I liked Borat a lot. Until while I was travelling it was playing in every hostel I visited, then there were only so many times I wanted to hear "she is number one prostitue" etc
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The interviews he did around the time the film came out, were even funnier than the film it's self.
Yer that bit was hilarious... pause.... nottt!
Borat was funny but I would not put it on the funniest list. In fact I have to say I laughed perhaps twice but that could be because I heard all the jokes in the previews.
1) Just about anything from the Marx Brothers: A Day at the Races and Down were there funniest in my opinion with Duck Soup being my favorite)
2) Something By Mel Brooks would HAVE to go up on that list: Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, History of the World, Spaceballs his movies alone could make up a whole list of the funniest movies ever made.
3) Monty Python: All of there movies are funnier then any on that list by the Telegraph, and in my opinion some of the funniest movies ever made.
4) Airplane! Zucker has done a lot of funny movies but this movie just does not loose its hilarity. I showed it to a bunch of friends just last year who had never seen it and they couldn't stop laughing.
5) Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein: Abbott and Costello made a lot of funny movies but I think this was their funniest.
6) Early Adam Sandler: I will understand if people disagree with me since it is a specific taste of comedy but you have to admit that his style of comedy changed funny movies for a long time and I personally think Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and the Waterboy are still funny.
7) Office Space: This is on of the funniest movies of our generation.
8) Something good from Will Farrell (because he also makes a lot of shit) should go on that list be it Old School, Anchorman or Talladega Nights.
9) A Kevin Smith movie: From Clerks to Strike Back there is something for everyone in there.
10) Groundhog Day: I love this movie.
Here are a couple of major underrated movies but none the less I think are some of the funniest movies ever made.
-Galaxy Quest: Highly underrated in my opinion and laugh out loud funny.
-3 Amigos: I laugh just thinking about this movie. I still don't understand the hate for this film it was just so darn funny.
-Brain Candy (Kids in the Hall)
-The Great Outdoors: Silly at times but funny none the less.
-Christmas Vacation: The reason some of us 80's kids think Chevy Chase is a actually a funny person.
- Trey Parker and Mat Stone Combo: Baseketball, Orgazmo, South Park the Movie and World Police are all gold.
- Ghostbusters (I didn’t know if I would get blasted for calling it a movie so I put it here, but this movie is still one of my favourite movies of all time).
- Austin Powers films: They also changed the way people view comedy
- Fish Called Wanda: So smart I just love the writing in this movie
I'm looking forward to seeing other people's lists.
Quote: Griff @ February 19, 2008, 5:24 PMI remember sitting on the train listening to various pig-ignorant muppets going on about how it was really funny because Kazakhstan is "like, a really shit place, and right, if I was from somewhere shit like that, I wouldn't tell no one" etc. (This from people getting off the train at Slough.)
Quote: Griff @ February 19, 2008, 4:05 PMDa Ali G Movie was a bit disappointing (but still funnier than half the ones on that stupid list).
However I will be very cross with anyone who denies the genius of the Borat movie.
Both, Griff.
Quote: Griff @ February 19, 2008, 4:05 PM
However I will be very cross with anyone who denies the genius of the [i]Borat movie.
I thought Borat was awful, I turned it off half way through; and I had previously liked the character on the tv shows, but the film was shit.
Quote: Curt @ February 19, 2008, 5:57 PMBorat was funny but I would not put it on the funniest list. In fact I have to say I laughed perhaps twice but that could be because I heard all the jokes in the previews.
1) Just about anything from the Marx Brothers: A Day at the Races and Down were there funniest in my opinion with Duck Soup being my favorite)
2) Something By Mel Brooks would HAVE to go up on that list: Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, History of the World, Spaceballs his movies alone could make up a whole list of the funniest movies ever made.
3) Monty Python: All of there movies are funnier then any on that list by the Telegraph, and in my opinion some of the funniest movies ever made.
4) Airplane! Zucker has done a lot of funny movies but this movie just does not loose its hilarity. I showed it to a bunch of friends just last year who had never seen it and they couldn't stop laughing.
5) Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein: Abbott and Costello made a lot of funny movies but I think this was their funniest.
6) Early Adam Sandler: I will understand if people disagree with me since it is a specific taste of comedy but you have to admit that his style of comedy changed funny movies for a long time and I personally think Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and the Waterboy are still funny.
7) Office Space: This is on of the funniest movies of our generation.A remarkably detailed, and well thought out list. Yet further proof that these lists are deeply bogus, for this list has no Ghostbusters in the top10. Albeit Groundhog Day is the superior movie.
