Favorite comedy
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Anyway, out of those that i can remember now: Hot Fuzz.
Anyway, out of those that i can remember now: Hot Fuzz.
For TV, Arrested Development hands down.
For movies, the first ones that come to mind for me are Edgar Wright's films like Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim, etc. He definitely does visual comedy better than anyone.
For movies, the first ones that come to mind for me are Edgar Wright's films like Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim, etc. He definitely does visual comedy better than anyone.
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Easily Love and Death. It's Woody Allen at his finest with some of the silliest moments in cinema alongside incredibly philosophical debates...with funny accents. And the bottle scene. No matter how many times I see it, I always just lose my shit.
The internet is funnier, so for the most part I avoid comedies, but off the top of my head, O Cheiro do Ralo, O Auto da Compadecida, Doghouse, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Cabin in the Woods, Superbad, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Safety not Guaranteed, Sharknado, Arachnoquake.
These are some exceptions. Comedies in general are garbage and I don't find them funny at all, specially if they're trying to be funny going all LAUGH AT THIS, YOU PIECE OF SHIT, ISN'T THIS FUNNY?
These are some exceptions. Comedies in general are garbage and I don't find them funny at all, specially if they're trying to be funny going all LAUGH AT THIS, YOU PIECE OF SHIT, ISN'T THIS FUNNY?
Oscar, with Tim Curry and Sylvester Stallone. I think it's also the first role of the lady that voiced Harley Quinn.
The Blues Brothers. They're on a mission from God, and hate Illinois nazis.
Ace Ventura 2. The rhino birthing scene and the spears in the legs kill me every time.
The Blues Brothers. They're on a mission from God, and hate Illinois nazis.
Ace Ventura 2. The rhino birthing scene and the spears in the legs kill me every time.
Team America: World Police, which I count among my favorite movies of all time. I can't think of another film that would deliver a harsh, yet accurate and in a way reassuring analysis of world politics in such scathingly scatological terms. If you've seen the film, you know what I mean. It's a perfect combination of absurdist, dark, shock and juvenile scatological humor that tickles all my funny bones.
On the complete opposite end we have Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Perhaps no other film outside of Studio Ghibli productions makes me feel as happy. It's so lovable, cute and warm through and through, the humor both visual and verbal is so perfectly delivered and clever yet in such good spirit towards everyone I can't really think how anyone could dislike it.
In rapid fire visual and slapstick comedy The Lego Movie and Naked Gun are my favorite examples. Not that much to say, they don't really get old.
Big Lebowski for the absurdity. It breaks so many conventions of cinema and even basic narrative storytelling that in theory it shouldn't work on any conceivable level: None of the characters have an arc, nobody really learns anything, like 80% of the narrative threads just drop off the movie completely unresolved, there's essentially no structure to the story at all, it more like stumbles from scene to scene and so on. Yet once you accept the absurdity, it's a nearly unmatched riot, and an exceedingly rare example of a comedy that actually gets funnier the more you watch it.
And in the final outskirts, in the very edges of comedy, in the strange nether, are things like A Serious Man, and a little known Finnish sketch show called Ihmebantu. Things that push themselves to such degrees of strangeness and unnervingness you no longer know if you can even call it comedy. Where the laugh comes not from finding things funny, but because it's the only reaction you can think of. Scenarios that could in and of themselves, without altering a single frame or audio cue, be presented as horrifyingly depressing, dark and downright dehumanizing. I guess I'd characterize them as skirting the edges of the Uncanny Valley of comedy: you can't really say if it's funny, yet you don't find it altogether off putting either. Such things are rare, and ever more rarely done well, but when they are, they're unlike anything else.
On the complete opposite end we have Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Perhaps no other film outside of Studio Ghibli productions makes me feel as happy. It's so lovable, cute and warm through and through, the humor both visual and verbal is so perfectly delivered and clever yet in such good spirit towards everyone I can't really think how anyone could dislike it.
In rapid fire visual and slapstick comedy The Lego Movie and Naked Gun are my favorite examples. Not that much to say, they don't really get old.
Big Lebowski for the absurdity. It breaks so many conventions of cinema and even basic narrative storytelling that in theory it shouldn't work on any conceivable level: None of the characters have an arc, nobody really learns anything, like 80% of the narrative threads just drop off the movie completely unresolved, there's essentially no structure to the story at all, it more like stumbles from scene to scene and so on. Yet once you accept the absurdity, it's a nearly unmatched riot, and an exceedingly rare example of a comedy that actually gets funnier the more you watch it.
And in the final outskirts, in the very edges of comedy, in the strange nether, are things like A Serious Man, and a little known Finnish sketch show called Ihmebantu. Things that push themselves to such degrees of strangeness and unnervingness you no longer know if you can even call it comedy. Where the laugh comes not from finding things funny, but because it's the only reaction you can think of. Scenarios that could in and of themselves, without altering a single frame or audio cue, be presented as horrifyingly depressing, dark and downright dehumanizing. I guess I'd characterize them as skirting the edges of the Uncanny Valley of comedy: you can't really say if it's funny, yet you don't find it altogether off putting either. Such things are rare, and ever more rarely done well, but when they are, they're unlike anything else.
Oh crap, thanks Bartholen, I forgot about foreign films.
Il Mostro, my introduction to Roberto Benigni. It's like Chaplin's Tramp mistaken for a local serial killer through a series of misunderstandings.
Killer Condom, a Troma movie not made by Troma.
Although, these two are more Horror-Comedies. But they made me laugh a lot.
The Greasy Strangler, which I immediately picked up on the recommendation of Jay 'da bae' Bauman. It's a John Waters movie not made by John Waters. So weird and funny.
Il Mostro, my introduction to Roberto Benigni. It's like Chaplin's Tramp mistaken for a local serial killer through a series of misunderstandings.
Killer Condom, a Troma movie not made by Troma.
Although, these two are more Horror-Comedies. But they made me laugh a lot.
The Greasy Strangler, which I immediately picked up on the recommendation of Jay 'da bae' Bauman. It's a John Waters movie not made by John Waters. So weird and funny.
GODS ABOVE! Someone else who knows about this utter gem of a movie; oh you beautiful unicorn youAmerican Fox said:
Indeed, Harley Quinn is the manicurist. Also stars current Aunt May, Marisa Tomei OT:
Yes, Minister/Prime Minister, BlackAdder and Fawlty Towers.
They are some of the sharpest spoken word comedies, with Fawlty Towers contributing some delightful farce and slapstick.
As a big fan of cringe-worthy shit humor, I have to go for the filmography of the Zucker Brothers. This will always be my favourite joke:
The more times I groan and swear at a comedy, the more delighted I am.
The more times I groan and swear at a comedy, the more delighted I am.
Gordon_4 said:GODS ABOVE! Someone else who knows about this utter gem of a movie; oh you beautiful unicorn youAmerican Fox said: