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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack, and today
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we're taking a look at the one hundred best comedy
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movies of all time, according to Variety, I was saving
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this one for the holidays. I really haven't looked at it.
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I kind of spoiled at what number one is, and
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but I've half erased from my brain. I think I
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know what number one is. But if you're new to
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the program, anytime I do one of these list episodes,
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I like to do it cold, without previously having formed opinions,
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so you can hear me react to the moment when
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I'm like, oh, good, pick word. That's crazy. Variety says,
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in compiling our list of the all time greatest screen comedies,
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we thought long and hard about what makes a classic,
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but mostly we heeded the call of our funny bones.
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We hope these movies tickle yours as much as they
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do ours. One hundred Bridget Jones Diary, ninety nine Wayne's World.
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That seems absurdly low. What else are there really ninety
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eight fun films than Wayne's World? Okay they're rite ah.
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The Saturday Night Live spin off movie was a form
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that regularly popped up in multiplexes he had almost inevitably
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was not very good. It took characters like Stuart Smalley
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and the Coneheads and the Roxbury Guys and plopped them
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into feature length comedies that just wound up making you
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realize how perfectly suited they were to late night sketches.
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All that's fair, But Wayne's world is different. Yes, Mike
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Myers and Dana Carvey created characters that exerted a residence
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far beyond how funny they were. In some weird way,
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they were just like us. Good Pick feels Low ninety eight,
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Pretty Woman ninety seven born yesterday from nineteen fifty. You
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may not be familiar with this one. I'm not either.
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Belligerent small time criminal Harry Brock played by Broder Crawford,
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brings his galp Billy Dawn played by Judy Holliday to Washington,
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d C. But worries she'll embarrass him, so he hires
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a reporter played by William Holden to two to her.
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Only the more education Billy gets, the less she appreciates
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being ordered around by a thug. Ninety six I'm Gonna
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get You, Sucker Brazil. So far, I kind of hate
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this list. Ninety four, Clerks ninety three, Hairspray ninety two,
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The Jerk, If you weren't around, the Jerk was like huge,
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and Steve Martin as a comedian was huge that year.
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I haven't heard anybody mention the Jerk in a zillion years,
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I don't think. Actually, I'm positive I've not seen it
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in the twenty first century. Ninety one, She'd Done Him
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Wrong from nineteen thirty three, starring May West, ninety Bob
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and Carolyn, Ted and Alice from nineteen sixty nine. Eighty
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nine Fast Times at Ridgemond High. Okay, this is the
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gen xer in me. I know what you're thinking of
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right now, me too. Two words, Phoebe Kates. We don't
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even care if the movie is funny. Have you seen
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that scene? Is that not etched in your brain? Fellow
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gen xer? It is, let's all be honest. But even
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beside that, get that out of your brain for a second. Jeff'spacoli, right.
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I feel like this should be way up there. Eighty
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eight Anchorman, The Legend of ron Burgundy. The more I
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see Will Ferrell movies, the less I like them. I
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know everybody loves this one. Okay, fie. I won't fight
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you on it. I mean, it's definitely a funny movie.
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Eighty eight sure seems well ranked. Why not? Eighty seven
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Everything Everywhere, All at once? Famous comedy? Eighty six Idiocracy
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is Idiocrasy a comedy? Or is it actually a documentary
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about America in twenty twenty six? I think it's a
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movie from the future that was sent back to warn us,
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and we are ignoring all the warnings. If you haven't
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seen Idiocracy, watch it and you'll be like, yeah, it's okay.
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But twenty years ago it was like this is ridiculous,
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and now it's just like a Tuesday Fiety rights. If
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you think what's going on in America right now happened
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from the top down, check yourself. The truth is it
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just happened just as much from the bottom up. And
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Mike Judge foresaw that when he made his cracksatsire of
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the dumbing down of America eighty five to be or
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Not to Be? From nineteen forty two. All right, here's
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a deep throw. And I don't know anything about movies.
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By the way, if you come to trivia night and
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they ask movie questions, I never ever know the answer.
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I know the random stuff, But movies is like this
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weird weak spot for me that I know nothing, and
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we all look at John Van. We're like, John Van,
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do you know the answer to this one? But sometimes
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Fan doesn't come and everybody looks at me, and I'm like,
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I don't know. Nothing worse at trivia than leaving it
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blank except in the fifth round if you write incorrect
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answer in the fifth round, they take off two points.
