What is the least funny 'Comedy' film you've ever seen?

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As in, a movie billed as a comedy that elicited not a SINGLE laugh, smirk, chuckle, or even smile out of you. I can think of endless awful movies where, in retrospect, I actually probably at least got some hint of amusement out of a single slapstick gag or something.

I'll start with something obscure enough to probably not be controversial - Broken Lizard's ('Super Troopers,' 'Club Dread') "Puddle Cruiser," which I rented and sat through to the end without coming close to laughing literally one time.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

shindler's list :(

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

borat

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

troll

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

'what's new pussycat'

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

This is tough because if I was finding a comedy film that bad I wouldn't watch enough of it to judge conclusively.

I did watch all of Along Came Polly without sound (don't ask) and that seemed bad. Maybe RomComs shouldn't be included tho.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Second half of Steve Martin's career to thread.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Robin Williams most definitely to thread.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Click, worst film ever.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Twins
Nothing To Lose
Trigger Happy

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

The Mask

― Lloyd Bonecutter (Lloyd Bonecutter), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

kevin smith (after clerks) to thread in leather trenchcoat

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

oh, twins, now we're getting somewhere.

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

oh, that one with julia roberts and john cusack. 'american sweethearts'. fucking awful.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

I have to say Shrek, i honestly don't know what people see in that film.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

The 51st State

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

'Along Came Polly' is an interesting example, because I actually laughed several times, during Philip Seymour Hoffman's schtick (endlessly bricking and airballing when playing hoops with Ben Stiller). Likewise, I thought every single set-piece in 'Wedding Crashers' - all the gags meant to be funny - were excruciating (artsy gay brother; oversexed mother-in-law; etc.), but I laughed a few times at Vince Vaughn's schtick.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Ace Ventura II: When Nature Calls

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Marcello: Cultural Learnings of Charts for Make Benefit Glorious Planet Pop

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

'bringing down the house'

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think Hollywood could actually beat 'The British Film Industry' for unfunniness, much as it pains me to say it.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Second half of Steve Martin's career to thread.

well, it's hilarious in a way.

Forrest Gump. (And about every Tom Hanks film.)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Old School was pretty lame as well.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

"What's up TigerLily" the Woody Allen "Revoice a japanese Bond type adventure film". Not a bad idea, just not actually funny enough. Although I did laugh once, so maybe not.

What was that Tom Hanks file, "Bachelor Party"? C-man was raving about it, I just never saw as unfunny a film in my life. But hey, different strokes etc.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

(And about every Tom Hanks film.)

excluding Toy Story 1 & 2 obv.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

yeah you see reviews of brit-coms like that 'rabbit fever' thing, that no-one ever sees, and you have to guess the reviewers aren't kidding.

xpost

'old school' is great.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Come on people, Tom Hanks was in The 'Burbs!

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

FREDDY GOT FINGERED

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Dumb and Dumberer is the worst that comes to mind, but I'm sure there are much worse ones somewhere in the back room of my mind where I file all those "this-sucks-but-I-don't-want-to-start-my-homework" cable movies.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY FREDDIE GOT FINGERED TOO.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

The Burbs? I vaguely remember seeing a bit of that.

Toy Story? Hmm, never seen it. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I srsly think part of Samuel L Jackson's zeal for Snakes On A Plane was that he knew he couldn't actually appear in a film worse than ~~Episode 1~~ The 51st State.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think i've ever seen a remotely funny comedy film!

99% of comedy be it stand-up, film or tv = WORST SHIT EVER

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

comedy should be banned

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

what about Captain Orgasmo or whatever it was called - that Stone/Parker thing?

Me, Myself & Irene and Stuck With You both looked v unfunny.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Churchill: the Hollywood Years

It's just appauling all the way through. Even a star-studded cast of slightly-aging comedy genii can't save this travesty.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

otm, it is shit.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Lex, you're MAD MAD I say! Monty Python! You can't say that's unfunny!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I found Orgasmo funny.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

I never got why "Sideways" was advertised as a comedy film.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.churchill.com/images/dog.jpg
Oh Yesh!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe Lex did watch a Jackie Chan film after all.

Only for said film to be The Tuxedo.

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

sacha baron cohen is PARTICULARLY unfunny

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

WRONG

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

he's just stupid! he doesn't make me laugh! he makes me wish i was not in the same room as the tv, when he comes on

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Sideways was fairly funny.

Lex's views on comedy imply that it is an inferior artform to drama acting or even music somehow. Cuckoo.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Lex, don't tell me you dislike, say, Fawlty Towers?!?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

oh like he has seen that

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Sideways is funny.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

I would say you people REALLY need to see "Freddie Got Fingered" before continuing on with this thread but I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

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Grey Gardens. Not made as a comedy but it sure as hell's been treated like one.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 19 November 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hoho, 'Let's go to Prison' is now down to 11%

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 19 November 2006 06:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Jesus, it was directed by Bob Odenkirk. The man has officially crashed/burned.

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 19 November 2006 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Genuine PG-Rated Fun"?!?!?!?!?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 19 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

The Royal Tenenbaums.

Not only did I not laugh, I fantasized about setting the screen on fire.

