When I was a child in England, my mother and I used to sit down on Sunday afternoons and watch classic British movies. We’d get big cups of coffee, bags of crisps (potato chips) and bars of chocolate and settle down for a marathon movie watch. Courtesy of the BBC, we watched the classic Carry ...
One producer who has really helped breathe some life back in the comedy film genre is Judd Apatow. With cult hit TV shows like Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared under his belt, Apatow made the leap to feature films, and the decision has proven to be a good one. He has had his hand in ...
Coming up with a list of the top 10 funniest movies of the 80s was a huge challenge. Not only were there a plethora of quality comedy films produced during that decade, but there were a number of movies that have comedic content simply because they were filmed in the 80s, and there are few ...
A couple of years ago, you may have seen the list that the American Film Institute put out of the top 100 funniest movies ever made. Chances are, there were movies on the list that had you scratching your head. Even more likely, you had issues about where your favorite funny movies placed. Apparently you ...
Ever since I could see, my love for movies made me watch films almost everyday. In fact, when I was younger, my parents would tell me my eyes went bad because I would sit right in front of the television. I still don’t believe that. Since this “becoming an adult” business has been scaring me ...
It is a difficult job to try and recommend funny movies to anyone else. One person’s sense of humor is so much different from another’s and one person might sit in stoic silent while another is rolling in the aisle. When I set out to create this list of the top 10 funniest movies of ...
1. Airplane! 1980 The epitomal slapstick comedy, Airplane! took shots at everything from race relations(remember Barbara Billingsley as the jive-talkin’ grandmother?) to Hare Krishna fight scenes in the airport terminal. A long, lost reminder of a time when cheap laughs were actually worth something. Famous Quote: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? 2. Spaceballs ...
Odds are my list of the top 10 funniest movies of all time are going to be significant different than anyone else’s. That is why making comedy is so hugely challenging for movie makers. What is hilarious to one person won’t even get a chuckle out of someone else. When I made my list of ...
