Name the most painfully dumb comedy film EVER

I'd nominate any number of movies featuring former & current members of the Saturday Night Live cast, if I had actually seen any of them. (_Big Daddy_ had its stupid charms, though.)

There are a whole bunch on the tip of my tongue, but I can't think of their names. Damn it. There goes my weekend.

Anyway: I think that this category can take what is also The Worst Film I've Ever Seen. If it can't, I'll post it to the (putative) Worst Film Ever category anyway.

Dumbest Comedy = UFO, by Roy 'Chubby' Brown.

"We ain't found SHIT."

David: Agreed, though watching more than once while sober = painfully dumb.

Buffy = classic until they graduated. After that, dud.

Actually, you're already there.

Jim carrey is the most overated comedy actor since Eddy Murphy

The original however is brilliant. Instead of fat Eddy Murphy turning into wanker eddy murphy. Jerry Lewis turns into Dean Martin and hangs out with cool cats and sings (I forget what he sings but its much better than the wack comedy routine wanker eddy performs.

Has anyone noticed how E.Murphy turned around the orthodoxy on Jerry Lewis? A few years back, GRATE JOKE against the FRENCH = they think Lewis movies are funny.
(Based I think on an ILM-prefiguring Provocation run in Cahiers du Cinéma, to the effect that JL's movies were the ONLY GOOD THING THEN COMING OUT OF US... Andrew Sarris or similar then sidestepped the gag- element to "prove" French Film-Crit Theory = worthless...)
And this was for years the ONLY ISSUE ever raised, re un film de Giarie Luaisse.
Today: OK again to say you chuckle.
Murphy also said by Those I Don't Entirely Dismiss to be undergoing a Renaissance, since Dr Dolittle (!of al things!):WARNING this report unconfirmed by direct empirical laff-duct testage, down my way.

Still waiting for the day when some enterprising Brit crit does for Norman Wisdom what the French did for Jerry Lewis - perhaps lack of a Frank Tashlin figure (and the fact that N. Wisdom is rubbish, obv.) working against our plucky comedy hero. But they are so similar in many ways - gurning sentimentalists in the Chaplin tradition.

Forgot to say in my previous post that there are also obvious parallels to be drawn between modern teen comedies and modern slasher movies - obsessive interest in the loss of virginity, punishment of 'bad' behaviour, fear of the Other (geeks, lesbians, hockey-mask wearing psychopaths), drugs a BAD THING which will inevitably lead to disaster, etc. etc.

I got through half of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (with Swanson, Perry). The TV show was good for a while but, erm, shite flick.

Cabin Boy is....interesting. It is unfunny, but it's almost like they dared each other to write/make/finish it...it's on such a WEEEEEIRD level, and made such little cash, I hesitate to bag on it...but it was a huge disappointment versus what I thought it'd be. I remember two movies I DESPISED as a kid-- Saturday the 14th (with Richard Benjamin, Jeff Tambor), perhaps laying the horrible-horror-parody groundwork for Marlon Wayans (the Least Funny Person Alive), and also Modern Problems (Chevy Chase, Dabney Coleman). Did anyone else see this film? It was spectacularly offfensively baaaad baaad BAAAD to me as a kid, but maybe I was just too young too appreciate it. In retrospect, I'm thinking it might work-- Chevy Chase as a guy who gets odd psychic and sexual telekinetic powers from glowing radioactive waste poured on his car.... then again, it could be shite squared to the fifth power.

Still haven't seen the movie: if I recall, someone on the board says it's BETTER than the TV series. (Which I daren't check, obviously — or I will die from over- excitement...)

A quote from his character, thanks to the Good Folks at IMDB.com:

[After getting his whole arm cut off] Amilyn: You ruined my jacket! Kill him A LOT!

Nothing But Trouble of course had not just Chevy Chase and Dan Ackroyd but a piss poor Demi Moore and John Candy. Grrrr. Written and directed by Ackyord too. Thankfully the only film he ever directed.

But easily the nadir (especially in aping a previous not all that good movie, being pointless, being directed by John Landis and having akid in it) is Blues Brothers 2000. Which came out in 1999. Sheesh.

