Airplane: Funniest movie ever ??

[Scott McD]

Read this in the newspaper today:

Spoof disaster movie Airplane has been voted funniest film ever made. The 1980 hit generates around three laughs a minute.

The Hangover came second with 2.4 laughs per minute.
The Naked Gun was third with 2.3 laughs per minuter.



Funnily enough i watched "Airplane" a couple of nights ago on one of the movie channels and i still laughed my ass off! "The Hangover" is one of my favourite movies aswell. Lost count of the amount of times i've watched it. Thought the 2nd one was quite shitty though.


What do YOU regard as the funniest movies made ??

[MaDalton]

don't call me Shirley

[punker barbie]

don't call me Shirley

[MaDalton]

i only call you Shirley

[MarkDeus]

Jackass 3D.

laughed so hard I almost puked in the theater. Had to go see it a second time.

Hotshots 2 was pretty awesome also

Oh, and the last 10 minutes of Rambo 4

[Paul&John]

Its hard to choose between Airplane and Hangover, but I think Hangover wins.. way to fucking funny movie

[Paul&John]

Jackass 3D.

laughed so hard I almost puked in the theater. Had to go see it a second time.

Hotshots 2 was pretty awesome also

oh yeah forgot about the jackass 3d.. that was hilarious

[Black All Through]

At the time it was funny, show it to the kids of today they wont even end watching it. I think that the funniest of all is Tommy Boy.

[MediaGuy]

Airplane takes it for me, because of all the "hidden" jokes all over the place. It's like reading Mad magazine, you can go back over it again and again and find new stuff all over the place.

"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World" was pretty amazing as well.

:D

[PornMD]

Baseketball, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Multiplicity, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Not Another Teen Movie...lots of funny shit out there. Airplane's pretty funny but I think Baseketball would top my list (and also directed by Airplane's Zucker).

[rogueteens]

Did The Life Of Brian rank? Thats the funniest film ever made.

[Scott McD]

Planes Trains & Automobiles

A classic, and another movie i've watched countless times. Although i don't think it's quite the laugh-a-minute as some of the other movies mentioned...

[Scott McD]

Did The Life Of Brian rank? Thats the funniest film ever made.

10th in the list they done.


Top 10 Films With The Highest 'Laugh A Minute' Scores:

1. Airplane - 3 Laughs A Minute

2. The Hangover - 2.4 Laughs A Minute

3. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad ! - 2.3 Laughs A Minute

4. Superbad - 1.9 Laughs A Minute

5. Borat - 1.7 Laughs A Minute

6. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy - 1.6 Laughs A Minute

7. American Pie - 1.5 Laughs A Minute

8. Bridesmaids - 1.4 Laughs A Minute

9. Shaun of the Dead - 1.3 Laughs A Minute

10. Life of Brian - 1.2 Laughs A Minute

[Rebel D]

[Scott McD]

Did The Life Of Brian rank? Thats the funniest film ever made.

Oh wait a sec infact:

"Interestingly, while Lovefilm members voted Life of Brian as the funniest film, our research shows that for laughs a minute the hilarious aircraft-based satire of Airplane beats the Monty Python epic hands-down."

http://www.independent.ie/entertainm...y-3223004.html

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

"A Fish Called Wanda" still ranks as one of the funniest movies I have ever seen:





Honorable mention to Clerks II:





ADG

[michael.kickass]

Nah, it's probably amongst the funniest but I don't think it's #1.

[Coup]

Funniest fucking movie ever imo.

[seeandsee]

airplane is funny, but also many more movies

[L-Pink]

"So Timmy do you like gladiator movies"

"Have you ever seen a grown man naked"

.