8) Something good from Will Farrell (because he also makes a lot of shit) should go on that list be it Old School, Anchorman or Talladega Nights.
9) A Kevin Smith movie: From Clerks to Strike Back there is something for everyone in there.
10) Groundhog Day: I love this movie.Here are a couple of major underrated movies but none the less I think are some of the funniest movies ever made.
-Galaxy Quest: Highly underrated in my opinion and laugh out loud funny.
-3 Amigos: I laugh just thinking about this movie. I still don't understand the hate for this film it was just so darn funny.
-Brain Candy (Kids in the Hall)
-The Great Outdoors: Silly at times but funny none the less.
-Christmas Vacation: The reason some of us 80's kids think Chevy Chase is a actually a funny person.
- Trey Parker and Mat Stone Combo: Baseketball, Orgazmo, South Park the Movie and World Police are all gold.
- Ghostbusters (I didn’t know if I would get blasted for calling it a movie so I put it here, but this movie is still one of my favourite movies of all time).
- Austin Powers films: They also changed the way people view comedy
- Fish Called Wanda: So smart I just love the writing in this movieI'm looking forward to seeing other people's lists.
Quote: Griff @ February 19, 2008, 6:39 PMSorry Aaron! If it's any consolation I've lived in both Staines and Swindon before now, so I can't really be poking fun at Slough.
It's a f**king shit hole.
I don't think I've been to Slough.
I may pass through it on the train? I always think of Ricky Gervais when I travel to London, but that might be when I go through Reading.
Or it might be because I think of Ricky Gervais every 7 minutes.
Or is that sex?
It's the same thing, people.
Quote: zooo @ February 19, 2008, 6:52 PMI don't think I've been to Slough.
Lucky you!
Quote: zooo @ February 19, 2008, 6:52 PMI may pass through it on the train? I always think of Ricky Gervais when I travel to London, but that might be when I go through Reading.
Yep, about half-way between Reading and Paddington. Which also means you've been past my house, as I live almost next to the railway! 
ooooh!
Put a Harry Potter poster in the window and I'll wave as I go past.
Quote: Griff @ February 19, 2008, 11:40 AMThe Torygraph has listed the "Top 10" comedy films. It's a pretty crappy list in my view. What do you think ?
There's only three really great movies on it: Some Like It Hot, Withnail And I, and His Girl Friday. Possibly Annie Hall and The Odd Couple at a push.
But Tootsie and Zoolander as the greatest comedies of all time ?
And no Napoleon Dynamite ??!! No Life Of Brian ? No Marx Brothers or Laurel and Hardy ? Idiots.
Can't argue with His Girl Friday and Some Like it Hot. Some of the rest is very dubious though! Some of them are good entertaining films, but best ever comedies? Hmmm. Not in my book.
Just off the top of my head for other contenders:
Much as I like Woody Allen, I've always found Annie Hall a bit over-rated, and I'd go for the bitter-sweet comedy of The Purple Rose of Cairo. If I'm allowed another Hawks film as well as His Girl Friday I'll grab Bringing Up Baby, please. There's got to be a Chaplin, a Keaton and a Laurel & Hardy - a bit of a pick-and-mix depending on mood on those.
Airplane is still funny and that kind of thing was original back then. This is Spinal Tap has to be in contention. Also When Harry Met Sally and Groundhog Day.
And Delicatessen. Not much from recent times I'm afraid - I like Team America, Dodgeball, Anchorman, etc, but they wouldn't make any "greatest" list in my book.
Hell, why not go for a Carry On film? Carry on up the Khyber is a better comedy than quite a few in the Telegraph's list. And thinking British, it's a bit rough for the Telegraph not have an Ealing comedy on their list, so I'll put forward The Ladykillers.
EDIT: sorry, I forgot to agree with the list about Gregory's Girl. That's one of the best British comedies ever. (See, 'cos it's good it's British; if it was crap people would say it was Scottish)
Quote: zooo @ February 19, 2008, 6:59 PMooooh!
Put a Harry Potter poster in the window and I'll wave as I go past.
Hahaha, I was about to say (before you edited the post), if you let me know next time you're heading through, I'll come out into the road and wave as you go past. 
Quote: Badge @ February 19, 2008, 6:59 PMHell, why not go for a Carry On film? Carry on up the Khyber is a better comedy than quite a few in the Telegraph's list.
Tiffin time!