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.
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?
January 28, 2010 at 2:00 pmAirplane!
January 28, 2010 at 2:05 pmSchindler’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.
January 28, 2010 at 2:07 pmA History of Violence. That was supposed to be funny right?
January 28, 2010 at 2:09 pmDr. Strangelove. Think about it.
January 28, 2010 at 2:18 pmMost intentionally funny film: Caddyshack
Most unintentionally funny film: The People Under the Stairs
January 28, 2010 at 2:22 pmHouse Party 3
January 28, 2010 at 2:22 pmI 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.
January 28, 2010 at 2:24 pmthe people under the stairs is AMAZING
January 28, 2010 at 2:25 pmBetter Off Dead
No irony intended.
January 28, 2010 at 2:51 pmModern Times
January 28, 2010 at 3:02 pmGigli.
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.
January 28, 2010 at 3:14 pmSpaceballs
January 28, 2010 at 3:35 pmYou obviously have to go with the first hipster ever-The Dude.
The Big Lebowski is to comedy as Milhouse is to cooties.
January 28, 2010 at 3:47 pmEvil 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.
January 28, 2010 at 3:50 pmCan’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?
January 28, 2010 at 4:25 pmAnything with Jay and Silent Bob
January 28, 2010 at 4:29 pmAnimal House. The first great R-rated comedy.
January 28, 2010 at 4:31 pmIt 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.
January 28, 2010 at 4:49 pmThe 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?”
January 28, 2010 at 5:06 pmThe 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!
January 28, 2010 at 5:10 pmHeavy Metal Jr! It’s kinda like Spinal Tap but with tweens and it’s real.
Watch it on youtube (it’s only 20min long): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd6clppG5bQ
January 28, 2010 at 5:23 pmoh and they’re Scottish!!!!
January 28, 2010 at 5:25 pmBlack Dynamite!!! but classicaly it would have to be the big lebowski.
January 29, 2010 at 12:50 amclassically………(damnit)
January 29, 2010 at 12:52 amTip 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.
January 29, 2010 at 8:19 amI’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
January 29, 2010 at 9:19 amhands down everyone.
FLETCH.
January 29, 2010 at 10:13 amTHE ROOM.
Also, Sneakers?
Eurotrip!
January 29, 2010 at 12:19 pmHigh Fidelity.
January 29, 2010 at 11:03 pmFunny because it’s supposed to be: The Hangover
(and I’ll tell you why: “Coffee Bean.”)
Funny because. : Future Wars. Believe me.
January 30, 2010 at 11:44 amThe 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.
February 3, 2010 at 1:51 pmTrapped In the closet. No contest. R Kelly and midgets? Victory!
February 3, 2010 at 9:06 pmOoh, “The Jerk” and “Spinal Tap” are good ones. I find “Mommie Dearest” to be hysterical, but I’m probably a bad person.
February 15, 2010 at 1:51 pmHalf Baked.
“You said you gave Mary Jane a pearl necklace!”
“Obviously you missed the whole point of that story, Brian.”
…i never stop laughing.
February 15, 2010 at 2:07 pmThe 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/
February 19, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Brother from Another Planet.
It’s the old standard of good vs evil that really gets to me every time.
January 28, 2010 at 1:55 pm