[Evil Chris]

Monty Python - Meaning of Life

[Sly]

Movies I liked:
2. The Hangover - 2.4 Laughs A Minute
5. Borat - 1.7 Laughs A Minute
7. American Pie - 1.5 Laughs A Minute
9. Shaun of the Dead - 1.3 Laughs A Minute

Movies I didn't like:
1. Airplane - 3 Laughs A Minute
3. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad ! - 2.3 Laughs A Minute
4. Superbad - 1.9 Laughs A Minute
6. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy - 1.6 Laughs A Minute

Movies I didn't see:
8. Bridesmaids - 1.4 Laughs A Minute
10. Life of Brian - 1.2 Laughs A Minute

[helterskelter808]

Did The Life Of Brian rank? Thats the funniest film ever made.

Indeed it is.

[Colo_bitch]

Read this in the newspaper today:

Spoof disaster movie Airplane has been voted funniest film ever made. The 1980 hit generates around three laughs a minute.

The Hangover came second with 2.4 laughs per minute.
The Naked Gun was third with 2.3 laughs per minuter.



Funnily enough i watched "Airplane" a couple of nights ago on one of the movie channels and i still laughed my ass off! "The Hangover" is one of my favourite movies aswell. Lost count of the amount of times i've watched it. Thought the 2nd one was quite shitty though.


What do YOU regard as the funniest movies made ??

I would have to agree with you that Airplane and The Hangover are two of the greatest movies.

[tical]

You ever just hang around the gymnasium?

[acrylix]

Rex Kramer, badass knew how to handle those bums at the airport back in the day.

[xxxjay]

Classic. Up there for sure.

[PornMD]

A classic, and another movie i've watched countless times. Although i don't think it's quite the laugh-a-minute as some of the other movies mentioned...

IMO it's not about the amount of laughs but the quality, and PT&A has some of the funniest scenes in any movie while even being a good drama movie in parts too. One of a kind flick.

[ninavain]

funniest movie ever is THE JERK

[Sunny Day]

Best comedy

Young Frankenstein
Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World come to mind
Palm Beach Story

But there's so many. Best though
W C Fields
International House, Six of a Kind and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Marx Brothers
Duck Soup, A Day at the Races, A Night at the Opera,
A Night in Casablanca - Warner Brothers sued over the name and Groucho sent a letter back. May be the funniest letter ever written

Dear Warner Brothers,

Apparently there is more than one way of conquering a city and holding it as your own. For example, up to the time that we contemplated making this picture, I had no idea that the city of Casablanca belonged exclusively to Warner Brothers. However, it was only a few days after our announcement appeared that we received your long, ominous legal document warning us not to use the name Casablanca.

It seems that in 1471, Ferdinand Balboa Warner, your great-great-grandfather, while looking for a shortcut to the city of Burbank, had stumbled on the shores of Africa and, raising his alpenstock (which he later turned in for a hundred shares of common), named it Casablanca.

I just don?t understand your attitude. Even if you plan on releasing your picture, I am sure that the average movie fan could learn in time to distinguish between Ingrid Bergman and Harpo. I don?t know whether I could, but I certainly would like to try.

You claim that you own Casablanca and that no one else can use that name without permission. What about ?Warner Brothers?? Do you own that too? You probably have the right to use the name Warner, but what about the name Brothers? Professionally, we were brothers long before you were. We were touring the sticks as the Marx Brothers when Vitaphone was still a gleam in the inventor?s eye, and even before there had been other brothers?the Smith Brothers; the Brothers Karamazov; Dan Brothers, an outfielder with Detroit; and ?Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?? (This was originally ?Brothers, Can You Spare a Dime?? but this was spreading a dime pretty thin, so they threw out one brother, gave all the money to the other one, and whittled it down to ?Brother, Can You Spare a Dime??)

Now Jack, how about you? Do you maintain that yours is an original name? Well it?s not. It was used long before you were born. Offhand, I can think of two Jacks?Jack of ?Jack and the Beanstalk,? and Jack the Ripper, who cut quite a figure in his day.

