Laugh Out Loud
The summer movie season has started and Hollywood is pumping out the blockbusters every week until the end of Labor Day weekend. The best part of going to the movies is you can escape for a couple of hours into another world that’s either filled with action, fantasy, or humor. Yahoo! Movies came out with a list of a 100 funny movies to see before you die. Number one on that list was the 40-Year-Old Virgin.
Comedy is very subjective and personal. What you find funny, may not be hilarious to your friend. Some people gravitate to more cerebral humor, and prefer more witty and clever dialogue like Woody Allen, others prefer slapstick and physical comedy like the Three Stooges and some prefer satire like Monty Python.
Your culture, education, maturity, intelligence and where you’re from influences your sense of humor. It’s why some people love British humor and others just don’t understand it. The USA Today wrote an article claiming that Germany was the least funny country in the world and America was the most funny.
What comedy always cracks you up? Please leave a comment below.
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Jeff Dunham always makes me Laugh.
I prefer cerebral humor, like Frasier and Big Bang Theory. I love my Saturday morning BritComs on PBS.
Last of the Summer Wine and Fools & Horses crack me up but I never did care that much for Monty Python.
What cracks me up? British humor (Monty Python, Beyond the Fringe, Mr. Bean) except for Benny Hill. Benny Hill was just childish and stupid. Movies like “Airplane!”, “Blazing Saddles!”, “Weekend at Bernie’s”, and “Johnny English” crack me up. Robin Williams cracks me up.
Insider humor. You know what is funny, most don’t. Mostly pop culture referenced.
Fish-out-of-water. Not sitcom style, more subtle and cerebral.
“Body” humor makes me laugh out loud. Like when Allen got tasered on Three and A Half Men……his comedic reaction was so funny…..things like that.
It wasn’t a movie: it was an Abbot and Costello routine; Who’s On First?
What really cracks me up is the kind of comedy that isn’t made anymore — slapstick. The kind of comedy that was made by people like Laurel & Hardy, The Three Stooges, Charley Chase, The Keystone Cops, Zasu Pitts, The Marx Brothers, Red Skelton (who never once uttered a single cuss word in any of his performances), Jerry Lewis, etc. Although Benny Hill’s comedy sometimes tended to a little risque, I did like his brand of comedy as well. Then there was the musical antics of Victor Borge, and the one person who best follows in his footsteps, Peter Schickele (aka PDQ Bach).
That is the kind of comedy that fills my bill, especially the innocent antics of Laurel & Hardy, who were always getting into trouble but couldn’t understand why, and the wild antics of The Three Stooges, or the daring practical joking of The Marx Brothers, where straight woman Margaret Dumont was frequently the butt of Groucho’s jokes. I can’t ever get enough of them. Jerry Lewis is another favorite, especially when he was opposite straight man Dean Martin, who was frequently frustrated by Jerry’s wackiness.
I also did like Monty Python, although some of their antics sometimes had me scratching my head! I admit I also like Big Bang Theory. I actually knew a brainiac once who was just like Sheldon! And there was Abbott & Costello, whom I considered to be a sort of cross between The Marx Brothers and The Three Stooges.
No one makes that particular caliber of comedy anymore. With more people discovering Laurel & Hardy for the first time, I think such comedy would go over well in today’s scene — the brand of comedy which, unfortunately, is filled with obscene “comedy” laced with profanity and is sometimes dark and seedy, or otherwise humiliating and degrading to the subject of the “joke.” I do like Robin Williams, but even his comedy often crosses the line. When comedy comes with a PG-13 or R rating, or even NC-17 in some cases, and its something we have to protect our children from, then in my book that ceases to be comedy.
Do we really need obscenity and profanity, or get even with someone, to make a joke? Are sexual innuendos and reputation-destroying scenarios really necessary just to get a laugh? Get rid of the obscenity and profanity, and the evil, dark “humor,” and I think the comedy would be so much better. Comedy is so much better when it is something we can watch or listen to with our kids and not have to explain certain words to them, or tell them that they will understand when they are older.
Give me back Laurel & Hardy, The Three Stooges, Jerry Lewis, Victor Borge, Red Skelton, Abbott & Costello, Benny Hill and The Marx Brothers, and I’ll be happy!
Freaky, I was just thinking about this earlier today (insert ellipsis here) My favorite types of humor would be sarcastic, slap-stick, witty, impersonations, immature, common sense, juvenile, and a bit of stand-up.
Frasier & BigBang Theory were/are rather mindless “fast food” humour,most definately NOT cerebral.George Carlin is cerebral humour-he wasnt called ‘The thinking mans comic’ for nothing.
Classic British humour is hilarious.
Canadians Mike Meyers & Jim Carrey are giants.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail for certain!
Actually, what makes me crack up the most is on Saturday nights when I watch “Renovation Realities” on the DIY Network, and the people run into electrical problems trying to do their own electrical work. They have no clue what they’re doing, so they get shocked because they forgot to turn the power off (or don’t realize it’s on), or after they do work and try to turn on the power, it either doesn’t work or trips a breaker. I laugh harder at those situations than I ever do watching sit-coms or other shows that are meant to be funny.
I’m an electrician, by the way.
I like sardonic, sarcastic remarks. Can’t think of a good example off of the top of my head but usually subtle, scornful wit – often those awesome one-liners in banter will have me going for a long time.
Recently started watching the Frasier re-runs starting from season 1 and it is simply genius! Although I think the funniest scene from anything was the Rhino in Ace Ventura. I laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe. There you go – high and low brow.
Carol Brunette
All in the Family
Mostly the old school sitcoms, can’t stand slapstick so I never got into the Stooges and am turned off by British humor with the exception of Mr. Bean (I guess that’s kinda considered British Humor?)..The old Saturday Night Live was a classic, but I don’t get into the newer episodes..
Billy Connolly is the funniest.
How I Met Your Mother still makes me hysterical after all these years.. I have a suspicion that we will finally MEET your mother.. soon!
The funniest thing to come out of America, by several miles, was the spoof eighties cop show Sledge Hammer. A shame this only lasted for two series, but it was way too funny for America, if its regular sitcoms were anything to judge by. It was as if US television had a fear of the genuinely satirical and original, and this show certainly was: a necesary corrective to all those cheap and steretypical cop shows and movies and all thei clich«s and tropes. Today the kind of sight gags this show did with live actors are the province of animation, The Simpsons and Family Guy. Did SH pave the way for this sort of thing? Sledge Hammer, sadly missed.
I agree, FRASIER is my go to for feel good comedy, Netflix has all the seasons available to stream any time you need a laugh.
When people eat food thinking it’s a sampler, then it’s replaced with dog food. For some reason I always find that prank hilarious. Seen it a few times on camera. I prank I used to like to pull was putting coloured dog friendly toilet cleaner in someone’s beer at a party, and watch them freak when they hit the washroom. Only pulled the prank off twice, with some great results.
I rarely find myself laughing at a TV show, not because I don’t enjoy it, I really do, but it just doesn’t connect to me in the same way comedians do.
Louis C.K., Brian Regan, Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Anthony Jeselnik, Chris Rock.. They all make me laugh and I have re-watched their shows so many many times.
I have to say though, comedy movies do sometimes make me laugh. I don’t know what it is that TV shows are missing. I might just be humorless. Don’t get me wrong though, I thoroughly enjoy shows like The Big Bang Theory and have watched every single episode since it came out.
does age, education, background etc really dictate what you find funny? when i am feeling down, i just watch a very old video of An Audience with Billy Connolly – i laugh out loud despite knowing whats coming next. i have followed his career since he started and think he is just a naturally funny and entertaining man. films that make me laugh out loud – any national lampoon and remember seeing Pink Panther when it first came out and wondered next day why my ribs ached…. from laughter, oh happy days!
