not quite as good as citizen kane with a shotgun: BEST COMEDY FILMS OF ALL TIME VOTING THREAD (CLOSES FRI MARCH 23)

NOMINATIONS ARE CLOSED

Now is the time to champion your write-ins and rep for your long-shots. We encourage you to discuss and hype, but please don’t post ballots or lists of movies. NO SPOILERS PLEASE

Vote for a max of 50 comedies, minimum of 20.

Assign points on a 1-50 basis: 50 points for your number-one comedy, 49 for your next-favorite comedy; etc.

Please submit in this manner:

ROFL Movie – 50
LOL Movie – 49
The Champ – 48

and so on.

Movies with the most points win.

Nomination list posted below.

Please e-mail ballots to lolgbcw AT gmail.com

10
1941
10 Things I Hate About You
24 Hour Party People
27 Dresses
3 Men and a Baby
48 Hours
9 To 5
A Bucket of Blood (Corman)
A Chinese Ghost Story
A Christmas Story
A Day at the Races (1937)
A Foreign Affair
A Hard Day's Night
A midsummer night's dream
a mighty wind
A New Leaf
A Night at the Opera (1935)
A Night in Casablanca (1946)
A Nous La Liberte
A Private Function
a serious man
A Shot in the Dark
A Taxing Woman
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Ace in the Hole
ace ventura
Adam's Rib
Adaptation
Addams Family Values
Addicted to Love (Griffin Dunne)
Adventures in Babysitting
Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension
After Hours
Airheads
Airplane
Alfie
All of Me
Amadeus
American Beauty
American Graffiti
American Movie.
american pie
American Psycho
america's sweethearts
An American Werewolf in London
Anchorman
Angoor
Animal Crackers (1930)
Animal House
Annie Hall
Any Which Way You Can
Apple Dumpling Gang
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
army of darkness
Arsenic & Old Lace
arthur
As Good As It Gets
At the Circus (1939)
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Auntie Mame (1958)
austin powers
Babe
Babe: Pig In The City
back to school
Back To The Future
bad santa
Bad Taste
Baghead
Ball of Fire
Bananas
Barking Dogs Never Bite
barton fink
batman 1966
Batman and Robin
Be Kind Rewind
Beavis and Butthead Do America
Bedazzled (1967)
Bedazzled (PCook version)
Beetlejuice
Being John Malkovich
Being There
Bell, Book and Candle
Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon
Best in Show
BETTER OFF DEAD
Beverly Hills Cop
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Big
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Big Man Japan
Big Trouble in Little China
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Billy Liar
billy madison
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
Bio-Dome
bitter moon
black cat, white cat (Crna macka, beli macor)
Black Dynamite
Black Sheep (2007 New Zealand film)
Blades of Glory
Blazing Saddles
Blue Velvet
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Bob Roberts
Bombshell
Boogie Nights
Boomerang
Borat
Born Yesterday (1993)
bottle rocket
Boudou Saved From Drowning
bowfinger
Brain Damage
Braindead/Dead Alive
Brand Upon the Brain!
Branded to Kill
brazil
Breakfast At Tiffany's
The Breakfast Club
Brewster McCloud
Bridesmaids
Bring It On
Bringing Up Baby
Broadcast News
Bull Durham
Bullets Over Broadway
Bulworth
BURGLAR
Burn After Reading
C.H.U.D. 2
Cabin Boy
cable guy
caddy shack
calmos
Camelot
Cannibal the Musical
Cannonball Run
Careful
Carry on Screaming
Carry on up the Khyber
Casino Royale (1967)
cat ballou
Catch-22
CB-4
Chameleon Street
Charade
Chicken Run
Christmas in July
Christmas Vacation
Chupke Chupke
citizen ruth
City Lights
Class of Nuke 'Em High
clerks
Clifford
Clue
Clueless
coffee and cigarettes
College
Comfort and Joy
Coming To America
Cops
Crime Wave a.k.a. The Big Crime Wave (John Paizs)
Cul-De-Sac
Curly Sue
dark star
Dawn of the Dead
dazed and confused
Dead Alive/Braindead
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Death In Brunswick
Death Race 2000
Death to Smoochy
Deconstructing Harry
Defending Your Life
Delicatessen
Demolition Man
Die Hard
Diner
Dinner at Eight
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dirty Work
Divorce Italian Style
Doc Hollywood
Doctor Detroit
Dodgeball
Dogtooth
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Down By Law
Dr. Strangelove
dragnet
Drive (Hiroyuki Tanaka)
Drop dead fred
Drunken Master 2
Duck Amuck
Duck Amuck
Duck Soup (1933)
Dude, Where's My Car?
dumb & dumber
Earth Girls Are Easy
Easy A
Easy Living
Eat Drink Man Woman
eating raoul
Ed Wood
Eegah!
Election
Elf
Ella Cinders
Emir
Emperor's New Groove
Encino Man
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
euro trip
Euro Vacation
Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex..
Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
Fancy Pants
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fargo
Father of the Bride (Minnelli)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear of a Black Hat
Female Trouble
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fido
Fievel: An American Tail
Fight Club
finisterrae
Fired Up!
Fish Called Wanda
Fletch
Flirting with Disaster
Follow That Bird
forbidden city cop
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Forgotten Silver
Four Lions
Four Rooms
four weddings and a funeral
Frankenhooker
Freaked
freddie got fingered
Freebie and The Bean
Freeway
Frenzy
Friday
friends with kids
from beijing with love
Fun With Dick and Jane
Funny Face
Funny Girl
Funny People
Galaxy Quest
Garfield
get him to the greek
Get Shorty
Ghost Town
ghost world
Ghostbusters
Gift Wrapped
Girl Shy
Go
Go West (1940)
God of Cookery
Good Morning (Ozu)
Goodbye Columbus
Goodbye Pork Pie
Gosford Park
grandma's boy
Gregory's Girl
Gremlins 2
grosse pointe blank
Groundhog Day
Grumpy Old Men
Hail the Conquering Hero
Hair
half baked
Hamlet 2
Handle with Care (Citizen's Band)
Hank & Mike
hannah and her sisters
happiness
Happy Anniversary
Happy Gilmore
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
harold and maude
Harvey
Hausu
Hausu aka House (1977)
Head
heartbreak ridge
Heathers
Heaven Can Wait (Lubitsch)
Heaven Help Us
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hello Dolly!
Help!
Hercules Returns
hi fidelity
High Anxiety
High Diving Hare
high society
His Girl Friday
His Picture In The Papers
History of the World Part I
Hobo With a Shotgun
Holiday (1938)
Hollywood Shuffle
Home Sweet Home
homebodies (1974)
Horse Feathers (1932)
hot dog the movie
Hot Fuzz
Hot Rod
Hot Shots
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Hot Tub Time Machine
The House Bunny
House Party
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
How to Marry a Millionaire
I Accidentally Domed Your Son
I Heart Huckabees
I Know Where I'm Going!
I Love You, Man
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
Idiocracy
Igby Goes Down
I'm All Right, Jack
I'm Gonna Get You, Sucka
I'm No Angel
In & Out
In Bruges
In the Loop
In The Park
In the Soup
Inception
Irma la Douce
It Happened One Night
It's a Gift
it's a mad mad mad mad world
Jaanne Bhi Do Yaaron
Jazz Singer (1927)
joe vs the volcano
Joe's Apartment
Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
Jump Tomorrow
Junior
kentucky fried movie
Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Kindergarten Cop
kingpin
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Kiss Me, Stupid
Knocked Up
Kull the Conqueror
Kung Fu Hustle
Kusturic
L.A. Story
La Cage aux Folles
La grande bouffe
Lady for a Day
Last Action Hero
L'Atalante
Le Dîner de Cons
Le Grand amour
Le Grande Bouffe (1973)
Le Million
Legally Blonde
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
les tontons flingueurs
les visiteurs
Libeled Lady
Life Is Beautiful
Life Stinks
Lilo & Stitch
Little Murders
Little Murders
Little Shop of Horrors
Living It Up
local hero
Lolita
Long Haired Hare
Look Who's Talking
Look Who's Talking Too
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Looking for Eric
Looney Runes
Lost In America
Love and Death
Love Happy (1949)
love me if you dare / jeux d'enfants
Love Me Tonight
Loves of a Blonde
M. Hulot's Holiday
MacGruber
machete
Made for Each Other (1970)
mafioso
Major Barbara
Major League
Man Bites Dog
Manhattan
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Manos: The Hands of Fate
Married to the Mob
Mars Attacks!
MASH
Maybe... Maybe Not (Sönke Wortmann)
Mean Girls
meatballs
Meet Me In St. Louis
Meet the Feebles
Meet The Parents
Melvin and Howard
Men In Black
Metropolitan
Midnight (1938)
midnight madness
midnight run
Mighty Like A Moose
Million Dollar Legs
Mister Roberts
Modern Times
Mon Oncle
Monkey Business (1931)
Monsters Inc.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's Meaning of Life
Moonstruck
Morgan: A Suitable Case
Mortal Transfer
Mother (1996)
Mr Deeds Goes To Town
Mr Vampire
Muppets Take Manhattan
murder by death
Muriel's Wedding
My Blue Heaven
My Cousin Vinny
My Fair Lady
My Man Godfrey
my name is nobody
My Winnipeg
nacho libre
Naked Gun
Naked Gun 2 1/2
Napoleon Dynamite
Nashville
National Lampoon's Vacation
Network
night on earth
Ninotchka
Noises Off...
Not Another Teen Movie
Nurse Betty
O brother where art thou
O Lucky Man!
Office Space
Oh, Mr Porter!
Old School
Om Shanti Om
One Crazy Summer
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Froggy Evenin
One Froggy Evening
One Week
One, Two, Three
Orgazmo
OSS 117: Cairo nest of spies
OSS 117: Lost in Rio
Our Hospitality
Over Artists & Models
Overboard
Parenthood
Parents
Passport To Pimlico
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Phantom of the Paradise
Pineapple Express
pink flamingos
Pink Panther
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
planet terror
Play It Again Sam
Play Time
Playtime
Polyester
pootie tang
Porky's
Porridge The Movie
Princess Bride?
private parts
Problem Child
Problem Child 2
Punch Drunk Love
Putney Swope
Pygmalion
Quick Change
Quoi? (1972)
Radio Days
Raising Arizona
Rat Race
Ratatouille
real genius
Real Life
re-animator
Re-Animator
Red Hot Riding Hood
Reno 911! Miami
Repo Man
Return of the Living Dead
Risky Business
River's Edge
Road House
Road to Bali
Road to Utopia
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
rock n roll nightmare
rock'n'roll high school
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Role Models
Romancing the Stone
Romy & Michele's High School Reunion
Room Service (1938)
rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead
Roxanne
royal tenenbaums
Ruben and Ed
Ruggles of Red Gap
Rushmore
S.O.B.
Sabrina (1954)
safety last
Sanjuro
satan's brew
Saved!
Scary Movie 2
School of Rock
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Scream
Scream 2
Scrooged
Serial Mom
Seven Chances
Seven Year Itch
Severance
Shakes the Clown
Shampoo
Shaolin Soccer
Shaun of the Dead
She Done Him Wrong
Sherlock Jr
Shop Around the Corner
Short Circuit
Show People
showgirls
Shrek 2
Sideways
Silent Movie
Singin' In The Rain
Slacker
slapshot
Slaughterhouse-Five
SLC Punk
Sleeper
Slither
Small Time Crooks
Smashing Time
Smashing Time
Smile
Smiles Of A Summer Night
smiles of a summer night
Smiley Face
Smokey & The Bandit
So I Married an Axe Murderer
some kind of monster
Some Like It Hot
Something Wild
Son In Law
Son of Paleface
Songs from the Second Floor
Sons of the Desert
soul plane
south park
Spaceballs
Speedy
Spider Baby
spinal tap
Stay Tuned
steak
Steamboat Bill Jr.
step brothers
Stewart Saves His Family
stir crazy
Strange Brew
Stranger Than Paradise
Stripes
Stuart Saves His Family
Sugar & Spice
Sullivan's Travels
Summer School
Sunset Boulevard
Super Troopers
Superbad
Superman III
Superstar
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Sweet And Lowdown
swept away (1974)
swingers
Symbol (Hitoshi Matsumoto)
Take the Money and Run
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Tampopo
Tapeheads
Team America
terrorvision
That Obscure Object Of Desire
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
The Adventurer
The Adventures of Picasso
The Americanization of Emily
The Apartment
The Awful Truth
The Bad News Bears
The Bank Dick
The Bellboy
The Big Bus
The Big Lebowski
The Big Steal
The Big Store (1941)
The Birdcage
The Blues Brothers
The Bounty Hunter
The Candidate
The Castle
The Circus
The Cocoanuts (1929)
The Commitments
The Cottage
The Cup (Khyentse Norbu)
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
the daytrippers
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Dish
The Disorderly Orderly
The Errand Boy
The Experts
the exterminating angel
The Final Sacrifice
The Finishing Touch
The Fireman's Ball
The Foot Fist Way
the forbidden zone
The Fortune Cookie
The Freshman
The Frighteners
The Front Page ('31)
The General
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
The Girl Can't Help It
The Girl With Gold Boots
The Gold Rush
The Graduate
The Great Dictator
The Great McGinty
The Great Muppet Caper
The hangover
The Happening
The Happiness of the Katakuris
The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
The Host
The Hudsucker Proxy
The importance of being earnest (firth/everett)
The Impostors
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
The In-Laws (1979)
The Jerk
The King of Comedy
The Ladies Man
The Lady Eve
The Ladykillers (1955)
The Ladykillers (2004)
The Last Detail
the last dragon
The Lavender Hill Mob
the life and times of judge roy bean
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
The Life of Brian
the lonely guy
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
The Loved One
The Magic Christian
The Man in the White Suit
the man in the white suit (w/ Alec Guinness)
The Man Who Came To Dinner
The Man With Two Brains
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
The Muppet Movie
The Naked Gun
The Navigator (Keaton)
the new guy
The Nude Bomb
The Nutty Professor (Lewis)
The Odd Couple
The Old-Fashioned Way
The Opposite of Sex
The Other Guys
The Out-of-Towners (1970)
The Palm Beach Story
the party
The Perfect Host
The Philadelphia Story
The Pink Panther
the pink panther strikes again
The Player
The Producers
The Quiet Family
The Rabbit of Seville
the return of the pink panther
the revenge of the pink panther
The Road to Wellville
The Room
the rules of the game
the ruling class
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
The Saddest Music in the World
the simpsons movie
The Snapper
The Strong Man (Langdon/Capra)
The Stuff
the tall blonde man with one black shoe (Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire)
The Ten
the texas chainsaw massacre 2
the thin man
The Toxic Avenger
The Toy
The Trip
The Trouble with Harry
the truman show
The Villain
the waterboy
the wedding crashers
The Wedding Singer
The Wild Wild World of Batwoman
the wrong box
Theodora Goes Wild
There's Something About Mary
Three Amigos
Three Kings
Throw Momma From The Train
thundercrack!
Tillsammans
Time Bandits
Time Cop
Tiny Toons: How I Spent My Summer Vacation
tiptoes
To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch)
To Die For
Together (moodysson)
tommy boy
Tootsie
Top Secret
toto le héros / toto the hero
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Trading Places
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Troll 2
Tropic Thunder
Trouble in Paradise
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Turner and Hooch
Tweety's S.O.S.
Twentieth Century
Twins
UHF
Uncle Buck
Undercover Brother
unfaithfully yours
Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer
used cars
van nuys blvd
Victor/Victoria
Wag The Dog
Waiting
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Wating for Guffman
Way Out West
Wayne's World
Wayne's World 2
weekend at bernie's
weird science
Welcome to the Dollhouse
we're no angels
wet hot american summer
what about bob?
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
When Harry Met Sally
Where the Buffalo Roam
Whie Christmas
Whisky Galore (aka Tight Little Island)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Who's Afraid on Virginia Woolf
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
wise blood
Withnail & I
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Wonder Boys
Working Girl
World Apartment Horror
World's Greatest Dad
You Can't Take It With You
You Don't Mess With The Zohan
Young Einstein
Young Frankenstein
Zapped
Zelig
Zerophilia
Zombieland
Zoolander