As for you, Harry, you probably sign your checks sure in the belief that you are the first Harry of all time and that all other Harrys are impostors. I can think of two Harrys that preceded you. There was Lighthouse Harry of Revolutionary fame and a Harry Appelbaum who lived on the corner of 93rd Street and Lexington Avenue. Unfortunately, Appelbaum wasn?t too well-known. The last I heard of him, he was selling neckties at Weber and Heilbroner.

Now about the Burbank studio. I believe this is what you brothers call your place. Old man Burbank is gone. Perhaps you remember him. He was a great man in a garden. His wife often said Luther had ten green thumbs. What a witty woman she must have been! Burbank was the wizard who crossed all those fruits and vegetables until he had the poor plants in such confused and jittery condition that they could never decide whether to enter the dining room on the meat platter or the dessert dish.

This is pure conjecture, of course, but who knows?perhaps Burbank?s survivors aren?t too happy with the fact that a plant that grinds out pictures on a quota settled in their town, appropriated Burbank?s name and uses it as a front for their films. It is even possible that the Burbank family is prouder of the potato produced by the old man than they are of the fact that your studio emerged ?Casablanca? or even ?Gold Diggers of 1931.?

This all seems to add up to a pretty bitter tirade, but I assure you it?s not meant to. I love Warners. Some of my best friends are Warner Brothers. It is even possible that I am doing you an injustice and that you, yourselves, know nothing about this dog-in-the-Wanger attitude. It wouldn?t surprise me at all to discover that the heads of your legal department are unaware of this absurd dispute, for I am acquainted with many of them and they are fine fellows with curly black hair, double-breasted suits and a love of their fellow man that out-Saroyans Saroyan.

I have a hunch that his attempt to prevent us from using the title is the brainchild of some ferret-faced shyster, serving a brief apprenticeship in your legal department. I know the type well?hot out of law school, hungry for success, and too ambitious to follow the natural laws of promotion. This bar sinister probably needled your attorneys, most of whom are fine fellows with curly black hair, double-breasted suits, etc., into attempting to enjoin us. Well, he won?t get away with it! We?ll fight him to the highest court! No pasty-faced legal adventurer is going to cause bad blood between the Warners and the Marxes. We are all brothers under the skin, and we?ll remain friends till the last reel of ?A Night in Casablanca? goes tumbling over the spool.

Sincerely,

Groucho Marx

[MaDalton]

The only reason I came in here was to post that, and you robbed that away from me.... I will get you MaDalton. You and I are now mortal enemies.

i am sorry

[Penny24Seven]

Airplane takes it for me, because of all the "hidden" jokes all over the place. It's like reading Mad magazine, you can go back over it again and again and find new stuff all over the place.

"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World" was pretty amazing as well.

:D

I agree, so many hidden jokes you have to watch it again to catch some or what you missed while laughing the first time

[LiveDose]

I love Airplane! We had it on betamax when I was growing up lol.

'I take my coffee black, like my men...'

[devilspost]

I caught some of Undercover Brother while on the tread mill at the gym yesterday on BET I was embarrassing myself laughing so much while sweating my ass off. Didn't even have sound just captions.

[trustedrevenue]

didnt like it

[Sunny Day]

Hard to pick

There's so damn many funny movies, it's really hard to pick.
Fargo
Raising Arizona
Waiting For Guffman


There's 2 that aren't #1 but funny as Hell

Happy Texas
2 guys break out of prison, steal an RV owned by 2 gay guys who were going to Happy, Texas to teach the miserable drill team. The real guys were having bad luck, so when the RV gets stolen, they say fuck it and go to Hawaii. The 2 cons, stumble into Happy and somehow pretend they are the 2 gay guys and didn't know the guys were gay.

Drive-In (1976)
A low budget Airplane
A weekend night at a drive-in, small town Texas. Multiple plots.
Incompetent thieves plan to rob the box office.
The movie on the screen is a parody of disaster/scary movies.
In the meantime, there's plots in a dozen cars. Funniest is a Bubba in a pickup, who took his grandmother to the movies. She gives him grief for cussing and drinking a shitload of canned beers. Suddenly, she fires up a doobie.

