Unfunny Comedies?

really? I like him...here Comes The Boom was fun!

 

I only saw the first one only...liked it. : )

 

probably the most laughs I got were from the Dean Martin Roasts! try doing that today!

 

Pulp Fiction IS a comedy.

 

I would call it a drama with some moments of absurd comedy.
The way it closes for me says a lot and that IMO is real tight drama

 

Disagree. The film is a straight up black comedy that incorporates elements of Film Noir.

 

As is Fight Club, but most people miss that.

 

.... 'Mindhead'

 

The Wedding Singer is good, though more "sweet" than funny.

 

Absolutely agree

Another movie we watched where I was laughing my ass off but my wife didn't get what was so funny was Network, some of the finest satire I have ever seen. And still relevant 42 years later...

 

Two of the best comedic performances ever in film. Reilly especially. "Step Brothers" has so many classic quotable lines, I'm laughing just thinking about them. But definitely a movie that's better the more you watch it.

 

John C. Reilly is a genius - if not just for Dr. Steve Brule alone.

Think about it; 99% of the time, when you see him in a movie, no matter the character, you go "that's John C. Reilly." He's just one of those actors, like The Rock, where you can't separate the character from the actor. With Dr. Steve Brule, he disappears ENTIRELY into that character, and you almost forget it's a character.

 

I saw it at the theater as a kid because it was a Steve Martin movie, but didn’t really get it, as I had no point of reference for all that 40s noir. I was just sort of dumbfounded.

 

I think you mean he drisappears entirely into that crharacter, and you almost frorget it's a crharacter.

 

That is razor sharp satire. So rare that they could walk that fine line so flawlessly

 

We were teenagers at the time. (I will admit with great embarrassment now that we laughed when the name 'Edith Head' was on screen.) We didn't really know who the people were, as you said. But some of them were iconic enough that we knew they were famous. And I do remember wondering, 'Surely they should be old by now?'

Nonetheless, we enjoyed it. Of course I only really appreciated it years later, but we liked it despite completely missing the main joke. Steve Martin carried it for us.

 

Nov. 25 : she turned 47 today ....

 

Sequels of great comedies are often horrendous....

Beverly Hills Cop III
Major League 2
Caddyshack II
Dumb and Dumberer
Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls
Teen Wolf II
Vegas Vacation/European Vacation
Big Top Pee Wee
Look Who's Talking Now


There are many more, course

 

Dad's Army. How on earth that ever raised a smile is anybody's guess.

 

Anything with/ by James Corden, incredibly unfunny ,can anyone please tell me what he does for a living?

 

Entertaining...but I didn't laugh even once. "Three Kings" was a funnier George Clooney vehicle (even if Ice Cube had all the best lines).

 

Same. I didn't even laugh either.

 

Huh, no one took this tired, tired bait? XD

 

I'm no fan but the raised smile, not a laugh out loud was it's aim a strange English thing. Union Jacks to the fore.
The favourite show of Brexiteers,