I like Billy T.’s “History of New Zealand” skits. I also like “Coming to America” with Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall. But my favorite is “The Private Life of Henry VIII”. It always cracks me up. I also enjoy The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, and I Love Lucy.
The Marx Brothers were the greatest comedians known to all mankind, followed by the Three Stooges, when at their best.
I like any kind of racial humor,especially when niggers are being made fun of.Here’s a good one.
Whats the difference between a nigger and a bucket of shit?
The bucket.
OMG..Robin Williams for sure and Woody Allen!!
‘Frasier’ is also funny.
A few films: Blues Brothers, Dumb & Dumber and Best In Show.
Tv Show wise: Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm and It’s Always Sunny In Philidelphia
I think Jeff Dunham, Jim Carry, Dave Chappelle and David Spade are always funny. They always make me laugh.
Joe Dirt!
F-A-M-I-L-Y Guy!! The constant humorous positions the characters find their selves in keeps me entertained for hours! And, I’ve even seen most episodes countless times.
I have always found the Late, Great George Carlin to be hilarious! He would say what so many people were thinking, but he often said things that you had to think about a little bit.
I love watching 8 Simple Rules. The character interaction and comdic exchange between the all, i find very humoureous.
I LOVE improv and bloopers or unexpected things. “Who’s Line Is It Anyway?” got me to stop watching “Friends.” I laugh so hard that I’d cry! When I’d catch it late night on ABC Family, I’d STILL laugh that hard. Very few things make me laugh out loud like that. Sometimes AFV, though it can be the same stuff over and over. Monty Python. Robin Williams. Craig Ferguson is hilarious because he just goes off on tangents that don’t always make sense but that’s the fun of it.
i’ll say “the odd couple”. even though some of that mess was scarey, and not funny. funnyyy Yamster. just kidding ha-ha.
The Big Bang Theory, the nonsexual humor.
Fails or Pranks always get me laughing
Movies like “Airplane with the quick wit and punch line after punch line many of which you will miss the first time as you are laughing too loudly to hear the next one. Leslie Nelson was one of my favorite actors.He was very funny while keeping a straight face. I also think Bill Murray has many great and funny movies. “Quick Change” was one of my favorites as well as “What about Bob” and many others. the classic movie “Blazing Saddles” is pretty good too.
I love at the moment ” Not Going Out ” BBC1 on a friday really good , like comedy used to be .Can’t wait for the new series.
South Park, The Office (US). Between Cartman and Michael Scott, I have tears rolling down my cheek and a hernia to boot.
South Park and Jeff Dunham always make me laugh, especially South park
Satire like The Colbert Report and The Daily Show cracks me up.
That really old show I love lucy cracks me up.
The Hangover
Cheech and Chong The Next Movie
The Jerk
I love dry humor; smart humor; reference humor/metaphorical. Woody Allen movies.
I love ‘Four Lions’ – it’s not Hollywood but it is such a funny satire. Can’t go wrong with Monty Python, of course. I also love the film ‘In Bruges’ – such dark humour, but so clever and well-thought out.
My favourite comedians are Russell Howard, Ross Noble and Michael McIntyre (some say he is annoying but I can get past his accent and I find him hilarious). Sorry USA, I barely know any of your stand-ups.
Big Bang Theory, TV show. Oh! Brother, Movie. Jeff(FaFa) Dunham, Comedian.
All time favorite: Gracy Allen – George Burns.
Seinfeld, TV Funhouse, Chappelle Show! All of these are brilliant comedies.
Young Frankenstein does it for me. Old & trite but still funny today.
Airplane! Cracks me up every time.
21 Jump Street
Kathy Griffin. I love her!!
I don’t know why, but whenever people make zany, funny faces it just cracks me up to no end! Not only do I adore those who want to make others laugh, I adore people that don’t take themselves too seriously. More objectively, Jim Carrey, Sacha Cohen and Jack Black can make me laugh even if I’m suicidally down in the dumps. They just never fail to make me feel better about this stupid life I live.
I love the older cartoons from the 60′s and 70′s. Any real comedy that me laugh is the best medicine for the soul! Live, love, and laugh! And learn!
I enjoy several differnt types of comedy, as they all have their unique and positive points.
Physical comics such as Chaplin, theThree Stooges, and Rowan Atkinson are working within an ancienmt tradition, dating back to the mimes of Ancient Rome, who performed their antics following a particularly tragic piece of theatre as a kind of pick-me-up for the audience and through the street performers of the Commedia Dell’Arte of Renaissance Italy.
Benny Hill is a distinctively English comic, and his work can be traced back to the seaside postcards of the early 20th century, with their ‘naughty’ subjects and double entendres. His influences stretch even further back, to the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book of the 10th century, which contains riddles whose answers seem like they will be obscene, but which turn out to be quite innocent after all. “What, you thought the answer was going to be ‘a penis’?” A 10th century book of knob gags, basically.
For my money, the best sitcoms out there are the political satire “In The Thick Of It” (with its splenetic spin doctor and dropper of S-, F- and C-bombs, Malcolm Tucker)n and ‘Extras’, (with Ricky Gervais’ hapless actor seeking fame and fortune only to discover that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be).all the same!
Monty Python’s Flying Circus, with its visual and verbal absurdities, appealed to me from the age of eight, when I was allowed to stay up and watch the first episode to be shown on Australian TV. From then on, well, I admit it; I was hooked.
BBC Radio’s ‘The Goon Show’ was the direct ancestor of Python and ‘Beyond the Fringe’, and stretched the imaginations of its listeners with impossible images and the lunatic energy of its creator, Spike Milligan. Truly a comic genius!
The Marx Brothers were some of the greatest exponents of anarchic verbal, physical and musical comedy, and are firm favourites of mine. They were stars on Broadway and in vaudeville for over a decade before they made their first films. The famous stateroom sequence in ‘A Night At The Opera’ (1935) is a masterpiece of comic escalation; can’t explain it, just look it up on YouTube or something, it’s pure chaos and absolutely classic.
There are also many iconoclastic comics whose work I admire, such as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and the incandescent Bill Hicks; these are the comics who confront us with our prejudices and show us how absurd they are, who prick pomposity and hypocrisy at every turn and who make us think as well as laugh ourselves silly.
I enjoy several differnt types of comedy, as they all have their unique and positive points.
Physical comics such as Chaplin, theThree Stooges, and Rowan Atkinson are working within an ancienmt tradition, dating back to the mimes of Ancient Rome, who performed their antics following a particularly tragic piece of theatre as a kind of pick-me-up for the audience, and through the street performers of the Commedia Dell’Arte of Renaissance Italy.
Benny Hill is a distinctively English comic, and his work can be traced back to the seaside postcards of the early 20th century, with their ‘naughty’ subjects and double entendres. His influences stretch even further back, to the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book of the 10th century, which contains riddles whose answers seem like they will be obscene, but which turn out to be quite innocent after all. “What, you thought the answer was going to be ‘a penis’?” A 10th century book of knob gags, basically.
For my money, the best sitcoms out there are the political satire “In The Thick Of It” (with its splenetic spin doctor and dropper of S-, F- and C-bombs, Malcolm Tucker)n and ‘Extras’, (with Ricky Gervais’ hapless actor seeking fame and fortune only to discover that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be).