[garce]

Too many funny movies - you can't pick one. Humour is very subjective and personal. Airplane is hilarious, but stone-dead stupid. Stupid, cheap, cliched jokes - but funny as hell.

Young Frankenstien - Puttin' On The Ritz. I pee myself oh-so-slightly everytime I watch it. Blazing Saddles, too.



Anything by Monty Python. Viscious, tear-inducing, brutal humour.

Austin Powers in Goldmember. I originally watched this movie in upstate New York in a small family-owned theatre that had a Jesus Fish sign hanging outside the entrance. Everyone in the theatre left partway through the film, except for me and friends. These people brought their kids, and were so disgusted by what they saw that they just went home. We were laughing so hard we were in tears. THAT was fucking hilarious. 200 people turned into five right after the "poo" scene.

[LeeD]

Airplane takes it for me, because of all the "hidden" jokes all over the place. It's like reading Mad magazine, you can go back over it again and again and find new stuff all over the place.

:D

That's one of the things i really like about Airplane, it's funny, but it's a witty kind of funny, not the brain-dead kind of funny that is so prominent now.

[lagcam]

Airplane was especially funny for me as a youngster as it parodied what seemed like an endless stream of Air disaster movies on the tv but if you haven't seen those type of movies before, many references or scenes could fly over your head.

Watched it again recently and it is still very funny and I believe it was the pioneer of the "almost offscreen gag" happening behind the main actors that a lot of spoof movies use nowadays.

[huey]

You guys are missing King Pin, Something about Mary.

[jollyperv]

Can't believe no one has mentioned Caddyshack

[Paul Markham]

Airplane for sure is one of the funniest.

Others in no particular order.

Life or Brian, It's a Mad Mad World (for the quality of the laughs), Holy Grail, This Is Spinal Tap, Tropic Thunder, M*A*S*H, The Producers, Blazing Saddles

















Saw Ted recently and thought it was great. But to make my list it has to make me laugh for years after it was made.

[nico-t]

kingpin is funny as fuck indeed. Freddy got fingered is hilarious as fuck. And deuce bigalow, hilarious as well. Both parts. Part 2 was criticized badly so i was expecting it to be not as funny as 1 but I was laughing my ass off from start to finish. Critics do not have humor.

[nico-t]

[rowan]

Probably not quite a classic, but Liar Liar was definitely the funniest movie I've seen at a cinema. The entire place was in uproar by this point:

[Scott McD]

Marx Brothers
Duck Soup, A Day at the Races, A Night at the Opera,
A Night in Casablanca - Warner Brothers sued over the name and Groucho sent a letter back. May be the funniest letter ever written

Dear Warner Brothers,

Apparently there is more than one way of conquering a city and holding it as your own. For example, up to the time that we contemplated making this picture, I had no idea that the city of Casablanca belonged exclusively to Warner Brothers. However, it was only a few days after our announcement appeared that we received your long, ominous legal document warning us not to use the name Casablanca.

It seems that in 1471, Ferdinand Balboa Warner, your great-great-grandfather, while looking for a shortcut to the city of Burbank, had stumbled on the shores of Africa and, raising his alpenstock (which he later turned in for a hundred shares of common), named it Casablanca.

I just don?t understand your attitude. Even if you plan on releasing your picture, I am sure that the average movie fan could learn in time to distinguish between Ingrid Bergman and Harpo. I don?t know whether I could, but I certainly would like to try.

You claim that you own Casablanca and that no one else can use that name without permission. What about ?Warner Brothers?? Do you own that too? You probably have the right to use the name Warner, but what about the name Brothers? Professionally, we were brothers long before you were. We were touring the sticks as the Marx Brothers when Vitaphone was still a gleam in the inventor?s eye, and even before there had been other brothers?the Smith Brothers; the Brothers Karamazov; Dan Brothers, an outfielder with Detroit; and ?Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?? (This was originally ?Brothers, Can You Spare a Dime?? but this was spreading a dime pretty thin, so they threw out one brother, gave all the money to the other one, and whittled it down to ?Brother, Can You Spare a Dime??)

