What is the funniest movie ever?

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"hocus pocus and frisby" was another classic comedic twilight zone episode about a loud mouth teller of tall tales [played by the inimitable andy devine] who never met a yarn he didn't like, who gets abducted by aliens and can't get anybody to believe him.

then of course for a perfect comedy trifecta, one should watch "the chaser," which was about a lovelorn man who had an obsession with a cold blooded but irresistably attractive female, who visits an alchemist who sells him an irresistable love potion. later on at the lady's place, he slips it into her drink and she does a complete 180 and becomes extremely devoted to the formerly lonely guy, so much so that in desperation he revisits the alchemist who sells him a "glove cleaner" to do away with his suffocatingly sweet sally.

yes, it was "cavender is coming" about a trainee angel who earns his wings by making anges grep [carol burnett's klutzy character] happy. it was very similar to the other trainee angel funny episode "mr. bevis" which had orson bean playing a male version of agnes grep. in any case, i can't remember the last time i saw it. it was the only twilight zone to feature a laugh track, as it was a "backdoor" pilot episode for another proposed supernatural comedy series. but i believe the first three i mentioned were the only outright laugh-out-loud comedies that serling put out in his 5 years on tv.

uh-oh, i just had a thought the film "they live was not a twilight episode but it could've been, in that it was a half-intentionally funny scifi/horror flick very strongly in the twilight/outer limits vein.

it was partly based on a short story called "8 o'clock in the morning" by ray nelson, originally published in the 1960s in The Magazine Of Science Fiction And Fantasy. another inspiration for john carpenter's script [under the pseudonym of Frank Armitage, who was a character in the h.p. lovecraft story "the dunwich horror"] was a short story called "Nada" in an "Alien Encounters" comic book.

Thanks very much for the recommendations.

I bought Something About Mary and Bruce Almighty on VHS at the thrift shop. They were both very funny movies--well worth watching--that, without your recommendations, I would have just skipped over.

Please recommend some more!

By the way, the first two Harold and Kumar movies are very funny, if you get a chance.

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