the two bedazzleds are the same thing

Thanks. I'll make sure the vote isn't split.

also got brain dead/dead alive and dead alive/brain dead

ditto bd/da/da/bd

there are other dupes, i'm sure you'll figure it out

The Born Yesterday nom was for the 1950 one. (At least, mine was. Don't know if someone else nommed the '93.)

Confused...I thought shorts weren't allowed.

i'd buy that for a dollar~

I could ask a mod to correct born yesterday. v sorry!

we already had at least one short on the list when the discussion came up. Some people repped hard for shorts. Most people who voiced an opinion seem to think they don't belong so they're not gonna place.

no one's gonna vote for shorts so dont sweat it

i'm looking forward to 300-post clusterfucks following each wes anderson movie placing

lol there are so many great non comedies in the nom list these results are gonna be awful

unrelated: i think i'm going to topload my ballot with wes anderson.

im def voting for some MOTHERFUCKING WES ANDERSON

i forgot until now to vote for the life aquatic with steve zissou but i will certainly vote for it posthaste.

yeah i def see four or five WA movies making my ballot

possibly only eclipsed by the coens

obv anyone who's familiar w/ pre-1950 stuff should topload, to dilute the poison.

obv

knocked up is gonna be my #1 tho, sorry

splitting all my points between apatow and hobo w/ a shotgun

yeah, easybait

or as GW Bush asked, "Who cares what you think?"

I'll rep for the unlikely it happened one night

My ballot is gonna have pre-1950 stuff AND Wes Anderson! I'm a complicated man

I will watch hobo w/a shotgun in the next couple weeks. what else should I watch?

Midnight (1938)

Sons of the Desert, all of Keaton and Chaplin's silents

obv anyone who's familiar w/ pre-1950 stuff should topload, to dilute the poison.

