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3 days ago · From Modern Times to Step Brothers to Hot Rod to Booksmart, the best comedy movies ever will make you laugh or kill you trying!
A list of the best funny movies like ‘Borat’ and ‘Mean Girls’, as chosen by Time Out writers and top comedians. From mockumentaries to spoofs, from classics to cults, these are the films that will make you laugh out loud.
Comedian: Directed by Christian Charles. With Jerry Seinfeld, Greg Giraldo, Sherrod Small, Jim Norton. A look at the work of two stand-up comics, Jerry Seinfeld and a lesser-known newcomer, detailing the effort and frustration behind putting together a successful act and career while living a life on the road.
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- Documentary, Comedy
- Christian Charles
- 2003-07
- Lenny
- The King of Comedy
- Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
- Punchline
- Talkin' Dirty After Dark
- The Late Shift
- Looking For Comedy in The Muslim World
- Funny People
- Sleepwalk with Me / Obvious Child / The Big Sick
- Top Five
Lenny Bruce is one of our most influential and important comedians — not just for the jokes he told, but for the stance on freedom of speech he took even in the highest and most unfair of governmental retributions. In his tragically short career (he died of a heroin overdose in 1966 at the age of 40), Bruce's penchant for a kind of intentional, sat...
To perform comedy is to walk the tightrope between irreverence and obsession, self-deprecation and ego, gritty realism and borderline delusional fantasy. And if one doesn't perform comedy but simply dreams of performing comedy, these lines become all the thinner, the walking all the more perilous. The King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese's dark comedy-t...
Chris Rock said, in a movie you'll see later on this list, that Richard Pryor was the most confessional comedian; his act amounted to cutting himself open and spilling everything on everyone. It's hard to disagree, especially when considering his most influential, important routine centers around a confession and procedural articulation of burning ...
The 1980s saw a boom in the comedy club scene. Bolstered by the growing appetite and marketplace for comedian success on late-night TV and the burgeoning cable landscape, dingy nightclubs became packed with comics eager and desperate for stage time. While some of the comics who burst through during this scene were obviously unique talents — think J...
The title of this underseen Martin Lawrence vehicle, Talkin' Dirty After Dark, distills a kind of comedy audience appeal to its basest elements, even since someone as intellectual as a Lenny Bruce. Audiences go to see a comedian because comedians are allowed to say the taboo, to speak our most unspeakable thoughts, to talk dirty after dark. The fil...
And now, the 1980s comedy bubble bursts in glorious, garish, made-for-premium-cable entertainment. In the early '90s, Johnny Carson, beloved host of The Tonight Show, was finally retiring. Carson's preference for a replacement was David Letterman, the host of the show that followed him, Late Night. But top brass at NBC had eyes on Carson's Tonight ...
Albert Brooks is one of our most relentlessly self-analyzing comedy forces, a writer/performer/filmmaker who turns the magnifying glass on himself and shows us all the underlying neuroses to relate to and laugh at. But Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World is presented as one of his most explicitly autobiographical works — given that he plays "Alb...
Funny People is, broadly, "Punchline but longer and meaner." Adam Sandler takes Hanks' mantle of "America's Friggin' Sweetheart playing a comedy monster," inhabiting a comic superstar past his creative prime, diagnosed with terminal leukemia, eager to make some kind of change for the rest of his short, embittered life. He finds a potential catalyst...
In this trio of excellent 2010s films, one creatively rewarding commonality is found. Instead of making "the world of comedy" the primary focus of the film's premise, they are the given base realities, the accepted worlds these characters live in, the backdrop that makes their high concepts pop. Beyond the storytelling triumphs found in this approa...
Top Five is a prickly and often icky movie. Chris Rock's autobiographical-feeling comedy superstar character feels caught in the middle of two extremes — the earlier, "misanthropic guy can say whatever he wants" school of comedy (evidenced by his movie-opening, and overall constant belittling of Asian people and women as a source of knocked-off jok...
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A user-created list of 50 comedy movies from various genres, countries, and years, with ratings, summaries, and cast information. Find out which movies made the cut and why, or suggest your own favorites.
Mar 26, 2024 · The 90 Best Comedies of the 21st Century, from ‘Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World’ to ‘Jackass Forever’. If it's true that laughter is the best medicine, consider this list ...
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Feb 3, 2017 · A comedy drama about Jackie Burke, a veteran insult comic who tries to reinvent himself and faces personal and professional challenges. Watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, read user and critic reviews, and find out more about the film's production and box office.
