Bravo’s 100 Funniest Movies List is Laughable
Everyone loves “Top Lists.” It doesn’t matter if it’s the top 100 deadliest car crashes or the best moments in Disney movies, consumers love things sorted from worst to best. Bravo is notorious for putting out questionable lists and their “100 Funniest Movies” special is no exception.
I like their number 1 pick (Animal House), but putting anything South Park in the top 5 is sacrilegious. PeeWee was funny, but #11!? And did anyone even see Team America (#88)? I was pleasantly surprised to see Blazing Saddles (#9) in the top 10, but didn’t think Shrek belonged at #3. I could go on for ever over the blatant miscalculations in this list, but here’s how my top 5 would have looked:
1. Animal House
2. Blazing Saddles
3. The Jerk
4. Monty Python & the Holy Grail (seriously… #40!?)
5. National Lampoon’s Vacation (#51!?)
Read on to see Bravo’s complete list >>
100. Anchorman
99. The Birdcage
98. School of Rock
97. Happy Gilmore
96. Four Weddings and a Funeral
95. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
94. Waiting for Guffman
93. The Aristocrats
92. Father of the Bride
91. Revenge of the Nerds
90. Clueless
89. Slapshot
88. Team America: World Police
87. The Kentucky Fried Movie
86. Zoolander
85. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
84. Silver Streak
83. Sister Act
82. Tootsie
81. Half-Baked
80. Lost in America
79. Three Amigos
78. Bananas
77. Flirting With Disaster
76. Ghostbusters
75. Dumb & Dumber
74. Trading Places
73. City Slickers
72. Moonstruck
71. Roxanne
70. The Nutty Professor
69. The Blues Brothers
68. Broadcast News
67. King Pin
66. Dazed & Confused
65. Office Space
64. This is Spinal Tap
63. Manhattan
62. The Pink Panther
61. Election
60. When Harry Met Sally
59. Police Academy Series
58. Private Benjamin
57. Swingers
56. Young Frankenstein
55. Bull Durham
54. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
53. Dr. Strangelove
52. Meet the Parents
51. National Lampoon’s Vacation
50. The Princess Bride
49. American Pie
48. American Graffiti
47. 9 to 5
46. The Incredibles
45. Raising Arizona
44. Sixteen Candles
43. What About Bob?
42. Harold & Maude
41. Austin Powers
40. Monty Python & the Holy Grail
39. Mrs. Doubtfire
38. Best in Show
37. Dodgeball
36. Good Morning Vietnam
35. Beetlejuice
34. Rushmore
33. Clerks
32. Groundhog Day
31. The Big Lebowski
30. 40 Year Old Virgin
29. Legally Blonde
28. Annie Hall
27. A Fish Called Wanda
26. Wayne’s World
25. Meet the Fockers
24. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
23. Big
22. Beverly Hills Cop
21. Shampoo
20. The Jerk
19. Wedding Crashers
18. Stripes
17. M*A*S*H
16. Old School
15. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
14. Napolean Dynamite
13. Naken Gun Series
12. The Producers
11. PeeWee’s Big Adventure
10. Arthur
9. Blazing Saddles
8. The Wedding Singer
7. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
6. Airplane!
5. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
4. There’s Something About Mary
3. Shrek
2. Caddyshack
1. Animal House
June 5th, 2006 at 8:06 am
South Park Rules
If Clark W. Grizwald saw Bravo’s list, he might repeat his famous quote from Vacation: “I think you’re all fucked in the head!” However, Manroom didn’t quite get it right either. Not only was the South Park movie hilarious the first time, it is one of those movies that when watched again makes me crack up *before* my favorite scenes. Although I love Blazing Saddles and Vacation (Jerk was good, not #3), let me show you what the real top five should look like (the order is semi-arbitrary):
1.) Holy Grail
2.) Animal House
3.) South Park
4.) Austin Powers
5.) Caddyshack
June 6th, 2006 at 12:09 am
There were movies before 1970
1. Some Like It Hot
Simply the best comedic screenplay ever.
June 7th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
South Park was good the first season… after that it nose dived, including the movie.
June 14th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
Not a single Marx Brothers movie? Come on. The Wedding Singer at #8. It’s not even the funnest Adam Sandler movie.
