jack lemon got knocked out briefly by a pie . said later it felt like getting hit with concrete . there was a blaring production error in the fight when the director shouted pull as in skeet shooting. i wonder if the grips had fun throwing the pies at peter falk as he was in frame and no one else was.

Natalie Wood briefly choked when a pie hit her opened mouth.

At the end of filming of the pie fight, director Blake Edwards called "CUT" and was hit hundreds of pie the cast and crew had hidden.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059243/trivia/?ref_=tt_dyk_trv

Duck Soup. A classic with machine gun quick dialogue loaded with innuendo, puns and literally the kitchen sink.

Or Pee Wee's Big Adventure

My taste in humor is sometimes not very highbrow.

Don't judge me.

Twentieth Century

So many good scenes. I thought the movie was funny & clever.

I love these 3 and watch them every chance I get! I'm sure there are others I'll remember as people post them, but these are the 3 I thought of first.

The show by throw hot dogs, TP paper, etc at the screen?

Folks were way into it. People with costumes on stage, people throwing toilet paper, people wearing corsets and lingerie, it was a total blast! I laughed so hard and even better, it was my first time seeing it.

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Hands down. But some great ones in this thread!

And it always makes me laugh.

And Fred Gwynn -

"What's a yoot?

Waiting for Guffman, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind.

Maybe Waiting for Guffman would win out for me. Anyone who has ever done local theater in a small town could not watch this without just losing it. I have done a lot of it and it is not done for giggles but for those who love it no matter what. Good for the communities and anyone involved. The movie is wonderful and so true all the way to the sense of accomplishment those involved feel and the experience of the audience.

PS I live in a very small town and have played endless shows like this. It is fun. People learn and get better and that is fun too, we all get better until the trombone player behind you pokes you in the back with his slide.

That show is totally serious but also funny. There is at least one Corky in every town.

He hates those cans. Stay away from the Cans.

at the time)...

It gets funnier every time I watch it again. And that without trying to match the Dude drink for drink, toke for toke.

The funniest movie ever made:

"A Shot in the Dark"

There's so many great funny movies, too many to list. 😁 The pink panther etc.

"Have fun storming the castle!"

loved the pairing of Crystal and De Niro.

Hudson Hawk. Bruce Willis plays Hudson Hawk, a cat burglar who gets out of jail and is persuaded to do one last heist. The running joke through the film is that Hawk just wants a cappuccino, and every time he gets one, something happens.
My other favorite is Earth Girls are Easy. Geena Davis stars as a young Valley Girl (yes, I'm dating myself, lol) who has an alien space craft crash into her swimming pool. Jeff Goldblum stars as one of the aliens. This film is, I think, one of the earliest films for Davis, Goldblum, Jim Carrey, and a bunch of other folks who ended up becoming well known film and comedy stars.
No redeeming qualities to either of these movies except they are campy, funny, I want to watch something goofy on a rainy day type movies.

(Apologies for the long winded post, not many people know about these two movies, and im hoping others might want to watch them from the little blurbs i posted, lol. 😃 )

spaceballs.
star wars . the first one . note in the dedication: for mr Laurel and mr hardy
close encounters of the third kind . mr spielburg had a wikid sense of humor in that film if u know where to look for it.
star trek the voyage home.( the one about the whales ) esp the transparent alunimun gag.
chitty chitty bang bang.

These aren't that well known but a couple are: Flirting With Disaster and Election.

There are many, many more but these are little known gems that are quite nuisanced.

Great post!

And it had all that great music, too!

Country and Western!

Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Not big boff comedy, but biting dark satire. Saw it with my parents when
it first came out as they were big Peter Sellers fans and thought it was
one of the funniest movies I'd ever seen.

A Peter Sellers masterpiece

But so many more.
The Producers. Young Frankenstein. A Night at the Opera. Christmas Vacation. And more.

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Mike Nichols and Buck Henry? Comic geniuses.

The Birdcage

NOTHING will ever beat this ending-

Great movie

Except it’s jarring to see OJ Simpson

Seen it a bazillion times and it's always hilarious. Buck Henry wit along Bogdanovich directing and an amazing cast.

usual suspects; Airplane, the original Blues Brothers, and Some Like It Hot.

Mike Nichols other comedy, The Fortune, is absolutely terrific and hilariously funny. I always thought that Jack Nicholson should have received an 'Oscar' for this movie -- especially the scenes where he 'panics' and then cooly confesses to a 'murder' which never actually happened. Warren Beatty is at the top of his game. This is one of his best pictures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fortune
The Fortune is a 1975 American black comedy film starring Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty, and directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Carole Eastman (credited under the pseudonym Adrien Joyce) focuses on two bumbling con men who plot to steal the fortune of a wealthy young heiress, played by Stockard Channing in her first film starring role.

Nicky Wilson and Oscar Sullivan are inept 1920s scam artists in the Northeastern United States who see pay dirt in the guise of Fredericka Quintessa "Freddie" Bigard, the millionaire heiress to a sanitary napkin fortune. She loves the already married Nicky, but because the Mann Act prohibits him from taking her across state lines and engaging in immoral relations, he proposes that she marry Oscar and then carry on an affair with the man she wants. Oscar, who is wanted for embezzlement and anxious to get out of town, is happy to comply with the plan, although he intends to claim his spousal privileges after they are wed.

Once they reach Los Angeles, the men try everything they can to separate Freddie from her inheritance without success, but with sufficient determination to arouse her suspicions. When she announces her plan to donate her money to charity, Nicky and Oscar conclude that murder might be their only recourse if they're going to get rich quick. Eventually arrested for the murder, Nicky and Oscar confess everything to the Los Angeles Police Department. This leads to unusual complications when the arresting detective meets the very-alive Freddie, who passed out and was oblivious to the entire "murder", and is shocked to hear the story.

It's Frank-en-STEEN!"

My Cousin Vinny
Back to School
Uncle Buck
to name a few…

RIP Val Kilmer

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1938, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and the title character is a big cat, a tame leopard. My favorite line in the movie: "Because he knows where my intercostal clavicle is!" I crack up every time I hear that line. You have to watch the movie to get the context, and the humor. You can watch it free on YouTube: