What TV shows and movies did you think were really funny?
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June 25th, 2015
Recent questions about South Park and Seinfeld made me think about other shows that I thought were funny. I used to really like All in the Family back when I was little. I liked The Jeffersons and Sanford and Son.
I don’t watch regular TV shows now, and I don’t usually go to comedy movies but there are a few that I really liked. The In-Laws (Alan Arkin, Peter Falk version, circa 1975), Fargo, Superbad, Little Miss Sunshine, Borat.
What TV shows do you think were/are funny?
What movies do you think were funny?
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“Fractured Flickers” and “Mork and Mindy” for TV shows. “The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer” and “Murder by Death” for movies.
The only side splitting movie I can remember straight off is The Birdcage.
Well there is a new series, it is aussie, it is called ‘Open Slather’, it’s a comedy, and is awesome!
@Hypocrisy_Central That movie was hilarious. I’ve probably seen it 20 times. Most recently with a group of girlfriends who spent the night, something we haven’t done in ages.
Oh gosh, let me think what else.
Most recently, I would have to say The Big Bang Theory. My Dad and I watch it in re-runs quite often, in addition to watching the current episodes. I think this is the funniest show I’ve ever seen.
Other TV shows that I have thought were pretty funny are:
The New Adventures of Old Christine
Frazier
Cybill
Veronica’s Closet
The Nanny
The Wonder Years (equally hilarious and bittersweet, because it rang so true to life)
Third Rock from the Sun
Suddenly Susan
Dharma and Greg
Roseanne
Scrubs (especially the charcter of Dr. Perry Cox, played by John C. McGinley when he was in the middle of one of his Rants)
Movies:
Shrek (all 3)
Toy Story (all 3)
Ice Age (all 3)
Monsters Inc.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Despicable Me (1 and 2)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Young Frankenstein
The World’s Greatest Lover
High Anxiety
Austin Powers (the 2nd one)
Blades of Glory
Wilfred
Rescue Me
It’s Always Sunny
Boondocks
Metalocalypse*
Silicon Valley
Veep
Episodes
Both of the Newhart shows used to consistently crack me up. There’s something about the writing that emerged from the stables of MTM that trips my switch. Does anyone here remember the briefly runTony Randall show put out by MTM? That program would make me laugh to nearly the need of hospitalization. The premise of the show involved Randall as a judge. And Randall was perfect as the sober and droll dry judge stereotype. Anyway, in one particular episode, we find “His Honor” low on funds. Our hero decides that he will supplement his income by teaching some night courses at a local law school. That’s the setup. The next scene opens with our hero reporting for his first class in a seedy but busy part of town on what appears to be a street of small commercial enterprises. The camera pans past what an apparent loitering “lady of the evening” up the facade of a rundown building and arrives at a flickering rusty neon sign above a door which flashes on and off the words “Ed’s Law School”. The camera immediately switches to the expression on Randall’s face. Anyway, things just get funnier as the episode goes on and the classroom fills with
stereotypical 70s characters. I wish I knew how to go about finding those episodes.
The oldest show that still makes me laugh out loud is Seinfeld; the newest ones are Veep, Silicon Valley, The Comedians, Extras, and—- omg—the brilliant Louie. Some of the shows that still amuse me even though I know the funny places so well are Dick Van Dyke, the original Newhart, and Roseanne. And many, many others that don’t instantly come to mind.
I really love the Christopher Guest movies, especially Waiting For Guffman and Best in Show.
A TV show that I really like is ‘Freakazoid”, it’s an animated show produced by Steven Spielberg. One of the funniest shows I’ve ever seen
On TV:
MASH
You’ll Never Get Rich/Sgt. Bilko/The Phil Silvers Show
Sanford and Son
All In The Family
SportsNight
South Park
the first 9 seasons of The Simpsons
The Daily Show
Police Squad
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
at the Movies:
Some Like It Hot
the original The Producers
Most early Woody Allen movies
Most early Bob Hope movies
Most early Groucho Marx movies’
Team America World Police
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Big Lebowski
O Brother Where Art Thou
I also liked Meet the Parents. I am a Robert DeNiro fan.
I liked As Good As It Gets and Something’s Gotta Give, both with Jack Nicholson. They’re not traditional comedies, they’re like comedy dramas but I liked them both.
Spaced Invaders http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spaced_invaders/
The jokes come so fast you have to watch it multiple times to catch them all. And it’s clean.
Rotten Tomatoes gives them an 8% on their tomatometer, and only 50% likes. Must be why I’m considered naïve here. Ha!
I did read somewhere that it’s wildly popular in France…
TV: Definitely Mork & Mindy as well as Happy Days.
Others: Scrubs
Wings
M*A*S*H
The Big Bang Theory
Bob’s Burgers (just finished watching season 4 on Netflix)
The Nanny
Movies: Airplane & Airplane II
Mel Brooks History of the World Part I
The Wild, Wild West
The Smurfs
And, of course Dr. Dolittle (all 5 of them)
Laugh-out-loud funny…
- Friends
- Fawlty Towers
- Community
I am surprised no one mentioned Tropic Thunder.
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