Monty Python’s Flying Circus, with its visual and verbal absurdities, appealed to me from the age of eight, when I was allowed to stay up and watch the first episode to be shown on Australian TV. From then on, well, I admit it; I was hooked.
BBC Radio’s ‘The Goon Show’ was the direct ancestor of Python and ‘Beyond the Fringe’, and stretched the imaginations of its listeners with impossible images and the lunatic energy of its creator, Spike Milligan. Truly a comic genius!
The Marx Brothers were some of the greatest exponents of anarchic verbal, physical and musical comedy, and are firm favourites of mine. They were stars on Broadway and in vaudeville for over a decade before they made their first films. The famous stateroom sequence in ‘A Night At The Opera’ (1935) is a masterpiece of comic escalation; can’t explain it, just look it up on YouTube or something, it’s pure chaos and absolutely classic.
There are also many iconoclastic comics whose work I admire, such as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and the incandescent Bill Hicks; these are the comics who confront us with our prejudices and show us how absurd they are, who prick pomposity and hypocrisy at every turn and who make us think as well as laugh ourselves silly.
I like when I,m just flipping channels and something new and funny, sparks my interest. For eg. ‘Walk like a man’ with Howie mandel. Something I never would have rented,. Trust me ,its good &funny.
I enjoy a lot of sarcasm, jokes out of no where, dramatizations(hit a bump in the car? jump in the air, swing your arms everywhere, and start screaming) like that, OR when my mother’s driving, she races up to a pedestrian and says “10 points!!”, Then, I absolutely HATE when people try so hard to be funny and every 2 seconds they have a remark about EVERYTHING you say and whats worse is that they put emphasis on the jokes keyword, like, I would say “My pencils on the window sill” and he would say, “oh your pen SILL?!?!? HAHAHA” Damn I hate that!.. Anyway, I love Benny Hill, unlike others that are too mature for it and “oh so better than you” I appreciate the humor, the fast paced sequels, and sarcasm he has in store.
That 70s show and Tyler Perry’s House of Payne.!
Fresh Prince of Belair always has me in stitches.
I’m a fan of funny kid/adult Cartoons from kids shows like my little pony friendship is magic and Adventure Time. To adult cartoons like South park and family guy.
The Goodies was always way funnier than Monty Python. Organised anarchy–I once described it to an American friend as “like the Muppet Show, but with real people.”
Dharma and Greg was always good for a laugh without the cringe-factor of typical sitcoms.
I never could bear “social embarassment” comedy of the Hyacinth Bucket/Mr Bean school. You know, the kind that is laughing at how stupid the character is. I prefer laughing because I recognise myself or someone I know, laughing with instead of at.
Really into British humor like Monty Python, The Office, etc. Grew up with local PBS British staples like Keeping Up Appearances and Are You Being Served? also. Love Seinfeld/Larry David as well as standups like Carlin, Leary, etc. and my favorite late night guys are Letterman/Conan. They SERIOUSLY crack me up. Couldn’t live without them.
Although many don’t get him (including me sometimes) and find him outright obscene, I think Howard Stern is one of the great underrated comedians in his own right.
My favorite sitcom of all time, the one that I believe is the pinnacle of American TV comedy, is The Larry Sanders Show. It just reaches all kinds of brilliance, and sometimes you don’t realize how brilliant it is until you think about it later on. A masterpiece.
Kenny Vs Spenny Without a doubt. Kenneth Joel Hotz just cracks me up ! And the show Kenny vs spenny is one of the funniest in the world!!
I like satire somewhat with some sarcasm in it (Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert obviously). But the thing I find funniest is when a comedian draws from personal experiences and turns them into humorous events, it’s funnier because you can put yourself in their position so it enhances the funny factor.
Honestly, I laugh at almost anything. It’s not an exaggeration either. I’m notorious for my laughing. I’ve even been known to laugh at someone just saying ‘syrup’.
Aren’t americans automatically going to pick america as funniest because it’s their culture?
the funny animals, mostly cats for me — love those
I have a wide range of taste. I like Keeping Up Appearances, The Simpsons, Futurama. Jim Carrey also makes me laugh.
But you know what REALLY makes me rotfl? Wipeout.
Honeymooners
King of Queens
Andy Griffith
Naked Gun
Dumb and Dumber
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Robin Williams and Adam Sandler annoy the hell out of me.
The Office always makes me laugh. I laugh out loud at practically every episode. Its hilarious.
Liar,Liar young Drs in love Mash
“Dumb & Dumber”, the “Flight of the Concords” series, “The Other Guys”.
I’m American, however I haven’t lived in the USA since I was 20. I like a lot of British comedy — Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Absolutely Fabulous and comedians like the Goons, Spike Milligan and especially ESPECIALLY Eddie Izzard (England’s answer to the brilliant Robin Williams, also one of my very most favorites). I also love Bill Hicks, to whom I was introduced only, sadly, after his death.
I love satire, wit and absurdity (Monty Python’s “Fish Slapping Dance” always cracks me up). Jon Stewart & crew (especially the wonderful Samantha Bee and Kristen Schaal) on The Daily Show manage all of this!
Slapstick and a lot of schtick (like Woody Allen’s endless neurotic aging man going after younger & younger woman; in his case art imitating life?) just don’t do “it” for me.
And, as much as I like Steve Carell (much preferring his “The Office” to the original Ricky Gervais), I would never — ever — choose “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” as a must see movie (“Date Night” with the talented Tina Fey, yes).
On my list of funny films are “Big Trouble” (from that funny journalist Dave Barry, with Tim Allen, Stanley Tucci & Renee Russo); “My Cousin Vinny” (Joe Pesci & Marissa Tomei, who got a supporting actor Oscar for this performance); “Get Shorty” (John Travolta, Renee Russo again, Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito) and anything by the Marx Brothers.
Well, as that was published by a US newspaper, I think the result of US being the funniest is a bit biased. Personally, I think dry, sarcastic British humour is the funniest, it is sly, cunning and intelligent. Cynical, but humorous, compared to the American’s brash, loud and normally not-as-intelligent jokes.
I like those panel shows about the news- Have I Got News For You? (BBC) is really funny, I think. Also, Monty Python and Blackadder and stuff like that. Americans have an upfront humour, British people have a hidden humour kinda.
Well, as that was published by a US newspaper, I think the result of US being the funniest is a bit biased. Personally, I think dry, sarcastic British humour is the funniest, it is sly, cunning and intelligent. Cynical, but humorous, compared to the American’s brash, loud and normally not-as-intelligent jokes.
I like those panel shows about the news- Have I Got News For You? (BBC) is really funny, I think. Also, Monty Python and Blackadder and stuff like that. Americans have an upfront humour, British people have a hidden humour kinda
Princess Bride makes me laugh everytime! I also like Monty Python and Big Bang Theory. I really dis-like Jack Black or Adam Sandler’s humor though. I find it childish and course.
Love British comedian Tim Vine – his one-liners are hysterical. Shows – Frasier is one of the best. Also love some of the 70′s British Sitcoms. Just watched the movie version of ‘The Likely Lads’ – some of the comments in that made me howl!
I get a big laugh out of the Big Bang Theroy. I try to watch it every night.
Father Ted!
