So I’m eating my 1/2lb Angus burgers before heading off to work last night, and the wife is watching one of her favorite channels, Bravo, from the dining room. They were showing the last half of their “Top 100 Funniest Movies of All Time” episode. While I normally leave the room when Bravo is on, I love a trainwreck too much to leave, so I stayed to see what kind of chicanery these fools could come up with.
Sure enough, just as the show comes back from commercial, they make their first screw up, listing Monty Python and the Holy Grail at #40, followed by Mrs. Doubtfire at #39.
If this country were as fascistic as the left likes to scream about, the producers of this show would have been lined up and shot for just that idiotic mistake.
But it doesn’t end there; They not only put “Legally Blonde” a step above “The Big Leobowski”, they also put “Shrek” and “There’s Something About Mary” (a movie I couldn’t sit through because it was so boring) above both “Airplane” and “Blazing Saddles”.
Those mistakes would almost require torture before death in any just world.
Their complete list is here. I have assembled an ‘off the top of my head’Â Top Ten list of comedy movies gathered from their list below the fold.
Let me know if I left anything out.
10. Groundhog Day
9. South Park – Bigger, Longer and Uncut
8. The Big Leobowski
7. Animal House
6. Stripes
5. This is Spinal Tap
4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
3. Blazing Saddles
2. Caddyshack
1. Airplane
That whole list is a mis-ordered travesty, even before you get to #40. Dr. Strangelove is too low. And Annie Hall, wtf? I think Woody Allen is over-rated as a comedian.
And how could you forget Mel Brooks “History of the World, Part 1”? Or the original “Producers”? And maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough, but there’s not a single Marx Brothers or 3 Stooges film on that list. Travesty!
Ah, but it was on bravo so the must cater to their audiance. Un like us here who seem to have the same smart, yet sophomoric humor. What about the origional Hitchhikers Guide?
Hitchikers on Bravo! Surely you jest. That would be far too geeky for Bravo!, which caters to the psuedo-intelligencia and the artsy-fartsy crowd. If “Spaceballs” didn’t make that list, there’s no way Hitchikers would.
“The Life of Brian”. It’s #2 on my list, right behind “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”.
Not suprisingly I prefer your list to theirs.
Glad I’m not alone on this. Thanks folks, for the ideas as well.
You can say “Geeze Mom” if you like, but I thoroughly enjoy and always get a good laugh out of The Birdcage and think it deserved a better rating than No. 99!
Some of those things on their list never even made me crack a smile.
I’m not sure if Fletch could crack the top #10 you’ve got (especially since I’ve never seen The Big Lebowski), but it should be a solid #11.
And what about Team America?
I’m so Ronery.
Again, I miss two more additions. Maybe I need to make a Top 20?