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Bravo has been running its 100 funniest movies of all time, so I thought I'd check the pulse of the board. Movies, like music, are so subjective and personal, but I thought I'd throw out some titles and see what ya'll (TM Rock) thought. In no particular order:

1. Animal House
2. Caddyshack
3. Tommy Boy
4. Clerks
5. Fast Times At Ridemont High
6. Don't Be A Menace...
7. Vacation
8. Blazing Saddles
9. Coming To America
10. Stripes
11. The Blues Brothers
12. Dumb And Dumber
13. American Pie
14. Not Another Teen Movie
15. Major League
16. Airplane
17. The Naked Gun
18. Mallrats
19. Happy Gilmore
20. Scary Movie

I know I haven't even scratched the surface, and I'm sure my wet brain has forgotten some first ballot classics. Whadda you guys think?

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In no particular order:

1. Animal House
2. Caddyshack
3. Tommy Boy
4. Clerks
5. Fast Times At Ridemont High
6. Don't Be A Menace...
7. Vacation
8. Blazing Saddles
9. Coming To America
10. Stripes
11. The Blues Brothers
12. Dumb And Dumber
13. American Pie
14. Not Another Teen Movie
15. Major League
16. Airplane
17. The Naked Gun
18. Mallrats
19. Happy Gilmore
20. Scary Movie

I know I haven't even scratched the surface, and I'm sure my wet brain has forgotten some first ballot classics. Whadda you guys think?


Great list. Others to consider:

1. I Love You to Death
2. What about Bob?
3. Ruthless People
4. Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
5. The Naked Gun 2 1/2
6. Boomerang
7. Groundhog Day
8. Billy Madison
9. A Fish called Wanda
10. Old School
11. Best in Show
12. Flirting with Disaster
13. Austin Powers: Intl. Man of Mystery
14. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
15. My Blue Heaven
16. Quick Change
17. Better off Dead
18. Kingpin
19. So I Married an Axe Murder
20. Up in Smoke

Classic Scene, Bad movie:

Ace Ventura II - The scene where he crawls out of the fake Rhino's ass. Cracks me up everytime.

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For me, Office Space is without a doubt in my top 20.


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This is my top 14 and 1 is all time funniest and 14 is not all time funniest
1. Tommy Boy
2. Caddyshack
3. Animal House
4. Dumb and Dumber
5. Billy Madison
6. Spaceballs
7. Happy Gilmore
8. Office Space
9. Old School
10. Blazing Saddles
11. Summer School staring Mark Harmon
12. Revenge of the Nerds
13. Euro Trip
14. Biodome

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Full Metal Jacket(first half)
Coming to America
I'm gonna get you sucka
House Party 1
Old School
American Pie 1 and 2
Friday
CaddyShack
Naked Gun
Scary Movie 1 and 2
I am Sam

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My Top 20 in no particular order:

1. Friday
2. Dumb and Dumber
3. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged me
4. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
5. Super Troopers
6. Don't be a Menace
7. Major League
8. Office Space
9. Billy Madison
10. Blazing Saddles
11. Swingers
12. Happy Gilmore
13. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
14. Rush Hour
15. Road Trip
16. Wedding Crashers
17. Anchorman
18. There's Something About Mary
19. Robin Hood: Men in Tights
20. Scary Movie 1


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[quote=This is my top 14 and 1 is all time funniest and 14 is not all time funniest
1. Tommy Boy
2. Caddyshack
3. Animal House
4. Dumb and Dumber
5. Billy Madison
6. Spaceballs
7. Happy Gilmore
8. Office Space
9. Old School
10. Blazing Saddles
11. Summer School staring Mark Harmon
12. Revenge of the Nerds
13. Euro Trip
14. Biodome[/quote]
I forgot some funny movies:
Uncle Buck
Dr. Strangelove
Anchorman
Wedding Crashers
Napolean Dynamite
My Cousin Vinny

