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Aug 22, 2017 · Of the 89 winners for best picture, only seven can really be called comedies: It Happened One Night, You Can’t Take It With You, Around the World in 80 Days, The Apartment, Tom...
- I’m on a Boat’ by The Lonely Island featuring T-Pain. Admittedly, we could double the size of this list with just Lonely Island songs. But with respect to ‘Dick in a Box’ and ‘Jack Sparrow,’ if we're limiting things to just one, we're going with the Grammy-nomintated summer banger.
- Carol Brown (Choir of Ex Girlfriends)’ by Flight of the Conchords. Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement snuck a lot of sweetness into their guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk repertoire, but this is the duo at their most charmingly self-effacing.
- White & Nerdy’ by “Weird Al” Yankovic. We could put together a whole list of the best Weird Al songs. How can you pick just one amongst hilarious tracks like ‘Fat,’ ‘Eat It,’ ‘Amish Paradise,’ ‘Like a Surgeon,’ ‘Smells Like Nirvana’?. ‘
- Welcome to the Internet’ by Bo Burnham. Bo Burnham’s hit Netflix special Inside is a deep dive into the manic, lonely and wholly universal experiences of isolation during quarantine, but the musical powerhouse's darkest and funniest moment comes with the chaotic ‘Welcome to the ‘internet.’
- 45 'Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery'
- 44 'Arsenic and Old Lace'
- 43 'In Bruges'
- 42 'The jerk'
- 41 'Galaxy Quest'
Directed by Jay Roach
Offering emphatic proof that spoof movies didn’t completely die in the 80s, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery was the perfect parody of what was, at the time, a dwindling Bond franchise. It follows the titular spy, an agent from the 1960s awoken from cryogenic sleep to face off against his arch nemesis, Dr. Evil (also played by Mike Myers), when he returns to Earth and holds the planet to ransom. The spy spoof is relentless in its pursuit of gags, taking direct aim at 007’s more ana...
Directed by Frank Capra
A delightful pivot to the macabre from Frank Capra, Arsenic and Old Lace is a black comedy gem that has maintained its hilarious punch over the decades. It focuses on Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant), a notorious marriage detractor who is amazed to find himself in love and eager to marry. When he travels home to tell his family the news, he is disturbed by a corpse hidden in the window seat, a discovery that forces Mortimer to take more notice of his aunts’ misdeeds. Grant excels at the film’s...
Directed by Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh has risen to great heights with his ability to mesh black comedy with dramatic punch, notably doing so with the Oscar-nominated The Banshees of Inisherin, which also made exceptional use of stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. However, the writer-director's funniest movie is still his debut feature, In Bruges, with the anxiety-inducing crime-dramedyfollowing two Irish hitmen as they are sent to the picturesque Belgian city of Bruges after a job goes horribly wrong. Embedde...
Directed by Carl Reiner
The movie which saw Steve Martin truly make the leap from a stand-up comic to a leading man in Hollywood comedies, The Jerk was the actor's first starring role in film. Serving primarily as a vehicle for Martin's effervescent and highly energetic brand of goofy comedy to take center stage, The Jerk follows Navin Johnson (Martin), the adopted son of a black family whose sheltered naivety explodes into a journey of self-discovery which takes him to St. Louis. Embarking on one chaotic misadventu...
Directed by Dean Parisot
Lovingly referred to as one of the best, albeit unofficial, Star Trek movies ever made, Galaxy Quest is one of the more underrated spoof movies, winning admirers aplenty through the love and affection it shows its source material. Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen) is a washed-up star of the once-popular sci-fi series ‘Galaxy Quest,’ which has attracted a dedicated cult following. As he and his former co-stars get by appearing at conventions, they are approached by an alien race who has mistaken the s...
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