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Movies that you consider to be funnier than Holy Grail

posted 14 years ago by zomfg-overrated
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The Big Lebowski
The Hangover
The Naked Gun
Anchorman
Dumb & Dumber
Life of Brian
Idiocracy
Borat
Evil Dead II

Non-comedies:
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Inglourious Basterds

[–] Remyghanem 13 years ago

Nearly as funny as Holy grail:
Life of Brian
Dogma
Shaune of the dead
Stand up comedy of Eddie murphy RAW and Delirious
evil Dead 2 and 3
Bruno
the Nakes gun 1&2&3
wrongfully accused
Police academy

The series:
The job
30 Rock
In living colors

[–] Amthermandes 13 years ago

can't think of a single one, sorry. This is the single greatest comedy ever to have existed.

"Negative, I am a meat popsicle"

[–] He-Who-Must-Still-Be-Named 13 years ago

Line for line, Holy Grail has got to be the funniest movie. Very clever and refreshingly original humor in almost every piece of dialogue.

The closest contenders after Holy Grail IMO:

- Blazing Saddles
- The Big Lebowski
- Raising Arizona
- Dumb and Dumber
- Hot Fuzz
- Shaun of the Dead
- The Princess Bride
- Team America: World Police

@OP shame on you for comparing Borat and Hangover to Holy Grail. Neither of those has any lasting appeal, the humor is mostly situational shock value (often more offensive than directly funny) and after one or two watches (if that) they become very stale. Holy Grail, if anything, gets stronger with more watches. Very few movies have that quality of humor/writing. I think all of the movies I listed above share that quality though.

[–] hunterprimm99 11 years ago

Thank you for that last part. I totally agree. And it's also about time someone mentions The Princess Bride.

[–] perrrob 13 years ago

What is considered funny can vary a lot from one person to another.

There are some very funny movies mentionned in this thread. Young Frankenstein is one that hasn't been mentionned yet.

[–] jenner1973 12 years ago

Anything filmed or animated from the Python troupe is on par...I die for the fish tank in Meaning of Life

Some of my close seconds

Shaun of the Dead
Army of Darkness
Man with Two Brains
and anything with Peter Sellers

and on TV - Fawlty Towers (of course) and Most South Park episodes and now, I'm strangely enjoying Metalocalypse

[–] ath-11 13 years ago

None. This is #1.

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[–] lucasj5555 13 years ago

AGREED!

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[–] AndRQ24 13 years ago

The only ones that comes to mind that could be funnier are!

AIRPLANE
CADDYSHACK
CLERKS
HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 1
OFFICE SPACE

[–] louis_lux 13 years ago

I believe Holy Grail is the one with the funniest dialog and lines, and probably the best comedy overall.

Some other notable funny movies:

Airplane
Anchorman
South Park (movie)

[–] xSmoochyx 13 years ago

In my opinion, the only movie I find to be even close to making me laugh as much as his movie is Anchorman.

Other than that, everything else falls short. (Though I do believe The Life Of Brian is brilliant as well).

[–] vacousin 13 years ago

There would be um .. ah...ah well there's ...no not really..perhaps...naw..not quite.

No this IS the funniest movie I've ever seen or expect to. Only Blazing Saddles is close enough to vie for the funniest ever. Holy Grail, when I saw it when it was new, was the only time I ever literally saw people fall down in the theater aisles rolling in laughter. It holds up over the years.

The next funnist films for me would be:
Duck Soup
Young Frankenstein
The Life of Brian
Animal House

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[–] rwsmith29456 13 years ago

I think this is one of the top but I would add 'Animal House' and I don't think anybody mentioned 'Airplane'.