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My friend, you have seen this incident based on sworn testimony. Can you prove that it didn’t happen? Perhaps on your way home, you will pass someone in the dark, and you will never know it, for they will be from outer space. Many scientists believe that another world is watching us this moment. We once laughed at the horseless carriage, the aeroplane, the telephone, the electric light, vitamins, radio, and even television! And now some of us laugh at outer space. God help us... in the future.

— Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space

Trading Spaces was really funny. Especially after the back story of what's her name's stripper tape came out.

I guess you really can freeze your tuckus off.
 

Something really important seems to be missing here though I have difficulty placing my finger on it. (not entirely sfw)

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Any list that includes To Wong Foo cannot be taken seriously.

TM

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I blew through Dirty Rotton Scoundrels. Sounds like it's worth a second look?

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I have no good excuse for the exclusion of Lebowski. It's either one of those movies that speaks to you or it's not. Don't get me wrong, I think it's very funny. But I'm not one of its cult-like followers.

As for Elf, I have no good reason for its inclusion. The movie basically sucks, but there are so many funny moments that I can't turn it off whenever it comes on. I am not a big Farrell fan, but in some things, he just works. I hated Old School, but loved Anchorman. His wide-eyed, naive overgrown elf character in search of his father after finally finding out he's not an elf is just funny. There are too many "Oooooh! It's like a Christmas Tree," (after pressing all the elevator buttons, "Buddy the Elf! What's your favorite color?" (when he picks up Caan's phone), "I just like to smile, smiling's my favorite!" "Watch out, the yellow ones don't stop!" "I thought maybe we could make ginger bread houses, and eat cookie dough, and go ice skating, and maybe even hold hands," (when discussing his plans for the day with Caan) and "He's an angry elf!" moments--and there are like a hundred of them. As an aside, including all the horror movies I've seen (and I've seen a few), I have never cringed as much as when watching Buddy pull all that used gum off the underside of the subway station entrance structure and stuff it in his mouth.

TM

eta: I probably should have included Midnight Run, but the fact that it slipped my mind even though I just watched it like 4 days ago, means it doesn't belong, I guess.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Yes. It is a fantastic movie. Just take a look at my avatar, for Christsakes.

TM

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He said thanks. He was actually able to make it up the stairs this mornign with a lot of assist. a long nap ensued. Glucose levels are down, urine tests pending......i.e. no answers yet.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies
 

Meet the Parents was on showtime or HBO or soemthing last nite. Not saying it should be on the list, but it is always lol fucking funny.

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I don't know if Elf is one of the top 25 funny movies or not, but I am putting it on the fucking list if, for no other reason, this one.

For God's sake, Zooey is singing in the shower, and you wish to denigrate this piece of art? Hand in your Fan Club Card immediately.

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You don't smell like Santa. You smell like beef and cheese. You sit on a throne of lies.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Your trident..., sir?

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Her singing voice has an uncanny resemblance to Judy Garland's. Not kidding. Too bad musicals are dead.

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Ok, that movie is just not funny. Not funny.at.all. I do not understand why people find it funny.

A funny movie with Ben Stiller is Zoolander.
"What is this? A center for ants?! It needs to be at least... three times bigger!"
"Merman, Dad, MerMAN!"

I like Manfred's inclusion of Kicking and Screaming. I think that movie is quite underappreciated.

Where the economy still booms.
 

Nevada's Bunny Ranch brothel gets 1500 applications in December, about 40% more than usual. Sounds like they've got a new storyline ready for that HBO series.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Because the drag queen road trip movie entry on the list has to be Priscilla, Queen of the Desert!

ETA: I think you need to add an asterisk section for movies made before you were born. The Peter Sellers Pink Panther movies are still worth being on a Top 25 list.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

I stuck to movies made in my lifetime, just like Thurgreed did. I guess for Mae, we'll have to wait for you or Not Bob to do a list.

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And The Royal Tennenbaums. No one else thinks it's funny? Yes, it's depressing, but so is Office Space (in a way). Almost everything Gene Hackman says is hilarious, and any exchange with Pagoda makes me laugh.

