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Films with highest laughs-per-minute ratio

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What do you think are the ones? So far I got:

Bringing Up Baby
Airplane!
Holy Grail
Life of Brian
Duck Soup
Sherlock, Jr.

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 04:59 (sixteen years ago)

space mutiny

― bodacious cowboy (hobbes), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 05:01 (sixteen years ago)

Waiting for Guffman
Better Off Dead

― A capella key change in "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips (Pillbox), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 05:02 (sixteen years ago)

I've actually used this phrase to describe South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, possibly on this forum

― morelike safer (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 06:52 (sixteen years ago)

FACT: While there are definitely "better" comedies, but there is no film ever made that has more rapid, consistent and nonstop lols that South Park

― morelike safer (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 06:53 (sixteen years ago)

Airplane! prolly a close second

― morelike safer (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 06:54 (sixteen years ago)

Borat.

― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 07:27 (sixteen years ago)

Blazing Saddles
Raising Arizona
Withnail & I
Horse Feathers
The Jerk

― Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 07:47 (sixteen years ago)

Jackass 2

― I DIED, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 08:03 (sixteen years ago)

Step Brothers

― nate woolls, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 08:17 (sixteen years ago)

I didn't find Waiting For Guffman very funny.

In recent memory, I remember creasing up at the Hangover.

― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 09:11 (sixteen years ago)

wet hot american summer

― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 13:42 (sixteen years ago)

super troopers
anchorman

then what first poster said

― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 13:43 (sixteen years ago)

Dumb & Dumber
Zoolander

― NotEnough, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 13:53 (sixteen years ago)

Big Trouble in Little China

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 13:58 (sixteen years ago)

Caddyshack

― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:31 (sixteen years ago)

most Laurel & Hardy shorts are way ahead of these. (also, Sons of the Desert)

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:35 (sixteen years ago)

Duck Soup

― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:44 (sixteen years ago)

(btw, there is also a L&H short called Duck Soup)

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:48 (sixteen years ago)

zzzzzzzzz

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:49 (sixteen years ago)

Also, see: ZAZ

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:49 (sixteen years ago)

The Big Lebowski
Grandma's Boy

― that new wave hippie disco shit (herb albert), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:50 (sixteen years ago)

sorry, Leo McCarey didn't get to sad films about old folks til later.

(Armond did call MWforT "screwball" a few weeks ago tho!)

xp

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:51 (sixteen years ago)

by Grandma's Boy you mean the Harold Lloyd film obv.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:52 (sixteen years ago)

Out 1

― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:54 (sixteen years ago)

by 'the big lebowski' I suppose you mean the 1931 experimental nigerian short film

― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:56 (sixteen years ago)

"Make Way for Tomorrow could make a stone cry ... with laughter!!!"

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:06 (sixteen years ago)

"It's been wonderful, the whole 50 years."

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__mokxbTmuJM/SB_iuHSzR2I/AAAAAAAABgw/6tl264FwQyU/s400/thethirdman01.jpg.jpeg

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:08 (sixteen years ago)

Any of a half-dozen WC Fields vehicles, esp It's a Gift and The Bank Dick.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:13 (sixteen years ago)

Better Off Dead

is funny about twice in 100 minute srsly

― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:22 (sixteen years ago)

but: ferris bueller's day off

― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:23 (sixteen years ago)

will do my usual repping for joe dirt now. thanks for listening

― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:27 (sixteen years ago)

a few of these are decent shouts - gonna add In The Loop to the reckoning

― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:33 (sixteen years ago)

Top Secret!

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:37 (sixteen years ago)

wayne's world

― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:38 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ejwZTm9JM8

― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:05 (sixteen years ago)

philadelphia story
adam's rib

― Jack traded Milky-White to the troll for a magical (remy bean), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:11 (sixteen years ago)

big lebowski seconded

― mizzell, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:14 (sixteen years ago)

A Shot In The Dark

― Obama, Wellstone and Darwinfish, Attorneys (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:15 (sixteen years ago)

the three amigos

― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:17 (sixteen years ago)

ok now you're just trolling.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:20 (sixteen years ago)

not a film, but Arrested Development

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:21 (sixteen years ago)

^^^pretty certain most of us were thinking this

― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:24 (sixteen years ago)

Step Bros seconded

"Hello, miss lady!"

