how im gonna make up something universal, doesnt even make any sense: IT"S THE TOP 100 COMEDY FILMS RESULTS THREAD

TONSILS!

Harland Williams is the funniest thing in There's Something About Mary, and he's in it for all of, what, three minutes?

ah i remember harland williams. i voted for half baked!

lost in america is such a weird, minimalist, ruthless movie; i remember it as only having like five scenes, and it ends in such brutal collapse. shoulda been higher.

― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:55 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ this. Although I wouldn't call "And I eat shit?" a brutal collapse necessarily, but yeah, a dashing of his dreams.

^phil otm! 7 its all abt 7. 7 chipmunks swingin on a branch eatin lots of sunflowers on my uncles ranch, you know that old tale from the sea!

also, Morbz seems to grasp some basic math principles -- i.e., if the "handful" of old-timey film stans cram the top of their ballots with keaton, chaplin, wc fields and jerry lewis films and the old-timey fans aren't massively underrepresented vis-a-vis the non-old-timey fans then there's still a good chance that certain of their films could make the Top 100.

seems to need to grasp some basic math principles, i meant

total shutouts for Buster Keaton, WC Fields and Jerry Lewis, obv. Chaplin too?

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:52 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jeez, Morbz, all you had to do was put The Errand Boy in your top 10 like I did.

6 votes for Trouble in Paradise = average 43 points! I suspect that'll be hard to beat.

xp or not, that is a good point.

TIP might've been my #1 (I don't remember).

Either way it's perfect.

it's one of the few movies – let alone comedies – that manages to create and sustain a tone.

Had this been a top 100 ballot I bet I would have run out of modern kicks and included more "that was fun, bet it blew minds in 1943, glad this movie is in the smithsonian"-type films

― da croupier, Tuesday, March 27, 2012 12:06 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok, this is what i think of trouble in paradise -- maybe i should watch it again (and i can respect someone voting for it), but this is def an example of quaint-lol-1930s AFAIC.

amused that the two movies so far that i voted for (trouble in paradise, lost in america) are both morbspix, let's see how long i can keep this affinity up

xpost But it made a modern girl squeal!

i've only seen one lubitsch, which i voted for (not TIP) - his work is definitely the biggest gap in my comedy canon viewing, aside from keaton.

Some gaps don't need to be filled.

Byron couldn't have said it more graciously.

hey guys trouble in paradise had 1 first place vote. left that off. sincere apologies!

I try to avoid not-high-enough disbelief, but I'm genuinely surprised Lost in America is so low.

Herbert Marshall proving you can be sexy with a fake leg and being shown in profile for 90% of the movie.

I saw Trouble In Paradise for the first time a couple of months ago and i dunno, it seemed a bit too restrained or something? In comparison to the '30s stuff i really like anyway. I'm probably a philistine though

Well, it's not screwball, and, yeah, the tone and pace take getting used to. It's like Congreve or something.

"Are there really people talking like this?"

My favorite part of "Trouble In Paradise" is to play 'spot the gondolas'... try to find them; I'm convinced there are an even dozen of them scattered throughout the film.

show me where lubitsch touched you

but I do find the Edward Everett Horton joeks go on a bit

Some gaps don't need to be filled.

like some brain cavities and dance cards

Eisbaer not understanding the precious few all-timers are going to vote for different masterworks.

and then they will die

RELEASE THE APATOW

#89 (3-WAY-TIE)

PINK FLAMINGOS

John Waters
1972
United States
(259 pts, 8 votes)

I like how all of the scenes he had to cut in Pink Flamingos are really short, but he left in heaps of shots of the trailor burning! I mean really I'm sure there was room for that pig latin bit.
Pink Flamingos is my favourite and I could read Shock Value over and over again, well I have.
― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Sunday, March 9, 2003 5:12 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Waters has been one of the leading advocates of obtaining parole for Leslie Van Houten. He even dedicated "Pink Flamingos" to Sadie, Katie & Leslie.
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Tuesday, July 20, 2004 7:40 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

PINK FLAMINGOS!!! "You can eat shit for all I care!", "There's two kinds of people in the world, my kind and assholes", "No one sends you a bowel movement and lives!", "Do my balls, mama!", "But WHAT if one day there's no more EGGS?!"
― dave q, Friday, September 7, 2001 7:00 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"You stand convicted of Assholism!" -- in praise of John Waters

xxpost

http://sharetv.org/images/the_simpsons/comic_book_guy-char.jpg

"Oh, I've wasted my life."

I think I voted for that just to make sure it got in, but it was probably the lowest of the 4 or 5 JW movies on my ballot.

i.e. a strategic vote

Arrow's impossibility theorem strikes again.

No, bcz about 80% of the voters have not seen a Fields or Lewis film, and never will.

Unsurprisingly, you're more than a little myopic in the use of your amazing precognitive powers.

more like 80% of the voices in my head haven't seen a Fields or Lewis film, and never will, amirite?

I'll believe when I listen to a Led Zeppelin LP all the way through

john waters is one of my gaps in comedy films ... only seen cecil b. demented which i liked a lot (lol Entourage Douchebag-in-Chief actually has some talent) but i didn't vote for it and i liked it as much for its lol 1990s-indies-über-alles cast/mindset than for lols.

Woah how did I forget to vote for a single JW? Man, I fucked this up.

You've never seen Hairspray or Cry Baby? I feel like those were on TV all the time for a while when I was growing up.

I like waters better as an essayist than as a filmmaker

sadly, no ... no hairspray or cry baby. i haven't seen the John Travolta hairspray either.

though as far as John Travolta and comedy go, i think that he'll never top either stayin' alive or battlefield earth.

Oh, I haven't seen the Travolta hairspray. Just looking at him in costume was horrifying enough. I saw JW do a one man Christmas themed show a couple months ago. He was hilarious.

JW does anticomedy more than comedy in his grunge period (hence his #1 stan here). Serial Mom is his ace 'normal' comedy.

PF & Trouble in Paradise wd make quite a doublebill tho.

Yay! I voted for Pink Flamingos. It almost makes up for that Jonathan-Richman-ruining utterly unfunny piece of crap placing. Except for the fact that it should have been higher.

I could have voted for every single Waters film, I think, but left it at two for fear of overly stanning.

Voted for Serial Mom too.

Serial Mom is Waters' 'normal' comedy... but it's basically impossible to imagine anybody else making it.

I like waters better as an essayist than as a filmmaker

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:40 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as an erstwhile JW obsessive i'm kinda with this now, but i'd have voted 'female trouble' in my top ten for sure (had i voted)

JW does anticomedy more than comedy in his grunge period (hence his #1 stan here). Serial Mom is his ace 'normal' comedy.

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 12:42 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i worship JW but didn't vote for any of his movies for basically this reason. i probably get more sincere belly laughs out of his aforementioned one man show speaking engagements.