I cannot stress how bad Nothing But Trouble is, I still have nightmares..

Robin Williams was in this terrible movie a few years ago-so bad whatever studio released it sent it straight to video-it was that much worse than "Patch Adams"! It was called "Being Human", and I don;t know if it was supposed to be a comedy, but man it was horibble.

MTV released a movie or two a few years back, one of them was called "Joe's Apartment". This piece of excrement was about a guy living in an apartment invested with cockroaches-who talked to him. Even worse than it sounds.

Robin Hood: Men in Tighs, I agree completely, though I loved Spaceballs "I'm a Mog-half man, half dog- I'm my own best friend", that's classic.

I forgot again, was Mars Attacks intended as a comedy? The only good thing I can say about that one was that Pierce Brosnan's character get decapitated.

Saturday Night Live Movies: Stuart Smalley Saves His Family, A Night at the Roxbury, Its Pat, I could go on and on......

So we put on Cat's Eye instead. I mean, fucking hell. It is pretty cool how they have the story line with the anti-smoking leage who electricute your wife and then your child if you smoke, and then shoot you, but the rest of the film was ridiculous. Drew Barrymore sucks.

_The Warriors_ was a bad movie, and it was unintentionally funny. Can you dig it? Oh, wait - this thread's about dumb COMEDIES.

Hrm. _Traci I Love You_? Actually, most mid 80s Rodney Dangerfield movies are pretty damn stupid. As is _PCU_ - a shame, too, since Jeremy Piven is a god damn genius. _Soul Man_? C. Thomas Howell acting like a brother - oh, no, no, no.

The best thing about Cat's Eye besides the smoking was when the ludicrious troll wall creature got thrown into the fan by the cat. That was pretty savage.

I never saw Joe Esterhaus's "An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn" before, but I heard it makes "Showgirls" look like "The Seven Seal", and I think it was intended to be comedy.

How about Demi Moore's tour-de-force "Strip Tease"?

"Howard the Duck", "Leonard Part 6" (with Bill Cosby), "Stop or My Mom Will Shoot" (Sylvester Stallone), the "Weekend At Bernie's" movies (I can't believe there was actually a sequel).......the list goes on and on........

1. Dudley Moore and Peter Cooke in "The Hounds of the Baskervilles". Asked for my money back. Never done that before or since.

2. "It's Alive!" The original. Baby-monster kills and eats everybody. It wasn't supposed to be a comedy, but after my friends and I got done with it, throwing out comments, MST3K style-- 20 years before there was a MST3K, it became a GREAT comedy. The scariest/funniest part was the baby's father (the protagonist) looked like one of my best friends, and he is NOT a handsome man by any stretch of the imagination.

3. Dr. Detroit - Excruciating. An example of most of the garbage Dan Ackroyd did for a while after Belushi died. I almost didn't go see "Ghostbusters" when it came out because Ackroyd was in it, and had to be talked into it. Glad I was, because that turned out to be a Marx Bros. movie in disguise, with Ackroyd playing Chico, and Bill Murray as the best Groucho since Groucho.

Right now it's Police Academy 2. Oh wow. OH WOW. The expoxy- glue-for-shampoo gag. I'm just...wow.

Another thing about 'The Tall Guy'...I loathe and detest it (all that's bad about British cinema etc.), then I wonder why I've seen it three times!!

BUt -- the worst comedy ever was "Big Bully" with Tom Arnold and Rick Moranis, which is cheap, sick, mean-spirited, and D-U-M-B. Dubbed into German, it's even more devoid of charm.

Indeed, but don't you find the 'humourous' sex scene cringe-worthy?

It made ME laugh. "Proctor!"

Especially because, while many cited "Dumb and Dumber" in 2001, those lucky souls had not yet seen the sequel "Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd"

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But what about "Lips and assholes"? "LIPS AND ASSHOLES"!!!

I more than second or third that Bean movie being the worst. And by the way, Americans DO NOT live in fucking weird ass houses like the one portrayed in the movie. Not even in California.

Dumb and Dumber was great compared to these films, you are all so very wrong.

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Though I think Clifford with Martin Short is the dumbest.

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