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, March 5, 2012 12:11 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmar

i love lots of pre-50s comedies, but won't be voting for any, as the past always has this smug look on its face

whaTEVER DA FUCK DAT MEANZ

I love it when dr morbius works blue

how strickt is best to be abt 'this is not a comedy' on a scale of 1-10

7

when toploading sandler don't forget to write in jack and jill

yah i was thinking 7 tbh

tho a 10 ballot would be p interesting too

xps: i kid, my #1 will likely be pre-50s

black and white always seems so dour, i'm voting all color.

an all 1980s 10 ballot maybe is the way to go

I hate immaculately crafted films where there are no featured players from SNL

My top 5 will v likely be 80s

my ballot is 100% shade tippin

Wait - maybe not top 5 but top 3 at least.

I start to laugh and then I ask where did the colors go and then I am sad

don't get me started on silent films, what am I, helen keller

the main problem i have w/including old movies in this poll is that none of them are funny

Animal House is considered and old movie, right?

i'm tempted to only vote for the noncoms (i don't mean the black and whites, i mean, like, philadelphia stories etc)

Hm, I don't think I'll have that many pre-50s films on my ballot, actually, though there will be some. Does it make it any more Morbs-friendly if I say that there will be almost no post-2000s films either?

the main problem i have w/including old movies in this poll is that none of them are funny
― lag∞n, Monday, March 5, 2012 2:31 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Make Way for the Awful Truth, laughing boy

i'm tempted to only vote for the noncoms (i don't mean the black and whites, i mean, like, philadelphia stories etc)

not sure how to parse that -- The Phi Story is not a comedy? on what planet?

be sure to watch the RESTORED version of Trouble in Paradise, with Miriam Hopkins shitting in a sink

d'oh lol i got the philadelphia story confused with philadelphia

Black and white comedies are never funny until they've been colorized or had CGI characters digitally inserted.

anyway i do however some trouble calling 'american beauty' or 'life is beautiful' comedies, but whatever, the votes will go how they will

d'oh lol i got the philadelphia story confused with philadelphia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb497jSCyaI

wtf american beauty is not a comedy
life is beautiful is a comedy

OK I VOTED

American Beauty is totally a comedy

spoiler i gave hobo w/a shotgun 1 point even tho i have not technically ever seen it

the definition of what is and isn't a comedy is apparently lost on me so i just voted for the 20 funniest of these movies

Ok, let's decide on something now: is anyone else gonna be voting for any shorts? cause I don't wanna waste any votes on Duck Amuck or Rabbit of Seville if everyone else is gonna work on the premise that shorts don't count.

shorts don't count, bcz you guys have never seen The Three Fatties

where r the other two HAW HAW <<comedy

I've seen the two fatties meet a fattie. Does that count?

IMO, none of the listed films count because you guys have never seen Edison's Two Lasses and an Amusing Tintype.

imo, none of us should try to pin down the best comedies until the release of The Farting Vadge Takes A Trip To Mount Jubblies.

neither of you should be voting on the best comedies

3 ballots received!

Thanks n/a, lag∞n, and ilxor who's user name I'm not sure of and who's real name I don't want to use

(spoiler alert) I had no idea you all liked jack and jill that much

you have to see it like 6 or 7 times before its brilliance really starts to sink in

cool, i wasn't sure if it was kosher for me to vote for jack & jill twice based on the justification of "TWICE the ADAM SANDLER ... TWICE the LAUGHS ... TWICE the VOTES!!!"

I'm going to approach the poll w/ the seriousness and scholarship this venue deserves.

otm i spent like 11 minutes on my ballot

lol n/a otm

okay which "Happiness" is on the nomination list

Y'know, I thought Jack and Jill looked like a piece of straight garbage (and it probably is). But then someone on my FB posted the below clip, which I thought was pretty hilar. Mostly because it's completely believable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH-fvCXdXpU

FTR I am keeping any romcoms low/off my ballot and encourage others to do the same

I totally disagree with this romcom strategy. Too many good comedies have a romantic element.

right i just like the idea of a separate list of movies that are primarily ROMCOMS

my whole ballot is going to be Young Einstein 50 times fyi

Einstein invents Beer and Rock'n'Roll

nuff said

There's a rather sad lack of Robin Askwith on the nominations list.

DONE and dusted

FTR I am keeping any romcoms low/off my ballot and encourage others to do the same

no ways! all romcoms all the romtime. list overlap is no problem, and this is why you should watch branded to kill and vote for it here too.

i screened Anna Faris vehicle "What's Your Number" on a plane last week and it will easily make my romcom top 30 but def not place anywhere on this list

been curious about that, really loved the House Bunny. otoh you love Apocalypto sooo not sure how trustable you are lol

It's terrible. Although i don't subscribe to the "Anna Faris is the greatest comedienne of her generation" thing

neither do i but i do subscribe to the "Anna Faris is reliably great in even the most terrible movies" thing

i will def vote "Smiley Face" in this.

maybe "House Bunny"

ugh hated Smiley Face

ditto. I actually can't think of anything i've particularly liked her in. Haven't seen House Bunny tho

House Bunny is kind of it, her talent seems squandered in everything else I've seen (well, apart from Observe & Report)

i def recommend "whats your number" then

and wtf smiley face was great... maybe i appreciate it for meta reasons tho idk

meta reasons?

for a stoner comedy it really seemed anti-stoner

like, quite nastily so in fact

yeah that's part of why its so funny, everyone knows stoners are the wort

worst* omg so stoned XD

http://i.imgur.com/fJPJ3.gif

so you guys are doing "favorites," right?

uninteresting

No time for favourites--I'm all about the seriousness and the scholarship.

I am doing the best comedy films, of all time, that I like.

and then a sub-ballot of all the comedies that have the best hats

im doing comedies that are the most comedic

zzzz

I might do a ballot for this poll; it'll start by deleting all the movies I haven't seen, then deleting the ones that I don't like.

Also someone should create a poll that Duck Amok will be #1 on because it's #1 of something I swear.

best Looney Tunes cartoon

Not comedy:
Blue Velvet
Amadeus
Evil Dead 1 (well, maybe)
Inception
the rules of the game

Unintentional comedy:
Eegah
I Accidentally Domed Your Son
Kull the Conqueror
Manos: The Hands of Fate
The Final Sacrifice
The Happening
The Room

I've got a friend who put What's Opera, Doc? at #35 on his list of 50 favourite films a few months ago. (xpost)

Morbs, you would better understand the appeal of 'favorites' if you enjoyed things.

yo, i'm leaving all stoner comedies off my ballot bc i don't want to replicate the results over in the best stoner comedy poll.

nah, jk, i'm voting all stoner comedies.

420 nominations duuuuuude

and i'll start on my ballot just as soon as i check out the food situation in the kitchen

lol mordy i guess i'm on some "romcoms aren't funny, they're cute" bullshit

don't mind me

u were otm about smiley face being fun

ilxor who's user name I'm not sure of and who's real name I don't want to use

that's me! i started my ballot with the intention of doing a full 50, spent like 10 minutes deliberating over my 31-40, realized i loved my top 20, and ended up just voting that.

also i kind of didn't realize quite how much i love mel brooks until today.

i think the funniest cheech + chong films happened in episodes of that 70s show tho so maybe my stoner taste is not to be trusted

i liked smiley face alright but of all the stoner comedies i've seen it is the least sympathetic towards actual stoners

one stoner com made my top 3

felt the overly arty style of smiley face was detrimental to creating a lol friendly environment

xp TBL, i'm sure

DW Haircare, I enjoy things, that's on the record. Shut up.

gr80, wtf is a "romcom"? You're only using that to describe Anna Faris films and not Carole Lombard, right?

fyi gregg araki directed smiley face which is so lol to me

the only araki film I've seen. I don't think I'll bother with any others.

jesus shit. how did Little Miss Sunshine get missed?!

B-)

that's not the only surprising (+ grateful) omissions...

omission*

Rivers Edge = #1 with a bullet

i won't say it's his worst movie but it's prob his dumbest.

xposts to shakey

little miss sunshine not getting nominated is a ~comedy of errors~

that's one doodle that can't be un-dig, homeskillet

ahem, un-did.
homeskillet.

That's Juno you're thinking of.

Or is that the joke

was

I am doing the best comedy films, of all time, that I like, and that are also my favorite.

pretty much anything with dan ackroyd, tbh

the best comedy films, of all time, that I like, that are my favorite, that star Yahoo Serious

"honest-to-frog" -sequel where she is a nature counselor

she?

the cat's mother, iirc

having a robert anton wilson moment trying to track the permutations

I'm judging largely on the basis of craft and laughs (with the occasional concession to, like, charm and transgression and stuff). I'll give the big points to the movies that solidly hit both sweet spots. Sloppy-but-funny movies will be a bit lower. I thought about putting together a more objective 'greatest comedies of all time' ballot, but then I decided to only vote for movies I've actually seen.