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I love “That’s So Raven” it’s a lil bit old but it always crack me up xD
Gabriel Iglesias
Idiocracy never fails to make me laugh. I love laughing at stupid people, and Mike Judge didn’t have to exaggerate modern reality very much to create it. It’s one of the few movies I can watch again and again, although if I just need a quick dose of hilarious stupidity and don’t have time to watch it again, I just log on to Yahoo Answers and chuckle at those morons.
What cracks me up is.. When somebody sings beccy beccy you just just broke my but! ovr and over again/
I’d be hard pressed to name my top 5 funniest movies, but as far as sitcoms, that began the last 20 years, in no particular order I’d say:
1. Everybody Loves Raymond
2. Friends
3. The King of Queens
4. Extras
5. The Office
It appears Larry David’s theme of making most of the stars unsympathetic, unlikable characters has worked well. So I’ll give “Seinfeld,” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” dishonorable mentions.
I enjoy will Ferrell and John C Riley Ben Stiller and Jack Black those movies tend to crack me up.
As far as movies and tv shows go, dumb comedy has to the one I laugh at the most. Homer Simpson, Dumb and Dumber, Chris Farley and the list goes on.
My all time favorite is ‘Blazing Saddles’ It is IMHO one of the funniest and best movies eveh! I am ashamed to admit I have seen it so many times I know the lines from beginning to end by heart…Yea, I know, that is Sad as hell. But the up side is I am never far from a laugh
Excuse me while I whip this out > Lololololol!
British humor. And George Carlin.
Real live japanese prank….and went the newsreader or interview gone wrong .Thats really crack me up!
The number one on that list was “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”?
What has comedy come to….
Besides that, I like many types of comedy. Recently, I’ve gotten into the “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” show, simply for the factor of silliness.
I’d also agree that movies like “Airplane!” and “Blazing Saddles” are very enjoyable.
I like Scrubs and Family Guy as far as TV goes. Any movies with Seth Rogen are usually hilarious in my opinion. Danny McBride also cracks me up
Seinfeld episodes always cheers me up…
Roger on family guy….
I mainly like the old sit coms but also some of the new ones
Jeff Dunham,Big Bang Theory,Life of Brian,Dad’s Army,Last Of The Summer Wine,Omid Djalili,Michael McIntyre,My Family,Mock The Week.
I could go on but if it is well made good scripts and good actors i will probably like it.
THE BIG BANG THEORY IS THE BEST! <3 Nothing makes me laugh quite like it. :')
40 Year Old Virgin #1? Wow, that’s terrible… that movie was stupid.
I prefer the old school comedy, like Monty Python and Mel Brooks. Back when comedy wasn’t just endless sex and fart jokes.
I like hilarious visible kind of comedy more that doesn’t require to use my brain.All I want is instant laugh.’Three stooges,Mr.Bean and Borat are example.
In the English speaking world the Brits are the comedy greats. The way British comedians are able to lead an audience and make them think one way but actually mean the other, is quite uncanny. It wasn’t until the American TV series MASH that US comedy finally understood the methods of playing with the language.MASH also gave us characters that weren’t supposed to be funny but because of who they were, were very funny. Shows like Taxi, etc, everyone one was a comedian thus making the show unbelievable, albeit silly. In recent years, American comedy has evolved is is close to being on par with the British but it will always be the Brits that get the biggest laughs.
the stupid kind like in the jackass series
I love British humour (yes, I am indeed British – notice the spelling of humour), but I always laugh at an american comedian whose name I forget. He basically just insults us Brits which is hilarious.
I like panel shows like ‘Mock The Week’ and ’8 Out of 10 Cats’. I also love Outnumbered ^.^
Movies: Dinner for Schmucks.. It’s just so funny. After watching it 5 times it still is. The Hangover is a great movie too.
TV-shows: Scrubs and Cougar Town. Just can’t stop laughing when i watch these.
The comment posted on June 7th, 2012 at 2:30 pm by Edwin has it all, “Airplane!” & “Blazing Saddles!”, but he forgot Monte Python and The Quest for the Holy Grail.
Loaded Weapon, The Naked Gun, Ace Ventura, Dumb & Dumber, and finely the cult classic of all time. “The Gods Must Be Crazy”
Someone falling. Or being slap in the face. But adults not children.
I love down periscope, Major Payne and bridemaids
white chicks,,, hang over,,,, dumb and dumber,,, according to jim,,, how I met your mother,,,,
British comedy!! I love things like Fawlty Towers, Catherine Tate Show, Monty Python, etc. I love how fearless it is and I love the physical comedy as well.
I like comedies such as the brilliant Father Ted, and anything with Noel Fielding in it! I’m not too keen on comedy that’s just all toilet humour, but I do so love Family Guy!
Film wise I’d have to say my favourite films are Be Kind Rewind, a hilarious Jack Black film, and The Cat In The Hat, which is possibly the funniest film ever made. Critics didn’t enjoy it that much – probably because it was designed for kids and yet had so much adult humour in it – but what do you expect? It’s the guy that played Austin Powers! :3
I really like Brian Regan and Chris Rock as far as comedians are concerned. For movies, I like The Longest Yard, and for TV shows I like My Wife and Kids and Everybody Hates Chris.
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Friends, my life is 10 years longer because of laughing about friends. All 234 episodes of it!
I enjoy sarcastic humor (i.e. Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Rick Gervis). Stupid humor is also funny, like; Naked Gun, (Lesile Neilson)
Then you have the classics, like; The Jerk, Easy Money, Uncle Buck, Summer Vacation. Blazing Saddles.
Great Stuff! “Laughter good medicine for the soul”
My favorite will always be John Cleese of the Monty Python series. Satirical humor is the best, without a doubt. I also love watching the Just For Laughs videos on Youtube, they always have such random ways to entertain people.
Youtube in general is filled with unknown comedians who always try to gain publicity through the website. Often gamers who just sit and talk as they play a game can turn out to be just brilliant at comedy (See Tobuscus, Yogscast or TotalBiscuit). =)
There are three (seemingly conflicting) types of humor that I enjoy.
Type 1: Exceedingly stupid humor (Monty Python, The Three Stooges, Mel Brooks, etc.).
Type 2: Extremely smart people humor (Big Bang Theory and the like) (the difference between me and a normal person is that when I watch Big Bang Theory, I laugh because I understand everything they’re saying, not because I understand none of it).
Type 3: Internet humor (Memebase, Failblog, Raywilliamjohnson, etc.).
I also have a few outliers like South Park (which could be convincingly put into all three categories) which never fail to crack me up.
Monty Python would have to be my favorite comedy group of all time (Holy Grail being the best comedy movie ever made)
Farts.
I can’t get enough of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. I also crack up whenever I see Airplane and Blazing Saddles.
My TV favorites are Big Bang Theory, The Middle, and The Daily Show.
My favorite comedians are Jonathan Winters/Robin Williams and George Carlin. Another favorite old timer was Red Skelton.
I prefer French comedies, in the original language. Bourvil, Louis de Funes (His “Gendarmes” series and Rabbi Jacob are to die for) as well as Pierre Richard (Le Grand Blond Avec Une Chaussure Rouge). I used to like the Ben Stiller show in the 90′s, but his movies not so much, just a little bit. I think Miami Vice was a real funny show so far as USA comedy goes. Of course you need superior intellectual faculties to laugh at such comedies, but such is my mind, what can I say?!
The Big Bang Theory is about the funniest thing going right now. Benny Hill was the only funny British humor. At least you could make sense of it.
I love Brit humor and what is considered dark/sarcastic humor, as well as ‘Obvious’ humor., I’m not a big fan of violent or slapstick though.
