Bad comedy films you find hilarious

[up_the_hampipe]

Well, not objectively bad, but comedy films not well received by critics and the like.

One example for me would be Scary Movie 3. That franchise is toxic for critics and a lot of comedy fans in general, but I caught it at about 1am on BBC One when I was drunk with friends a few years back. We laughed harder than we've ever laughed before or since. It was completely stupid but it really tickled us. I'll show you two scenes which I often think about in my daily life and have a little giggle:

George tells his little niece that her teacher has died https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_ZSmKh64UM

Mahalik and CJ debate how someone can "wake up dead" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf8FAqOQUq4

Some of you may think I'm some sort of idiot cunt for enjoying that, but what can I say, it hits my sweet spot.
So what about you?

[checkoutgirl]

Where do I start with this one? Meet the Spartans (2008) becomes an anti comedy masterpiece if it's late enough and you are off your face enough. It's amazingly bad. But this depth of badness can hold the attention if you're that way inclined.

I'm sure there's a million more that I can't be arsed thinking of.

[Kane Jones]

Tommy Boy and Black Sheep are both very funny but quite bad at the same time. Both films largely feature Chris Farley arsing about the place while David Spade gets in a tizzy about it. With hilarious consequences.

[up_the_hampipe]

I think MacGruber deserves a mention just for this sex scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8L9RzBNuD4

[An Actual Propeller]

There's a reason why it's taken me 14 years to return a VHS tape of Freddy Got Fingered.

[Bhazor]

The Paul Blart 2 posters make up for the film itself.

[Consignia]

One example for me would be Scary Movie 3. That franchise is toxic for critics and a lot of comedy fans in general, but I caught it at about 1am on BBC One when I was drunk with friends a few years back. We laughed harder than we've ever laughed before or since. It was completely stupid but it really tickled us. I'll show you two scenes which I often think about in my daily life and have a little giggle:

Scary Movie 3 is an interesting one, if I recall correctly it's directed by the same person who did Airplane!. Which is a comedy classic. I remember kind of liking it, certainly more than 1 or 2, almost for being more like Airplane. It says loads though that I can't remember anything about it, though.

[Johnny Textface]

Is BASEketball considered a bad comedy film cos I love that? Again it's directed by one of the Airplane! guys I believe.
https://youtu.be/d1-QAF8gLy0

[Old Nehamkin]

Most of Adam Sandler's output up to at least Mr. Deeds.

[Small Man Big Horse]

Well, not objectively bad, but comedy films not well received by critics and the like.

One example for me would be Scary Movie 3. That franchise is toxic for critics and a lot of comedy fans in general, but I caught it at about 1am on BBC One when I was drunk with friends a few years back. We laughed harder than we've ever laughed before or since. It was completely stupid but it really tickled us. I'll show you two scenes which I often think about in my daily life and have a little giggle:

George tells his little niece that her teacher has died https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_ZSmKh64UM

Mahalik and CJ debate how someone can "wake up dead" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf8FAqOQUq4

Some of you may think I'm some sort of idiot cunt for enjoying that, but what can I say, it hits my sweet spot.
So what about you?

I'd nominate Scary Movie 2 for the thread, with the caveat that I watched it during a period where I was ridiculously stoned. But I remember enjoying David Cross in it, and whilst if I watched it sober it might well turn out to be terrible, I can't deny enjoying it that night. And I didn't mind Scary Movie 3 or 4 either (but again I was stoned whilst watching them), but Scary Movie 5 was a right old load of cold toss.

I think MacGruber deserves a mention just for this sex scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8L9RzBNuD4

I think that's a genuinely good film. It's not perfect, but there's a lot of very funny moments.

[Bacon]

Most of Adam Sandler's output up to at least Mr. Deeds.

Going Overboard is a stone cold shit classic

[up_the_hampipe]

I think that's a genuinely good film. It's not perfect, but there's a lot of very funny moments.

Aye but critics mainly didn't like it. I've heard many comedians defending it. I think there was a sense of humour failure in some of the reviews for that one.

[neveragain]

I like any of those bit-shit Zucker-lite flops that came out in the murk of the 90's:

Wrongfully Accused - The Fugitive pastiche, very Naked Gun
Spy Hard - Bond-ish affair with some great gags and tremendous Weird Al theme song
Fatal Instinct - quite amusing modern noir spoof with no one I know, had a puppet beaver on the poster
Loaded Weapon I - National Lampoon effort with Samuel L Jackson, Jon Lovitz and Emilio Estevez
Jane Austen's Mafia! - much better than you'd think, hilarious scene where Lloyd Bridges dies with a massive slice of watermelon stuck in his mush
Repossessed - not great Exorcist rip, 1990
Dracula: Dead and Loving It - overblown Mel Brooks indulgence

Extra points for those with Leslie Nielsen obviously, which are most. What's good about them - besides the Brooks one - is they're 'zany', easily forgettable so the gags always seem fresh and are delightfully of their time.

[non capisco]

I have a huge soft spot for Louis CK's since disowned directorial debut Pootie Tang, even though deep down I know it's probably largely a load of rubbish. The scene where he puts out a record that's just silence and Chris Rock as the DJ goes mental for it is absolute gold, though. The reaction of the hot dog vendor slays me every time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtCxvv8Y3Bs

Sa-da-taaaaayyyyyyy!

