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(18,490 posts)one of Mel Brooks best, Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle were all funny as hell.
BootinUp
(47,141 posts)Blues Brothers.
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)of course illicit substances were involved, so it might not be exactly what I remembered.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)First saw it in the early-mid 70's and it was a gut buster to me.
Brother Buzz
(36,416 posts)Last edited Mon Aug 6, 2012, 11:59 PM - Edit history (1)
I was hooked when Jimmy Durante literally kicked the bucket when he kicked the bucket, and the movie was just starting.
"under the Big W."
Main actors
* Sid Caesar as Melville Crump
* Edie Adams as Monica Crump
* Milton Berle as J. Russell Finch
* Dorothy Provine as Emmeline Marcus-Finch
* Ethel Merman as Mrs. Marcus
* Jonathan Winters as Lennie Pike
* Mickey Rooney as Dingy Bell
* Buddy Hackett as Benjy Benjamin
* Spencer Tracy as Captain T. G. Culpeper
* Terry-Thomas as Lt. Col. J. Algernon Hawthorne
* Phil Silvers as Otto Meyer
* Dick Shawn as Sylvester Marcus
Secondary actors
* Jim Backus as boozy and rich airplane owner Tyler Fitzgerald
* William Demarest as Aloysius, Chief of the Santa Rosita Police Department
* Jimmy Durante as "Smiler" Grogan
* Peter Falk as a cop-hating cab driver
* Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as a cab driver
* Paul Ford as Col. Wilberforce
* Barrie Chase as Sylvester Marcus' bikini-wearing girlfriend, Mrs. Haliburton (or Halliburton)
Cameo appearances
* Jack Benny as a man who drives by in a Maxwell, offering to help, but is put off by Mrs. Marcus
* Paul Birch as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer
* Ben Blue as the vintage biplane pilot
* Joe E. Brown as the union official giving a speech at a construction site
* Alan Carney as a sergeant with the Santa Rosita Police Department
* Chick Chandler as detective outside Chinese laundry
* John Clarke as helicopter pilot
* Stanley Clements as a local reporter at police station
* Lloyd Corrigan as the mayor of Santa Rosita
* Howard Da Silva as an airport official
* Andy Devine as the Sheriff of Crockett County, California (fictional)
* Selma Diamond (voice only) as Ginger Culpeper, Captain Culpeper's wife
* Minta Durfee as a crowd extra
* Roy Engel as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer
* Norman Fell as primary detective at the "Smiler" Grogan accident site
* James Flavin as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer
* Stan Freberg as a Crockett County Deputy Sheriff
* Nicholas Georgiade as supporting detective at the "Smiler" Grogan accident site
* Louise Glenn (voice only) as Billie Sue Culpeper, Captain Culpeper's daughter
* Leo Gorcey as a cab driver bringing Melville and Monica to the hardware store
* Stacy Harris (voice only) as police radio voice unit F-7
* Don C. Harvey as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer
* Sterling Holloway as a Santa Rosita Fire Department fire captain
* Edward Everett Horton as Mr. Dinckler, owner of the hardware store
* Allen Jenkins as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer
* Marvin Kaplan as garage/service station co-owner Irwin
* Robert Karnes as Simmy, a Santa Rosita Police Department officer
* Buster Keaton as Jimmy the Crook (boatman)
* Tom Kennedy as a Santa Rosita Police Department traffic cop
* Don Knotts as the nervous motorist
* Charles Lane as the airport manager
* Harry Lauter as a police dispatcher of the Santa Rosita Police Department
* Ben Lessy as George the steward
* Bobo Lewis as vintage biplane pilot's wife
* Jerry Lewis as the man who runs over Culpeper's hat
* Bob Mazurki (presumed) as Eddie, the miner's son
* Mike Mazurki as the miner bringing medicine to his wife
* Charles McGraw as Lt. Matthews of the Santa Rosita Police Department
* Cliff Norton as a reporter
* Barbara Pepper as an ice cream counter waitress (scene deleted)
* ZaSu Pitts as Gertie, the Santa Rosita Police Department Central Division's switchboard operator
* Carl Reiner as the Rancho Conejo airport tower controller
* Madlyn Rhue as secretary Schwartz of the Santa Rosita Police Department
* Roy Roberts as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer (scene deleted)
* Eddie Ryder as Rancho Conejo air traffic control tower staff member
* Charles Sherlock as a crowd extra
* The Shirelles (voice), singing "31 Flavors" in Sylvester's bachelor pad scene
* Eddie Smith as an extra
* Arnold Stang as garage/service station co-owner Ray
* Nick Stewart as migrant truck driver forced off the road
* The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe)[2] as Rancho Conejo Airport firemen (they have the shortest cameo appearance; five seconds)
* Sammee Tong as a laundryman
* Doodles Weaver as a hardware store employee
* Jesse White as a Rancho Conejo air traffic controller
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Jack Benny's valet.
