Funniest movies, toons, books, TV shows, ...Let's get our minds off GD and GDP

[Stuart G]

Ok Let's get us a list of the Funniest Movies, Toons, Books, TV Shows, (individual and series) etc..that we can go to .........
..so we can get our minds off of the current nonsense in other parts of this place..

List as many as you wish, when you wish,... ..come back and list some more..why is good, just plain fun is good too..

For me, the funniest movies...Airplane and the Producers...also I couldn't stop laughing at Blazing Saddles. As a kid, I think I was twelve or eleven, I saw..Some Like it Hot...terrific.......
There are a whole lot of Cartoons, oh..Fast and Furious as well as Rabbit Hunt..Oh and something called..Birds Anonymous..
..a toon called A Tale of Two Kittens..the first Tweety Bird cartoons is great.. and Red Hot Robbin Hood ..a great Tex Avery toon mentioned in a previous thread..that is funny too.........

Oh and .....The Hitchhider's Guide to the Galaxy...is as funny a book as I have ever read...

[MrCoffee]

1. Hilarious Movies: The Castle and The Imposters

Any book by David Sedaris.

[bigwillq]

2. TV Show: Family Guy

Love that show. :bounce:

[TZ]

3. If you like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

You should read any of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series...what a hoot!!

[DarkTirade]

9. I've only read one, Thud. But I liked it.

[5LeavesLeft]

4. The Funniest

Movies are Midnight Run and This is Spinal Tap.  Funniest
books are "Job, A Comedy of Justices", by Robert
Heinlein, "A Confederacy of Dunces" by Jon Kennedy
O'Toole and "Handling Sin" by I don't remember.

[steelemagnolia]

5. Fun thread...here are some of mine

TV: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Carol Burnett Show, All in the Family, Newhart , Will & Grace, Designing Women, I Love Lucy
Movies: Young Frankenstein, California Suite, Goodbye Girl, Foul Play, Private Benjamin, Stir Crazy
Toones: I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas, I'm Walking on Sunshine

That's all for now....

[YankeyMCC]

6. Movie: Blazing Saddles

Book: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
TV Show: I'm gonna go with "All in the Family"
Toon: Bugs Bunny of course :)

[WinkyDink]

7. Second "Some Like it Hot". Also: "The Odd Couple " ("Now, it's garbage!"); "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"

("Mother?" "No, Ruprecht, not Mother."); "The Full Monty"; "National Lampoon's European Vacation" (the German dancing scene!).

Books: "F & L in Las Vegas"/HST; "Santaland Diaries"/D. Sedaris; and any "Dilbert" book!/S. Adams.

TV shows: "Taxi"/Alex in the gay bar; "Taxi"/Rev. Jim taking his written driver's exam; "Frasier"/Frasier mistaken for gay by Patrick Stewart.

Toon: The Singing Frog.

[BlueDissenter]

8. Off the top of my head....

Books: Lamb by Christopher Moore, Beam Me Up Jesus by Jim Gerard and The Bad Driver's Handbook by Zack Arnstein and Larry Arnstein.

Movies: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs and It Happened One Night.

TV Shows: Family Guy, The Simpsons, American Dad, Futurama and Reno 911.

[Forkboy]

10. Funniest book for me is The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie.

Movie is Flecth.

Toons is any old Daffy Duck cartoon.

TV Show is a tie between The Young Ones, Red Dwarf or Blackadder.

[Miss Carly]

11. let's see...

Movie- Animal House, Wayne's World
Toons- Simpsons
Books- It's not really a comedy, but Pamela DeBarre's memoirs as a groupie
TV Show- Scrubs


Carly