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Recommend me film that's ACTUALLY funny

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by IndieAndy_Jones

I watched The Wedding Crashers last night and you may not be suprised to know that it is poo. I didn't expect to much of it but I was reliably informed that it was one of the funniest films of last year.

Being disappointed by unfunny 'comedies' is something that happens quite often for me, so can you pleeeaase recommend something that is actually funny.

Thankyou in advance for your co-operation in this matter.

Kind Regards

Mr I. A. Jones

IndieAndy_Jones | 23 Mar '06, 12:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

that is a shit film

i suggest three:

basketball
blazing saddles
airplane

if these dont tickle your ribs, i suggest checking yr pulse.


If you mean Baseketball,

that's the biggest pile of dung I've ever endured.


Clerks/.


I didn't like Clerks much

Although i do like Kevin Smiths other films


fair enough.


Dodgeball

DODGEBALL.


^^^ speaks truth

i thought it was going to be awful but i laughed all the way through.


Rushmore

The Life Aquatic
Withnail and I
This is Spinal Tap
Best in Show
Clerks
Heathers


^^^all true

i love rushmore.


Here's a few

Happy Gilmour
Best in Show
A Mighty Wind
This is Spinal Tap
Coming to America (Eddy Murphy - unreal)


This is Spinal Tap

funniest film ever.


For sure

I watched it again this weekend and was laughing to myself before it had even started!


Happy Gilmore

is ACE.


Happy Gilmour still gets me laughing

I love em all.. sigh


seconded rushmore

rather predictably...

big lebowski
planes, trains and automobiles
anchorman (better than dodgeball)


It's good, but better than Dodgeball?

Tough call...


i laughed out loud

(or LOLed as the kids call it these days) more in anchorman, rendering that the winner...


you've gotta go with anchorman over dodgeball

anchorman is ridiculously ridiculous. wasn't too impressed with dodgeball, apart from the line about being "as useful as a cock flavoured lollypop"

whereas anchorman has so many quotable lines, as shown by the fact that there was an entire thread here a few weeks ago made up of stupid lines from it.


Big Lebowski seconded

also, O Brother, Where Art Thou?


Withnail & I
Airplane

Two of the funniest films ever.


the last film to make me laugh lots

was spongebob squarepants.

also try bad santa.


*resists temptation to quote Withnail and I*

I still find Monty Python films hilarious after god knows how many watchings


Happiness

Erm...im not too sure about comedies...i like them...just dont know what ones i find funny.


Mean Girls


I nearly bought that for

a fiver from Waitrose last night, despite knowing nothing about it. Would I have been making an error?


no mean girls is great

and has that girl in before she went all hollywood but after the thing where she was her and her twin.


Thora Hird?


whora turd


You're a turd


warty herd


lindsey lohan

when she was still hawt.


i <3 mean girls

best 'teen comedy' ever.


Or jsut go buy every Wes Anderson film.

Especially Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic.


The Royal Tenenmbaums kind of failed me a bit,

as did The Life Aquatic, which I had SOOOO been looking forward to seeing.. great films but I wouldn't call them 'comedy'.. as such.. noir comedy


no

they're wicked. tenenbaums is a bit serious tho


All of my family

didn't like the life aquatic and my brother's a wes anderson geekface. I really liked it though and i was all on my own.


Yeah I like Wes Anderson

I think I'd like to see more filums which are like his.

I think Life Aquatic is his best. Anything with Bill Murray in it is going to float my boat.


Anchorman


Yeh Man!

Anchorman is seriously funny!


Highlander 2 made me laugh more than any other film ever!

I'll never cry tears of laughter for an hour and a half in my life again

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102034/board/flat/3570454


i knew the guy who wrote that film.

SFX once said that "the script-writer must have watched the first Highlander in a drunken haze". having met the man, he probably did.


hahaha

the man deserves a medal for coming up with Planet Zeist


Naked Gun

You've seen it before but it's still amazing.

Anything with Vince Vaughan in really...(except maybe Wedding Crashers, like you said).


ummmmm

Bowfinger is surprisingly hilarious.
Team America, ofcourse
Bad Taste (one of Peter Jacksons early films, its amazing!)

I hated mean girls, me and my friend were left feeling really, really pissed off when it ended.


ooh and

these are more teen comedys but-

Pump Up The Volume
Empire Records

Romy and Michelles High School Reunion


Thanks chaps

that's a pretty bonza response. I think I'm going to add Best In Show and Blazin Saddles to my list. I think I've seen most of the rest.


Swingers

Go see.


Have you seen

Kingpin? That's really funny


how about

evil dead 2
clerks
the monty python movies
the producers (original)
napoleon dynamite
team america
south park: bigger longer uncut
american splendor
happiness of the katakuris (but be warned its bloody weird)


......

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigalow

Funniest film I've watched in years.


Just go and buy the Mighty Boosh boxset.

Not a flim, but super funny. An aquired taste though, I think.

Otherwise I'm gonna also shout up for Happy Gilmore.


Haha

Not a flim.

It's not you know.


Yay

definitly South Park!


Meet The Parents made me laugh lots.


Babs is awright too, in Meet the Fockers

I laughed in a few bits of that - the Jewish centric plot.


Dungeons and dragons 2

Not supposed to be funny.
I laughed like never before...


Ah, comedy films

Possibly the main reason that I have no life.

My favourites in no particular order:

The Graduate
Annie Hall
Dr Strangelove
Holy Grail / Life of Brian
Airplane
Naked Gun
The Producers (good version)
Blazing Saddles
Ghostbusters
Caddyshack
Groundhog Day
Network
Big Lebowski (or pretty much any other Coens film)

I'll think of more in a bit...


[fact]Dumb and Dumber

Team America
Anchor Man
Old School[/fact]


kingpin

anchorman
jay and silent bob strike back
the cable guy
planes, trains and automobiles
old school
groundhog day
airplane
dodgeball
meet the parents
happy gilmore
school of rock


The Jerk

The Man With Two Brains.


troof

old steve martin > new steve martin


No one has

mentioned "the Odd Couple". Well its down now. Its a classic.


I'll probably get slagged off

but The 40 Year Old Virgin is actually really good. it just depends if you like the silly american teen (well it would be teen if he wasn't 40) comedy.


Mallrats
My Cousin Vinny
Hot Shots

most of the best ones have been said, really.


I

t's a mad mad mad world.


All but the 2 cheapest

and best Matt 'n' Trey films have been mentioned!

If you can find it, "Cannibal! The Musical" is hilarious, but oh so cheap.

And the follow up: "Orgazmo", about a mormon who inadvertantly becomes the world's most famous pornstar.

Also, movies that are laughably terrible:

Gigli
You Got Served
Battlefield Earth
Anything by Ed Wood.


Team America

is just brilliant. Probably better than South Park the Movie, and that's saying something.

Mystery Men also made me laugh quite a bit.


A Mighty Wind.

just all kinds of perfect.


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