Katt Williams, Kevin Hart, and Afrion Crocett.
It’s always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Tom & Jerry, Loony Tunes
George Carlin was the greatest.
Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Eddy Murphy, Amy Sedaris, Letterman, Margaret Cho, some situations in “The Mentalist” …. oh .. Lewis Black top notch
Blazing Saddles was cool, .. there were old-time comedians who today leav e me puzzled as to why I used to laugh … weird changes.
Big Bang Theory also puzzles me as to why it;s considered either brainy or funny (tho there *is* an occasional chuckle and a couple scattered attempts at conceptual ‘name-dropping’.
sometimes even the Dalai Lama makes me laugh:)
My faves: Monty Python, Robot Chicken, Jeff Dunham, Russell Peters, Trailer Park Boys, Just for Laughs gags, and real-life bloopers, especially animals and clips where people can’t stop laughing.
Dry, bland just plain comedy is my favourite. I find it the funniest out of all comedy forms. The famous Canadian sit-com Corner Gas is a great example of this dry, whitty humour. I love it.
Anything Jonah Hill is in is excellent, he is personally very funny in every movie he has a role in. Also, “The History of the World” anything Mel Brooks, Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles very very funny man.
what cracks me up is listening to politicians promise everything, and toot their own horn as to how good they are, they are so funny lieing thru their teeth !
The Inbetweeners
Well if your talking about movies then the following movies always crack me up even though I have problem seen each of them about hundred times:
Coming to America
Planes,Trains and Automobiles
Monty Python: Holy Grail and Meaning of Life
Friday
Tv shows:
Cosby Show
Big Bang Theory:(Sheldon is a riot!)
Absolutely Faboulous
Mystery science Theater 3000
Kids in the Hall
Mr Bean
Simpsons
Family Guy
“It’s A Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World” is Hilarious. (1961?)
I found The 40 Year Old Virgin to be a terrible movie, myself. It’s kinda offensive how it implies that there’s something wrong with not having or wanting sex.
Comedy that doesn’t make sense at all cracks me up
90s horror movies. Especially ones with cheesy deaths.
Workaholics! Best Show EVER!!!
My favorite humor is situational and standup. Gabriel Iglesias is my favorite standup along with Robin Williams, Rowan Atkinson, Jim Carrey and Will Ferrell
Michael Mcintyre
Rhod Gilbert
Faulty Towers
Two and a Half Men
Allo Allo
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Dad’s Army
Just for Laughs
American Pie
Peter Powers Street Hypnosis
National Lampoon’s European Vacation
Porkies
That 70′s Show
Keenan and Kel
Herman’s Head
Malcolm in the Middle
Friends
Out of them all I would probably say Two and a Half Men takes the crown. Well the first 8 seasons do anyway.
Family Guy. All the way.
Life Is Beautiful (Humour is beautifully comes out)
The Hangover (Very good comedy)
The City Lights (Classic comedy of our era)
The Great Dictator (Classic comedy)
any comedy anime …mostly one piece .
I would say life. Life in general always puts a smirk on my face. The more true to life and not so far fetched subject, no matter the aspect, always makes me chuckle.
a good portion of Friends can crack me up from time to time
SNL
that 70′s show
the big bang theory
how i met your mother
slapstick n classics, like i love lucy
Moonrise Kingdom was one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen.
I think I was the only one laughing in the entire theater, but I think it’s because I was the only teenager and everyone else were old farts who didn’t understand the awkward humor.
ZOOOOOOOOLANDER!!!!
that hansel is so hot right now XD
Futurama always make me laugh with bender and fry and all the rest…
Two Minute Danger Theater The Voice short audio drama
and Jack Benny
My favourite comedy of all time is ‘One Foot In The Grave’
Watched it since I was young and will continue to watch it to my dying day
FRIENDS
Young Frankenstein [Frankensteen]. The Princess Bride, Airplane, Arthur [Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli version], Beverly Hills Cop, Ace Ventura I, Dumb and Dumber, Some Like it Hot, Rustler’s Rhapsody, Blazing Saddles.
-These, for me, are laugh out loud funny. I don’t get tired of them.
Will always have to say Boy Meets World, it was just a beautiful show that would make you cry, make you laugh until your sides really hurt, and even then you would still be tempted to laugh. You’d question the show’s integrity, and even how they got so much of it so close to actual life. Hell I sure did, it may not have been perfect but it was amazing and was heart-warming and was amazing that it lasted so long, and I cried when the show ended.
90s movies with cheesy death scenes, especially horror movies.
Chappelle’s Show
MY DAD !!!! HE IS HILARIOUS
i love workaholics, its always sunny in Philadelphia, family guy, American dad, skins. there’s a lot of TV shows that are funny
i watch YouTube videos as well! KassemG does a series, as well as many others, called California On. and he goes on the LA board walk and is really obnoxious! but he is absolutely hilarious in those videos
check out ShayCarl, Myharto, JennaMarbles, DailyGrace, ShaneDawson, and all the other awesome youtubers.
Ron White, Ron White and Ron White. Even the second time I hear his jokes and that is saying A LOT because I am one that has ZERO idea why anyone would say, buy a movie or see it more than once, etc. Unless of course it is starring Richard Gere (at any age) and then I do watch when I catch one of his movies I have already seen when I am channel surfing just to drool. The least funny comedy (if you can call it that) has to be that non-funny guy ventriloquist with the Jalapeno on a stick. My husband watches him and I TRIED and watched an entire hour of that guy but I didn’t even grin or smile. Other than lacking any humor, it is like kindergarten comedy…only that can actually BE funny!
Seinfeld!
Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Laurel and Hardy….
I can only watch these in the daytime because my laughing wakes up the family at night and ticks them off!
What cracks me up? British humor (Monty Python, Beyond the Fringe, Mr. Bean) except for Benny Hill. Benny Hill was just childish and stupid. Movies like “Airplane!”, “Blazing Saddles!”, “Weekend at Bernie’s”, and “Johnny English” crack me up. Robin Williams cracks me up.
DYAC – A Website featuring autocorrect goofs. Truly makes me laugh out loud to the point of tears. It’s my latest “go to” for a good belly laugh
:”MASH” will always be my favorite! Back then, friends were being drafted (I think…as I’m 82 now, so memory is the first to go…). The humor and actors were WONDERFUL!
The best comedy was done in the days of the censors – when a routine was allowed to be carried just so far, and then it was up to the viewer to form his own conclusion.
In the olden days of radio, they had quality script writers – much better than today.
Why, I was sayin’ to Molly just the other day – I says, “Molly, they just don’t write comedy like they used to…”
Curb Your Enthusiasm
white chicks 2004 is funney comedy
Tom and Jerry my kids watch it all the time and it kinda grows on me as a mom!!
Silly stuff cracks me up – truly silly like noises and facial expressions.
George Carlin and wordplay/puns.
Rapid-fire comebacks and banter.
It’s usually the stuff AFTER the movie/show when used between friends; even if not particularly funny at the time.
I like inside humour and Mean Girls..
Role models the humor in this movie is incredible!
I just turned 52 and am a true believing Christian. I prefer the older sitcoms and movies where funny is funny without any need for pushing the envelope with shock factors. Like foul language or nudity. The worst thing is that our minds are being desensitized to the evils of homosexuality and murder. Jesus will soon return folks and we will all be judged ! I am choosing the straight and narrow path that will lead to heavem.
Humor in dramas or dramedies.