The Jerk is starting on AMC right now :D

BULL
SHIT

pretty much anything with dan ackroyd, tbh

― meticulously showcased in a stunning fart presentation (contenderizer), Monday, March 5, 2012 11:56 PM (Yesterday)

just realized neighbors was not nommed. bummer.

No Jackass and no Aki Kaurismaki. The ultimate twin shut-outs.

Leningrad Cowboys Go to America is there... And I don't think too many of Kaurismäki's other films are comedies.

Duck Amuck/One Froggy Evening are going to be pretty high up on my ballot.

The Bollywood films I nominated probably aren't going to have a hope in hell, but here's a older thread on one of 'em:
In this thread Shakey Mo Collier rhapsodizes about Om Shanti Om the best Bollywood film ever

It'll be an uphill battle in this thread convincing people of the merits of any of the silents divorced from some cosmic ideological battle w/Morbs, but of the Buster Keaton films, Sherlock Jr is my pick for the features - the dream-logic when he's moving between all the movies and the elegance of the stunts recall Rube Goldberg/MC Escher/Jorge Luis Borges/Jacques Tati/Wile E Coyote/&c&c&c; here's the motorcycle sequence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp5fTvEWdh4

& Charley Chase's Mighty Like A Moose is a pretty perfect 22 minutes - husband and wife each go and secretly get plastic surgery or 1920s equiv, don't recognise each other, hijinks ensue. Great Prohibition-era party, has a dog wearing a set of false teeth and one of the best dressing-gowns in film:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3968204482923403283

I love many of those shorts, but I'm not gonna vote for them, IMO they belong to a separate poll. Like, you're not gonna vote for individual short stories in the greatest books of all time poll, are you?

Just done my ballot. It's awesome btw.

Oooh, but before I submit it . . . if I'm voting for less than 50 films, can I give the rest of my points to my other films? Apologies if this was covered upthread/elsewhere/whatever

Like, you're not gonna vote for individual short stories in the greatest books of all time poll, are you?

How about The Odyssey or Hamlet or Paradise Lost? Depends whether you mean "greatest literature" or "greatest novels". I'm voting for the greatest cinematic comedies; feature film isn't the sum total of cinematic experience.

Yeah, I'd be putting The Dead quite high in any greatest books poll, fuck the haters.

There are a few Naked Gun and Pink Panther dupes. Does it matter which one I vote for? (Will also vote for one Pink Panther sequel, need to figure out which is the third because it is lol).

pretty much anything with dan ackroyd, tbh

love him so much you can't spell his name, eh

Charley Chase rules, but no worthy features aside from supporting L&H in Sons

Jackass is a documentary btw

We're so blessed that a film crew was on hand to document all of those moments that would have otherwise been lost to history.

the stunts in this slapstick silent short evoke borges lmao why ever do people make fun of old film buffs

48 Hrs. was nominated in this but Beverly Hills Cop was not. ¯\(°_o)/¯

dang

no Wall-E? Can we have write-ins?

Oooh, but before I submit it . . . if I'm voting for less than 50 films, can I give the rest of my points to my other films? Apologies if this was covered upthread/elsewhere/whatever

― get ready for the banter (NotEnough), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 4:32 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think we'll stick with a 1-50 numbering system for awarding points. You can only give one movie 50 points and one movie 49 points, all the way down. You can submit a ballot with as few as 20 movies, but there are no leftover points in the sense that you can distribute points you otherwise would have awarded your bottom 30.

no Wall-E? Can we have write-ins?

― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 8:17 AM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes! You can write in anything you want, but you should promote your write-ins so that you are not the only one who remembered to vote for them.

walle is not a comedy is prob why is wasnt nominated

The reason why a film you enjoy wasn't nominated is that you didn't nominate it.

I have no idea how that happened! Can that post be seleted?

lol

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=56

Ask here; make life easier for folks by including a permalink to the post you want deleted

Thanks, DJP!

Hopefuylly that will be deleted soon. what got lost in the noise:

Duplicates like "the pink panther" & "pink panther" will not be a problem. These are clearly the same movie. I will be careful not to split votes over duplicates with different spellings, dropped articles; etc.

There may be some duplicates that are in different languages or that have different parenthetical notes but that are the same movie. Please point these out to me and I will adjust in the spreadsheet to make sure I don't split votes.

ok, i've narrowed my ballot down to 71 choices. now the culling.

Is it safe to assume that the "Unfaithfully Yours" nominated is the Preston Sturges one, not the Dudley Moore one?

ok well my only write-in was JACKASS ALL VOTE FOR JACKASS WOOO YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO AND REALLY A VOTE FOR JACKASS IS A VOTE FOR ALL THREE SO IT IS MANY GLORIOUS HOURS OF FUN YOU'D BE VOTING FOR

beverly hills cop
breakfast club

― smash williams, Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:14 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I nominated Beverly Hills Cop

Breakfast Club is also missing from the list.

My first pass gets my list to 89 movies -- and that's with leaving off a whole bunch that I really like.

i think i had to give up all monty python

whaaaaat

u crazy

every film is sacred

I misread as "scared" & thought "yeah they oughta be"

monty python too ubiquitous to feel really good about voting for

monty python is dumb and for nerds

jerks

you're dumb & for nerds

smash williams, beverly hills cop and breakfast club clearly belong on the list! I am v sorry I missed them. With over 800 movies nominated, my quality control was basically scanning the list & throwing it up once a day for folks to check. I should have been more thorough!

Everybody, you should probably vote for beverly hills cop & breakfast club because they are awesome.

lol xp

bhc would've totally made my ballot rip

understandable. xp.

you're dumb & for nerds

^ new board description?

my okcupid desription

One dozen ballots in! My Little Pony: The Movie & that youtube of the monkey smelling his finger and falling out of the tree are running neck and neck for first place!

Thanks guys!

I have no problem with Wall-E and Breakfast Club missing from the list, because they're not comedies. Every movie with a few funny moments is not a comedy, people!

Beverly Hills Cop, on the other hand, should be there.

Wall-E is like 70% com, 30% rom wtf

do you lol @ the fatties

surely someone has made the 'conflict is resolved through the use of comedy' as criteria for inclusion joek, rite?

well not now you ruined it

still waiting for the day someone shits all over a music poll the way lag∞icey has this one.

p sure i don't have time to do this right.

Is it safe to assume that the "Unfaithfully Yours" nominated is the Preston Sturges one, not the Dudley Moore one?

not safe here, but specify when voting, I'd say.

also pref the cut of the Sturges-Harold Lloyd film that's titled The Sin of Harold Diddlebock to Mad Wednesday.

the only way you can laugh at the breakfast club is in derision at the atrocity of a movie playing before your eyes

if Richard Pryor -- Live in Concert is not eligible, Jackasscan't be. Both are documents of live performance.

(I happen to like both but wd not vote for either)

RP-LIC is a scripted performance though.

that's an odd way of putting it

Also don't understand why a documentary or live film cannot be a comedy. Funny is funny whether you want to be a genre nazi or not.

An odd way of putting it but a correct way. Pryor didn't just improvise that set.

not that Morbius calling Jackass a "document of a live performance" wasn't insane, mind

why isnt Live in Concert eligible??

nor did the Jackass guys improvise their stunts. xxp

If I was a "genre Nazi" I'd point out "comedy" is not a genre, but about half of everything.

BEST FEATURE-LENGTH SCRIPTED LIVE-ACTION COMEDY FILMS FEATURING SOMEONE TAKING IT IN THE NUTS AND STARRING EDDIE DEEZEN

OWNS

Winner: 1941!

unfaithfully yours

― althea and (donna rouge), Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:57 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is it safe to assume that the "Unfaithfully Yours" nominated is the Preston Sturges one, not the Dudley Moore one?

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 8:37 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Unless donna rouge says otherwise, unfaithfully yours is the Preston Sturges one

happiness
love me if you dare / jeux d'enfants

― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, March 1, 2012 11:13 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

okay which "Happiness" is on the nomination list

― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Monday, March 5, 2012 4:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Edward III, which happiness did you mean to nominate? there are a shit ton of films by that name.

Please submit in this manner:

ROFL Movie – 50
LOL Movie – 49
The Champ – 48

Wallace Beery? </Morbius>

I never called you the genre nazi btw morbs.

ja, ist OK

still waiting for the day someone shits all over a music poll the way lag∞icey has this one.

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 10:15 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah feel like im kinda shirking my responsibilities in that regard but i try to stay off ilm

you're doing a fine job here, no need to divide your attentions

Ha, yeah I was thinking of the 1979 remake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAhrqKqK_cA

because, you know, science + ricky schroeder career launcher = historical

I assume 'Borat' and 'Bruno' aren't going to be accepted as they're as much scripted documents of a live performance as the Richard Pryor concert.

nah its cos they arent funny

nah its cos they're recent

you're doing a fine job here, no need to divide your attentions

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 12:00 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/EcJGn.jpg

Just submitted my ballot. Stats as follows:

silent movies: 0
black and white movies: 0
pre-1975 movies: 0

i voted borat but i agree re jackass and richard pryor not qualifying, tho they are both v good

i dont see anywhere in the rules, that you can't vote for a richard pryor concert movie. what am i missing

My ballot will have precisely one pre-1970 movie: Sullivan's Travels, the basic point of which should explain why the rest of the movies on my list are newer. Because screw posterity. Funny is funny.

i think i had 1 silent, 3 or 4 b&w, 5 or 6 pre-70 movies; these all overlap obv.

