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You guys got any funny stuff you enjoy that hasn't quite hit mainstream?
I've always enjoyed the Flight of the Conchords stuff. Last year, I think it was, HBO had a series called Our Flag Means Death with one of the guys from Flight, and Taika Waititi, who's friggin' hilarious. The other characters are funny in their own ways, as well, especially Black Pete. He's a liar with a lisp who tries to be a tough guy. He's also funny because he looks exactly like one of the guys I used to work with.
The comedy in these programs is a bit understated, subtle; nuanced, and more funny in situational ways that is cumulative between episodes. Also in the ways the characters play it.
Taika Waititi was a new one for me, but that dude is stupendous as Blackbeard.
These are both available on HBOMAX. Don't be afraid, subscribe for a month, watch these, and dump it if there's nothing else you want to watch. Personally, I've been meaning to get Showtime again, to finish all the Ray Donovans, not that that's comedy.
Flight of the Conchords
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0863046/
Our Flag Means Death
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11000902/
I've always enjoyed the Flight of the Conchords stuff. Last year, I think it was, HBO had a series called Our Flag Means Death with one of the guys from Flight, and Taika Waititi, who's friggin' hilarious. The other characters are funny in their own ways, as well, especially Black Pete. He's a liar with a lisp who tries to be a tough guy. He's also funny because he looks exactly like one of the guys I used to work with.
The comedy in these programs is a bit understated, subtle; nuanced, and more funny in situational ways that is cumulative between episodes. Also in the ways the characters play it.
Taika Waititi was a new one for me, but that dude is stupendous as Blackbeard.
These are both available on HBOMAX. Don't be afraid, subscribe for a month, watch these, and dump it if there's nothing else you want to watch. Personally, I've been meaning to get Showtime again, to finish all the Ray Donovans, not that that's comedy.
Flight of the Conchords
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0863046/
Our Flag Means Death
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11000902/
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I've convinced a few people to watch The Death Of Stalin. Maybe it's more well known than I realize but nobody I know had seen it.
I came away from that movie sore from laughing so much!
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Ah, good stuff! I just noticed Jojo Rabbit in passing on IMDB the other day.
Death of Stalin - good call, my brother mentioned that a while back saying same as you. I'll move that one up the list.I disabled signatures. -
Here's a classic from 1992. Hilarious stuff.
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I always thought this movie was hilarious. It's one of those that you have to watch several times, and it gets funnier each time.
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It's a Robin Williams movie but seems it flew under the radar.
Death to smoochy is an all time favorite for me. You may have to watch it twice because the first time will throw you off and it only becomes funnier as you watch it again and again- Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit. -
Napoleon Dynamite is one for me."This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
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Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
I can think of two, but they're awfully old and pretty banal.
Norman Lear made a very dark comedy movie called Cold Turkey which was kind of (kind of...
) an Americanized version of Dürrenmatt's play Der Besuch der alten Dame ("The Visit"). One of those "Devil's bargain" kind of deals. A small town that's slowly dying as the modern world leaves it behind is offered an immense sum of money if everyone in the town can quit smoking for a month. "Big Tobacco" is involved (of course). Hilarity ensues. 
Randy Newman did the theme song.
The other one is a truly goofy satire lampooning the disaster movies of the early to mid 1970s called The Big Bus. All of the disaster movie tropes befall an ill-fated two-story nuclear-powered bus on its maiden voyage.
I find both of these movies hysterical -- and, no, I wouldn't admit that just anywhere.
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Oooh, I just thought of another one:
Silver Streak with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder.
and another:
What's Up, Doc? Babs Streisand and Ryan O'Neal. Funniest car chase scene scene I've ever seen. -
Does Midnight Run count? Great compilation, crappy video . . . Charles Gordin, soo under rated
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The film could be loosely described as a buddy-cop movie, but there’s much more going on than that. The chemistry between Val Kilmer and Robert Downey Jr is pure magic. The story is compelling with a good mystery (and a twist). Perhaps my favorite aspect of the film however, is the razor-sharp dialogue - it’s supremely witty, darkly humorous, and laugh out loud funny (albeit not for the kids).
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A remake of this should be made depicting audiophiles instead of dog people.
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Napoleon Dynamite is one for me.
You're just jealous because I've been chatting with hot babes online all day.afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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Don't get me started with movie quotes!"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
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"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
At first I thought this might be the one with Marty Feldman, but it's not. I forget which film that was with him in it where there's an out of control bus... I'll figure it out...mhardy6647 wrote: »The other one is a truly goofy satire lampooning the disaster movies of the early to mid 1970s called The Big Bus. All of the disaster movie tropes befall an ill-fated two-story nuclear-powered bus on its maiden voyage.
I find both of these movies hysterical -- and, no, I wouldn't admit that just anywhere.
But this one's on my list.
When I was a kid, I remember not liking Rizzo much on accounta her bein' meain, but when I got older, man, Stockard Channing sure was a cute thing.
Not that this is one of those photos, necessarily, but got a chuckle at this still from The Fortune while taking a quick flip through IMDB. Gonna hafta check this one out - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073008/
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For those who like Best in Show, check out Waiting for Guffman.
