Mount Rushmore Comedies (1 Viewer)

[Gr00vus]

My actual top 4 have probably been mentioned several times here already, so I'll throw some more honorable mentions out while I think about my actual top 4...

Better Off Dead - probably my favorite teen comedy
The Best Of Times - didn't hit big, but I still laugh at it
The Party - a late 60's Peter Sellers movie that is just hilarious for the first 3/4 of the film then falls apart, the way they set up the jokes was so well done

 

[SFBayDuck]

The Party - a late 60's Peter Sellers movie that is just hilarious for the first 3/4 of the film then falls apart, the way they set up the jokes was so well done

Kind of like Stripes.

 

[KarmaPolice]

The Party - a late 60's Peter Sellers movie that is just hilarious for the first 3/4 of the film then falls apart, the way they set up the jokes was so well done

Kind of like Stripes.

I think that plagues most comedies that don't stick to around 90mins.

 

[Zow]

My Cousin Vinnie is one of if not the most accurately portrayed court procedural movies ever made. I used to use it as teaching material in a criminal procedure class I taught. So, yeah, I suppose it's a comedy, but I think of it more so as one of the few "good" law movies (along with A Few Good Men, 12 Angry Men, and A Time to Kill).

With respect, if you're actually uncertain about whether My Cousin Vinny is a comedy, you might be taking the courtroom procedural stuff a little too seriously.

I undoubtedly am.

As somebody whose jobs is very often made more challenging by completely awful representations of the court process in the entertainment industry, I have created a sort of separate genre in my mind of "movies that are actually pretty realistic - hooray!"

I just assume that most trials go as they are shown on Law and Order -- with the defendant openly admitting his guilt on the stand after an especially clever line of questioning from the prosecutor.

As much as you're kidding, you'd be shocked to learn just how many people think it goes the way as portrayed on Law and Order or some other similarly inaccurate crime procedural.

 

[Zow]

The Party - a late 60's Peter Sellers movie that is just hilarious for the first 3/4 of the film then falls apart, the way they set up the jokes was so well done

Kind of like Stripes.

I'd also throw in Wedding Crashers.

The first 1/2 of the movie is perhaps the funniest 1/2 of a comedy ever made. Then, of course, they have to actually create a plot, get sappy, etc. and the film loses it awesomeness overall.

 

[SFBayDuck]

The Party - a late 60's Peter Sellers movie that is just hilarious for the first 3/4 of the film then falls apart, the way they set up the jokes was so well done

Kind of like Stripes.

I'd also throw in Wedding Crashers.

The first 1/2 of the movie is perhaps the funniest 1/2 of a comedy ever made. Then, of course, they have to actually create a plot, get sappy, etc. and the film loses it awesomeness overall.

Totally agree, everything up until they leave the island is comedy gold. Then it hits a big lull until the Will Ferrell scene.

 

[northern exposure]

3 that I don't think have been mentioned yet.
Take The Money And Run
Dodgeball
So I Married An Axe Murderer

 

[KarmaPolice]

The Party - a late 60's Peter Sellers movie that is just hilarious for the first 3/4 of the film then falls apart, the way they set up the jokes was so well done

Kind of like Stripes.

I'd also throw in Wedding Crashers.

The first 1/2 of the movie is perhaps the funniest 1/2 of a comedy ever made. Then, of course, they have to actually create a plot, get sappy, etc. and the film loses it awesomeness overall.

I call it the Apatow effect.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

The Party - a late 60's Peter Sellers movie that is just hilarious for the first 3/4 of the film then falls apart, the way they set up the jokes was so well done

Kind of like Stripes.

I'd also throw in Wedding Crashers.

The first 1/2 of the movie is perhaps the funniest 1/2 of a comedy ever made. Then, of course, they have to actually create a plot, get sappy, etc. and the film loses it awesomeness overall.

I call it the Apatow effect.

When it comes to "plot" in comedies, less is definitely more. I rewatched The Jerk not too long ago and was struck by how it's just a series of sketches and the story is just a thing in the background that they hang little gags on. Same with Airplane, Office Space, Animal House, and a bunch of other films in this thread.

 

[KarmaPolice]

The Party - a late 60's Peter Sellers movie that is just hilarious for the first 3/4 of the film then falls apart, the way they set up the jokes was so well done

Kind of like Stripes.