There are a few Naked Gun and Pink Panther dupes. Does it matter which one I vote for? (Will also vote for one Pink Panther sequel, need to figure out which is the third because it is lol).

― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 6:21 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A someone who hasn't seen a shot in the dark, I'm voting pink panther strikes again.

think my ballot will be submitted shortly

Morbz will be happy to know (I'm sure) that my #1 is pre-1950. However, it is also the ONLY pre-1950 comedy on my list lol

i voted for 3 pre 1970 films all of which feature peter sellers, lol just figured that out

Awesome, shakey. Morbs, are you voting? based on your initial noms, i suspect we'd have a 25% overlap. Plus there are others here that will probably reinforce many of your pics. I want to see my flicks post high.

I have narrowed my list down to 170. Hope to have it down to 100 shortly. & then the real painful culling begins.

plz change thread title to Trolling Morbs

also, those of you to whom it applies, don't "engage me."

I think my ballot will be heavier on pre-1970 stuff than the average.

wuts yr fave adam sandler morbs

I stopped my list at 30. Past that I would have been including films I think are flawed, not really "classic" etc

plz change thread title to Trolling Morbs

It's like The Twilight Zone, innit?

By which I mean The Twilight Zone: The Movie, of course.

Because screw posterity. Funny is funny.

And disco still sucks

It does when all you're capable of is flailing.

it saaaaaaaaays nothing to me about my life

okay which "Happiness" is on the nomination list

― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Monday, March 5, 2012 4:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Edward III, which happiness did you mean to nominate? there are a shit ton of films by that name.

― (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:33 AM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Happiness (1998)
Director: Todd Solondz
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612/

a classic example of screwball comedy

3 black and white
0 silent
14 pre-1975

My top 10 is 1980 or earlier

c'mon, happiness is funny. cruel, but funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guK5Sq_eDq0

DWH, is "pre-1975 movies: 0" supposed to be some kind of badge of honor?

Carry Grant had better place and it had better not be Monkey Business.

happiness is totally funny but its like a 5 on the comedy strictness scale and i drew the line at 7 so

Did not vote for Cary Grant :(

Sorry Mr Grant

if anyone says Shoah, I'm withdrawing my ballot

More statistical ballot breakdown-age:

'70s films: 6
'80s films: 10
'90s films: 17
'00s films: 16
'10s films: 1

Btw, why the fuck would this poll *not* be governed by "favorites"? It's not the National Film Registry.

DWH, is "pre-1975 movies: 0" supposed to be some kind of badge of honor?

No, it just proves that nothing was funny before 1975.

Did not vote for Cary Grant :(

Sorry Mr Grant

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:41 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

;_;

xxpost Herr Morbius might be inclined to disagree

howbout the Zapruder film. I call it Chickens Come Home.

No, it just proves that nothing was funny before 1975.

Yeah, some other schmendrick beat ya there

In all seriousness, most of the pre-1975 things I find funny (i.e. Nichols & May bits, Bob & Ray, etc.) aren't movies.

the depression, hitler...

Maybe in honor of Morbs we can make our next comedy poll "Best Comedy Films of all time that we have never seen that we hear are really quite excellent"

Let's see, my ballot:

1920s: 1
1930s: 2
1940s: 2
1950s: 5
1960s: 9
1970s: 7
1980s: 15
1990s: 7
2000s: 3
Silents: 1
B&W: 13

My #1 is a B&W, pre-1970 movie. And I voted for one short.

3 silent
17 black and white
22 pre-1975
0 hughes
1 apatow

Morbs is...inconsistent re Mr. Archibald Leach.

70's and 80's my heaviest comedy decades.

mine was v 80s heavy but that was more of a stylistic choice than a value judgement

A lot of newer stuff just doesn't yet seem "classic" to me, even if I like it quite a lot, and that includes the Apatow stuff.

Yeah I only had 4 2000's. Maybe I'm getting less open-minded about comedies as I get older? Ugh, I hope not.

i voted 2 apatowiverse titles but none that were actually written/directed by him

Austerity Ponies answer my question

there r no rules its just peoples opinons

if stuff didnt make the ballot its just cause it wasnt nomed

I think the subconscious yardstick for my ballot selections was: "How much the opposite of Shrek(pandering schlock with a very short shelf life, featuring Smash Mouth's hit song 'All-Star') is this particular movie?".

re richord prior? live standup videos; etc? vote your heart & believe in your choices

let the light of comedy guide you

Apatow, J.: 0
Allen, W.: 4
Anderson, W.: 3
movies featuring Bill Murray in some capacity: 5

(I hope mine isn't the only write-in for Osmosis Jones.)

i voted 3 from the chevy chase oeuvre

I tried to let go of sentimental favorites, and think about how actually FUNNY my choices were, and not just 'I watched that movie a bajillion times as a kid and can quote all the lines from it!"

fuck

I forgot to vote for Spies Like Us

goddammit

there r no rules its just peoples opinons

damn, you should be running a Montessori school

otm kids need to learn what life is all abt

Guys, this is pretty much the wild west. I tried to list all nominations (tho I missed at least two) regardless of merit because I quickly realized it was too crazy to try and nitpick dozens of questionable choices, or take sides on shorts or live concerts.

Everything will be sorted out in the poll. ilx, you are the decider

Morbs your negative energy is distracting the other students from their work. Maybe you should go outside and do some deep breathing yoga exercises...

Gonna prob take all the way up to the 23rd to send in my ballot, so casquill in as many gaps in my viewing as possible. Tonight's homework: rewatching Adam's Rib (saw it years back and remember really liking it) and watching Sullivan's Travels for the first time.

will confess right up front though that unless something REALLY drastic happens, my #1 is gonna be post-1970, in color and an Oscar winner.

*can squeeze

Bob Hope is in Spies Like Us. Never saw it.

DWH, straight up: how many silent comedy features have you seen? and Marx Bros?

Bob Hope is in Spies Like Us?

To the googles!

Richard Pryor: 0
Chevy Chase: 0
Adam Sandler: 1
Robert DeNiro: 1
Dolly Parton: 1
Jennifer Aniston: 1
Lily Tomlin: 2
John Cusack: 2
Billy Crystal: 2

omg I totally forgot about Hopey

6 bill murry
4 peter sellers
and i miscounted the chevy chase there are 4 of those too

Chevy Chase: 0

wtf is wrong with you, dude?

Hope's presence was sposed to be a reference to those Road movies u haven't seen.

Sellers made very few great comedies; Strangelove and Lolita if they count, the one funny Clouseau, I'm All Right Jack, and maybe The Ladykillers.

if u dont like the party and being there then idk

3 jim carey :/

I know it's been the main question throughout these polls, but I'm really thrown off by the fact that there are some great films on here that I don't really think of as comedies!

2 adam sandler, i am a horrible monster

sry 5 peter sellers ^_^

Morbs, straight up: I've seen...three, I think? of the Marx Bros. films, not many silent comedies (a number of silents in general, though). There's plenty of older stuff I love, but comedy doesn't age well in my estimation. At any rate, this isn't a Sight & Sound poll, and I've openly described my tastes as 'middlebrow' before on ILX. Here's to hoping the poll results will introduce me to new things! This is why I enjoy ILX polls!

x-post there are several of those for me

I might have 1 jim carey on mine but prob no sandler. At least 5 Chase that I can think of off the top of my head. You guys all made you ballots so early! I have to mull this over a bit, I think.

wait, Sandler is going to get less funny? xxp

I have 2 Peter Sellers in my Top 10, yay me

no Jim Carey
3 Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase: 0

wtf is wrong with you, dude?

If it makes you feel better, Dirty Work almost made it onto my ballot.

spoiler fletch placed v high on my list

it will on mine too

x-post not at all surprising btw

Marx Brothers fans: I expect to vote for multiple, but I propose we all concentrate on one to make sure they place highly. I recommend Duck Soup but I am up for discussion.

any charlie kaufman fans out there? am I going to be a lonely supporter of being john malkovitch, adaptation & eternal sunshine or is this something we can rally around?

mh Duck Soup was in my top 10, solidarity bro

there's no Chevy Chase on my list either

Duck Soup is widely accepted as the Marx Bros peak, no?

xp

Malkovich will be on mine. It's the best straight up comedy of his stuff

eternal sunshine fell victim to my own personal "not a comedy" barometer

Chevy Chase is kinda overrated. Not that he isn't talented. He's just historically been more talented at squandering his talent.

any charlie kaufman fans out there? am I going to be a lonely supporter of being john malkovitch, adaptation & eternal sunshine or is this something we can rally around?

― (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 1:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah i love these movies but they r not comedy so i did not vote

Yeah, I definitely repped for some Kaufman, Austerity. But I'm with n/a about Eternal Sunshine.

