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)

I don't see Eternal Sunshine as a comedy at all.

Actually, classically speaking, it's a tragedy, because its protagonists are doomed. The only ray of hope it offers, philosophically, is the conclusion that doomed or not, the relationship might still be worth having.

yeah, it's a comedy only in that it's got funny parts. and the "tragedy" is of a fairly minor sort.

it's a comedy only in that it's got funny parts

you have funny parts!

christ not this again

*shoots self in face*

josh started it! [points finger in an easterly direction]

if the relationship is worth having, it does not constitute "doom"!

(obv I am only speaking re the film here; hell is other ppl, esp if there are only two of you)

my criterion ended up being, is the main reason i like this movie that it's really funny. this is not true of eternal sunshine but it is true of annie hall.

Josh in Chicago = you can see Romeo and Juliet as a comedy, but not Eternal Sunshine? nuff said!

lots of Shakespearian critics that I've read see strong similarities between Romeo and Juliet and the other comedies that he penned at that time (Love's Labours Lost and esp. Midsummer Night's Dream); none of them that I know have ever called R&J itself a comedy...

The poll results are gonna be divisive and all over the map, not because the variety of individual taste or favor paid to different eras but rather the fact that everyone seems to have their own working definition of comedy.

No, the poll results are gonna be divisive and all over the map because we forgot to nominate Malibu's Most Wanted!

Oh piss, I missed the deadline for this. I had my list done but wanted to check it over before submitting but was too busy over the last few days to get round to it. If Swingers doesn't make the list I'll be gutted.

The poll results will be all over the map because some of us are older than others of us.

Won't 98.3% of everyone take whatever the results are in stride?

― clemenza, Sunday, March 25, 2012 8:29 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

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ha ha!

The poll results will be all over the map because some of us are older than others of us.

also, iirc, some posters are tv-addled philistines and/or have no idea what a "real comedy" is

The poll results will be all over the map because some of us are older than others of us.

I legitimately believe that there's something of a divide in the way that people from different generations engage with a particular medium. Different value judgments are applied, cultural signifiers are held in differing levels of esteem depending upon the importance of said signifier to the generation in question, etc. It goes a long way towards explaining why, for instance, I get bored with a comedy pretty quickly if more than five minutes pass without a character tweeting or mentioning poop, and why Morbs turns his nose up at comedies that in any way acknowledge the existence of the internal combustion engine.

internal combustion engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk

OH MY GOD IT'S COMING RIGHT AT US IT'LL KiLL US ALL

xxp

Sounds right. There's also a country divide too. I guess that Jerry Lee Lewis will get much the same amount of love from the Brits as Ealing comedies or 'Carry on...' will get from the Americans. I.e. not much.

but the difference is your lack of love is driven by appalling ignorance whereas lewis just kinda sucks

^ overcompensating for not having voted ^

I legitimately believe that there's something of a divide in the way that people from different generations engage with a particular medium. Different value judgments are applied, cultural signifiers are held in differing levels of esteem depending upon the importance of said signifier to the generation in question, etc. It goes a long way towards explaining why, for instance, I get bored with a comedy pretty quickly if more than five minutes pass without a character tweeting or mentioning poop, and why Morbs turns his nose up at comedies that in any way acknowledge the existence of the internal combustion engine.

eh don't think this is true. Plenty of poop and fart jokes sixty years ago

But you have to agree that, even as recently as ten years ago, movies were severely lacking in tweets.

I Love Lucy had an episode about the hershey squirts iirc

If I try to watch a movie from the '80s, I'm always all like, "Hey, why are those characters looking at each other? I don't understand why they aren't texting, and I don't even see their iPhones." It creeps me out.

I was in a play 4 years ago where the playwright had to deliberately set it in the mid-90s because otherwise it wouldn't make sense to the audience how a man couldn't easily get in touch with his g/f to tell her where he was and why he was running late.

But you have to agree that, even as recently as ten years ago, movies were severely lacking in tweets.

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i tawt i taw a thitty poll

I had a prof that explained convincingly that Romeo and Juliet is technically a comedy, at least in the old school sense. It's definitely a tragi-comic hybrid.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 March 2012 15:07 (Yesterday)

in the old school sense, ends with a marriage=comedy, ends with a funeral=tragedy

^yeah, even Shakespeare's problem comedies--which were considered the transition from his comedies/histories into his tragedies--mostly ended with marriage

Romeo and Juliet starts out with a lot of lighthearted wordplay and lots of lyricism and love, again like other Shxpr comedies, but once Mercutio gets killed, it p much shuttles headlong into 'doomed' territory

For what it's worth, my 98.3% comment was based on a rough mental calculation: if 80 people sent in ballots, probably 79 of them will shrug off disagreements, while one person...

I guess that Jerry Lee Lewis will get much the same amount of love from the Brits as Ealing comedies or 'Carry on...' will get from the Americans. I.e. not much.

i'm an American and i voted for the man in the white suit. and don't you mean Jerry Lewis (and not Jerry Lee Lewis)?

that said, i agree w/ yer point.

also, i'm kind of scratching my head as to which Billy Wilder or Preston Sturges films got their yucks from poop and fart jokes.

who said anything about Wilder and Sturges having poop or fart jokes?

Quite a few Wilder films are poop though.

I assumed "Jerry Lee Lewis" was just part of a movement toward everyone adopting Mr Haircare's wholesale theft of Chico Marx's old act.

re very British comedies, I voted for I'm All Right, Jack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a9OAvqyjn0&feature=related

Murnau's The Expulsion is the earliest fart comedy I'm aware of. It's silent but...well, you know.

Steal from-a the best, right Morbs?

I was in a play 4 years ago where the playwright had to deliberately set it in the mid-90s because otherwise it wouldn't make sense to the audience how a man couldn't easily get in touch with his g/f to tell her where he was and why he was running late.

this displays a dispiriting lack of imagination -- modern cellphones aren't magical devices, they fail to receive calls all the time! What, she couldn't have run out of batteries, or been in a building with no reception, or just had it in her purse on vibrate so she didn't know it was ringing?

we also have more advanced telepathic powers nowadays, silly goose.

I assumed "Jerry Lee Lewis" was just part of a movement toward everyone adopting Mr Haircare's wholesale theft of Chico Marx's old act.

In my defence I'd been reading about JLL in the new issue of Mojo so had him on my mind.

here's Jerry "no Lee" rockin' out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JjOBKii8vM

the clock is ticking ...

stoked for the madness, can we get an ETA for the start of the countdown?

Yes, don't make me wait to pop off.

And by "pop off," obv I mean flatulate.

how im gonna make up something universal, doesnt even make any sense: IT"S THE TOP 100 COMEDY FILMS RESULTS THREAD

Hey AP are you doing the whole countdown today or spreading it out over the week?

all week. Probably finish on Monday