I'd also throw in Wedding Crashers.

The first 1/2 of the movie is perhaps the funniest 1/2 of a comedy ever made. Then, of course, they have to actually create a plot, get sappy, etc. and the film loses it awesomeness overall.

I call it the Apatow effect.

When it comes to "plot" in comedies, less is definitely more. I rewatched The Jerk not too long ago and was struck by how it's just a series of sketches and the story is just a thing in the background that they hang little gags on. Same with Airplane, Office Space, Animal House, and a bunch of other films in this thread.

But you just also listed the least funny movies listed in the thread.

 

[McBokonon]

I'd like to offer an honorable mention to Top Secret! - Val Kilmer's career-defining role.

Doctor Flamond: You see, a year ago, I was close to perfecting the first magnetic desalinization process so revolutionary, it was capable of removing the salt from over 500 million gallons of seawater a day. Do you realize what that could mean to the starving nations of the earth?

Nick Rivers: Wow. They'd have enough salt to last forever!

 

[BigJohn]

Life
Vacation/Christmas Vacation/Caddyshack
Airplane
Happy Gilmore

 

[Major]

My actual top 4 have probably been mentioned several times here already, so I'll throw some more honorable mentions out while I think about my actual top 4...

Better Off Dead - probably my favorite teen comedy

Same here. I haven't seen it 10-20 years so I didn't know if it'd hold up but as a kid I probably watched it 100+ times.
Love me some Monique - You have Christmas in France? <squeezes Monique’s cheeks> Chrisssss-muss

 

[Gr00vus]

My actual top 4 have probably been mentioned several times here already, so I'll throw some more honorable mentions out while I think about my actual top 4...

Better Off Dead - probably my favorite teen comedy

Same here. I haven't seen it 10-20 years so I didn't know if it'd hold up but as a kid I probably watched it 100+ times.
Love me some Monique - You have Christmas in France? <squeezes Monique’s cheeks> Chrisssss-muss

I can think of a few racially and sexually oriented gags/jokes/scenes in there that probably wouldn't fly today (that I still laugh at - sorry?). But claymation hamburgers and fries singing Everybody Wants Some - that is timeless genius.

 

[Major]

My actual top 4 have probably been mentioned several times here already, so I'll throw some more honorable mentions out while I think about my actual top 4...

Better Off Dead - probably my favorite teen comedy

Same here. I haven't seen it 10-20 years so I didn't know if it'd hold up but as a kid I probably watched it 100+ times.
Love me some Monique - You have Christmas in France? <squeezes Monique’s cheeks> Chrisssss-muss

I can think of a few racially and sexually oriented gags/jokes/scenes in there that probably wouldn't fly today (that I still laugh at - sorry?). But claymation hamburgers and fries singing Everybody Wants Some - that is timeless genius.

What's crazy is Ricky ended up being a huge sexual predator at Nickelodeon almost like his character with his "testicles" all over Monique. If you don't know just google him.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

I'd like to offer an honorable mention to Top Secret! - Val Kilmer's career-defining role.

Doctor Flamond: You see, a year ago, I was close to perfecting the first magnetic desalinization process so revolutionary, it was capable of removing the salt from over 500 million gallons of seawater a day. Do you realize what that could mean to the starving nations of the earth?

Nick Rivers: Wow. They'd have enough salt to last forever!

I know a little German.

 

[SFBayDuck]

My actual top 4 have probably been mentioned several times here already, so I'll throw some more honorable mentions out while I think about my actual top 4...

Better Off Dead - probably my favorite teen comedy

Same here. I haven't seen it 10-20 years so I didn't know if it'd hold up but as a kid I probably watched it 100+ times.
Love me some Monique - You have Christmas in France? <squeezes Monique’s cheeks> Chrisssss-muss

I can think of a few racially and sexually oriented gags/jokes/scenes in there that probably wouldn't fly today (that I still laugh at - sorry?). But claymation hamburgers and fries singing Everybody Wants Some - that is timeless genius.

And to me that scene is the worst part of the whole movie. And I love that movie. Eye of the beholder and all.

