Comedies that make your face ache

[abraxas]

I just finished watching one of the funny movies ever made, a true comedy classic "Cannonball Run" The bloopers that they show at the end are so friggin funny, every scene in the film is hilarious.

Which comedies make your face ache afterwards from laughing so much?

[CT]

Slackers

[Leatherface]

Anchorman

Tropic Thunder

Caddyshack

Ghostbusters

[CT]

Bruno
Borat

[HNT]

Agree with ct. Also, Duck Soup, Dr. Strangelove, airplane, the naked gun, and the hangover

[abraxas]

SpaceBalls
Young Frankenstein


The first of only two times I did acid I watched Young Frankenstein on Halloween night, the movie is one of the funnest films of all time, but I would not recommend watching in such a state. I fell off my chair and was gasping for breath, thought I was about to pass out from laughing so hard..........sdo not a good idea.

[Jen]

Young Frankenstein is one of mine as well. Also agree with Dr. Strangelove, Airplane and The Hangover, which we watched recently and its hilarious. Ghostbusters is high on my list as well.

And I will add Animal House.

[CT]

I like and own the Hangover. It's certainly funny and has some laugh out loud moments. But I have to disagree with HNT and Jen that its face aching funny. I thought there was more laughs to make my face ache in the first 15 of Bruno than the whole of The Hangover. I also thought Funny People was a funnier '09 comedy than Hangover, although I wouldn't call it face achingly funny either.

The Hangover IS very funny, it just got old hearing it heralded by everyone as the comedy of the year when I thought it was 3rd or 4th at best, just of what I had seen.

[GL]

The Naked Gun 1 and 2
Airplane
Duck Soup
A Night at the Opera
Scary Movie 3

[HNT]

Good call on A Night at the Opera, GL. In fact, I would throw in virtually any of the Marx Brothers films (though Night at the Opera and Duck Soup are probbly the two best, I still dig Horse Feathers a lot). Scary Movie 3, though? Really?

CT, I loved Bruno, and would definitely say that it was face aching, but it suffers a bit in comparison to Borat, which was just better all the way around. As for The Hangover, all I can say is I loved it. It is also a movie that seems to get funnier every time I see it, which is not easy to do. Zach Gilifinakis (or however you spell it) is quickly becoming one of my favorite comedic actors between that and the series Bored to Death.

Animal House is definitely a great call. Personally, I am also going to throw in Network. Although it has some serious elements and is actually emotionally resonant by the end, there are some absolutely hysterical moments, most of which involve Peter Finch as Howard Beale

I suppose I should also throw in The 40 Year Old Virgin and perga

[Jen]

Apr 26, 2010 10:44:10 GMT -5 HNT said:

As for The Hangover, all I can say is I loved it.

Oh I absolutely loved it as well, much more than I expected to. It started a little slow for me, but once it got going, I thought it was great. Honestly, I don't remember laughing that hard since I watched Animal House for the first time.

I wouldn't say Network fits this category for me, but it does have some really funny moments, and its one of my favorites.

I still haven't seen The 40 Year Old Virgin, but I loved Knocked Up.

[GL]

Apr 26, 2010 10:44:10 GMT -5 HNT said:

Good call on A Night at the Opera, GL. In fact, I would throw in virtually any of the Marx Brothers films (though Night at the Opera and Duck Soup are probably the two best, I still dig Horse Feathers a lot). Scary Movie 3, though? Really?

I think so, too, though I would place Horse Feathers closer to the bottom of their efforts. The one where they're stowaways on the cruise ship, I can't recall the title off-hand, to me was a better film, though I will say that Dr. Quckenbush is one of the better characters Groucho came up with. He was the best part of that one, though I felt the others didn't compliment him like they did in the best. He got the majority of the laughs, whereas in their other ones it was pretty evenly spread with Groucho getting the biggest ones and the guys all doing equal work.

As for Scary Movie 3, I just love stupidity and slapstick, and one where it features both in abundance is going to be a side-splitting effort for me. It's why I enjoyed every single one of those "__ Movie" that came out for a while, their stupidity and slapstick made me laugh. It is rare for me to find a movie where I have laughed harder at a single sequence than the funeral sequence in that one, just in terms of the duration I spent laughing at it. Only the parts where Frank was umpiring the baseball game in the first Naked Gun comes to mind.

[7]

How could you forget Groundhog Day!?

I always watch Groundhog Day if I am in the mood for a good laugh.

[CT]

Groundhog Day is one of my favorites as well.

[abraxas]

Dont even know what the hang over is, a little too trendy for me