What's the funniest movie you ever saw?

There are just too many to pick just one, but here are some that made me laugh really hard when I originally saw them. (Note: Some of them probably wouldn't now because of the sophomoric humor in some of them, but I was in high school and college in the '80s when I saw many of those the first time.)

Blazing Saddles
Stir Crazy
Caveman
Spaceballs
Life Of Brian
Stripes
Ghostbusters (original)
The Blues Brothers (original)
Trading Places
Beverly Hills Cop (first one)
Funny Farm
Vacation (original)
Christmas Vacation
Airplane! (first one)
Police Academy (first one)
The Naked Gun (all of them)
Animal House
Bachelor Party
Big
Revenge Of The Nerds
Best In Show
This Is Spinal Tap
Major League (first one)
Old School
Galaxy Quest
Wedding Crashers
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Team America: World Police
There's Something About Mary
Tropic Thunder
Dodgeball
Meet The Parents (only the first one)
The Hangover (only the first one)

And probably some more I am forgetting.

 

Good question. Top Secret and The Gods Must Be Crazy are both pretty high up, as are all the Marx Brothers' classics. Oh, and This is Spinal Tap.

Way back in the day, I recall laughing quite a bit at Paleface (with Bob Hope) on TV.

I think the funniest single scene was the train destruction scene near the end of The Marx Brothers' Go West.

 

Buster Keaton's The General, 1927.

 

Charles Chaplin, City Lights 1931.

 

My choice also. By coincidence I was 13 years old and visiting London when it came out. It all combined perfectly into me laughing uncontrollably for the length of the movie.

 

Borat absolutely cracks me up. Here's some deleted scenes:

 

Kingpin.

 

I think the hardest I ever laughed in a theatre was at There's Something About Mary.

 

The Big Lebowski
Airplane
The Naked Gun
The Blues Brothers
Monty Python's Life Of Brian
A Fish Called Wanda
Coming To America
Annie Hall

 

Hands down my favorite Bill Murray role

 

My Cousin Vinny... I don't watch a lot of comedy, but that one I can see over and over.

 

Best blank EVAH of all time is always a problem. I laughed really hard at many of the films mentioned so far, but I'm going to throw in a vote for "A Film With Me In It" with Dylan Moran.

 

LOVE - my favorite Jerry Lewis film and the one that makes me laugh OUT LOUD. There are "better" Jerry films, but this is the one that gets me.

So for straight LAUGH-OUT LOUD comedies?

Duck Soup, Monkey Business, Airplane!, Bananas, Take the Money and Run, Top Secret!, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad, The Jerk, National Lampoon's Vacation

Other comedy films I absolutely love, but may not be continual dizzying, non-stop laugh out loud ones, but perhaps have more depth, and have the "ticking time bomb"/small problems get big elements/pure comedic chemistry are my favorite kind of movies - like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Broadway Danny Rose, Midnight Run, Flirting with Disaster, The Big Lebowski and any number of other Coen brothers, Woody Allen films.

Sometimes smiling non-stop on the inside is a better experience that just laugh/laugh/laugh bit/bit/bit... and it ends.

Can I say Airplane! is a better film than Being There? No - but love them both and both make me "laugh" - one outside, one inside.

Jeff

 

Finally! This is my first choice (although I agree with most of the films mentioned) and
I even mentioned it in the "Underrated Movies" thread. I think it would be mentioned
more often if more people had ever SEEN it......
You are right about Kevin Kline (maybe his best comedic role) but the entire rest of the
cast is absolutely hysterical. Sally Field is amazing. Robert Downey Jr., Whoopi Goldberg,
Carrie Fisher, and on and on all are amazing. But my favorite in the film by far is
Cathy Moriarty...she is so over the top hysterical it's actually nearly unbelievable.
Otherwise, my second choice would be "Big Trouble".

 

Best in Show

 

Joe Dirt

 

Revenge of the Nerds!

 

Matt Dillon gets the best lines.

 

At the time of seeing it, only Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different made me leave the theater at the end with a sore stomach from laughing so hard.

Many of the other films listed here, even if I was amused when I first saw them, now hold zero laughs for me--like SpinalTap. Others listed weren't even funny the first time I saw them, like Napoleon Dynamite.

 

I fell out of my seat when he tried to put Pam Anderson in the bag.

 

"MATT DAMON!"

 

There are a bunch of French comedy movies that are so hilarious, I had tears running down my cheeks.

I'd suggest people check out French comedy movies. There are some amazing ones out there.

 

I don't even have to think about this:

The Producers (1967). The only comedy that would get in to my top ten films and the only Mel Brooks film I REALLY like.