 

[Gr00vus]

My actual top 4 have probably been mentioned several times here already, so I'll throw some more honorable mentions out while I think about my actual top 4...

Better Off Dead - probably my favorite teen comedy

Same here. I haven't seen it 10-20 years so I didn't know if it'd hold up but as a kid I probably watched it 100+ times.
Love me some Monique - You have Christmas in France? <squeezes Monique’s cheeks> Chrisssss-muss

I can think of a few racially and sexually oriented gags/jokes/scenes in there that probably wouldn't fly today (that I still laugh at - sorry?). But claymation hamburgers and fries singing Everybody Wants Some - that is timeless genius.

What's crazy is Ricky ended up being a huge sexual predator at Nickelodeon almost like his character with his "testicles" all over Monique. If you don't know just google him.

Yeah, I watched the "Quiet On The Set" documentary - yikes.

 

[Major]

My actual top 4 have probably been mentioned several times here already, so I'll throw some more honorable mentions out while I think about my actual top 4...

Better Off Dead - probably my favorite teen comedy

Same here. I haven't seen it 10-20 years so I didn't know if it'd hold up but as a kid I probably watched it 100+ times.
Love me some Monique - You have Christmas in France? <squeezes Monique’s cheeks> Chrisssss-muss

I can think of a few racially and sexually oriented gags/jokes/scenes in there that probably wouldn't fly today (that I still laugh at - sorry?). But claymation hamburgers and fries singing Everybody Wants Some - that is timeless genius.

What's crazy is Ricky ended up being a huge sexual predator at Nickelodeon almost like his character with his "testicles" all over Monique. If you don't know just google him.

Yeah, I watched the "Quiet On The Set" documentary - yikes.

I'll have to check that doc out. Never heard of it. Makes me he hate his character even more than I did growing up.

 

[MAC_32]

How did I forget Major League!

 

[TheAristocrat]

How did I forget Major League!

Great comedy and the edited for daytime TV version slays me because the dubbing is so bad.

"Strike that mother...guuuuuuuuuy out!"

 

[SFBayDuck]

How did I forget Major League!

See, that's why picking 4 is impossible....I forgot this one, too, and it's definitely one of my all time faves.

 

[belljr]

How did I forget Major League!

Great comedy and the edited for daytime TV version slays me because the dubbing is so bad.

"Strike that mother...guuuuuuuuuy out!"

The all time comedy dub to me was police academy.

The scene is Harris pretending to sneak in a window and Tackleberry says.

"Freeze or I'll blow your GD nuts off a hole"

The dubbed version is

"Freeze or I'll blow your gosh darn knees off egg roll"

 

[Zow]

How did I forget Major League!

See, that's why picking 4 is impossible....I forgot this one, too, and it's definitely one of my all time faves.

Yeah, just because of this thread I'm now remembering the following classics:

What About Bob
Ghostbusters
Zombieland (is that a comedy?)
Bad Words (like Role Models, super awesome under the radar comedy)
The Hangover
Ace Ventura
The Cable Guy
Happy Gilmore
Plains, Trains, and Automobiles
The Toy
Billy Madison

Just really, really hard to make a comedy movie Mt. Rushmore.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

How did I forget Major League!

Great comedy and the edited for daytime TV version slays me because the dubbing is so bad.

"Strike that mother...guuuuuuuuuy out!"

The all time comedy dub to me was police academy.

The scene is Harris pretending to sneak in a window and Tackleberry says.

"Freeze or I'll blow your GD nuts off a hole"

The dubbed version is

"Freeze or I'll blow your gosh darn knees off egg roll"

I remember a local station that insisted on showing Cheech & Chong movies with all the drug use edited out.

 

[Zow]

How did I forget Major League!

Great comedy and the edited for daytime TV version slays me because the dubbing is so bad.

"Strike that mother...guuuuuuuuuy out!"

The all time comedy dub to me was police academy.

The scene is Harris pretending to sneak in a window and Tackleberry says.

"Freeze or I'll blow your GD nuts off a hole"

The dubbed version is

"Freeze or I'll blow your gosh darn knees off egg roll"

I remember a local station that insisted on showing Cheech & Chong movies with all the drug use edited out.

So it was like a 10 minute short?

 

[TheAristocrat]

I'm going to start calling people egg rolls. That might stick for a little while.

