Favorite Funny Movies

Despicable Me - animated, funny, nice story, good moral, kid-friendly, nun-approved, G-rated


Monty Python dead parrot sketch - here on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE
Monty Python ministry of silly walks sketch - here on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w


Fawlty Towers


Waking Ned Devine
Airplane!
Jerry Maguire
My Cousin Vinny (good East Coast humor)
Meet the Parents
Meet the Fockers
Pirate Radio (great music)
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Darjeeling Limited
Garden State (very New Jersey)
As Good as It Gets


Some are heartwarming funny, some funny.


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Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle 
Super Troopers


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Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in Bringing up Baby


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Waiting for Guffman
This is Spinal Tap
Tracey Ullman
Wanda Sykes HBO Stand up sho "I'm a Be Me" this is new and I have never laughed harder ever in my life, seriously. Very therapuetic.
Arrested Development Seasons 1 and 2. This is the funniest TV show I have ever watched.
Of course Young Frakenstein, Blazing saddles


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The Royal Tennenbaums (big time favorite)
I Love You Man (hilarious)
The Jerk (old school fav)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (old school fav)
Elf (never seen it but one of my best friends loves it)
Zoolander (one of my all time favorites -- so stupid but so funny)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (kinda gross but kinda funny too)
The Office (tv show -- I like the American version cause I have never seen the British version)
Flight of the Chonchords (tv show -- first season is the only funny season)


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all time favorites for us are Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Back to the Future


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Another really great favorite is Little Miss Sunshine.  If you haven't seen it you really must.  We recently saw Date Night and laughed a lot. 


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Groundhog Day
Amelie


Also, my friends and I adore these 2 series.  The first seasons are available on DVD and therefore can be rented.  The current season’s shows can also be downloaded off of Amazon before they are put on DVD’s.  The writing in both shows is super clever:
Glee
Modern Family


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Mary and Max is one of the best funny films I have seen in a long time. It just came out on video.  
Scott Pilgrim is a funny movie- it's in the theatres right now.
We have been rewatching arrested development which in my mind is pure genius. 


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Freebie and the Bean
Bizarre Bizarre
Slapstick
Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, ...
Airplane
Buster Keaton: The General, The Navigator, College, ...
WC Fields: The Bank Dick, International House, Poppy, ...
Clerks, Mall Rats, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks 2
Time Bandits, Baron Münchhausen, Brothers Grimm, Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, Brazil
8 Women
Wallace and Gromit
Castle of Cagliostro
Happiness of the Katakuris


I guess I'm not so good at distinguishing laughter from cringing, or perhaps I like them mixed.


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We recently watched Cold Souls which has a dry but funny concept and execution.  
Last spring we watched Burn After Reading and found it quite funny in a bitter, Cohen Brothers kind of way.  Perhaps not exactly The Hangover but pretty good.


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Office Space
Idiocracy
Funny Bones (not laugh out loud, but lovely)
Christopher Guest movies - Best in Show, For Your Consideration, A Mighty Wind
Little Miss Sunshine 
The Princess Bride
I heart Huckabees
The Beginning - Ellen Degeneres (her stand-up is so much funnier than anything else she's ever done)
Here and Now - Ellen Degeneres (laugh out loud HBO special)
30 Rock (TV show - 4 seasons on DVD)
Dr. Strangelove - holds up very well - I still find it to be very funny.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Anchorman
Elf (toward Christmas time)
Kung Fu Hustle
Fargo
Being John Malkovich
Delicatessan
The Simpsons Movie (if you're a fan)


Hope you have a lot of laughs.


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Meet the Spartans
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Zombieland
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Full Monty
Get Shorty
Little Miss Sunshine
There’s Something About Mary
Despicable Me
Yes Man
Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
Keeping Mum
Super Bad


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Office Space
Idiocracy
Funny Bones (not laugh out loud, but lovely)
Christopher Guest movies - Best in Show, For Your Consideration, A Mighty Wind
Little Miss Sunshine 
The Princess Bride
I heart Huckabees
The Beginning - Ellen Degeneres (her stand-up is so much funnier than anything else she's ever done)
Here and Now - Ellen Degeneres (laugh out loud HBO special)
30 Rock (TV show - 4 seasons on DVD)
Dr. Strangelove - holds up very well - I still find it to be very funny.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Anchorman
Elf (toward Christmas time)
Kung Fu Hustle
Fargo
Being John Malkovich
Delicatessan
The Simpsons Movie (if you're a fan)


Hope you have a lot of laughs.