Duck Soup also very high on my list.

xp I'm not voting for any Kaufman flicks for that reason

yeah I don't really think of much of Kaufman's stuff as comedy! eternal sunshine was a melancholy love story with a few comedic bits. going to vote Malkovitch, though.

malkovitch malkovitch, malkovitch? malkovitch malkovitch malkovitch.

Am embarrassed to admit that Duck Soup is still the only Marx I've seen. It's def gonna be on my list though. Will try to squeeze in some of the others into my schedule before the deadline (recommendations? )

Love Kaufman and will vote BJM. Not sure if Eternal Sunshine qualifies as a comedy for me, though (yes, I'll probably be arranging my ballot according to movies that I feel are the best *comedies* rather than just voting for the best films on the master list (so, for eg, Rushmore will undoubtedly make my list, but Royal Tenenbaums will not.)

^ same re Kaufman for me

Yeah I love Kaufman but he didnt' end up in my top 50 because his just came down to 'movies that happen to be quite funny'

Malkovich is totally a comedy! You are all crazy

It's a shame this vote is happening before the funniest movie of all time, the Farrelly brothers' Three Stooges film, is released.

i think i would vote for eternal sunshine in a romcom poll tho...

guys i have only seen animal crackers & duck soup. what other marx bros should i see? night at the opera is next on my list

i heart & support duck soup itp

I haven't seen any :(

Erica!!! dude. Night at the Opera and Duck Soup and Animal Crackers are urgent and key. Also Circus is pretty great.

OK!

Malkovich is totally a comedy! You are all crazy

― Number None, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 12:48 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seriously! (And adaptation is clearly a comedy as well.) How could you consider Malkovitch anything other than a comedy?

I feel like Malkovich (man did I do a great job of pasting a misspelling earlier) is ridiculous enough in its serious parts that it crosses into dark comedy. It's hilarious that this man who is trying so hard to be a successful puppeteer only succeeds when he sacrifices himself to have a real human as his permanent marionette

Austerity, check out Circus and Horse Feathers!

Night at the Opera is awesome too

Much to my chagrin, I have never seen a Marx Bros. film in its entirety.

Animal Crackers is pretty classic Marx brothers, has some of the best Groucho/Margaret Dumont interactions

I only did Duck Soup in my 50, which I kinda regret. But I didn't want to get into voting for multiple Marx Bros, tried to pick my absolute favorite so that I had room to include other comedies.

oh shit, and At the Circus has the "Lydia the tattooed lady" song

Marx Brothers, to me...their movies are like happiness defined. Good, hard belly laughs for me with those guys. Still make me laugh til I cry.

At The Circus also has the fucking KILLER routine Chico/Harpo and the popcorn seller's hat

that's from Duck Soup iirc!

anyone who's never checked out wc fields should get on that too imo

oh wait I'm thinking of Duck Soup goddammit

ugh my brain

Write in:

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/img/p-jamlogo.gif

Also probably Goonies.

malkovich is maybe a 5 on the comedy scale, feel like it has cohen brothers syndrome where its more just a weirdo mindspace w/elements of black comedy w/o being an actual comedy, they try to say too much abt life to be an actual comedy, the end of malkovich is srsly p dire and not funny too for the record

I think I'm picky about what's a comedy and I haven't seen large swaths of these. I might have a lot closer to 20 picks than 50.

I feel like the only Cohen one that's completely comedy that I've seen is Burn After Reading

raising arizona is comedy and prob hudsucker too

Raising Arizona feels v comedy to me; also Lebowski

my god i have become the genre police plz fp me

oh yeah lebowski 4 sure

ok I am an idiot and Raising Arizona/Lebowski definitely are

never saw hudsucker, it's one of my failings

Hudsucker is great.

hudsucker is great, you should check it out

it's like a human cartoon

mh that is insane, all the coens are comedy. even the murder/crime ones are comedy. even the recent bleak theological ones are comedy.

lol xps

hudsucker is weird idk its a misfire imho

Hudsucker reminds me of the cartoons Looney Tunes used to do without their normal characters, about life in the city or w/e, with pointy-nosed secretaries and big shouldered executives

but it's not knee-slapping funny, it's been a while since I saw it though. But I felt like the stereotypes and the look was funny, but the actual story was 'amusing'

malkovich is maybe a 5 on the comedy scale, feel like it has cohen brothers syndrome where its more just a weirdo mindspace w/elements of black comedy w/o being an actual comedy, they try to say too much abt life to be an actual comedy, the end of malkovich is srsly p dire and not funny too for the record

I dunno, I kinda feel like comedy has just as much of a right/responsibility to say something big about life as drama. If not moreso! Good comedy gets right to the core of human experience. And so, yeah, I'm also all about comedy that's sometimes bleak as fuck.

Intolerable Cruelty, guys.

I always imagine that Hudsucker was intended to be the Coen's big studio, big budget, broadly appealing commercial comedy but then it ended up coming out like a month after Ace Ventura and suddenly what constituted comedy for the masses had changed drastically.

Intolerable Cruelty rocks as well. The critics really dropped the ball on both it and Hudsucker.

all the coens are comedy

including Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing and No Country for Old Men????

maybe, definitely not, and no.

comedy for me is about the quality of the laugh, how deep you laugh, how much you remember the feeling of the laugh years after you've seen it, and the magnetic pull of wanting that laugh again getting you to rewatch it over and over. I don't mind where the story comes from so much.

Well, most of Coen films have either comedic elements, dark comedy, or at the least moments of levity. Can't tell if you're being sarcastic about A Serious Man but I did think it was hilarious.

I guess the "we are playing every scene for yucks" comedies of theirs are less than the others? I give up on my original point because I have no idea what I was getting at.

xp on preview, DJP has discovered what I was thinking of

I dunno, I kinda feel like comedy has just as much of a right/responsibility to say something big about life as drama. If not moreso! Good comedy gets right to the core of human experience. And so, yeah, I'm also all about comedy that's sometimes bleak as fuck.

― Ghost Oral (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:05 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

comedy can be profound for sure, its more abt the intention, like the intention should be to be funny, where cohens and kaufman are def purposely engaging w/topics in a not comedic manner and it shows in the overall vibe of their films

Barton Fink is one of my favorite films, but I'd be really hesitant to call it comedy.

even the murder/crime ones are comedy. even the recent bleak theological ones are comedy.

theyre p obviously v serious movies

yeah whatever goole

(crossed arms, stare)

also I didn't see their True Grit but I can't believe they would do it as a comedy

it is a comedy in the vein of No Country for Old Men

its more of a kids western

I was at a festival screening in Leeds of NCFOM and had the misfortune to be sat next to a couple who laughed pretty much all the way through it.

I am an inappropriate moment laugher myself, but that's just weird

True Grit is funny but in the way that it serves the story -- it's a drama with comedic elements/dialogue.

There's some blackly comic bits in 'True Grit' such as the hanging but it'd be a stretch to call it a comedy.

xxpost, I think they must've assumed Coens = wacky Big Lebowski laughs and weren't going to let the evidence on screen get in the way of their good time.

Or maybe they were pyschopathic killers letting their hair down.

malkovich is maybe a 5 on the comedy scale, feel like it has cohen brothers syndrome where its more just a weirdo mindspace w/elements of black comedy w/o being an actual comedy, they try to say too much abt life to be an actual comedy, the end of malkovich is srsly p dire and not funny too for the record

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 12:59 PM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

guys, I could drop the screenplay for malkovich on the table and point to every other line as a joke. one of the few movies I laugh out loud at. Not only is it a comedy by definition & intended as a comedy by it's creators, but it is hilarius and has tons of classic scenes like the monkey flashback, the dude punching cusack, "let's have sex on the table an make malkovich eat eggs off it." "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO", "Think fast, Malkovich.", or the whole Charlie Sheen scene.

you def could not point to every other line as a joke

it's been years but I remember that movie as being lots of jokes piled on top of each other

Also, many of the coen bros movies are comedies. especially raising arizona, hudsucker, and lewbowski. I'd also classify barton fink as a comedy, but those three are kind of undeniable.

the bleak coens are comedy in the sense of "you might not be laughing but god is laughing r/n (or is it we, joel and ethan coen, who are laughing, makesyouthink)"

The Jeff Bridges/Matt Damon interaction in True Grit is hilarious at times, but the movie isn't a comedy.

comedy can be profound for sure, its more abt the intention, like the intention should be to be funny, where cohens and kaufman are def purposely engaging w/topics in a not comedic manner and it shows in the overall vibe of their films

I'm afraid i might have to flag this post

malkovich is funny for sure i mean i gave it a 5 on the universal comedy scale, but i feel like theres a p unseemly thing operating here where people read surrealism as comedy because frankly they are intellectually insecure

omg lol

its the old laughing nervously at the performance art syndrome

okay lol

cusack's boss is all jokes, & this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=009tNfQRd4o

What if Charlie Kaufman thinks surrealism is funny? What if Charlie Kaufman thinks surrealism is intellectually superior, but laughs at people whom find themselves with feelings of intellectual superiority?