Brother Buzz
(36,416 posts)He wasn't on the list? I swiped the list from Wiki and now I see I missed the SECOND column of secondary actors. Eddie Anderson got higher billing then Benny - as it should have been all along. Thanks for noticing my omission. Noted and corrected.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)He was Jack Benny's valet on The Jack Benny Show.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,566 posts)I mean, I think this is the funniest movie I've ever seen. It stayed at high level the whole time. I also like the Jonathan Winters scene when he destroys the gas station.........
Jack Sprat
(2,500 posts)2nd: Cat Ballou
3rd: Life
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)On other days, my answer might be:
Airplane!
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Kind Hearts & Coronets
or
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Louis de Funes was one of the all time masters of physical comedy. Oscar was originally a French stage play involving one comedic complication after another around a missing suitcase. Sylvester Stallone tried to do an American remake but it fell very flat as he's no comedian. Of his many hilarious madcap comedies, I think Oscar was the funniest for Louis de Funes.
AllenVanAllen
(3,134 posts)An all time favorite.
here's the entire film on youtube
applegrove
(118,622 posts)chknltl
(10,558 posts)HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)I was going to add Blazing Saddles. In fact, I think it's funnier now than it was then (except for the channels that leave out the N-word and other objectionable language). It was the N-word and objectionable language that made it funny. The best scene was where Hedy (oops, Hedley) was reciting the type of person to recruit for his posse. All while the other guy was fumbling for paper and pencil.
Cheap_Trick
(3,918 posts)Eric Christmas and the others really sell it and makes me laugh every time.
Hard to believe that Porky's was directed by the same guy who directed A Christmas Story. (and a slasher film called Black Christmas).
But my favorite comedy is probably either Airplane! or Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)At the moment I'm feeling "Bowfinger" but that can easily change at any moment.
Another that is coming to mind that was constantly hilarious - "Tropic Thunder".
Prisoner_Number_Six
(15,676 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Unashamedly low budget: B&W grainy film but the best dialogue I've seen in a comedy film.
unapatriciated
(5,390 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)Although it has fierce competition
Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Airplane!, It Happened One Night, My Favorite Year, Office Space, The Big Lebowski, The Lady Eve, Bull Durham, King of Comedy, Galaxy Quest, A Christmas Story
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Their chemistry was dead on perfect.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)My family thinks I'm crazy.
sendero
(28,552 posts)... with more fun movie quotes than you can shake a stick at
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)when I was thinking of really funny movies, but you are right....it was hilarious.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Graybeard
(6,996 posts)Danny Kaye and a superb cast (Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury) all seem to be having so much fun it's infectious. Kaye's wonderful "Chalice from the palace" skit is a classic.
Good-natured spoof of all the Robin Hood, Ivanhoe, knights in armor films and one of Danny Kaye's best.
mucifer
(23,530 posts)"Potato Salad!"
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I haven't seen that movie in decades, but I still remember some of those lines.
Definitely a classic!
solara
(3,836 posts)Certainly a comedy classic. Kaye's wife, Sylvia FIne wrote his 'special' material - including "Chalice from the palace Glynnis Johns was also superb in this
TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)I've lost count of how many times I've watched and still howl hysterically through the whole thing.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)Pool Hall Ace
(5,849 posts)"Elihu, will you come loofah my stretchmarks?"
GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)I like dark comedies.
EastTennesseeDem
(2,675 posts)Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)Peter Sellers was masterful.
Also, Office Space and The Big Lebowski.
Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)Nothing has made me laugh as hard before or since. I highly recommend it to those who haven't seen it yet.
BootinUp
(47,141 posts)The In Laws, so here it is
BootinUp
(47,141 posts)is another hilarious one.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)Cary Grant, but my favorite of his comedies is "Father Goose". The poisonous snake scene with Leslie Caron is a hoot.
Also, the "Grumpy Old Men" and "Odd Couple" movies starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon.
rrneck
(17,671 posts)the Big Lebowski.
Initech
(100,063 posts)rrneck
(17,671 posts)I've always wanted to use that line.
Yavin4
(35,437 posts)Came in handy.