I am a person who is a bit socially awkward and embarrasses and blushes easily. So I guess it’s a bit sadistic that embarrassment or situational awkwardness cracks me up. Wittiness and snarky comments are funny too.
I like House (though sometimes too raunchy), Burn Notice, White Collar, and of course Firefly.
Anything Jane Austen and the British show Downton Abbey.
fails are funny
Grown Ups always made me laugh so hard.
Jim Carey has always been one person who can make me laugh, all the time. Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura, The Mask, Bruce Almighty, Yes Man.. The list goes on and on. I also really love shows where the actors are so good, you can’t even tell they’re acting. And their comedic timing is impeccable. I.E. Friends, Will and Grace, Boy Meets World, Good Luck Charley, VicTORIous, etc. America’s Funniest Home Videos always cracks me up too
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley. Splits my sides every single time.
My favorite shows that are comedy are Catherine Tate Show, Late Late Show, House, White Collar, NCIS, Nevermind the Buddocks….
I forgot Big Bang Theory… But I’m American, and without cable, so I don’t get to watch much TV or comedy shows. I prefer British humor though…
Taika Waiti’s movie; BOY ! NZ humor and culture at its best !!
Gabrieal iglacious (fluffy) don’t know if i spelled his name right but i’d love to meet him and have an eating contest with him i’d think we tie.and it is so funny how he can sound so much like a woman.
Friends!
Scary movie
my top 3 fav shows in order: South Park, Tosh.0, and Key and Peel. my top 3 fav movies in order: The Dictator, Borat, The Love Guru. top 3 fav comedians in order: Gabrial Iglasias, Jeff Dunam, and that guy that said “FUCK the police”. comedy central is the best channel, period.
The movie “Grown Ups” with Adam Sandler was really funny.
Totally South Park! <3 Always has to make me laugh to the point where I can barely breath,
(Continuing) I also like shows like Family Guy and Jeff Dunham, those always make me laugh too
I like intelligent comedians. Comics through the years like Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, etc. Yes, Pryor was an intelligent comic. Too many comics these days swear and cuss all the time and I wonder where the heck are the jokes. For example, Katt Williams is not the least bit funny. I can stand somewhere and cuss and swear, doesn’t make me a comedian.
Blackadder (esp Blackadder the Third)
The epitome of British humour.
It has everything you could want: slapstick, sarcasm, Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie
My favorite type of comedy is satire. One of my favorites is South Park because they equally make fun of each side instead of being biased like SNL.
The one that makes me laugh the most is slapstick comedy. The three stooges and Marx brothers constantly cracked me up throughout the whole show. They’re is just something hilarious about seeing grown men act like total morons
I am watching sitcoms all the time. My favorite show is the big bang theory because of its cleverness and Sheldon. The ones that makes me laugh the most are how I met your mother and Seinfeld because of their writing and quirkiness.
I love standup comedy form then to now especially of Dane Cook. Jeff Dunham cracks me up alot with his dummies
Funny is George Carlin’s On Campus Album. Funny is Robin Williams.
Funny is Animal House and Caddyshack.
Darn it, showing my age.
hehehheh i don’t know but its amazing.
FRIENDS sitcom!
The best!!!
For eg:
Joey:Shaving?
Chandler: No, rabies.
Is there anyone else who doesn’t like comedy?
Movie – Ground Hog Day – Now Top That. Bill Murray’s Finest.
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Tv – Big Bang Theory – I suspect will be off the air – not once has there been a laugh from anyone – just a bunch of geeks that got into meth – forever lost souls – that will never have sex for another 20 yrs – yet ask if it’s now.
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Like a 3 yr old asking – why is the sky blue – you tell him – he ask’s ‘why.
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Their Retarded. It’s why we have warning labels on everything.
Damn near anything on MSNBC and Married With Children.
When I was a kid, it was Pinky Lee and the Little Rascals. Sadly there’s probably no footage of Pinky, but I remember the theme song, I just can’t go through those motions any more. If I did, you’d be laughing at me getting a cast on something.
Lewis Black: Black On Broadway.
THREE AND 1/2 MEN, the old reruns. Those are the funniest, and yes, brainless, humor. Berta, Allen and Charlie have this comedic chemisty! So funny…I watch them all the time even though I’ve seen them over and over!
Comedy at someone else’s expense tires me, and foul language humor bores me too. It’s just too easy and I mean I can get up and say every crass thing and cuss for an hour and take pot shots at people and then what I’d be a great comedienne and get a chance on Trump’s show? I think it takes greater skill and is way more pleasant to watch witty, intelligent comedy, that shines the light on human behavior. Anything Michael on The Office did was funny. Steve Martin in a bathmat as cowboy chaps on Parenthood is hilarious. Gross humor like Cameron Diaz with a gross interpretation of hair gel, not funny, nor were the embarrassing scenes before that. I hate being blindsided by embarrassing sexual humor like that too, who wants to be all awkward when you forgot about the vibrator finding scene in Parenthood, or the fondued foreskin on Meet the Parents and are watching it with family at Thanksgiving or something? The comedians I think are most skilled are the ones who have the backbone to keep it clean and the skill to pull off the most subtle or insightful humor of everyday life. Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Ellen DeGeneres, Woody Allen, Jim Cary, Lucille Ball, Steve Carrel, Goldie Hawn, Adam Sandler. Even if some of them cross the line sometimes or have raunchy stand up acts, I think it shows character and intelligence when they cross over to film and show some restraint. Whether the film company’s idea or their own. I suspect the artist has some influence because you’ve seen the Wayan’s films, that mean lady on Celebrity Apprentice just can’t keep it zipped up.
Oh yeah, sorry, but must add, Cameron Diaz dancing like an awkward enthusiastic pre-teen to “baby’s got back”…talent! Also I think an argument could be made that Drew Barrymore has established herself as a comedienne of the dry humor variety. She can deliver a good line with a straight face and the most subtle of expression that lets you infer the humor, that’s what I mean by skill. Gay humor has gotten old too, just saying. When Eddie Murphy did it in Beverly Hills Cop it was funny, by the time Hank Azaria was wearing daisy dukes it was getting a little old though, but his accent and clingy-ness still had me in stitches, pun intended. He stole that show.
For me George Carlin was the funniest man that ever lived.
Check out
‘ George Carlin –
– people are boring ‘
– Religion is bull**t ‘
- you have no rights ‘
and
- fat people ‘
on youtube.
Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle is also one of my favourites.
Having been in the ‘biz’ for many years, I have met, and traveled with a number of comedians and performed with them as well. I would have to travel back to my southern hometown in Alabama in the 60′s when my mom and her sisters would sneak and play REDD FOXX on the stereo when my sister and I went to bed. There were many during that time whom I still listen to – Mom’s Mabley, Whoopie Goldberg, Richard Pryor, David Damas, a personal friend, Sherrell Underwood, Sommore, Steve Harvey, Arnez J, Bernie Mac, Bill Bellemy, Bill Cosby, Bruce Bruce, Cedric the Entertainer, Chris Rock , Dick Gregory, D.L. Hugley, the Wayans, Eddie Griffin, Earthquake, Martin Lawrence, Guy Torrey, Kat Williams, Lavelle Crawford, Mike Epps, Sinbad, Robert Townsend. My taste for comedy on television surrounds The Cosby Show, The Jeffersons, LIving Single, A Different World, The Fresh Prince of BeI-Air,7 Sanford & Son 8 Martin 9 Good Times 11 Girlfriends 12 Soul Food
13 The Bernie Mac Show , 227, Showtime at the Appollo
What’s Happening, The Steve Harvey Show, Amen, Fame, Roc, The Flip Wilson Show, Sanford and Son, Jamie Fox, Different Strokes, JUST TO NAME A FEW.
whimsy, ridiculous things
I am an absolute sucker for CBC’s “laugh out loud” and “just for laughs;gags” It’s good clean fun and you don’t get much good clean fun here in the U.S. Make me laugh out loud-for real-every time!