Now Jack, how about you? Do you maintain that yours is an original name? Well it?s not. It was used long before you were born. Offhand, I can think of two Jacks?Jack of ?Jack and the Beanstalk,? and Jack the Ripper, who cut quite a figure in his day.

As for you, Harry, you probably sign your checks sure in the belief that you are the first Harry of all time and that all other Harrys are impostors. I can think of two Harrys that preceded you. There was Lighthouse Harry of Revolutionary fame and a Harry Appelbaum who lived on the corner of 93rd Street and Lexington Avenue. Unfortunately, Appelbaum wasn?t too well-known. The last I heard of him, he was selling neckties at Weber and Heilbroner.

Now about the Burbank studio. I believe this is what you brothers call your place. Old man Burbank is gone. Perhaps you remember him. He was a great man in a garden. His wife often said Luther had ten green thumbs. What a witty woman she must have been! Burbank was the wizard who crossed all those fruits and vegetables until he had the poor plants in such confused and jittery condition that they could never decide whether to enter the dining room on the meat platter or the dessert dish.

This is pure conjecture, of course, but who knows?perhaps Burbank?s survivors aren?t too happy with the fact that a plant that grinds out pictures on a quota settled in their town, appropriated Burbank?s name and uses it as a front for their films. It is even possible that the Burbank family is prouder of the potato produced by the old man than they are of the fact that your studio emerged ?Casablanca? or even ?Gold Diggers of 1931.?

This all seems to add up to a pretty bitter tirade, but I assure you it?s not meant to. I love Warners. Some of my best friends are Warner Brothers. It is even possible that I am doing you an injustice and that you, yourselves, know nothing about this dog-in-the-Wanger attitude. It wouldn?t surprise me at all to discover that the heads of your legal department are unaware of this absurd dispute, for I am acquainted with many of them and they are fine fellows with curly black hair, double-breasted suits and a love of their fellow man that out-Saroyans Saroyan.

I have a hunch that his attempt to prevent us from using the title is the brainchild of some ferret-faced shyster, serving a brief apprenticeship in your legal department. I know the type well?hot out of law school, hungry for success, and too ambitious to follow the natural laws of promotion. This bar sinister probably needled your attorneys, most of whom are fine fellows with curly black hair, double-breasted suits, etc., into attempting to enjoin us. Well, he won?t get away with it! We?ll fight him to the highest court! No pasty-faced legal adventurer is going to cause bad blood between the Warners and the Marxes. We are all brothers under the skin, and we?ll remain friends till the last reel of ?A Night in Casablanca? goes tumbling over the spool.

Sincerely,

Groucho Marx

I never knew about that. I love Groucho Marx. I'm glad my dad showed me movies like "Duck Soup" and "Horse Feathers" when i was younger or i would probably have never known much about the Marx Brothers and missed all their movies altogether probably...

[Brad Mitchell]

When I get dancing.. I sweat like the pilot in Airplane! I'd like to thank GFY for sponsoring shirts I could sweat through in January! Washed em when I got home and distributed to techs in the office :-)

Brad

[Chosen]

Haven't watched...

[Scott McD]

Haven't watched...

Valuable input as ever...

[adultmobile]

Did The Life Of Brian rank? Thats the funniest film ever made.

The life of brian I agree it is funny as well as: And Now for Something Completely Different ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066765/ ) and most of Monty Python's stuff. That for the oldest british fun stuff.

Airplane's and Naked Gun's and Hot Shot's and even some Scary Movie's are the most funny stuff I could find in USA, thanks to leslie nielsen and company, except perhaps Mel Brooks stuff especially Spaceballs as I am a star wars guy, but its history of the world is enough nonsense to laugh all time too.

The Hangover it is not fun at all to me, I can't get where it is funny, but I can't laugh at american pie too, maybe I am too european to laugh at that stuff.