jokes land very often .

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post #22 of 181
7/17/11 at 9:08am

22. ADVENTURELAND

 

A near perfect blend of funny, sweet and nostalgic.

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post #23 of 181
7/17/11 at 10:11am
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15.

Death2Smoochy.jpg

 

It was critically panned (Ebert gave it half a star) and a box office bomb. Robin Williams received a "Worst Supporting Actor" Razzie nomination for his performance as Rainbow Randolph. A dark comedy classic unappreciated in its time.


I will never understand how so many people missed the boat on this film. It absolutely slayed me.

 

Of course, on the other hand, I find absolutely nothing to enjoy about Burn After Reading, so there you go. Comedy is a fickle thing.

 

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post #24 of 181
7/17/11 at 11:07am
23. Wonder Boys (2000): wonderful performance by Michael Douglas, with really good support from Tobey Maguire, RDJ and Frances McDormand. Warm, funny, sardonic and sly. Great movie.
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post #25 of 181
7/17/11 at 11:09am

This absolutely deserves to be on the list. The backlash against it is weird

 

24) The Hangover

 

There are a lot of big laughs in this, like discovering the tiger or the taser scene, but also a lot of blink and you'll miss it stuff in this fast moving, clever comedy. Who didn't burst out laughing when a naked Ken Jeong burst out of the trunk and beat the crap out of the guys? Totally deserves to be on the list.

 

And I totally agree about Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the greatly underrated Death To Smoochy.

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post #26 of 181
7/17/11 at 11:29am

25. Orphan

http://www.horrorphile.net/images/orphan-isabelle-fuhrman1.jpg

 

Not 'officially' a comedy, but the film expertly walks a fine line between playing the thriller/horror conventions completely straight while letting you in on just how ludicrous everything is.  It doesn't come across as if the filmmakers were above the genre's conventions.  They are fully aware of them and revel in it.  The performances by Farmiga, Sarsgaard, and Fuhrmann go a long way in grounding all the silliness.  Karel Roden as Dr. Exposition!

I certainly laughed with the film harder than I have at most comedies.  A gothic delight!

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post #27 of 181
7/17/11 at 11:46am

26) Observe and Report

One of the truly underrated comedies of the aughts in my opinion. It's really dark so I believe the humor gets buried beneath the sadness for a lot of people, but this film is ballsy, incredibly funny, and one of my favorite movies from the past few years, regardless of genre.

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post #28 of 181
7/17/11 at 12:16pm

27) Me, Myself and Irene

 

 

Fuck it, you know you laughed. If the film had maintained the hilarity of the opening 15 minutes or so, this would be an absolute classic, but this film will remain as the final time the Farrellys were funny.

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post #29 of 181
7/17/11 at 12:16pm

28. ZOMBIELAND

 

Woody Harrelson was born to play Tallahassee. Great comedy/horror/action movie.

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post #30 of 181
7/17/11 at 12:55pm

29. BEST IN SHOW

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post #31 of 181
7/17/11 at 1:55pm

30. Macgruber.

 

Scattershot, sure, but when the the jokes hit, they hit hard. In a just moviegoing universe, this would have made Will Forte an A-list funny guy.

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post #32 of 181
7/17/11 at 2:04pm
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25. Orphan

http://www.horrorphile.net/images/orphan-isabelle-fuhrman1.jpg

 

Not 'officially' a comedy, but the film expertly walks a fine line between playing the thriller/horror conventions completely straight while letting you in on just how ludicrous everything is.  It doesn't come across as if the filmmakers were above the genre's conventions.  They are fully aware of them and revel in it.  The performances by Farmiga, Sarsgaard, and Fuhrmann go a long way in grounding all the silliness.  Karel Roden as Dr. Exposition!

I certainly laughed with the film harder than I have at most comedies.  A gothic delight!


Hm, I don't know about this. Not to knock "Orphan" but my read of it was a junky throwback sleezefest horror film. The only way you know this didn't play at a 1973 drive-in is that the performances, from Farmiga, Sarsgaard and ESPECIALLY Furman, are remarkably deft and enlightening, but otherwise, it's just cheap scare tactics and a vicious little hook. I didn't exactly find myself laughing.

 

Anyway,

31. OSS 117: CAIRO, NEST OF SPIES/OSS 117: LOST IN RIO

 

Jean Dujardin gives a performance part Sacha Baron Cohen, part Mike Myers in these absolutely BRILLIANT spy spoofs. Seriously really hilarious, broad, silly stuff.

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post #33 of 181
7/17/11 at 2:32pm
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28. ZOMBIELAND

 

Woody Harrelson was born to play Tallahassee. Great comedy/horror/action movie.


What I really wanted to do was post an ADVENTURELAND/ZOMBIELAND back-to-back double feature, but I also didn't want to break the rules. So thanks for getting my second pick in there!

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post #34 of 181
7/17/11 at 2:54pm
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23. Wonder Boys (2000): wonderful performance by Michael Douglas, with really good support from Tobey Maguire, RDJ and Frances McDormand. Warm, funny, sardonic and sly. Great movie.


Do people actually like "Wonder Boys"? I had never heard of it before I stumbled on it on Netflix Instant Watch, and thought it was really awful. I'd expected something great with that cast, and instead I aggressively disliked it.

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post #35 of 181
7/17/11 at 2:58pm
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I LOVE Wonder Boys! I think it's wonderfully funny and acidic and Michael Douglas is such a wonderful prick. The movie never really gives you a while lot of reasons to root for him and yet you can't help but hope he at least gets things sorted out. Maybe it's just me.