“It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” is my all time favorite movie comedy.
The Marx Brothers were the best at the mad capped zanny comedy. The verbal exchanges between Chico and Groucho were so well done that most forget they practiced those routines for weeks in front of audiences before they were ever filmed. Personally, I think “Animal Crackers” was their best film.
Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner should be counted among the best comedy writers of all time. Mcheal Maltese has probably not been mentioned yet, but he should have been for writing a good number of the best Warner Bros cartoon shorts.
The best comedies on American TV were “The Carol Burnette Show,” “The Muppet Show,” “Animaniacs,” The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle” and the first ten seasons of “Saturday Night Live.” After Eddie Murphy & Joe Piscapo left, the show went down hill for me.
I like how I meet your mother
breaking wind cracks me up with the volturi scene
Dave Chappelle!! By far!
The comedy that makes me laugh out loud every single time is anything by the great comedic duo, Laurel and Hardy.
On TV, I love The Big Bang Theory.
I am a huge fan of King of Queens, starring Kevin James and Leah Remini. I used to pass on this show when it aired 10 years ago–never watched it–but now, in syndication, you can’t get me away from it. Sometimes I watch it (on YouTube) for hours on end, laughing my **s off! That Jerry Stiller is fantastic!
THE OFFICE!
I perfre Failure Humor
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Like when somone falls down a hill and the guy says ” I DID IT
What always cracks me up?
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
30 Rock
Parks and Recreation
The Office
Dane Cook
You get the idea…
i think that The Hot Chick is one that always makes me laugh.
“I’m Hugh.”
“You’re me??”
“No…I’m Hugh….”
“…make him stop saying that!!!”
This makes me laugh. Slapstickish. Thin Man comedy. Stuff like that
I never really, REALLY laughed until I watched the Carol Burnett Show. Those people are FIERCE when it comes to cracking you up! I could never get through one episode without turning purple, I laughed so hard!
Roseanne was more of a laid back, homey funny, which I get….so she made me laugh at myself a lot.
Joan Rivers was great in her prime.
As was Phyllis Diller and Jonathan Winters.
And one of my TV fav’s, Flip Wilson.
Judy Tenuta always made me laugh too, as did Rita Rudner and Madeline Kahn.
My FAVORITE SNL comedian is Gilda Radner, I miss her greatly.
The only other two people who have been able to literally “crack my ribs” and “turn me purple” are Jeff Dunham and Elvira (her movie “Mistress of the Dark”).
I have seen some funny people on cable, but nobody has surpassed Carol Burnett and her kooky team of crazy nuts.
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? ;D
COME ON PEOPLE! What about It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia!? That’s my number one! ..honorable mentions East Bound and Down(MUST SEE) 30 Rock, Wilfred, and anything with Will Farrell in it is always going to be stupid-funny! If you haven’t seen Land of the Lost or step Brothers…DO! Hilarious.
Someone here already beat me to it. The user’s name was TL Sandhog. The very best comedy skit is the old Abbott & Costello “Who’s on First” bit.
What makes it so funny? The fact that it was done more than 60 years ago and it is STILL humorous. How many comedians can pull that one off?
i liked “Year One” I think it was the only Comedy I like i stick to Paranormal & Supernatural films
Yeah i would defintley say the new 21 jump street is hilarious i think personally and together with Hot Rod and Grandma’s Boy theyre laughing out loud all of em
get him to the Greek…funniest shit everr.
Just listening to a politician “trying” tro be truthful in itself is a comedy.
Friends and Will & Grace are the one who make me die of laughter, I still watch them
Michael McIntyre for sure, his co-ordination and facial expressions are better than any other of what I’ve seen, and quite simply, his stand up is amazing.
Anchorman- hilarious movie
USA is the most funny country? No. I’m sorry, despite the relgiious nuts it’s an amazing country that I’ve visted several times. But there is no way its comedy is “funny”. I’m very much into comedy, and I watch a lot of it. There’s only ever been one American comedian that’s made me laugh. American comedy just isn’t funny, and famously so. Irish people are very funny (propably the funniest), as are British people. Americans tend lack the capacity to laugh at themselves, which is a key part of comedy in general.
Not a movie – Old re-reruns of ‘I Love Lucy.’ Nothing before or since can (still) make me laugh out loud like Lucy and Ethel’s antics. She was/is the Queen of comedy, in my opinion.
lol my fav comedy is THE SIMPSONS!!!!!!!! they rock!!!!
Bitchy humor (Mean Girls) Dirty humor, you know you shouldnt laugh at, but you know how funny it is.
White Chicks and The Chatty Man.
grown ups and up in smoke
haha! one of the comedies which makes me laugh out loud, is Rock n Rolla (but really only on part)… when Bob comes out to One Two– I laugh so hard every viewing.
I absolutely love How I met Your Mother!!
I loved the old Frasier show, good heavens the pomposity and the fools they made of themselves trying so hard would make me laugh out loud. Love Ellen Degeneres. The Golden Girls were golden. Film, Little Miss Sunshine, Best in Show, Burn After Reading, Fargo, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, The Birdcage I love too some of the UK shows, Doc Martin, the old Ballykissangel – love quirky characters. Wallace & Grommit, Johnny English, The Full Monty, Victor Victoria, Waking Ned Devine, Keeping Mum. Don’t care for silly slapstick at all. Love love love author Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum and company – perhaps the funniest characters I’ve ever laughed out loud while reading.
Caddyshack.
I still love George Carlin. He would have died too young if he had lived to be 100! I miss him.
So many people hate her but I laugh endlessly at ROSEANNE. I also love M*A*S*H.
It’s a paradox but I love George Carlin and yet laugh hard and long at the Blue Collar Comedy team…Jeff Foxworthy, Ron White, Larry the Cable Guy and Bill Engvall. They’re so rude and their humor is so crass but I still enjoy them. I don’t suppose its what they say so much as how they say it. When you read their act, there’s nothing funny there but when you hear them do it…totally different response.
“You just might be a red neck if you can lie through your tooth!”
“My sister is covered in warts…”
“There’s your sign…”
“I was thrown out of a bar in NYC.”
Totally unfunny when I say it but hilarious when they do.
irish sitcoms
father ted, mrs. brown’s boys, etc
Russell howard NEVER fails to impress me, im going to see him soon LIVE! :’) <3 <3 <3
What movie cracked me up? Land of the lost (2009)
COMMUNITY! funniest thing ever! 1000 x better then anything else ive seen
Karl Pilkington.
Also Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
Airplane, Naked Gun, Hot Shots, Young Frankenstein , Blazing Saddles, Mr. Mom, Night Shift, all those make me laugh hard! TV Shows? Frasier & Sponge Bob do it for me!
I love The Big Bang Theory, Friends, Community… And Mr Bean… And Monty Python.
And I also love our English panel shows – they’re hilarious… Like Would I Lie To You, Mock The Week, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, etc!