Royal: I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.

Royal: Are you trying to steal my woman?
Henry Sherman: I beg your pardon.
Royal: You heard me, Coltrane.
Henry Sherman: "Coltrane"?
Royal: What?
Henry Sherman: Did you just call me Coltrane?
Royal: No.
Henry Sherman: You didn't?
Royal: No.
Henry Sherman: Okay...

Margot: You probably don't even know my middle name.
Royal: That's a trick question. You don't have one.
Margot: Helen.
Royal: That was my mother's name.

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Sorry. It's been a hectic morning. You did catch the part about spouses being able to make a joint gift, effectively doubling the exemption, right?

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I always wondered where your moniker came from. It was a mystery, one I could have googled, sure, but that would have been cheating. Now you force this out?

Does anyone know how to cancel a Facebook friend request?

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

This from a man whose list included Elf, Austin Powers, Weird Science, and The Jerk?

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Given my dual citisenship, in an honourary way, I can udnerstand this-it doesn't translate to Canadese. No offence. I watch it with a yanqui sensibility firmly in place. npi.

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Weird Science rocks, good on TM for that one.

Re: Where the economy still booms.
 

Nice story. I like this quote: "There's lay-offs in every sector of the economy. The auto workers, the big insurance companies, Wall Street... we get a lot of people from New York City wanting to come to work."


Makes you wonder, whatever happened to Multo?

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies
 

Royal Tennenbaums makes my list. (As does Midnight Run, but not Elf. Or the Big Lebowski -- I'm in TM's "not sure I get it" camp on that)

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

The Jerk is Top 5 All Time (comedies).

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Funny, yes. All time funniest? Meh.

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Eh, who knows. There is too much product out there to make definitive lists anymoure. It's all good!

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Lebowski might be No. 1 for me. It's one of my top five favorites of any genre.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

To be fair, none of the movies you mentioned include Patrick Swayze or Wesley fucking Snipes in drag.

And you can make fun of Elf and Powers, but Weird Science is a tour de force and The Jerk is no slouch either.

I think ridiculous comedies don't get their due. I'll never understand why dramatic actors are thought of as so very talented and deserving of great respect and reverence when great comedians are not. But no matter how you look at it, To Wong Foo fucking blows.

TM

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Concur. "I bet more people see your ass than the phone book."

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"He hates these cans. Stay away from the cans!"

Almost every line is good in that movie.

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"You mean I'm going to stay this color?"

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I actually accepted your request, gathered all of your personal information, and then un-friended you.

You really are 6'11".

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

If you like dark comedy, how about War of the Roses?

"Once in a lifetime comes a picture that makes you feel like falling in love again. This is not that movie."

CDF (the map scene, the Morgan crushing, the dog pate, "what the hell is wrong with you" -- lawyer interposes "if you're with a woman for any length of time, eventually you'll ask her that question")

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Any movie with Danny DeVito is automatically disqualified. Sorry.

Girly Mah Mah Mah Mah
 

If this came from a movie, I automatically move it to number one on my list with a bullet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtJRN...eature=related

TM

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Someone else had Ruthless People on their list. And Throw Momma From the Train should get consideration just for having a good title (not such a good movie though).

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To Wong Foo blows, but your list excluded Clerks, and there has its own credibility problems.

Also, were I to make a list, it would likely include Borat, which I believe has been overlooked so far.

Movie entry
 

I find lists to be difficult to put together, because I can never remember everything, but I don't see The Money Pit anywhere, and frankly, that movie gets funnier (and somewhat harder to watch) the older I get. I accidently saw it a few nights ago. Until then, I'd banned it's viewing from the house on the basis that I didn't want to jinx anything in my own house, but we were flipping channels, and once on we couldn't pry ourselves away. I something disasterous to happen any minute now.

"We have very weak trees."

"Turkey's done."
"So's the kitchen. Let's not go there again."

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I love the scene where the bathtub falls through the ceiling and he stands over the whole and just laughs.

Has anyone mentioned Stripes, which is funny even now. That's the fact, Jack.