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But in the other rounds, a blank is just a blank,
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So you might as well guess I digress to be
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or not to be. From nineteen forty two, Brady tells
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us Adolf Hitler was at his heights and World War
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II was well underway when German expatriot and master satirist
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Ernst Lubitch took direct aim at the Third Reich. Using
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signature aspects of his comedic style. The Berlin born Helmer
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skewer the Gestapo and use comedy to support the Allies,
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cause plot twists and mistaken identity spoilers. You had fifty seventy,
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now you had seventy years. No, you had eighty years.
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You had eighty years. Okay, don't get mad at me.
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I'm spoiling a movie from nineteen forty two, You had time,
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plot twists and mistaken identities build on one another in
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the del lightfully concluded story of a theatrical troop who
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used their acting skills to fool the Nazis. Never heard
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of that film. I also never heard of this film
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Number eighty four from nineteen eighty eight, Women on the
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Verge of a Nervous Breakdown pedro Outmodovar's first films were
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looser and funnier than the serious oscar latted work that followed.
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This melodrama unspoils almost entirely in one place, the apartment
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of Pepa, a heartbroken woman who plans to enter her
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life with a batch of spice Caspacho, only to watch
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guests pass out as they consume it instead. I guess
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that could be funny. Eighty three Wet Hot American Summer
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eighty two. Nineteen thirty seven's The Awful Truth, director Leo
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Mcarrey encouraged his actors Carrie Grant and Irene Dunn to
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improvise as they played a married couple who were both
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convinced the others being unfaithful. Eighty one The Devil Wears
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Prada eighty Bamboozled from two thousand seventy nine, The Rocky
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Horror Picture Show. All Right, that's a fun pick. I
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like that one seventy eight Night at the Opera, seventy
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seven Blazing Saddles from nineteen seventy four seems absurdly low. No,
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what's going to be the top twenty five like all
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the Adam Sandler movies. Seventy six something called Me and
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You and Everyone We Know from two thousand and five.
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The movie is about his search for connection in the
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early aughts, when chat rooms let people feel a virtual
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sense of intimacy with total strangers. And number seventy five
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A movie I love. Sean of the Dead. Have you
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ever seen Sean of the Dead? You should watch Sean
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of the Dead. Simon Pegg plays a sad sack London
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salesman named Sean. He of the dead, but he's not dead.
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He and his best friend Ed takes shelter from the
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zombie apocalypse in a pub very very funny movie. And
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seventy five seems a nice round number on which to
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take the break. Continuing varieties. One hundred Best Comedies, Number
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seventy four Private Benjamin from nineteen eighty That's another one
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of those films that, like the Jerk, that was around
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and around and around and has disappeared, and I haven't
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heard of it in a million years. Did they even
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make a TV show out of this? Did? I imagine
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that Goldie Hawn is a spoiled rich girl whose husband
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died on their wedding night and she's accidentally enlisted into
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the US Army. I have not seen that in this century,
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but I remember that being funny. A Napoleon Dynamite from
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two thousand and four is number seventy three, seventy two,
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The Big Lebowski from nineteen ninety eight. I know people
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really love that film. Seventy one is Miracle at Morgan's
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Creek from nineteen forty four. For Preston Sturgis, nothing was sacred,
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at least of all the institution of marriage. A screwball
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screenwriting genius and the first to direct his own material,
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Sturgis takes aim at the way many American gals gave
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enlisted men the warmest of sendoffs, only to be saddled
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with souvenirs of their hospitality some nine months later. I
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see what you did there? Okay? Seventy legally Blonde from
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two thousand and one. Sixty nine ace Ventura Pet Detective
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Jim Carrey making a movie that is worthy of Adam Sandler.