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here is the complete list from bravo:
100. Anchorman
99. The Birdcage
98. School of Rock
97. Happy Gilmore
96. Four Weddings and a Funeral
95. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
94. Waiting for Guffman
93. The Aristocrats
92. Father of the Bride
91. Revenge of the Nerds
90. Clueless
89. Slapshot
88. Team America
87. The Kentucky Fried Movie
86. Zoolander
85. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
84. Silver Streak
83. Sister Act
82. Tootsie
81. Half Baked
80. Lost in America
79. Three Amigos
78. Bananas
77. Flirting with Disaster
76. Ghostbusters
75. Dumb and Dumber
74. Trading Places
73. City Slickers
72. Moonstruck
71. Roxanne
70. The Nutty Professor (Eddie Murphy)
69. The Blues Brothers
68. Broadcast News
67. Kingpin
66. Dazed and Confused
65. Office Space
64. This is Spinal Tap
63. Manhattan
62. The Pink Panther
61. Election
60. When Harry Met Sally
59. Police Academy Series
58. Private Benjamin
57. Swingers
56. Young Frankenstein
55. Bull Durham
54. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
53. Dr. Strangelove
52. Meet the Parents
51. National Lampoon's Vacation
50. The Princess Bride
49. American Pie
48. American Graffiti
47. 9 to 5
46. The Incredibles
45. Raising Arizona
44. Sixteen Candles
43. What About Bob?
42. Harold and Maude
41. Austin Powers
40. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
39. Mrs. Doubtfire
38. Best In Show
37. Dodgeball
36. Good Morning Vietnam
35. Beetlejuice
34. Rushmore
33. Clerks
32. Groundhog Day
31. The Big Lebowski
30. The 40 Year Old Virgin
29. Legally Blonde
28. Annie Hall
27. A Fish Called Wanda
26. Wayne's World
25. Meet the Fockers
24. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
23. Big
22. Beverly Hills Cop
21. Shampoo
20. The Jerk
19. Wedding Crashers
18. Stripes
17. M*A*S*H
16. Old School
15. Fast Times At Ridgemont High
14. Napoleon Dynamite
13. Naked Gun Series
12. The Producers
11. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
10. Arthur
9. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
8. Blazing Saddles
7. The Wedding Singer
6. Airplane
5. South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
4. There's Something About Mary
3. Shrek
2. Caddyshack
1. Animal House

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Legally Blonde, Arthur, and fucking Shampoo(!) make this list, but Tommy Boy doesn't? Utter bullshit!

And am I the only one who doesn't kneel and bob over Napolean Dynamite? I thought that movie fucking sucked.

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I'm with you Dallas; I thought it was a horrible, dreadful, not-even-cracked-a-smile-once kind of a movie. I've been forced into repeated viewings and I haven't cracked a smile once. It may have been because everyone and their family continuously repeated the movie's lines verbatim 24/7 to the point that when I finally saw it I thought it was a cinematic train wreck...and not in a good way. Sort of like the "I'm Rick James bitch!" uproar from the spring/summer of '04 (I never saw the bit months until after it originally aired, and when I finally saw it I just thought "What's so God damn funny about that?")


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the south park movie had the funniest first 15 minutes of any comedy in my opinion.

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I never laughed louder or harder, or felt guiltier for laughing so loud and hard than while viewing South Park: B, L, U.

That movie was fucking genius. It only has one slow part, and it's only about 10 minutes of the movie. Much like my favorite stand ups, I love movies that are mindbogglingly vulgar and profane, yet are smart and witty at the same time.

Shrek @ #3? I guess Jurko voted on this list.

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail is by far one of my Top 5 favorites, and to see it listed as #40 on the Bravo list makes me a sad man.


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I can't figure out how Billy Madison could be on anyone's list. When I was in high school and saw it the first time and we all loved it and quoted it. I recently re-watched it and it has not aged well at all IMO. Happy Gilmore is much the same for me. I don't know what it is about those two movies, but I used to love them and now the humor just isn't there anymore.


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Blazing Saddles has to be # 1 on any list of Funny Movies.

How Bravo could put Wedding Singer, Somthing About Mary, & Shrek ahead of Blazing Saddles is a joke.

BTW, where was "Up The Acadamy"?

My Top 10:
1. Blazing Saddles
2. Caddyshack
3. Airplane
4. Young Frankenstein
5. Montey Python & The Holy Grail
6. The Jerk
7. Princess Bride
8. Bull Durham
9. This Is Spinal Tap
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I can't figure out how Billy Madison could be on anyone's list. When I was in high school and saw it the first time and we all loved it and quoted it. I recently re-watched it and it has not aged well at all IMO. Happy Gilmore is much the same for me. I don't know what it is about those two movies, but I used to love them and now the humor just isn't there anymore.