[Noodle Lizard]

One example for me would be Scary Movie 3. That franchise is toxic for critics and a lot of comedy fans in general, but I caught it at about 1am on BBC One when I was drunk with friends a few years back. We laughed harder than we've ever laughed before or since. It was completely stupid but it really tickled us. I'll show you two scenes which I often think about in my daily life and have a little giggle:

I must've been about 13/14 when I saw the trailer for Scary Movie 3 and it was probably the funniest thing I'd seen (I was a teenager and an idiot).  The movie itself didn't do much for me though, even though I love the Zucker Bros and they should've done a much better job with the material.

Scary Movie 1 (and to a lesser extent 2) is sort of alright, but it doesn't help that the main film it's parodying (Scream) is ... er ... a parody, and they don't seem to have grasped that.  Still, there's the occasional decent gag and it's nowhere near as horrible as the slew of "- Movie" films that came in the latter half of the 2000s.  I do quite like Not Another Teen Movie, though.

[Shaky]

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. Has everything I would normally loathe in such films but, somehow, the bastard works.

"That's a huggge bitch!"

[Sam]

Life of Brian - couple of scenes really tickle me, guilty pleasure.

[Custard]

Scary Movie 2's dinner scene is hilarious, I think. Genuinely disgusting and funny funny. It helps that the cast are excellent, as they lift the thin soup of the script up just by being such funny performers

Not Another Teen Movie is a bit of a CaB favourite it seems, and rightfully so. Though there's a superbly disgusting kissing scene which I just can't stomach

Caught a bit of The Green Lantern the other night, and parts of it had myself and Mrs Custard laughing a lot. There's a really OTT fight scene that had me hooting

[non capisco]

The Vacation remake with Ed Helms from last year got a rough critical ride but a lot of that's really funny, certainly in the first half. I wouldn't have bothered had Joe Cornish not named it as one of his favourites of 2015. It runs out of steam towards the end as most US comedies seem to do but there's a lot of amusing puerility to enjoy for most of it.

[Viero_Berlotti]

Mike Myers' middle of the road 1993 rom-com So I Married An Axe Murderer has some great cameo's and small roles in it.

The Alcatraz prison guard 'Vicky', Steven Wright as the spaced out pilot, Alan Arkin as the too polite Police Chief and my favourite the 'Commandeered Driver'.

[Puce Moment]

The Vacation remake with Ed Helms from last year got a rough critical ride but a lot of that's really funny, certainly in the first half. I wouldn't have bothered had Joe Cornish not named it as one of his favourites of 2015. It runs out of steam towards the end as most US comedies seem to do but there's a lot of amusing puerility to enjoy for most of it.

That was going to be my nomination as well - pretty much turgid but I did laugh more than four times.

[studpuppet]

The Big Bus - "I ate one lousy foot!"
Top Secret! - "How do we know he is NOT Mel Torme?"

[up_the_hampipe]

Top Secret isn't considered bad. Plenty of good reviews and beloved by many comedy nerds.

[holyzombiejesus]

Neil Israel's Combat Academy (and, to a lesser extent, Moving Violations).

Probably my favourite opening sequence of any film.

https://youtu.be/x8yZA_YbU2g?t=1

If you don't let out an involuntary Alriiiiiiight! at the first sight of Max Mendelsson's leopard-skin brothel creepers, you have no soul.

[Entropy Balsmalch]

The Man Who Knew Too Little

Bill Murray and a teenage crush on Joanne Whalley means I'll happily sit through this mostly lame, but saved by Murray load of tosh.

UHF

I have no idea whether or not this is a good film, but it's been a constant in my life from the age of about 10. I'll watch it at least once a year.

[Shaky]

Jane Austen's Mafia! - much better than you'd think, hilarious scene where Lloyd Bridges dies with a massive slice of watermelon stuck in his mush

I found this middling but it does have a couple of classic Abrahams zingers. The Native Americans arguing at the check-in desk - "We had reservations!"

The Man Who Knew Too Little

Bill Murray and a teenage crush on Joanne Whalley means I'll happily sit through this mostly lame, but saved by Murray load of tosh.

For me, mid-90's Murray is defined by that film where he escorts his dead dad's elephant across America.

[Bacon]

William Shatner is hilarious is Shoot or be Shot

[prwc]

They Came Together was praised a lot on here at the time but seems to have largely been mauled elsewhere. I found it an agreeably stupid romp, naturally with things that dense there are some jokes that miss the mark but there's a lot more that work beautifully.

The hate Chris Elliott's Cabin Boy gets I find genuinely baffling, it's an imaginative, amusing and very enjoyable take on the adventure genre. I am a huge Elliott fanboy though so admittedly am biased.

[wooders1978]

Kingpin: not critically well recieved but is my favourite comedy film - just fucking funny

[Shaky]

Kingpin: not critically well recieved but is my favourite comedy film - just fucking funny

Again, though, isn't that generally thought of as good? Maybe it got poor reviews at the time but I've never heard anyone say a bad word about it. Most say that Murray in particular is brilliant.

Shallow Hal and Stuck on You, on the other hand...