June 25th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
The Wedding Singer at #8?! That movie sucked and shouldn’t even be in the top 800. Also, how did Harold and Fumar ever make the list? That movie sucked even more than the Wedding Singer. And how did Freddy Got Fingered not make the list. This list is a joke.
June 25th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
Let me get this straight. The Wedding Singer, Harold and Fumar, Legally Blonde, The Blues Brothers, Team America, and Dodgeball all made the list. And yet somehow Friday, Freddy Got Fingered, JackAss: The Movie, and Eddie Murphy Raw didn’t make the list. I don’t understand how that happens. The Blues Brothers sucks, and it the most overated movie ever. Why not put Blues Brothers 2000 on there. They are both equally lame.
June 25th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Did anyone notice that Meet the Fockers is #25, and yet Meet the Parents isn’t even on the list? Meet the Parents should be in the Top 10, and Meet The Fockers should be on the list of lamest movies ever.
June 30th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
Actually, Meet the Parents was on he list.. BUT WHERE WAS BILLY MADISON!!!????
June 30th, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Are you kidding?
Young Frankenstien was NOT in the top ten?!?!
There is something seriously wrong here. Also, I belong to a group of people that can actually quote EVERY line of Mel Brooks’ “History of the World Pt. 1″ and it wasn’t even on the list!!
Shame on Bravo!
July 1st, 2006 at 4:07 am
huh?
someone help me with this:
Why is MEET THE FOCKERS higher on the list than MEET THE PARENTS??
I have more questions beyond that, but I’ll limit myself to one.
July 1st, 2006 at 7:31 pm
South Park was funny, but not #5…Shrek was utter garbage. Team America is easily one of the top 20 funniest movies of all time–download it and see.
July 3rd, 2006 at 7:49 am
my list
Their list is laughable how can any funny list not have Duck Soup, easily in the top five ever, or any of the great silent movies of Chaplain, Lloyd, Mack Sennett, Keaton or Laurel and Hardy. I don’t see a single movie on the list before 1960. What about Brining Up Baby, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Philadelphia Story or Bedtime for Bonzo. How about all the Abbott and Costello and Lewis and Martin movies? How about Lewis without Marin? I mean the real Nutty Professor, The Errand Boy, The Geisha Boy or his silent movie, The Bell Hop? How about The Absentminded Professor, Son of Flubber, The Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, It’s a Mad Mad Mad World, or Laurel and Hardy’s Babes in Toyland. The omissions are glaring and it is obvious that Bravo made this list to get the famous commentators they had on the show. Notice the films those people made are on the list.
July 3rd, 2006 at 11:11 pm
Bravo’s Funniest Movies Rightly Adjuste
This is our adjustment to their outragously incorrect list of movies (in the eyes of two 22 year old San Diego movie buffs).
In No Particular Order
Aniaml House
CaddyShack
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Stripes
The Jerk
Wayne’s World
Best In Show
Monty Python
Austin Powers: All of Them
The Princess Bride
Meet The Parents
Office Space
Dumb and Dumber
Ghost Busters
Happy Gilmore
Airplane
Blazing Saddles
Ferris Bueler’s Day Off
*Billy Maddison
*The Sandlot
* (our personal and necessary additions to the list of which those bitc*es left out!)
July 4th, 2006 at 12:59 am
What are you guys thinking???
Even though I agree with 80 of these movies are very funny, I cannot believe anyone could overlook Private Parts. Shame on you Bravo…
July 5th, 2006 at 11:23 am
How come no Tommy Boy?
Chris Farley’s Tommy Boy has to be one of the funniest movies I have ever seen and its not even in the top 100, there was movies in there that didnt desereve it all, Shrek are kidding me, I think that all the movies from around 2000 on aren’t worthy of being in the top for example South Park and shrek
November 24th, 2006 at 1:35 am
Annnnd theeennn?
Can I get a “Dude, where’s my car?”
The movies on the list a pretty funny, but many not nearly as funny as “Dude, where’s my car?”.
December 5th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Tommy Boy!
Would make my top 10 easy
December 5th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
Bill’s and Ted’s Exellent Adventure???
that was the lamest movie ever!! hasn’t anyone heard of SpaceBalls!!!
also Chrismas Vaction at #51 you got to be bullshiting me.
