Funny Comedies?

There's Something About Mary- uncut version .. 10 minutes longer. Even funnier.

 

Lots of the greats are already listed, but I'd toss in Clerks 2 and The House Bunny.

 

Great soundtrack with some cool Tangerine Dream songs

 

Seksmisja aka Sexmission (1984)

- comedy/satire.

Les Visiteurs (1993)

- time travel.

And most Woody Allen/Mel Brooks/Marx Bros/Laurel & Hardy etc already listed - all good stuff.

 

don't go stumbling through a rest area at night looking to take a whizz

 

Martin Mull pegged him right away with the 220 inquiry

 

Beverly Hills Cop. The first movie I saw in a theater that I remember laughing at the whole time.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I was too young to see it in the theater but this was the first VHS tape I rented that I couldn't stop laughing at.

Superbad. I think this the most recent movie that I found really really funny. I can't think of any others anyway.

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie. This is the only movie that made me laugh so hard that I was afraid I might pass out in the theater. When they started putting the interocitor together I was having trouble breathing. I'm still constantly tempted to sign my name "Wilt Chamberlain".

 

Bad Santa
Step Brothers
Napoleon Dynamite
In Bruges
Happiness
Seven Psychopaths
World's Greatest Dad
Welcome to the dollhouse
A new leaf

 

I'll run out of my cave and say "Ishtar" and run back.
Somebody had to watch it.

 

Les Visiteurs 1993
All the Monty Phyton movies
The Exchange Student 1967
Dr.Strangelove 1964
The Big Lebowski 1998
Office Space 1999

 

I'm a mortician, so I might be biased....

 

I saw this as a teen in 1982 or 1983 and loved it.

I didn't watch it for decades but checked out the new Blu-ray recently.

Not a bad movie, but not one that did much for me now.

 

That Sinking Feeling (1979) directed by Bill Forsyth.




Before both Gregory's Girl and Local Hero and really quite parochial, however, still makes me smile.

 

You get an unknown uncredited Kevin Costner cameo ...always interesting to see these big stars before they made it...more so if it's a non speaking part

 

And young Shannen Doherty in there as well!

Like I said, "Night Shift" isn't a bad movie, and Keaton does a lot to carry it.

It just seems kinda... meh to me now. I thought it was hilarious in the 80s!

 

Also this movie Keaton claims to takes credit for bringing the term "jagoff" to the big screen ...it's in the Oxford English Dictionary ...just some useful information to have on hand

 

My friends and I were some of the few who knew Keaton pre-"Night Shift", as we liked his shortlived series "Working Stiffs" a year or 2 prior.

Watching "NS" now, you can tell that Keaton had "it". He plays a part that's very much of its era - Bill feels like someone tossed the stereotypical Belushi and Murray characters into a blender and mushed them together - but Keaton still makes it work.

Bill easily could - should! - become annoying and overbearing, and in someone else's hands, he would.

Imagine Keaton's "Working Stiffs" co-star Jim Belushi in the role and it'd have been a disaster.

But Keaton makes Bill funny and charming despite his overtly annoying personality.

Keaton pulls off the role's brief dramatic scene shockingly well, too.

Shelley Long feels horribly miscast as the street hooker, and Henry Winkler seems so desperate to shed the Fonz that he underplays his role severely.

Again, "NS" is watchable enough - it's just not very entertaining to me anymore!

 

That's a really good summation of the three leads. Long was just....not good in much of anything. Winkler was in a string of films around that time that appeared to be chosen for the exact purpose of exorcizing The Fonz; whether it was this, Heroes, or The One and Only.

Keaton absolutely carried the film, and I absolutely die laughing at the end when he flings himself off the balcony while wearing a caveman outfit.

 

Good Boys!

Funniest I’ve seen in 20 years.

Second and third times were just as good!

 

Badder Santa is the best version! stay away from the directors cut...it sucks!

 

Snatch!
and we get Morgan Jones!

 

Oh Man! wow...that must have been a fun view!

 

love this movie...it took years to get a widescreen version on Home Video...the DVD was Full Frame...I do love Keaton.

 

yes! it adds instead of subtracting like other extended versions...still hysterical!