10. Ferris' Guide To Life
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
All the flash and optimism you'd expect from a John Hughes (non) high school flick, delivered in a smart-mouthed to camera monologue by the impossible charming and young Matthew Broderick. "Life moves pretty fast..."
9. "Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!"
Dr Strangelove (1965)
Peter Sellers is let off the leash as the titular former Nazi scientist, outlining a plan for the repopulation of the human race following nuclear devastation while wrestling with with a rogue fascist arm. Check the cast in the background - they're corpsing, and who can blame them?
8. Putting It Where It Doesn't Belong
Clerks (1994)
Kevin Smith still claims his scripts boil down to dick and fart jokes, and as dick and fart jokes go, this one of the people's store clerk Randal ordering video filth in front of a child that would make a sex pest blush is one of the finest.
7. Going Off Reservation
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Eddie when he was full of energy and outrage, using white guilt, red hot wit and a cracking tongue to scam his way into the Beverly Hills hotel. The payoff is the follow-up of him walking down the street laughing that laugh - this is his joke, we're just watching it.
6. Smack My Bitch Up
Airplane! (1980)
A typically Zuckeresque joke - a simple to the point of stupid physical premise, pushed just past the point of idiocy, and then a couple of steps further. Thwack! It's Neilsen's second, parting shot that really sells it.
Next: Annie Hall, Modern Times, Spinal Tap
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bentgaga
Aug 28th 2009, 3:07
The Groom's Brother David! Steve Buscemi
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bentgaga
Aug 28th 2009, 3:14
as of 3.30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS5MwnlDbY8
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pimpernel
Aug 28th 2009, 9:46
The bit in Children of Men where Clive Owen bashes that guy over the head with a brick is pretty funny... though maybe thats just coz when I saw it the whole audience went 'Ooooh' at exactly the same time.
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oacbbaw
Aug 28th 2009, 14:12
I think you mean Marshall McLuhan, one of the greatest media theorists ever to put pen to paper. If it's the other guy, what's the point of the joke?
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allykatharvey
Aug 28th 2009, 18:27
Last bit of Planet of the Apes! The original film - where the statue of Liberty is sticking out of the sand? I was in a cinema which just errupted with gales of laughter!! That's the British for you ... in the US it made them cry!
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SCY385
Aug 30th 2009, 22:49
I thought that Tom Cruise was hilarious in Tropic Thunder. So much so that I hoped he would at least get a Oscar nomination for it. I thought that it was a real shame and total political b.s. that he didn't get one either.
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