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There has already been far too much bad news this week, and it’s still only Tuesday. We could all do with some proper cheering up, so let’s address this question from James from Telford:
What do you think is the best laugh-out-loud film of all time?
Go to the comments, readers, and tell us which films will give us the dose of jollity we need amid all the grimness, which we can temporarily forget whilst we have a chuckle-filled viewing party on electrical equipment we obtained through the proper, legal means.
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September 8, 2011 at 9:54 am |
“Arsenic and old lace” Cary Grant at his comedic finest! And it features serial killing old ladies who doesn’t love that?
August 18, 2011 at 2:50 am |
Clue – Tim Curry at his finest, I know all the dialogue and it still cracks me up every time.
And because I can’t pick between the two Dazed and Confused – partly for seeing Matthew Mcconaughey in tight pink trousers. (This film also caused a rift between me and my friend as she managed to sit through the whole thing and barely cracked a smil!)
August 12, 2011 at 8:50 am |
Twin Town. Great movie. Shame Rhys Ifans had to go and spoil it all by making Notting Hill straight after. Oh, well I guess it fits. Best comedy from the 90’s and biggest pile of twaddle from the 90s.
August 11, 2011 at 6:34 am |
le petit baigneur/the little bather – worth seeing for louis de funes alone. one of the greatest french comedies
August 11, 2011 at 12:15 am |
La Cage aux Folles (the original French film). I actually fell off my seat.
August 10, 2011 at 9:35 pm |
Zoolander is awesome, it always cheers me up. I can’t believe no one’s mentioned all-time great Monty Python?!
August 10, 2011 at 4:39 pm |
A Fish Called Wanda and LA Story always make me laugh.
August 10, 2011 at 12:50 pm |
Without a doubt…Airplane!
August 10, 2011 at 2:25 am |
My Cousin Vinny
August 9, 2011 at 4:50 pm |
Funniest black and white movie: Duck Soup
Funniest black and white movie made when they could have had color, but didn’t, because it spoofed a black and white movie: Young Frankenstein (or is it Frankensteen?).
Funniest movie, because it really ties this list together: The Big Lebowski
August 9, 2011 at 3:45 pm |
Try ‘The Plank’. A long forgotten classic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plank_%281967_film%29
August 9, 2011 at 2:43 pm |
Definately Zoolander. Every single time I see it I end up laughing hysterically. Also I have to say the gasoline fight against the backdrop of Wham’s “Wake me up before you go go” is hilariously funny!
August 9, 2011 at 2:08 pm |
And for totally ridiculous but very, very funny ‘Me, Myself & Irene’:
“The guy’s nuttier than a squirrel turd!”
“Name’s Hank, Hank Evans – for little girls… ”
“Vagiclean,” huh? What’s the matter, honey? Little extra cheese on the taco?”
I rest my case…
August 9, 2011 at 2:07 pm |
Lost in Translation still gets me every time.
August 9, 2011 at 2:03 pm |
The Hangover 2. My stomach hurt from laughing so hard. The friends I was with thought I was having a seizure!
August 9, 2011 at 2:01 pm |
The new Sherlock Holmes film is funny and dramatic, I recommend it 🙂
Or just for pure laughs Role Models keeps me and my friends in fits!
August 9, 2011 at 2:01 pm |
The British version (obvi) of Death At A Funeral. Wet pant funny.
August 9, 2011 at 2:25 pm |
First film I could think of, when I saw the question. That one is hilarious.
August 9, 2011 at 1:55 pm |
I saw Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry at the weekend, and after I’d got over the wierd awfulness of it, it was incredibly funny, in a dark, dark way.
August 9, 2011 at 1:54 pm |
Recently, Bridemaids was BRILLIANT, if a little long. Of all time……wel, Clerks still makes me laugh.
August 9, 2011 at 1:52 pm |
I remember seeing Zoolander in the cinema and falling of my seat laughing. Silly film but very very funny first time around..
August 9, 2011 at 1:52 pm |
Airplane – I can quote almost the entire film but it still leaves me in stiches every time I watch
August 9, 2011 at 1:51 pm |
Flesh Gordon. Not a typo, but a funny as fuck porn film. With actual production value and at one point someone who I think was in the original there are moment when you just cry laughing. Also, there are lots of penises and thats always funny.
August 9, 2011 at 1:46 pm |
I don’t know about ‘of all time’, but Anchorman is the film I remember laughing at until I hurt.