 

[northern exposure]

How did I forget Major League!

See, that's why picking 4 is impossible....I forgot this one, too, and it's definitely one of my all time faves.

Yeah, just because of this thread I'm now remembering the following classics:

What About Bob
Ghostbusters
Zombieland (is that a comedy?)
Bad Words (like Role Models, super awesome under the radar comedy)
The Hangover
Ace Ventura
The Cable Guy
Happy Gilmore
Plains, Trains, and Automobiles
The Toy
Billy Madison

Just really, really hard to make a comedy movie Mt. Rushmore.

Bad Words is great. Jason Bateman is the star of that one. Game Night is another one of his. Not the first guy you think of for comedy movies, but he's $$ in the bank imo.

 

[Ministry of Pain]

There are so many genres of comedy and some tend to mix genres

Is The Apartment with Jack Lemmon a comedy? Did anyone mention Some Like it Hot? These are very old movies that are thought of as pretty funny in their times.
Slapstick spoofs that make you split in two laughing at some of the jokes?
Meet the Parents made me laugh so hard in the theater I fell out of my chair
The Birdcage with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane makes me laugh every time
Tootsie? Hilarious but also a pretty deep film at times.

80's - Christmas Vacation, Naked Gun and Airplane are pretty much head and shouldes above the rest for movie quotes, you know you had buddies you walked around with and just quoted this films to help break up the day. Caddyshack and Major League are somewhere on this list as well

Fletch, Beetlejuice, Ferris Bueller, Ghostbusters and The Princess Bride, are all humorous but they aren't the same types of comedies as the list above them.

90s - Groundhog's Day, Kingpin and My Cousin Vinny seem to always be high on this list for me. Bill Murray stars in two of these.



Mt Rushmore

Anchorman/Old School/Step Brothers
Airplane! You gotta pick one from this genre and this one sparked the many spoofs that would follow in this genre
Groundhog Day/My Cousin Vinny
Wedding Crashers

 

[RJS113]

My Cousin Vinny
Step Brothers
Wedding Crashers
The Hangover
Office Space
Lady Ballers

 

[El Floppo]

So I Married An Axe Murderer

 

[belljr]

The fish that saved Pittsburgh

 

[Gatorman]

Hard to say... Lets go by those who deserve mention

Mel Brooks: So likely Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs or History of the world part one. Older people may vote producers, but I think Blazing saddles wins this one
The Lampoon / SNL division: Animal House or Caddyshack hard to choose. All the Will ferrell stuf and sandler stuff goes here too. It's almost its own category. Not to mention Eddie Murphy/
The Rob Reiner / Chrisopher Guest Films: Princess Bride, Spinal Tap, A mighty wind, etc. I'd go with Spinal Tap
Coen Brothers: The Big Lebowski
The Absurdist Comedies: Airplane, Top Secret, etc.
The Pythons: Life of Brian, Holy Grail, Fish called Wanda, Fierce Creatures.

So...

Hard to choose 4, but these are mine:

Blazing Saddles
Caddyshack
Spinal Tap
The Big Lebowski.
Fish called Wanda.

It could almost be its own round of 64.

 

[Gally]

Hard to choose 4, but these are mine:

Blazing Saddles
Caddyshack
Spinal Tap
The Big Lebowski.
Fish called Wanda.

it was so hard to choose 4 that you went with 5

 

[BlackCrowes]

My Cousin Vinnie is one of if not the most accurately portrayed court procedural movies ever made. I used to use it as teaching material in a criminal procedure class I taught. So, yeah, I suppose it's a comedy, but I think of it more so as one of the few "good" law movies (along with A Few Good Men, 12 Angry Men, and A Time to Kill).

With respect, if you're actually uncertain about whether My Cousin Vinny is a comedy, you might be taking the courtroom procedural stuff a little too seriously.

I undoubtedly am.

As somebody whose jobs is very often made more challenging by completely awful representations of the court process in the entertainment industry, I have created a sort of separate genre in my mind of "movies that are actually pretty realistic - hooray!"

I just assume that most trials go as they are shown on Law and Order -- with the defendant openly admitting his guilt on the stand after an especially clever line of questioning from the prosecutor.

the jury will disregard!