makes you think

might as well call off the poll guys. We'll just calculate the winner based on the universal comedy scale

the universal comedy scale is a mesure of suability for inclusion in the poll duh

This thread is more tragic.

wtf is the universal comedy scale anyway
is that something you made up?

the question isnt whether surrealism is funny, it whether its comedy, think abt that

how im gonna make up something universal, doesnt even make any sense

whatever it is it doesn't work since it dismisses Monty Python out of hand
#harrumph

you could just call it universal to make it sound important

monty python is clearly comedy, its just nerd comedy

fuck you with your nerd comedy ragh

:)

malkovich is funny for sure i mean i gave it a 5 on the universal comedy scale, but i feel like theres a p unseemly thing operating here where people read surrealism as comedy because frankly they are intellectually insecure

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 1:20 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its the old laughing nervously at the performance art syndrome

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 1:22 PM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this totally is a thing, but so misapplied to BJM. It's practically slapstick, dude, and actually kind of obvious in most places.

like i said bjm is a borderline case

it did not met my stringent standards, although i enjoy it v much

i feel like theres a p unseemly thing operating here where people read surrealism as comedy because frankly they are intellectually insecure

Was wondering when the nonsensical, borderline ad hominem attacks were gonna start!

it's not in the script but "hey malkovich, think fast!" and the subsequent reaction is jackass x harold lloyd squared.
harder case to make is rosemary's baby.

xpost it's what these polls are made for

Was wondering when the nonsensical, borderline ad hominem attacks were gonna start!

― Ghost Oral (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:31 PM (7 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

file under: comedy

malkovich is funny for sure i mean i gave it a 5 on the universal comedy scale, but i feel like theres a p unseemly thing operating here where people read surrealism as comedy because frankly they are intellectually insecure

I think when you say surrealism you mean absurdity and yes absurdity is comedy

I dunno jho it's like you've got this thing where if it's unsettling it's no longer comedy, and I say f that in the b-hole

and then laff about it

Guys they made a movie of this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkpWk8FJsys

OH CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN

the idea of a "comedy scale" is the dumbest fucking thing yet in this generally dumb fucking thread

I can't believe anyone is taking lag∞n at face value here

what do you guys think about "laffs per minute" as a metric, though?

Yeah, 'absurdity' is probably in what I would consider the top three ingredients of what makes great comedy (along with 'truth' and 'David Spade').

I legitmately want to know wtf is this comedy scale he keeps rabbitting on about, trolling or no

I think when you say surrealism you mean absurdity and yes absurdity is comedy

― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:33 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah cohens and kaufman def have elements of both absurdity and surrealism but this is a good point

they try to say too much abt life to be an actual comedy

la di da, la di da

what do you guys think about "laffs per minute" as a metric, though?

by that metric, "Eegah!" really needs to win

laffs per minute: if there's too many per minute I can't dance to it, is all I know

Hamlet 2 duh even tho the ending was weak

or kingpin

shit, hamlet 2.

great comedy films should look like films and not TV

(this is where The Producers takes a hit)

say what now

BJM is coming out on Criterion Collection soon!

Is it controversial to not like Mel Brooks all that much?

the filmic qualities of comedy is an interesting one

"the family ties goes to france" is shot on film instead of videotape and it is NOT funnier by the format change.

need 2 rescreen that one

yeah I'm not talkin' bout the stock. angles, mise en scene, blocking...

ie the things about Kaufman-Jonze-Gondry projects that scream "doesn't look like an ugly David Spade vehicle" to you guys

the simpsons movie is noticeably more cinematic than the tv show

fyi super troopers has probably the best opening scene of any 21st century comedy

I should have nommed pirates of the caribbean. it will be my #1 on the swashbuckling comedies poll.

the snozberries taste like snozberries

made my list

Snozzberries = our college-era slang for vag

but then i found a lot of the humor to be absurd so i classified it as an art movie.

absurdism fits fine under the comedy rubric as long as it doesnt exceed 35% of the comedic stylings

farva was your man in super troopers, wasn't he

well sure i like shenanigans as much as the next guy

^-^

napoleon dynamite as art movie doesn't sit well with me. weirdly, nacho libre as art movie does.

there was definitely some Au Hasard Balthazar going on in Nacho Libre.

god I hated Napoleon Dynamite I hope that shit doesn't place

I did vote for BJM but like others saved ESOTSM for the romcom poll

great comedy films should look like films and not TV

(this is where The Producers takes a hit)

lol what?? you're exceeding your ilx-centric curmudgeonly reputation

i only saw the producers for the first time a couple of months ago, and i was far too busy laughing to be thinking about whether it was cinematic enough to justify whatever

methinks you have judd apatow-hating disease so far up your ass that very little would satisfy your wizened funny bones at this point

:0

Many critics have commented that, in his first film, Mel barely seems to have known where to put the camera.

imagine how funny it could've been if only he had known where to put the camera

YES ACTUALLY.

Of course The Producers is VERY FUNNY, but it is not a GREAT comedy.

(P Kael was actually pretty good on when it flags -- and mercifully she didn't live to see Planet Apatow. That scene where Mostel and Wilder try to blow up the theater is pretty deadly.)

Speaking of Jack Black movies, no one nominated bongwater ;_;

I really want to like Jack Black movies, but I usually end up all meh. Forgot about nacho libre tho

i voted napoleon dynamite mostly because i h8 ilx but also because its v funny

Please provide more comedy formulae, lag∞n. I think I have to retract my ballot because I'm pretty sure some of my picks exceed 35% absurdity.

sincere question: how is the producers not filmic? It's been a while since I've seen it.

feel free to ask any specific questions abt the universal comedy scale in this thread

has any film ever scored 101%?

Totally voted for Napoleon Dynamite. I maintain that people hate it (and love it) for all the wrong reasons.

why the napoleon hate? i thought it was funny and charming. not tops but certainly non-offensive

aaaaaand why is that?

xpost

don't try to watch the cartoon series, it will make you want to slay

Yeah, the cartoon is a complete piece of shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ni_RtKMpak

if this doesn't win i will eat my non-existent louse-ridden boxer briefs

has any film ever scored 101%?

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 3:15 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, beverly hills cop

That's it, I am writing in Beverly Hills Cop

great comedy films should look like films and not TV

(this is where The Producers takes a hit)

totally agree, this is why the broderick/lane remake is superior to the original. so much more cinematic.

how do breasts fit on the universal comedy scale? sometimes they are very funny, but mostly I am v serious abt breasts

surprise male nudity is funnier than breasts usually

hey n/a? eat me, w/out an ass condom.

AP, aside from one gag-related shot -- the overhead of the dancing swastika -- The Producers looks like any adman could've shot it. Except maybe they would've known not to push the lens in Zero's face.

looks like any adman could've shot it

how many directors have done or got their start doing advertising work? more than a few

breasts arent funny, theyre just rad, imagine if you will a comedy that had boobs in every scene, wouldnt really work would it, but theyre good for creating a rad atmosphere in a comedy picture

jftr I wrote in Beverly Hills Cop

scattershot filmmaking can be a benefit to comedy, there's something inherently chaotic about screwball humor that jives with off center shots and weird cuts

Late to the dance, but even allowing for the subjectivity of the entire enterprise, arguing about whether Being John Malkovich or Adaptation are comedies seems really silly to me. Eternal Sunshine I can somewhat more see an argument, but it's not just absurd it's actually and deliberately funny a lot of the time. The only Kaufman movie that I think you can straightfacedly call "not a comedy" is Synecdoche, which has some funny bits but is overall so morose and lachrymose that it sags into at best tragic farce.

How many points does a film gain on the universal comedy scale if someone walks through a pane of glass carried by two workmen? And how many points does it gain if someone narrowly avoids walking through a pane of glass carried by two workmen only to then get hit by a bus driven by a dog wearing a funny hat?

still trying to figure out how Morbs' "any adman" approach is a slam to a new director

Morbs, you're just lighting your own fuse now.

if "titties and beer" were funny then i would be a frank zappa convert by now fer sure. you ppl should all be ashamed!

especially a movie like the producers which feeds off a kind of crazed energy

setting up lots of composed shots would probably not create the kind of environment brooks was going for on set

xp to myself

doc morbius, of course you would take the line yr doing. i mean, i heart jerry lewis, but also recognize that he is quintessential example of dude who makes beautiful films in a technical sense that mostly don't reward w/belly laughs.

The Producers: mostly dead-center, not-at-all-scattershot takes.

laughter aint everything.

ok, I'm going to go clean the crackers out of my bed, I'm expecting company.

"laughter aint everything."

amazing

oh my goodness...

ok, I'm going to go clean the crackers out of my bed, I'm expecting company.

Now THAT'S funny!