You can laugh all the time when you watch ‘Two pints of larger’
does not matter how many times I watch it…. i just keep laughing
i love lucy
I love Gavin and Stacey and also the Horne and Corden show. their randomness entertains me lol and one of the actors, Mat Baynton is cute
Youtube AngryJoe Angry Reviews
40 year old virgin isn’t “number one on the list” it’s alphabetically first. “the” is ignored and “4″ comes before the “9″ in “9 to 5″
The Princess Bride (Have fun storming the castle.),
Young Frankenstein [Werewolf? There... wolf.],
Police Squad (but that’s not important right now),
Blazing Saddles (more beans boss),
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (He’s a very naughty boy).
Fawlty Towers (What!)
The Big Bang Theory (where do I start)
Mel Brooks movies. They were so out there, so slap stick but yet he made it work. I’m still laughing at Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein years and years later. Oh, and the Carol Burnett Show. That is just timeless.
I absolutely love The big bang theory, New girl and little Britain and come fly with me
Bridesmaids had me crying. I havent seen a comedy that moved me to tears in a while.
ally mcbeal and if ur looking for a film ….. tropic thunder x
tropic thunder, due date, hangover 1 and hangover 2
Friends!!!
I really like that new Betty White show “Off Their Rockers” – it’s hilarious!
why isn’t anyone mentioning FRIENDS? it is the funniest show ever to be on TV.i don’t know under what category of comedy it is but no other show, movie or comedian makes me laugh like that show. even if i watch the same episode 20 times it will still make me laugh every time.
The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. The sad part is that the humor comes from real life
Hmm, I have the retarded – sadistic – out of the blue – immature – insiders – exegerated humour
Not sure what would be classified as ‘British’ humour…
I rarely find myself laughing at a TV show, not because I don’t enjoy it, I really do, but it just doesn’t connect to me in the same way comedians do.
Louis C.K., Brian Regan, Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Anthony Jeselnik, Chris Rock.. They all make me laugh and I have re-watched their shows so many many times.
I have to say though, comedy movies do sometimes make me laugh. I don’t know what it is that TV shows are missing. I might just be humorless. Don’t get me wrong though, I thoroughly enjoy shows like The Big Bang Theory and have watched every single episode since it came out.
Katt williams Hes so funny XD
Wedding Crashers and The Princess Bride. Two completely different films and funny in different ways.
The Cosby Show, Everybody Hates Chris, the Simpsons, and the Big Bang Theory all crack me up
The Cosby Show, Everybody Hates Chris, the Simpsons, Psych, and the Big Bang Theory all crack me up
Any of the old carol burnette shows. They were hilarious.
Michael McIntyre.
He makes me crack up, laugh out loud, proper guffaw laugh! Lol!
Liar Liar makes me laugh every time.
British humor ROCKS! From movies (Monty Python) to TV (Whose Line?) to writing (Douglas Adams), the Brits know where it’s at. But I do enjoy so many types of humor.
And now, my top 27-and-a-half, in no particular order:
In junior high, I saw my first production of A&C’s “Who’s On First?” routine and I literally FELL out of my chair laughing.
Ditto, when years later I saw Jeff Dunham live at a local Improv Theater.
If you’ve never laughed so hard that you lost your balance and fell out of a chair, you haven’t lived!
Both versions of “Whose Line?” have left me breathless with laughter on many occasions.
Shows:
Will & Grace
Big Bang Theory
Fraiser
Police Squad! (In Color)
…and others I can’t think of at the moment.
Movies:
To save some virtual trees, I’ll cover most of the list by including almost anything by Mel Brooks or Zucker-Abrams-Zucker, and the National Lampoon folks.
I *ADORE* parodies.
Comics:
in no particular order:
Robin Williams
the late greats George Carlin, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield and Dennis Wolfberg
Emo Philips
The Blue-Collar guys
Rita Rudner
Amy Schumer
Howie Mandel (before medication)
Any of the Comedy Central Roasts
D. Cook and D. Tosh
**STEVEN WRIGHT** – no one does deadpan better
Denis Leary
Craig Ferguson – Funniest Late Night host – EVER
Gallagher – when he’s doing his bit about the absurdity of the English Language
And a couple of Guilty Pleasures:
Carrot Top, and
The Amazing Jonathon.
I wish I could finish this list, but I got to go.
Russel howard cracks me up because he’s so good a describing visual situations. Lee Evans too!
I like Big Bang Theory, I.T crowd, friends.
Celebrity Juice, Keith Lemon is so witty!
I’ll watch shows like family guy, american dad & the simpsons but I don’t find them hilarious.
I love going on youtube and watching the fail compilations!
I love super mario frustration on youtube and i also like the goonies and home alone.
The best comedy in the world comes from the UK!
I just love Family Guy.
tosh <3
Sister Act movies cracks me up xD
My type of comedy is intelligent humour like Frasier. The shows on recent tv are not really intelligent, with the exception of Modern Family of course, so I settle for the likes of Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother
Well, if we’re writing about TV. that’s a step up in itself, meaning that it’s such innocuous, inane, imbecilic, idiotic, mind melting, poorly written, and as far as acting talent, if you like feeling embarrassed and have the need to cringe when you’re alone in your home…..Well, let’s just say the effort in the writing of “The Dumbing Down of America” could be the most superfluous work of propaganda ever created. TV is doing it all by itself. Now, don’t take all this too seriously, but allow me one more sincere slam before I lighten up and stop acting like Josef Stalin with a migraine. What do I allude to: The most overrated, prurient, sophomoric, smut in the history of ham and humans: To the Gods of bad taste I present something referred to as a Dane Cook. Oh Lord, how doust thy tax mine nerves with such a bungled self parody of Mr. Potato Head. I particularly love his snafu called brief attempts at hate/humor on atheists. I believe he sneers, rants, screams, taunts, and all other petulant character habits in an attempt to show how ugly and arrogant those non-believers, who are becoming more attractive by the second, always are? More than this comedic front for Parkinson disease? Wow, atheist must be exterminated immediately, or is he…..Of course not. He hasn’t a clever fiber in all his tragic ruin, which I think the atheist were supposed to resemble. Oh well, what’s next for the unholy mess his audience has become?
What comedy actually makes me laugh and what comedy I enjoy are different.
I love fraiser, the big bang theory, cheers, they don’t make me /laugh/ as in that kind of “haha” noisy laugh, but they make me happy.
As far as laughing… I’ll be honest, even though I don’t like them, dirty jokes make me laugh…..
George Carlin, nuff said.
The 40 Year Old Virgin has me in tears every time I watch it.
Jim Carrey is ALWAYS funny.
The American Pie movies every time
I don’t have a particular style…but some of the things I feel are funny: I like the Simpsons. I especially like the episode where Homer joins the Navy after he causes an explosion at the Necular plant where he worked…then once in the Navy he got promoted every time he messed up. I was still in the Navy when I first saw it.
I love to watch Reno 911.
I like Jonny Dep movies. My favorite was Don Juan Demarco. (also staring Marlin Brando and Faye Dunnaway)
I like Pulp Fiction. It was just so weird and out there that I laughed about every scene.
I also like movies like Air Plane, and Scarry Movie.
I love to laugh, I love stand-up, the old comedians from back when was the greatest. Moms Mabley, Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Nipsey Russel, Robin Williams & etc. Wild, Wild West was so, so funny & the likes.
Russell Howard is hilarious
Canadian comedy show it”s called – Just for Laughs Gags. soooo funny no speaking. You gotta see it.
awkward situational. Seinfeld, the office (uk) we cringe but are familiar with the situation, so it becomes laughable. not just for the embarassment but for the humour in how we relate to handling awkward situations.