What's the funniest movie you ever saw?

Spinal Tap

 

Oh and All You Need is Cash.

 

Used to be Blazing Saddles but that was 40 years ago.

 

Spinal Tap
Wayne's World
American Psycho
Napoleon Dynamite

 

Airplane!

 

W.C. Fields' "It's a Gift".

 

Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)
The Producers (60s version)

 

Cheating. Helpmates, a Laurel & Hardy short.

 

Being in a packed theater can really enhance the experience of a comedy.

I saw Anchorman, Meet the Parents and Bad Santa in the theatre and the audiences were rolling. My stomach was sore by the time I left.
I’m sure Something About Mary was a riot too.

 

That's really true. Or even just watching with friends. Comedies are never as funny when you watch them alone. Except maybe the Marx Brothers.

 

The Aristocrats
While I really got bored with it after an hour, it's the only dvd I had to pause 2 or 3 times because of the pain of laughing so hard and so many tears I couldn't see

 

Ali G inda House...Booyashaka

 

The Music Box

jerol

 

SCHLEMMER!

 

Duck Soup
His Girl Friday
The Big Lebowski

 

My favorite comedy of all time is Woody Allen's Love and Death, but for sheer number of laughs, the two best comedies I saw in the theater were Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie and South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. Both of those had me literally falling out of my seat with laughter.

 

I like 'Employee of the Month'.

 

The usual suspects (no, not the film) - Monty Python "Holy Grail", "Life Of Brian", "Meaning Of Life", and probably "Airplane".
Recent film which many of you may disagree with - "The Disaster Artist". I had no idea about the film it was based on so it was all new to me. Loved it. and very funny.

 

This is my second choice after Holy Grail. Best slapstick movie ever made.

 

Strange Brew - maybe it's my Canadian heritage but this movie always makes me laugh out loud.

I'm not a huge Comedy guy but it seems like it would be very hard to make a good comedy these days. Too much political correctness and people having identity crises and taking themselves way too seriously. I notice a lot of the movies mentioned here are older. You couldn't make a Blazing Saddles today.

 

Yes, but Hocking’s comeback to Finster’s comment about having a guy’s finger you know where, “Is it Friday night already?” Is pure comic gold.

 

Of the ones mentioned so far:

It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
There's Something About Mary
What's Up Doc?
Life Of Brian
Princess Bride
The Holy Grail
Spinal Tap
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Blues Brothers
Airplane
The Marx Brothers Classics

Not mentioned:
Raising Arizona
Kung Fu Hustle
Buffalo '66
Napoleon Dynamite
Zoolander
Superbad
Clerks

 

"Christmas In Connecticut"

 

My first time seeing Spinal Tap was in the theater.

It was a sneak preview sponsored by the local rock radio station KY 102. But most of the audience apparently didn't know this film was a comedy - they just thought it was a documentary about a rock band that they thought they knew. Which made it a hundred times funnier.

I was in the front row and literally fell into the aisle laughing so hard, and had to step out into the lobby in order to be able to resume breathing after the part about the drummers.

 

Most, if not all, Preston Sturges films.