― Whats with all the littering? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:30 (sixteen years ago)

Hot Shots! Part Deux
Pineapple Express

― bamcquern, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 17:53 (sixteen years ago)

Pineapple Express

there's like 2 jokes in the last half of this movie

― Whats with all the littering? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 17:54 (sixteen years ago)

Maybe I laughed extra long at them.

― bamcquern, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, you're right though: the movie gets all poignantly homowhatever.

― bamcquern, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

planes trains and automobiles

― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:04 (sixteen years ago)

^ tru

― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:05 (sixteen years ago)

Pineapple Express

there's like 2 jokes in the last half of this movie

^^^^this - why'd it have to go and get all action-y? Soon as I realized the threats on these guys' lives were real and not just hysterical (and hysterically funny) doper paranoia, much of my interest was lost

― Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 20:30 (sixteen years ago)

I was pretty sure they weren't gonna die

― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 20:32 (sixteen years ago)

In the Loop, seconded

― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 20:34 (sixteen years ago)

Clifford

― gelatinous rube (brownie), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 20:51 (sixteen years ago)

Office Space

― Obama, Wellstone and Darwinfish, Attorneys (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 20:55 (sixteen years ago)

so many posts in this thread lead me to believe people don't know what the word ratio means

― BlaptainYourass (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 20:58 (sixteen years ago)

zoolander

― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 20:59 (sixteen years ago)

that post makes me believe you don't know what the word laugh means

― BlaptainYourass (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:00 (sixteen years ago)

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Kingpin

― nate woolls, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:04 (sixteen years ago)

iirc it was scientifically proven that zoolander was funny: Is ZOOLANDER supposed to be a comedy?

― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:06 (sixteen years ago)

Zoolander is crap 22

there are 22 of us!

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:07 (sixteen years ago)

do unintentionally funny films count, because the first movie I thought of was "Twisted"

― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:07 (sixteen years ago)

I didn't laugh once at either Zoolander or Wet Hot American Summer. WHAS is one of the worst films I've ever seen, I think.

― nate woolls, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:08 (sixteen years ago)

Wit:Satire

― that new wave hippie disco shit (herb albert), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:10 (sixteen years ago)

zoolander

― bodacious cowboy (hobbes), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:10 (sixteen years ago)

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/zoolander-mugatu-crazy-pills.jpg

― that new wave hippie disco shit (herb albert), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:12 (sixteen years ago)

you know, i can fathom that some sad people might think zoolander is funny, but CANNOT fucking imagine how someone would think it would be more consistantly funny over 90 minutes than gag-a-minute flicks like South Park, Naked Gun, Airplane, Stepbrothers or Holy Grail or whatev

― BlaptainYourass (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:14 (sixteen years ago)

or even like freddie got fingered for that matter

― BlaptainYourass (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:14 (sixteen years ago)

maybe because it is not a 'gag-a-miunte' flick but rather a sophisticated satire that tears apart the male modeling industry

― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnHqiipcw6g

― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

xpost, but this thread is literally about gag-a-minute movies

― BlaptainYourass (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

Tootsie is good (just watched it again the other night) but it's hardly gag-a-minute-laffs, unless you think intrusive saxophone solos on the sdtk are funny

― Whats with all the littering? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

intrusive sax solos are the cornerstone of my sense of humor

― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:22 (sixteen years ago)

(whiney otm btw)

― Whats with all the littering? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:22 (sixteen years ago)

South Park used musical numbers as a crutch imo, still mad about that.

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:32 (sixteen years ago)

(obv if you like musical comedy type shit, i'm sure it was a laff riot)

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:33 (sixteen years ago)

or pre-1999 shit

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:37 (sixteen years ago)

I'm with Whiney on this one - both on the meaning of the thread and that South Park wins it

― richie aprile (rockapads), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:45 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uZbq8z9vOk

― abanana, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:10 (sixteen years ago)


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