He is my top ten
1. SpaceBalls
2. Monty Python
3. Christmas Vacation
4. Airplane
5. Blazing Saddles
6. Animal House
7. Stripes
8. 1941
9. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
10. CaddyShack
January 9th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Where is Supertroopers on this list, I am not saying it should be top ten or anything, but it has ten times the laughs as a lot of these movies. Wedding singer was astraight to cable soft romantic comedy, not a top one hundred
January 9th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
No love for Farley
Holy Shnikes!!! Would have thought Tommy Boy would make the list somewhere…oh well
January 9th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Worst list EVER
Young Frankenstein NOT in the Top 20??? Everything about this list is pretty f**ked up. I don’t really ever get mad about stuff like this, but this list has me steaming. Are you telling me that Wedding Singer is funnier than The Birdcage, which is WAY too low as well!?!?! Damn, they couldn’t have messed this up worse.
January 11th, 2007 at 3:49 am
WOW!
This list is really bad. They have a few in the right spot, but that is almost impossible not to do when they click a random button and let it pick through all of the comedies ever made. This thing is a joke. Wedding singer has to be cut, meet the fockers was stupid,40 year old virgin (Okay but not top 100), legally blonde (creative but not on the list let alone 29). Pee wee shouldn’t be in here either. shrek, south park, dodgeball, mrs. doubtfire are some of the ones that need to be moved back. Dumb and dumber(top 5),Anchorman way (top 30), Happy Gilmore lets just say, “ahead of wedding singer.” Tommy Boy got completely ripped off, i cant’ believe it.
April 8th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
No Cheech and Chong? F*** Harold and Fumar, Cheech and Chong f***ing kick ahole. F*** Bravo, they f*** their own damn dicks.
August 7th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
“Dude, Where’s My Car?” was funnier than “Harold And Kumar.”
It’s been alluded to a number of times, but it bears repeating: “Billy Madison”, “Tommy Boy” and “Friday” are the three funniest movies of 1995 and are NOWHERE on this list. “Clueless?” Please.
NO WAY “Best In Show” is funnier than “Waiting For Guffman.” If you don’t believe me, watch both movies again. If you still don’t agree, watch them again. After the third viewing, you’ll find “Show” not funny anymore and more funny things in “Guffman” that you didn’t notice before.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think “Zoolander,” “Anchorman” and “Ricky Bobby” are among the funniest movies of all-time; and those who think “Super Troopers,” “Club Dread” and “Beerfest” are among the funniest movies of all-time.
September 24th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Where was Porky’s? How about Used Cars?
October 29th, 2007 at 11:32 am
How can the “In Laws” (Peter Falk/Alan Arkin) and “The Russians are coming not be on this list?
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:47 am
This was a terrible list. Animal House WAS a good film, but in my opinion, not the funniest film ever.
1. Blazing Saddles
2. Monty Python’s Life of Brian
3. Young Frankenstein
4. Dumb and Dumber
5. Mony Python and the Holy Grail
6. The Jerk
7. History of the World, Part I
8. Monty Python and the Meaning of Life
9. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
10. Superbad
Although, I am almost completely biased.
July 1st, 2008 at 2:27 am
well, i’m glad someone finally mentioned Superbad (one of the greats), and how did Team America get on the list. fuck that! and where’s is Borat?
July 4th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Tommy Boy and Spaceballs deserve to be in the top 20 and weren’t even in the top 100.
Also, what about My Cousin Vinny? That movie was hilarious. That deserves to be in the top 100.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Here’s a list of movies that should have been on the list:
Liar Liar
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Spaceballs
Some Like It Hot
The Longest Yard
Major League
The Water Boy
Monsters Inc.
National Lampoon’s Van Wilder
Bad Santa
Bruce Almighty (Jim Carrey)
Home Alone
The Breakfast Club
Hitch
Kicking and Screaming
The Mask (Jim Carrey)
A League of their Own
Forrest Gump
Caveman
48 Hours
Back to School (Rodney Dangerfield)
Foul Play
Smokey and the Bandit
Porky’s
Mr. Mom
Valley Girl
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Coming to America
Married to the Mob
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
An American Werewolf in London
The Bad News Bears
Silent Movie
10
August 18th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
This is so pointless.
this is a list of 100 funniest movies according to a couple of people at Bravo, so of course you wouldn’t agree with it.