 

Also, Iron Man has sex with Spider-Man!

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post #36 of 181
7/17/11 at 3:01pm
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Do people actually like "Wonder Boys"? I had never heard of it before I stumbled on it on Netflix Instant Watch, and thought it was really awful. I'd expected something great with that cast, and instead I aggressively disliked it.


Er...yeah, I do. So does the wife. Guess that's why we are made for each other. It's gets the black comedy right nailing the self-centricity of academia and the literary world yet still manages to find warmth in some otherwise pretty loathsome characters.
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post #37 of 181
7/17/11 at 5:36pm
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30. Macgruber.

 

Scattershot, sure, but when the the jokes hit, they hit hard. In a just moviegoing universe, this would have made Will Forte an A-list funny guy.



Totally agree!

 

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post #38 of 181
7/17/11 at 5:52pm
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Hm, I don't know about this. Not to knock "Orphan" but my read of it was a junky throwback sleezefest horror film. The only way you know this didn't play at a 1973 drive-in is that the performances, from Farmiga, Sarsgaard and ESPECIALLY Furman, are remarkably deft and enlightening, but otherwise, it's just cheap scare tactics and a vicious little hook. I didn't exactly find myself laughing.

 


Oh god, I laughed so hard.  It definitely uses some cheap scare tactics (one of them being the overused mirror reflection jump scare), but they were used well and knowingly.  Maybe I was just in a giggly mood.  Or I'm confusing laughs of delight with laughs from watching something funny (both of which I experienced during Drag Me to Hell).  It's hard to tell.  

 

Also, MacGruber?!  Classic Groob.

 

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post #39 of 181
7/17/11 at 6:35pm

MacGruber...really. I'm sorry but that movie only gets worse the more I see it. Guess this one falls into the comedy is fickle category.

 

Moving on...

 

32. Wedding Crashers aka the last thing Vince Vaughn was ever good in.

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post #40 of 181
7/17/11 at 6:43pm

33. A Mighty Wind

 

A movie that manages to satirize folk music while simultaneously paying homage to it. No mean feat.

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post #41 of 181
7/17/11 at 8:08pm

What is the cut off for year? It should be 2010, no? So MacGruber is out? Don't know how strict we're going here or if the OP is gonna compile  the list in the original post.

 

Re: Orphan is out of left field for me as well. I mean it's not like Piranha 3D or Lake Placid or even Wrong Turn and its sequel or Drag Me to Hell (like you mentioned).

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post #42 of 181
7/17/11 at 8:41pm
Thread Starter 

MacGruber is in.

 

Orphan, we should open it up for debate. I vote NAY.

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post #43 of 181
7/17/11 at 8:50pm
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27) Me, Myself and Irene

 

 

Fuck it, you know you laughed. If the film had maintained the hilarity of the opening 15 minutes or so, this would be an absolute classic, but this film will remain as the final time the Farrellys were funny.

Nice pick. I liked this one a lot and think it's underrated. I guess it was sort of a flop for the Farelley Brothers after three hits in a row in "Dumb and Dumber", "Kingpin", and "There's Something About Mary", but I believe it was on par with them quality-wise. My favourite parts were Carrey bonding with his black "sons" and "peeing like [he] was up all night having sex". Him treating a dildo like a puppet with a squeaky voice was memorably funny too. I'm happy to see "The Hangover" and "Wonder Boys" mentioned as well.
 

 

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post #44 of 181
7/17/11 at 8:54pm

If you're doing the 20-aughts, then no film released after 2009 should be eligible. 2000 through 2009 is ten years.

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post #45 of 181
7/17/11 at 9:03pm

34. 'The Wicker Man' (2006).  One of the greatest unintentional comedies of all time.

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post #46 of 181
7/18/11 at 1:38am

Since Gabe T has broken his "one film" rule...

 

35. (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)

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Edited by Barry Woodward - 7/18/11 at 5:44pm
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post #47 of 181
7/18/11 at 2:33am

36. Mystery Team

 

Derrick Comedy's first feature film is a weird beast. It mixes a silly, forgettable storyline with some of the funniest most quotable jokes imaginable ("ENGLAND!") and if anything, proves that Donald Glover derserves to be a star.

 

 

EDIT: And ORPHAN - since the list is "funniest films" and not "funniest comedies"  i see no reason not to include it if you guys want to, even though I personally didn't find it particularly gut-busting.


Edited by Evi - 7/18/11 at 5:41am
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post #48 of 181
7/18/11 at 4:49am
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31. OSS 117: CAIRO, NEST OF SPIES/OSS 117: LOST IN RIO

 

Jean Dujardin gives a performance part Sacha Baron Cohen, part Mike Myers in these absolutely BRILLIANT spy spoofs. Seriously really hilarious, broad, silly stuff.



Oh fuck yeah. Peeps need to get their eyeballs in front of the OSS 177 films if they want their lives to be filled with more cinematic joy.

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post #49 of 181
7/18/11 at 5:27am

37. Orange County

 

Pathos and humour combine in a movie that gets greatness out of Jack Black, John Lithgow, Harold Ramis and Catherine O'Hara in supporting roles. A great likeable lead from son of Tom; Colin Hanks. I watch this a lot and it deserves more love.

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post #50 of 181
7/18/11 at 6:54am

38. WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY (2007)

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