― Hey Jude (Hey Jude), Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

I thought The Royal Tenenbaums was ok, not brilliant, but I absolutely loved The Life Aquatic. It seems to be the other way round with most people.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Sunday, 19 November 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

I hated The Life Aquatic. I got into a heated argument after seeing it. I think I lost a friend over it. I don't miss him at all.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Sunday, 19 November 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

The Mask
-- Lloyd Bonecutter (joedevivr...), November 17th, 2006.

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totally.

― pisces (piscesx), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

i fucking HATED sideways. despised it. just thinking about it makes me want to throw things.

― pisces (piscesx), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

oh god Shallow Hal, what a loathesome movie.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

where's the funniest films of all time thread?

i think you'll find plenty of the choices from on here -
blazing saddles, dr strangelove especially but i can't remember.

what was that really DESPISED one with gary shandling in it?
from about 3 years ago?

― pisces (piscesx), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

I remember being not being very enamoured when I saw "Black Sheep" with Chris Farley. In fact I was nearly physically sick.

― JTS (JTS), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

Let's Go To Prison is now at 9%

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

let's go to prison got a really good review in the new york times. did anyone see it?

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

The Pest

Uggh

― Siah Alan (Siah Alan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, someone please explain to me John Leguizamo and his baffling choices of roles.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

Mother-fucking Bio-Dome! The Z-rate Wayne & Garth / Bill & Ted act was already enough, but when in the final act the guys develop a conscience and decide to mend the damage they've done, that made a friend I was watching it with growl, walk out of the room and refuse to see the rest of the film. In retrospect I wish I'd done the same.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

Amazed the film version of 'Bean' is yet to be mentioned. It should have its own sub-section in the UN convention banning torture.

It is so dire even the TV series is made to look like comedic genius next to it.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

Well, Bean at least made me laugh several times (though the TV series was better). Johnny English, on the other hand...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

what was that really DESPISED one with gary shandling in it?
from about 3 years ago?

"What Planet Are You From"! I actually laughed at that a few times, guiltily. Everytime he gets a boner, this loud whirring noise comes on the soundtrack. It happens at a couple of inopportune moments, and I chuckled. Like I said, guiltily.

"Duplex" is a good call. And seeing the "Shallow Hal" still reminded me of "Envy," the Barry Levinson movie with Jack Black and Ben Stiller as former friends divided over sudden wealth. Mind-rapingly dismal.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

Tuomas, Bio-Dome is the greatest American film of the 90's. And it's not a comedy, it's a fictionalized account of the Biosphere 2.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, i don' know how they marketed it over in Finland, but here...

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't seen Sideways, but I thought it was weird people thought it would be a laughfest, because here it was marketed basically as a poignant, bittersweet film about getting older.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, and I think Your Friends and Neighbors is a comedy, but it's about the blackest, most misanthropic comedy there is, so no wonder if the laughter is uneasy. It's a good film still.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Sideways was kinda funny in a "look at these pathetic wine-tasting yuppies and their problems" kinda way.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

It is a funny film, but it perhaps gives the characters more dignity and respect than they deserve.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing on this earth comes close to "The Magic Typewriter" (1988)... especially when they got Meryl Streep in to play a cameo as the (briefly) transgendered male lead (I can't even remember who that was).

The line was well and truly crossed when she started that whole rap scene about missing her former male bodyparts (!!!!).

― JTS (JTS), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

lol

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, that reminds me of a terrible film I saw starring Lisa Kudrow and one of the Wayans, the centrepiece of which was Phoebe winning over a rowdy hip-hop club with an improvised rap about how much she loved shopping.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

kudrow only stepped in after michael richards pulled out at last minute over pay dispute

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Is this a good place to mention that there's going to be another Van Wilder movie?

― nate p. (natepatrin), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Amazed the film version of 'Bean' is yet to be mentioned.

Mostly because I thought that I had blacked out any memory of seeing it. Now it all comes back to me. IT JUST WOULDN'T END.

And all Americans live in weird angular homes with pastel colors. We're very modern over here.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I have not seen the Bean movie but I take it Rowan is doing some sort of massively failed Tati thing?

― nate p. (natepatrin), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

the first couple of bean telly shows were a riot.
went over hugely well over here (uk).

i take it the film isnt like those.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't think the bean movie was that bad, actually, although i was fifteen when i saw it.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Caddyshack II would have this all sewn up if it weren't for Randy Quaid.

I loved Dirty Work, but Norm McDonald's second movie, Screwed, with Dave Chappelle, was ridiculously awful.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

You know it's not funny when all they could come up with from the press was a single word:
http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/9260000/9269174.jpg
Otherwise The Royal Tenenbaums was a major letdown.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I have a real aversion to Martin Short's face.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hia screen daughter there has wonky boobs.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

my local video store has "Happiness" in the comedy section.

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

didn't president bush like executive produce captain ron or something?

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Grosse Pointe Blank

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

That too.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

No way, that movie is laffs ahoy! (xpost)

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I saw that too! But as far as stupid rap comedies go, How High was even less funny.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

captain ron was written by john dwyer, but I'm going to assume it wasn't the guy from the coachwhips

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

"How High" was definitely funnier than "Marci X," but surely that's damning with the faintest of praise.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

Shallow Hal was rescued by a) the end credits b) Belle And Sebastian beiing on the soundtrack.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

no sale

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

The Michael Richards film, Trial and Error, is a masterpiece.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

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