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Funniest movie of all time IMO was "The In-Laws", the original

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And this is related as you will see:


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https://youtu.be/6vOLnXUc21A

Great scene from the movie.
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Dunno, Annie Hall was pretty funny.

Wag the Dog is IMHO the funniest movie, but I have to admit that's because it's not only a critique of political domination of the media, but also essentially based on Dustin Hoffman's drunk party imitation of Bob Evans. He'll say it wasn't, but that's CYA. The whole thing was a Hollywood in-joke and consensual media critique made in record time. It was a labor of love.

People still walk around This Town spouting Hoffman lines: "THIS is NOTHING! Try driving three starlets around Rome stoned out of their minds on pot and grappa. THIS IS NOTHING!"

It also grossed $63 million on a $15 million negative cost. Not too shabby.
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When I think of a funny movie it's Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different. It's a compilation of skits from their TV shows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiVGSaYXpqo

Which leads to this sketch.

https://www.google.com/search?q=and+now ... klvh5Cp_Bs

And this one too.

https://www.google.com/search?q=twit+of ... GxSM5y7Pfs
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Perhaps one of the funniest outtakes is from The Carol Burnett Show when she, Vicki Lawrence, Dick Van Dyke, and Tim Conway are in a skit playing the home version of Password when Tim Conway goes off script.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjfUenTUpTg
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Life of Brian. Stoned.
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ZoWie wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 12:30 pm Dunno, Annie Hall was pretty funny.

Wag the Dog is IMHO the funniest movie, but I have to admit that's because it's not only a critique of political domination of the media, but also essentially based on Dustin Hoffman's drunk party imitation of Bob Evans. He'll say it wasn't, but that's CYA. The whole thing was a Hollywood in-joke and consensual media critique made in record time. It was a labor of love.

People still walk around This Town spouting Hoffman lines: "THIS is NOTHING! Try driving three starlets around Rome stoned out of their minds on pot and grappa. THIS IS NOTHING!"

It also grossed $63 million on a $15 million negative cost. Not too shabby.
Will have to watch again, I think to find the humor in much of it you have to be a Hollywood insider, maybe.

Annie Hall is great, so are most of Albert Brooks movies, especially Modern Romance and Lost In America.
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Number6 wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:10 pm Perhaps one of the funniest outtakes is from The Carol Burnett Show when she, Vicki Lawrence, Dick Van Dyke, and Tim Conway are in a skit playing the home version of Password when Tim Conway goes off script.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjfUenTUpTg
Love Python and Tim Conway. Carol of course.

You might like to hear the Gilbert Gottfried Amazing Colossal Podcast and the interviews with folks of that era.

Pat McCormick stories are the best

https://youtu.be/ZoC21KnFXrA
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Oh sure, that's why I said it was just me. We all have a history with Bob Evans, you can't not if you're a certain age in This Town, and of course the premise at the time was so hip as to border on revelatory. Wow, someone besides us gets it. Evans of course said he loved it, and I suspect he did. Having people imitate you is a sign that you count in This Town. Closest I ever got was still in film school when I was a TA in intermediate cinematography classes and whole generations of students would imitate me at parties.

The songs at the end, under the closing crawl, are especially hilarious and not on the sound track CD.

There was a real big feeling at the time that finally someone got it about media in politics. I believe it came from a book with the same almost heretical policy analysis for the time, that POTUS and the Pentagon recruited the media after the surprise hit with Desert Storm to distract from presidential misdeeds by helping them gin up more patriotic military confrontations for their own sake. George I and Clinton were masters of this. Goober wishes he had been, but it was more Cheney's doing after 9/11. George, you keep forgetting that we didn't elect you to run the country, now leave it to the grownups and go give your speeches.
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