I mean I get where morbs is coming from but it's sorta like complaining about the production values on a great punk record, quickly capturing a certain exuberance has value, prolly moreso in comedy than any other type of movie.

breasts arent funny, theyre just rad, imagine if you will a comedy that had boobs in every scene, wouldnt really work would it, but theyre good for creating a rad atmosphere in a comedy picture

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:22 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this actually resonates with how I related to airplane and MP's the meaning of life at age 11

I love the producers b/c it is that rare film that manages to simultaneously be an unmitigated fuckoff to the world of hollywood while at the same time somehow not managing to be condescending to its audience. so, politically-speaking, being an artifact of its sort coming out of the late sixties is genuinely amazing imo

i'm not a huge mel brooks person by any stretch, but i think he hit just the right notes in that film in a way that was uncannily prescient. and additionally gene wilder's magic contributories didn't hurt

yah boobs in comedy have basically been rendered obsolete by the internet, lil 11 y/os arent watching porkys waiting patiently for tits to flash in this day and age

truly a shame

also now I have Green Velvet stuck in my head, only he's going "tits ready/PREPARE TO FLASH"

its really something to think abt kids watching 10k hours of porn before they reach puberty what is this crazy world coming to etc

its really something to think abt adults watching 100k hours of porn after they reach puberty what is this crazy world coming to etc

well that too

I'd posit that once brooks stopped working with wilder his films got pretty dire

*braces for spaceballs fans to get up in my face*

i didnt vote any brooks its too wacky 4 me

I like Spaceballs a lot but not enough to get up in someone's face about it

hey guys i feel v bad abt leaving out beverly hills cop which was nommed in good faith on the other thread. fyi there have been write-ins, so BHC is not a wasted vote

I'm not going to leak anything more about submitted ballots again--just want wronged fans know that they can make the dream real

(I would get in your face over High Anxiety tho)

i have altered my ballot to include the beverly hills cop fyi everyone, sry hobo w/a shotgun

Serious moment of probably really obvious observation: as humor is one of the most subjective arenas of human endeavor, the results of this poll are probably going to be the most divisive of any major ILX poll in recent memory. Although I enjoy a broad range of comedy on a number of different levels, when it comes to the roots of what I find most fulfillingly funny, I know, like, one person whose sense of humor approximates my own. And there's still stuff we disagree about.

That said: disagreement is fun.

i just realized The Happening is the comedy version of The Road

and mark wahlberg is comedy viggo mortensen

yah boobs in comedy have basically been rendered obsolete by the internet, lil 11 y/os arent watching porkys waiting patiently for tits to flash in this day and age

that's a huge thing tho right, and prob deserving of its own thread

like fuck walking in the snow to school five miles a day bill cosby-style

seeing naked (unscrambled cablely) boobs when i was fourteen or so involved if not killing people then at least getting burrs on my jeans that i had to explain later to my mom. yeh, i was hiking and totally not looking for that muddied issue of oui magazine.

I like The Producers okay, but the Mel Brooks film library could fall into a crack in the earth and I'd be all "meh".

dude beverly hills cop and most eddie murphy comedy in general has aged very poorly. true story: my grandma saw that film when it came out and she "loved it except for the four-letter words". so fuck that movie

finding porn in the woods was always such a sublime moment of grace

I saw high anxiety in the theater when I was 8 and I distinctly remember thinking "this is a terrible terrible movie"

yeh deric, like blazing saddles never meant shit to me. except for the largely gratuitous slice taken at salt of the earth types. ..."y'know, morons!"

Whose porn this is I think I know
The rest is in the village though
They will not see me stopping here
To crank on it until I blow

I saw high anxiety in the theater when I was 8 and I distinctly remember thinking "this is a terrible terrible movie"

yeh if you set out to make a satire of a a. hitchcock film 20 years after the fact, or a brian depalma redo- then i dunno...

does the pope beat off in the woods

Re: The Happening, on my docket of projects that would be fun but are ultimately not worth the time/effort is a wacky, '60s style animated opening credits sequence for the movie featuring Mark n' Zoe trying to escape the clutches of a killer tree, set to "The Happening" by the Supremes.

5yo me did love young frankenstein tho

still think this is one of the funniest scenes of anything ever but as DWH points out ymmv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTihT9NdkkQ

HOLY SHIT - i'm not the only one who found pron in the woods as a kid?!

I'd posit that once brooks stopped working with wilder his films got pretty dire

*braces for spaceballs fans to get up in my face*

― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The reverse can be said, too. haunted honeymoon was probably the nadir

Everyone has found woods porn at least once

PS young frankenstein is one of the all time greats

and i'm a little ambivalent about brooks (strong supporter of the producers tho)

I just remembered that Haunted Honeymoon existed the other day and was saaaad. Wilder and Radner should've been gold.

Yep, me and my friends found a Penthouse in the woods in our neighborhood. For weeks we were giggling in school over "beaver hunt."

I will rep for "Puttin' On The Ritz" by Taco in Young Frankenstein.

found my woods pron breaking into an abandoned ice shanty--like stacks of it. totally badass treasure find

didn't we find woods porn near yr parents' old house? I could have sworn we did

hah is that what lead to yr lifelong affection for ice shanties

wilder did some quality work outside his collabs w/ brooks - willy wonka, stuff w/ richard pryor (tho frankly I don't know how well those pryor/wilder movies have aged)

fun fact: his first film was bonnie & clyde

oh shit dudes i gots to post remaining shantys publications to see if yr famous

that is correct, DJP. the same abandoned ice shanty to which I referred above

that's what I thought! good times

there was an area of suburban woods near my house that had some porn kicking around in it along w/fading empty beer cans, i always attributed it to the teens who rode dirtbikes, walked through a half completed condo development to get there

wilder did some quality work outside his collabs w/ brooks - willy wonka, stuff w/ richard pryor (tho frankly I don't know how well those pryor/wilder movies have aged)

I remember loving stir crazy as a kid, but I'm afraid to revisit and be disappointed.

IIRC Stir Crazy is still awesome

I think... I might not actually like comedies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx7lz5X2vKk

there was an area of suburban woods near my house that had some porn kicking around in it along w/fading empty beer cans, i always attributed it to the teens who rode dirtbikes, walked through a half completed condo development to get there

lolxactly!! i literally did this. on foot and via bmx bicycle. sigh...

Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, The Producers = 100% unfuckwithable for me.

hey guys i feel v bad abt leaving out beverly hills cop which was nommed in good faith on the other thread. fyi there have been write-ins, so BHC is not a wasted vote

I'm not going to leak anything more about submitted ballots again--just want wronged fans know that they can make the dream real

― (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 10:45 AM (1 hour ago)

not too late to ask a mod to edit the noms list post

fyi my ballot has 4 ashton kutcher films on it

my ballot was entirely comprised of individual episodes of punkd

putting dude where's my car on yr ballot 4 times doesn't count you know

xp

cant even begin to think how hard narrowing down my kutcher list to fit on my romcom ballot is going to be

animal crackers is pretty amazing

how many anna faris movies on yr ballot, gr080

all

no joke i got through abt 30 mins of Yogi Bear last nite before i went to bed (my DVR is set to auto-record anything w/ anna faris)

extended conversation here is so irrelevant it makes the whole of dadaism seem careerist and tightly-focused to the point of embarrassment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyH6i_rRAUM&feature=related

eh fuck it, this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K8WtjelXEg

or the general.

what Chaplin movie(s) are ppl getting behind? my instinct is Modern Times but curious if that's the ilx favorite or not

Great Dictator on my list

lot of stuff missing from the nom list, huh? just noticed house bunny + smiley face both aren't on it...

The Kid. although i didn't vote, but that's my fave.

oops that was horribly unfunny

but this is just downright funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o

lot of stuff missing from the nom list, huh? just noticed house bunny + smiley face both aren't on it...

― Mordy, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 12:22 PM (1 minute ago)

wtf they were both on the noms thread

Modern Times was my Chaplin pick. I wrestled over having Great Dictator as well.

The House Bunny
Smiley Face

― Mordy, Wednesday, February 29, 2012 7:10 AM (6 days ago)

gr8080 did you include Butterfly Effect?

butterfly effect (alternate ending) - 50

setting up lots of composed shots would probably not create the kind of environment brooks was going for on set

i'm thinking that "great cinema" is almost antithetical to comedy for comedy's sake. i say "almost" cuz every rule has its exceptions, but when reduced to its essence, comedy is basically an informational genre (like pron). jokes are the information being delivered, and they tend to work best when the cinema is merely functional, a device that keeps the punchlines, pratfalls and comically wide neckties in the middle of the frame.

suspect that the closer movies are to a perfect 10 "pure comedy" on la g∞n scale, the more this will generally be true. cinema in flicks like airplane and police squad is rudimentary at best. and the more a film pays attention to things other than gags, the more room there is for, you know, filmmaking and suchlike.

The Great Dictator = too much talk

Chaplin's shorts are more consistent than the features, but The Gold Rush through Modern Times all essential

It's a Gift may be even better than The Bank Dick, but Fields is the great deadbeat live-in dad of his era

comedy is basically an informational genre (like pron). jokes are the information being delivered

not necessarily, at all.

i m/l vibe to that but at the same time my #1 is both pure comedy and v cinematic xp

comedy films poll nominations edits

fyi

the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker films are onscreen jokebooks.