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Variety writes there's a certain kind of infantile hypomania comedian
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and the site examples Jerry Lewis and Adam Sandler, who
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wants his cherish but who critics inevitably dismiss as silly,
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mind numbing, lowest common denominator. In other words, name your
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synonym for dumb. I want to give that sentence standing
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Ovation sixty eight from two thousand and nine In the Loop,
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a whiplash version of how Western democracy operates. Never heard
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of it, not saying it's a dumb pick. I'll just
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telling you I've never heard of it. I've also never
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heard of Hell's a Poppin from nineteen forty one. One
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word hell' za with a Z poppin with an apostrophe
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at the end. Hell's a Poppin. That's not me having
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the queen's accent. It's Hell's a Poppin. While less remembered
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than Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello, the comedy
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duo of Olsen and Johnson had a huge stage hit
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with Helsa poppin The Sticky Show that was never the
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same experience twice as the pair injected topical jokes and
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fresh improv every night for three years. The Broadway hit
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was blisteringly fast paced and self aware, with the two
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stars frequently breaking the fourth wall. All right, that sounds fun.
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Sixty six Eddie Murphy raw, Isn't that just a comedy special?
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Is that a comedy movie? We're counting that now? We
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just opened up a whole can of worms with this pic.
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I mean, yes, I love it. And Variety kind of
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sort of aligns with me here, who says that Eddie Murphy,
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as great as he is and was was just doing
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a Richard Pryor cover act. They point out his delirious
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Prior Esque fantasy of marrying an African princess. Murphy, like Prior,
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rarely found a Hollywood vehicle that could channel his comic
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inspiration the way a stand up stage could. From twenty
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twenty three, there was a movie called Poor Things that
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comes in at number sixty five. Variety says, from Mabbitt
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and Costello meet Frankenstein to weird science, Mary Shelley's classic
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Monster often works better as comedy than horror. Emma Stone
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Apparently that's a movie that happened. It's quite funny. A
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fish called Wanda from nineteen eighty eight. People like me
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were like, I wish we had more Monty Python things,
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and they were like, how about people from Monty Python
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plus Jamie Lee Curtis, And I was like, all right,
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I generally am of the opinion that Jamie Lee Curtis
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makes things better. Michael Palin also in this one, and
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Kevin Klein was quite good in it. Sixty three from
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nineteen seventy four, Going Places a French film. Okay, sixty
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two an outrage? Right now? How is this possibly sixty two?
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You're going to tell me there are sixty one better
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comedy movies than Airplane? Are you insane? There's no way.
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How is the Airplane only number sixty two? It probably
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should be one outrage at least I've yet to say
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an Adam Sandlor film. But on the other hand, maybe
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the entire top twenty is the Adam Sandler filmography. I'm
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worried now on number sixty one. The Bird Cage from
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nineteen ninety six, sixty, Tom Hanks in Big from nineteen
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eighty eight, fifty nine Pillow Talk from nineteen fifty nine,
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Rock Hudson and Doris Day filmmakers being a little fifties
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era Naughty Riddy says a good example is the split
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screen scene in which the two stars appear in separate tubs,
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arranged side by side, as if to suggest they're bathing together.
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Number fifty eight, nineteen nineties House Party starring Kid and
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Play ranked higher than Airplane number fifty seven. My Best
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Friend's Wedding from nineteen ninety seven is ranked higher than
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Airplane number fifty six. The Odd Couple, the Walter Matthew
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Jack Lemmon version from nineteen sixty eight, or I'd see there.
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I won't throw my laptop across the room. Great Film
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fifty five from nineteen twenty three, Safety Last. You have
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seen at least clips of this Harold Lloyd hanging off
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a clock high above the city scape. You've seen this
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this back when they used to do really cool special effects,
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before special effects went digital. You've seen this clip number
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fifty four. I may throw my laptop across the room.
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Will Ferrell and Elf higher than Airplane number fifty three
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Broadcast News on your list of top comedy movies. Fifty
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nineteen seventy two. What right he tells us? A French
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spy comedy. It's funnier than all the Pink Panther movies
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put together. This one, too, involves a fair amount of
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clueless bumbling. You see, Francois, a frizzy haired concert violinist,
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is chosen at random by a member of the counter
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espionage department. They pretend that Francois as a master spy.
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That sounds like it could be funny. Fifty one being
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John Malcovich from nineteen ninety nine and number fifty ah A,
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what a perfect time to wrap up today's episode. Our
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first Adam Sandler movie, The water Boy from nineteen ninety eight.
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Variety smoked some crack and wrote The water Boy is
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the most uproarious and indelible of Sadler's early funny films.
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That's because he basically took those two warring aspects of
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a persona the harmless arrested child side the one that
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was like Jerry Lewis on goofball steroids, they write, and
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then the violent walking in side. By the time Sandler