I KNow what you're saying Hawkeye. i think its more Adam Sandler. He sucks. However, I am going to have to go ahead and disagree with you there (lumbergh, os) on Happy Gilmore. For me that movie is still pretty damn funny. Shooter McGavin is just classic


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How did we all forget Bad Santa? I almost pulled a groin the first time I saw it.

I also forgot about History Of The World...Part 1. Mel Brooks is a genius. I'll take him over that overrated pedophile Woody Allen. Seriously, what is it with all the fuss over that creep?

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Oh man Dallas, spot on! In fact forget my "In no particular order"--Bad Santa destroys all and it's my #1


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Dallas, My 2 cents about Woody. Early Woody flicks were very different from the over-indulgent relationship crap that began with Annie Hall. A few of Woody's early flicks.....Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex, Bananas were comedy classics in their day. And both still stand up pretty well.


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Thank god the Jerk was at no. 20!

Granted was like 8 or 9 when it came out, but I went to see it and laughed so fucking hard.

Vintage Steve Martin before he started playing the Suburban Dad in every other movie out.

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What about the tour-de-force that was both installments of the weekend at Bernies' franchise.

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The Big Lebowski
Top Secret
The Blues Brothers
Anchorman
Raising Arizona
Napoleon Dynamite
Loaded Weapon 1
Blazing Saddles
The Kentucky Fried Movie
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"Ghost World" is up their now. Saw it this weekend, figured it would be pretentious like Wes Anderson fims, but it wasn't, great shit and very un-PC


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Monty Python and the Holy Grail is by far one of my Top 5 favorites, and to see it listed as #40 on the Bravo list makes me a sad man.

"Life of Brian" is funnier, but somehow, lesser known. That should be on everyone's top 10.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

" REG: They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.
LORETTA: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.
REG: Yeah.
LORETTA: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.
REG: Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?!
XERXES: The aqueduct?
REG: What?
XERXES: The aqueduct.
REG: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.
COMMANDO #3: And the sanitation.
LORETTA: Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like?
REG: Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done.
MATTHIAS: And the roads.
REG: Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads--
COMMANDO: Irrigation.
XERXES: Medicine.
COMMANDOS: Huh? Heh? Huh...
COMMANDO #2: Education.
COMMANDOS: Ohh...
REG: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
COMMANDO #1: And the wine.
COMMANDOS: Oh, yes. Yeah...
FRANCIS: Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left. Huh.
COMMANDO: Public baths.
LORETTA: And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.
FRANCIS: Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it. They're the only ones who could in a place like this.
COMMANDOS: Hehh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.
REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
XERXES: Brought peace.
REG: Oh. Peace? Shut up!"


I'd probably have "Team America" in there as well.

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail is by far one of my Top 5 favorites, and to see it listed as #40 on the Bravo list makes me a sad man.

"Life of Brian" is funnier, but somehow, lesser known. That should be on everyone's top 10.
I'd probably have "Team America" in there as well.


With you on both accounts. I think "Holy Grail" has its moments of greatness, but it's very uneven (especially the ending) whereas Life of Brian is a complete movie. It also features one of their greatest songs ever. And "Team America" is an instant classic. I actually think another underrated comedy is the South Park movie. Most of my friends were indifferent to it when it came out, I think I was the only one out of all of them that found it brilliant. Parker & Stone are two of the best satirists out there right now.


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With you on both accounts. I think "Holy Grail" has its moments of greatness, but it's very uneven (especially the ending) whereas Life of Brian is a complete movie. It also features one of their greatest songs ever.

I think it has to be one of the most underrated films of all time. I'd probably never had heard of it were it not for my cousin; inexplicably, "Holy Grail" gets all the pub. It's crazy how applicable all the jokes in "Life of Brian" are today.

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And "Team America" is an instant classic. I actually think another underrated comedy is the South Park movie. Most of my friends were indifferent to it when it came out, I think I was the only one out of all of them that found it brilliant. Parker & Stone are two of the best satirists out there right now.

Yeah, someone else mentioned "Bigger, Longer, Uncut," which reminded me that "Team America" deserved a mention. I can't sit through either film for more that a 5 minute stretch without laughing, and I've watched both many times. Have you ever seen "Cannibal: The Musical?"

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