Baitball Blogger
(46,700 posts)Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)Followed by:
Airplane!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Young Frankenstein
The Life of Brian
Black Dynamite
Initech
(100,063 posts)"Take it easy, I'm pre-law."
"I thought you were pre-med."
"What's the difference?"
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)it was rip roaringly funny).
Who can forget the line "And don't call me Shirley" ?
I don't think I've ever laughed out loud so much at a comedy movie as when I saw that one. Every scene hit my funny bone. And Lloyd Bridges had some of the best scenes!
O Brother Where Art Thou is up there, too. First time I liked George Clooney. The movie came on TV, but I wasn't going to watch it. A friend told me to watch it. I said I wouldn't because I didn't like Clooney. She said, "It's not what you think. Watch it. You won't be sorry." So I did. And I wasn't. I've liked Clooney ever since.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Watch an old film called Zero Hour!, then watch Airplane!.
Zero Hour! was the film that Airplane! was based. Most of the plot and even many of the quotes are exactly the same, except Zero Hour! is not a comedy.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)I caught "Zero Hour" on TCM and it made me appreciate "Airplane" about a million times more.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)begin_within
(21,551 posts)fishwax
(29,149 posts)Oh god, I'm repeating myself.
That is a hilarious movie. It's one of my mom's favorites as well. She introduced it to me when I was a kid. She laughed so hard my brother and I thought she might require medical attention.
grntuscarora
(1,249 posts)I've been a Gene Wilder fan ever since I saw it so long ago.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)Steve Buscemi was creepy funny in that movie!!
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)cliffordu
(30,994 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Or possibly Withnail & I.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)"The Sandlot"
Also, one particular scene in "Stand By Me" (The Body):
the tale of Lardass Hogan.
I love Stephen King.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)Or Waking Ned Devine.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)aside from being Bill Murray's tour de force, it is a profound little movie. Hilarious, too.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)My all-time favorite funny movie.
Also, the original "In-Laws", and "Night On Earth."
Nobody mentioned "Some Like It Hot" -- always voted top of the list by Americans.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)of my perennial favorites as well.
I love her "Le Jazz Hot" number.
I saw "Night on Earth" over 20 years ago, and although I thought it was sort of strange at first, I got into it.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)A British comedy from the 1960s with an all-star cast, including Michael Caine, Peter Sellers, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Ralph Richardson, and John Mills.
A group of British schoolboys is entered into a tontine, in which a huge sum of money will go to the last survivor of the group. Most of them die (in hilarious ways) until only two old men are left. Now the heirs of the two last survivors strive to make sure that THEIR relative, not the other guy, wins the money.
And it's FINALLY out on DVD!
emilyg
(22,742 posts)Some Like it Hot.
raccoon
(31,110 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)The original "In-Laws" with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin.
Serpentine, Shell! Serpentine!
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)BTW, I believe it was Jack Lemmon who played the husband of Sandy Dennis, not Walter Matthau.
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)...there are a couple that did that in first time viewing.
The Party with Peter Sellers
and, The Nutty Professor with Jerry Lewis
.
mikeytherat
(6,829 posts)I've watched these films a million times, and they still make me laugh out loud.
mikey_the_rat
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Tomorrow's would probably be Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Wednesday, Spinal Tap.
Definitely one of those three.
nadine_mn
(3,702 posts)I cry laughing every time I watch
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)An even toss-up betweenBrighton Beach Memoirs and My Favorite Year.
Equate
(256 posts)Rat Race
Broken_Hero
(59,305 posts)I think I have to give the slight nod to SpaceBalls the Movie!!!!
We fucking brake for no one!-Space Ball 1
No sir, I didn't see you playing with your toys again!
Son of a bitch shot my hair!!!
That, wasn't bad for a girl...Hell, that was good enough for Rambo!
You idiots, you captured their stunt doubles!
So, the pass code is 12345...yes, damn, thats the stupidest combination I ever heard of, its the combination and idiot would put on his luggage!
I'm a Mog, half man, half dog...I'm my own best friend!
Barf!! Not in her mister, this is a Mercedes!
Your Royal Hignesses Mass Luggage!!
Yogurt...I hate Yogurt! Especially with Strawberries!
Only one man would Dare give me the Raspberry....LONESTAR!
I'm your fathers brothers cousins uncles' former roomate....so, what does that make us? Absolutely nothing, which is what you are about to become!
There are so many memorable lines in this movie...its ridiculous. I'll give a shout out to Blazing Saddles, but I enjoy Spaceballs a lot more.
dimbear
(6,271 posts)Never gets old.
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BainsBane
(53,031 posts)I've seen it at least 50 times and always laugh.
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