The Most Important Comedy Movies of all Time (Maybe)

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Montell Jordan, The Nutty Professor, “Outrageous comedies,” Comedy movies full of good jokes but not the best movies, Billy Madison vs. Happy Gilmore, Dumb & Dumber, Waynes World, Cable Guy, Ave Ventura, Cannibal Corpse, SNL character movies, The Smithereens, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Farrelly Brothers, Something About Mary, Bilouxi Blues, is this comedy?, the movies our dad made us watch, Crossing Delancy, Drunk Brilliant and Stoned, National Lampoon, Chevy Chase, Henry Rollins, emotional trauma in public, cocaine, pushing the envelope, Something About Mary, culture/time ruining jokes, Along Came Polly, top ten “important” movies to us, top ten important movies objectively, The Burbs, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Tim Burton, Two Old Queens podcast, Nightmare Before Christmas Haunted Mansion, Beetlejuice 2, Mr. Mom, good funny important comedies: Spinal Tap, The Jerk, Groundhog Day, Raising Arizona, Rushmore, Boogie Nights, movies slow on a rewatch: Ghostbusters, Tim Burton’s Batman, subjectivity, Wes Anderson, PT Anderson, David Fincher – baggage filmmakers, There Will Be Blood, The Cable Guy, no comedy movie can be perfect because the story so often suffers, sketch and tv and music is more forgivable, Squeeze “Pulling Mussels from a Shell,” musicals, Gene Kelly in American in Paris, Halloween, minimal “clean” filmmaking of John Carpenter, the comfort of genre, comedy movies inefficiency versus sketch, endorphin rush of a short clip versus taking the full work, Trap Them, Brahms, Caddyshack, Jack Frost, is this movie actually funny? American Pie, Dude Where’s My Car, Master of Disguise, Kung Pow, Super Troopers, Broken Lizard, Henry David Thoreau, Father John Misty at Moon Juice.

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