 

[BlackCrowes]

So I Married An Axe Murderer

just a few minutes of Phil Hartman's genius

 

[Zow]

My Cousin Vinnie is one of if not the most accurately portrayed court procedural movies ever made. I used to use it as teaching material in a criminal procedure class I taught. So, yeah, I suppose it's a comedy, but I think of it more so as one of the few "good" law movies (along with A Few Good Men, 12 Angry Men, and A Time to Kill).

With respect, if you're actually uncertain about whether My Cousin Vinny is a comedy, you might be taking the courtroom procedural stuff a little too seriously.

I undoubtedly am.

As somebody whose jobs is very often made more challenging by completely awful representations of the court process in the entertainment industry, I have created a sort of separate genre in my mind of "movies that are actually pretty realistic - hooray!"

I just assume that most trials go as they are shown on Law and Order -- with the defendant openly admitting his guilt on the stand after an especially clever line of questioning from the prosecutor.

the jury will disregard!

Withdrawn

 

[Leroy Hoard]

This thread reminds me of Superman 2 where Zod and his friends blast off the faces on Mount Rushmore. They only needed to blast 3 of them but they of course also took out #4.

 

[Barry2]

slapshot

I think they're comedies - the Grand Budapest Hotel and 5th Element

 

[Todem]

Very tough question. I will try.

Animal House
Trading Places
A Fish Called Wanda
Best In Show

Just missed the cut:

Forgetting Sara Marshall
This is Spinal Tap
Superbad
Theres Something About Mary
Airplane
Old School
I Love You Man
Swingers
Beverly Hills Cop
Blazing Saddles
Easy Money

 

[landrys hat]

Super Troopers
Wayne's World
White Men Can't Jump
Clerks

 

[Ghost Rider]

See, this is why this exercise is impossible. I totally zoned out on including The Princess Bride, which is one of my all-time favorites, and Super Troopers and A Fish Called Wanda are awesome ones I forgot about as well. Just too many good ones!

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

Waiting For Guffman
Raising Arizona
There’s Something About Mary
Dumb and Dumber

 

[KarmaPolice]

See, this is why this exercise is impossible. I totally zoned out on including The Princess Bride, which is one of my all-time favorites, and Super Troopers and A Fish Called Wanda are awesome ones I forgot about as well. Just too many good ones!

For me there is a big difference between best movie that is a comedy vs favorite comedy movie, and I get hung up on this during these lists. Something like Princess Bride is an example- great movie that is a comedy, but if i am honest it doesn't make me laugh much or all the way through. Something like Supertroopers is the opposite. Makes me laugh more, but I wouldn't call it a great movie.

 

[tri-man 47]

Animal House
Stripes
Elf
Blazing Saddles

I overlooked two Kevin Kline movies that I can’t resist, so I’ll amend:

Animal House
Dave
Stripes
A Fish Called Wanda

 

[Todem]

I saw the other Vacation movies get a mention but I'll throw in Vegas Vacation as an honorable mention. The blackjack scenes alone are classic.

Vegas Vacation was Cousin Eddies romp.

“Best 1.99 buffet in town….we only need one plate”

“Give me some of the yellow….and don’t get cheap on me”

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

office space
my cousin vinny
airplane
clue

HMs:happy gilmore, Modern Times, Galaxy Quest,

 

[Todem]

How did I forget Major League!

See, that's why picking 4 is impossible....I forgot this one, too, and it's definitely one of my all time faves.

4 is impossible.

I can list 25 all timers easily.

 

[Ghost Rider]

See, this is why this exercise is impossible. I totally zoned out on including The Princess Bride, which is one of my all-time favorites, and Super Troopers and A Fish Called Wanda are awesome ones I forgot about as well. Just too many good ones!

For me there is a big difference between best movie that is a comedy vs favorite comedy movie, and I get hung up on this during these lists. Something like Princess Bride is an example- great movie that is a comedy, but if i am honest it doesn't make me laugh much or all the way through. Something like Supertroopers is the opposite. Makes me laugh more, but I wouldn't call it a great movie.

I know exactly what you mean. Often times with comedies, you have to embrace the absurdity that usually comes with the actual plot/story being told.

 

[ChiefD]

History of the World Part I