There is something sort of wrong about Kevin Smith at the Sixth & I, which means that there is something definitely right about it.
Anyway, the man whose sense of humor everyone loves to love and hate at the same time is going to be at the Synagogue on April 22nd. Now, I know that is super far away but tickets go on sale tomorrow (at the Sixth & I box office*, all Ticketmaster locations, charge by phone, and online at LiveNation.com), and you know it's going to sell out in seconds.
Anyway, we have a pair of tickets to give away (they're 45 bucks a pop) and you know you not-so-secretly want them.
To enter to win, post a comment letting us know what you think is the funniest movie ever made and we'll let the winners know by next Friday. Cool? Cool.
Previously in Misc/Awesome:
- 12/28: Terrible Boyfriend/ Girlfriend Generator.
- 12/1: The John Waters Advent Calendar-it starts today
- 11/28: It Chooses You: All I Want for Christmas is Everything from Miranda July's Pop-Up Shop
- 11/3: Things I'd Move to Minnesota For
- 9/6: PHOTOS: Maloof $$ Money Cup
- 9/2: PHOTOS: Chantilly Model Train Show
- 9/1: Libby's List: 5 Things I Want Right Now...
- 8/22: PHOTOS: Best Friends Day
- 8/10: PHOTOS: Lawn Mover Racing, Eastern Seaboard Regionals @ Bowles Farm
- 7/26: Special List: Things the BYGays Want Now That We Can Marry In DC (and NY!)
God loves a cheerful giver.
Brother from Another Planet.
It's the old standard of good vs evil that really gets to me every time.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,
I saw it on a train in from Seville to Madrid,
the last scenes were Cruzcampo coming out the nose funny!
Whose with me on this one?
Airplane!
Schindler's List or The Bucket List. i can't decide.
seriously though, funniest movie ever made is kind of impossible to decide but i'll always be partial to The Jerk and Big Trouble in Little China.
A History of Violence. That was supposed to be funny right?
Dr. Strangelove. Think about it.
Most intentionally funny film: Caddyshack
Most unintentionally funny film: The People Under the Stairs
House Party 3
I always like hearing everyone's funniest movie. Much more visceral than, say, their favorite documentary, so it always says a lot about their personality/sense of humor.
I think the funniest movie ever made is Bad Santa. Go figure.
the people under the stairs is AMAZING
Better Off Dead
No irony intended.
Modern Times
Gigli.
Funniest scene of the decade: Ben Affleck trying to cut off a cadaver's finger with a plastic knife from a disposable packet, when the retarded, nay mentally disabled, kid starts free-flowing 'Baby got back.'
That film genuinely incapacitated me; a pleasureable taser of unintentional comedy.
I actually feel bad ruining it for everyone just now... But I really want KSmith tickets.
Spaceballs
You obviously have to go with the first hipster ever-The Dude.
The Big Lebowski is to comedy as Milhouse is to cooties.
Evil Dead II. Something about low budget horror films get me. His hand is one of the main antagonists! Can't beat that.
Final reason: Bruce Campbell.
Can't decide between:
This is Spinal Tap
or
Wet Hot American Summer
Earth Girls Are Easy
Hairy aliens who are actually hot men and do hot American women?
Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carey, Geena Davis, Damon Wayans and MTV's Julie Brown (not the 'Downtown' one).
Need I say more?
Anything with Jay and Silent Bob
Animal House. The first great R-rated comedy.
It really is Anchorman, or possibly the alternate version of Anchorman patched together from unused footage with a separate plot (including Chuck D of Public Enemy, Kevin Corrigan, and Maya Rudolph as bank robbing terrorists, and a hilarious Amy Poehler scene), Wake Up Ron Burgundy.
The Big Lebowski. Hands down funniest movie ever made, and it gets better each time you see it.
Backup option, and I'm shocked no one has said this: Dirty Work. The best of the 90s SNL-related comedies.
"Haha! You didn't count on my loyal army of prostitutes, did you?"
The correct answer to any question having to do with "best movies" is clearly The Big Lebowski. Both hilarious and witty at the same time. Pure genius!
Heavy Metal Jr! It's kinda like Spinal Tap but with tweens and it's real.
Watch it on youtube (it's only 20min long):
oh and they're Scottish!!!!
Black Dynamite!!! but classicaly it would have to be the big lebowski.
classically.........(damnit)
Tip of the hat to Dr. Strangelove, but funniest film ever comes down to a battle between His Girl Friday and Kind Hearts and Coronets.
His Girl Friday wins because it has Cary Grant, and therefore will destroy all in its path. But good-humouredly, and with occasional falling over.
I'm gunna have to go with Mystic River. Iz dat my dawta in der?! IZ DAT MY DAWTA IN DER??!!? hahah classic.. that was my ringtone for awhile
hands down everyone.
FLETCH.
THE ROOM.
Also, Sneakers?
Eurotrip!
High Fidelity.
Funny because it's supposed to be: The Hangover
Future Wars. Believe me.
(and I'll tell you why: "Coffee Bean.")
Funny because.
The Big Lebowski. Because it gets funnier and funnier on every re-watch, and it ties the whole room together.
They kidnapped Bunny
'cause they're nihilists. Fuck it,
dude, let's go bowling.
The Jerk
And this lamp. And that's ALL I need too. I don't need one other thing, not one...I need this.
Trapped In the closet. No contest. R Kelly and midgets? Victory!
Ooh, "The Jerk" and "Spinal Tap" are good ones. I find "Mommie Dearest" to be hysterical, but I'm probably a bad person.
Half Baked.
"You said you gave Mary Jane a pearl necklace!"
"Obviously you missed the whole point of that story, Brian."
...i never stop laughing.
The Jerk, for sure. I mean, the whole movie is comedy gold.
"Navin, it's your birthday, and it's time you knew. You're not our natural-born child."
"I'm not? You mean I'm gonna STAY this color?"
...but I'm really holding out for the stage adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: http://www.runleiarun.com/lebowski/