So very heavy.
Pax Fellaship
I was about to hop on here and post a little discourse on the need for "quietness" in our lives. I wanted to rant and rave about how inescapable "noise" has become in this modern age. But you know what? I'm not going to do that. At least not now.
We need to lighten up around her for a little while.
But I want to keep a dialogue going. I don't want to just tell jokes(and you don't want me to do that anyway). I want to start some discussion on matters of less importance but that require no less passion. I promise I won't get veklempt.
We'll start with an easy one.
What's you're favorite comedy of the last 20 years (not of all time and not necessarily the best)?
Mine is "The Royal Tennenbaums". I think. Hmmm? Maybe this isn't such an easy one.
I was about to hop on here and post a little discourse on the need for "quietness" in our lives. I wanted to rant and rave about how inescapable "noise" has become in this modern age. But you know what? I'm not going to do that. At least not now.
We need to lighten up around her for a little while.
But I want to keep a dialogue going. I don't want to just tell jokes(and you don't want me to do that anyway). I want to start some discussion on matters of less importance but that require no less passion. I promise I won't get veklempt.
We'll start with an easy one.
What's you're favorite comedy of the last 20 years (not of all time and not necessarily the best)?
Mine is "The Royal Tennenbaums". I think. Hmmm? Maybe this isn't such an easy one.
posted by Kile and Em at 4:49 PM
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Life is Beautiful.
Swingers. Just too many lines in it that are so quotable. (Blues Bros. is 25 years old, and Monty Python and Mash are too old, too)
Ghostbusters. Just in under the wire as a 1985 release....
Ghostbusters was so brilliant it became ubiquitous and cliche, but let us not forget.
Oh yes, you've got to give some Ghostbusters love.
Plus, let us not forget "So I Married an Axe Murderer."
I haven't seen "Swingers". I need to.
"Life is Beautiful" is such a wonderful film. Very funny and very touching. Truthfully I didn't even think of it. If I had it might have been contending for the top spot.
This may be just because I'm a girl, or because I'm from the South, but for me- one of the top comedies, although top tears too, is Steel Magnolias- Whew! It really gets you, in all ways!
If MP&THG, Caddyshack, Ferris Bueller, all the John Cusack and John Candy comedies are out, then I'd vote for any of the Coen brothers movies with O Brother 1st, and either the Big Lebowski or Raising Arizona second. And, please, DO NOT OMIT Napoleon Dynamite. It got, like, three feet of air.
Jeff R - w/a PDA from an airport somewhere...
Oh the Big Lebowski. Now that is a side splittingly funny movie.
"That rug pulled the whole room together man."
The Coen brothers have also given us "O' Brother Where Are Thou?".
"Damn boys were in tight spot."
I want to change my vote. Well maybe not.
The hardest times I've laughed at movies are two: So I Married an Axe Murderer (wasn't it summer 1994 in Oklahoma?) and Austin Powers II, summer of 1999 in Chattanooga. The first was driven by gigantic vibes of friendship and sleep deprivation. The second was driven by a SRO crowd and just barely enough beer.
I don't know if Oh! Brother... is the funniest movie I've seen, but I do think it's the smartest. "Oh, George, not the livestock...."
"Well, ain't it a small world, spiritually speaking. Pete and Delmar just been baptized and saved. I guess I'm the only one that remains unaffiliated."
I've got to give a manly shout out to my wife's pick, but perhaps it's too regionally affected to among the funniest of all. "Half the parrish would give their eye-teeth to take a whack at Weezer!"
Eric,
Your "Oh Brother..." quote is priceless. I was trying to remember exactly the wording of it and could only remember the last line about being unaffilliated.
I have never seen the Magnolias made of Steel. I have been told I am worse off for its absence in my movie vocabulary. I might just have to remedy this situation.
Oh no no no no NOOOOO!. Try again Mr. Radec, if that is your real name. Airplane, while one of the funniest movies ever made, is older than 20 years. You are going to have to bring newer toys to the sandbox if you want to play.
But don't worry "I speak Jive."
Radec,
That's some funny @#!%
All of Blackadder, including the rather sobering final installment, Blackadder Goes Forth. (http://www.blackadderhall.co.uk/)
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