Greatest Comedy of All-Time Tournament

Ever get in an argument with a friend, or even better a complete stranger, about which is better of two certain movies? Do you go for just laughs? A well rounded movie that made you smile and laugh? Dark humor? Everyone has there preference, and that’s one of the more enjoyable things about movies is hearing everybody’s perspective on a movie. But every once in a while, people reach a consensus that helps establish one or two movies that rise above the rest. And that, my friends, is what we are going to do here.

Starting sometime after next week, we will be conducting an interactive 128 movie tournament to try and decide the greatest comedy out there. Bold? Sure. Creative? Hardly. Crazy? Absolutely. We here at Anomalous Material specialize in crazy, and let’s face it, you like us because of it.  I have done something like this before a few years back, and it turned out quite well. This will be on a much bigger scale, and I can’t wait to see how it goes.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Here is how it’s going to go down. On this post, I will let you, dear reader, nominate the comedies that you think deserve to be a part of this. There is no limit on how many you can nominate, because I’m looking to get a list of about 150. After that, I already have a few volunteers who have pledged to help me establish the rankings of the 128 movies in contention. From there, match-ups will be posted almost daily for you to vote on and discuss. And with that, start throwing names at me and I will keep this page updated as much as possible. To get things started, I will list ten movies that I think deserve to be in the tourney. I would post more, but much like the ranking system, I don’t want this to be biased towards my opinion, so I will leave the floor open for you guys to nominate films.

What you need to do:

• Nominate as many comedies as you would like in the comments section
• Don’t worry about re-nominating a movie someone already did. It may make the seeding easier for us!

Note: When it comes to a series or sequels like the Vacation series, we will just go with the best movie of that series. So when you’re nominating, don’t be afraid to speak up about a series somebody else has already mentioned. I feel the Vacation series will get the most discussion.

Nominations:

• 40 Year Old Virgin
• 50 First Dates
• (500) Days of Summer
• About A Boy
• Absurdistan
• Ace Ventura: Pet
• Adam’s Rib
• Adaptation
• Addams Family, The/ Family Values
• Adventures in Babysitting
• Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The
• Airplane!
• A Mighty Wind
• Amelie
• American Pie
• American Splendor
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
• Animal Crackers
• Animal House
• Annie Hall
• Apartment, The
• Army of Darkness
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• Arthur
• As Good as it Gets
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (or Spy Who Shagged Me)
• Babe
• Bachelor Party
• Back to School
• Bad Santa
• Bank Dick, The
• Baseketball
• Batteries Not Included
• Bee Movie
• Be Kind, Rewind
• Best in Show
• Beverly Hills Cop
• Big
• Big Fish
• Big Lebowski, The
• Big Trouble in Little China
• Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (or Bogus Journey)
• Billy Madison
• Bio-Dome
• Black Dynamite
• Black Sheep
• Blades of Glory
• Blast from the Past
• Blazing Saddles
• Blues Brothers, The
• Boat That Rocked, The
• Born in East L.A.
• Borat: yada-yada-yada
• Bowfinger
• Brazil
• Breakfast Club, The
• Bride of Chucky
• Bridget Jones’s Diary
• Bringing Up Baby
• Bruce Almighty
• Bubba Ho-tep
• Bull Durham
• Bullets Over Broadway
• Burbs, The
• Cable Guy, The
• Caddyshack
• Castle, The
• Chasing Amy
• Chicken Run
• Chocolat
• Circus, The
• City Lights
• Clerks
• Clockwise
• Clueless
• Coffee and Cigarettes
• Coming to America
• Coneheads
• Cool Runnings
• Darjeeling Unlimited, The
• Dazed and Confused
• Death at a Funeral
• Defending Your Life
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
• Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise, The
• Dogma
• Don’t Be a Meance to Society
• Double Dragon
• Drop Dead Fred
• Drop Dead Gorgeous
• Drowning Mona
• Duck Soup
• Dumb and Dumber
• Dr. Strangelove
• East is East
• Educating Rita
• EDtv
• Election
• Elf
• Encino Man
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)
• Fargo
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
• Finding Nemo
• Fish Called Wanda, A
• Fisher King, The
• Fletch
• Foot Fist Way, The
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• For Your Consideration
• Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Freshman, The
• Friday
• Full Monty, The
• Galaxy Quest
• Garden State
• General, The
• Get Shorty
• Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The
• Ghostbusters
• Ghost World
• Gods Must Be Crazy, The
• Gold Rush, The
• Good Burger
• Goodbye, Lenin!
• Good Morning Vietnam
• Goofy Movie, A
• Goonies, The
• Graduate, The
• Grandma’s Boy
• Great Dictator, The
• Gregory’s Girl
• Grosse Pointe Blank
• Groundhog Day
• Grumpy Old Men
• Half Baked
• Hangover, The
• Hanna and Her Sisters
• Happy Gilmore
• Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
• Harold and Maude
• Harvey
• Heathers
• High Fidelity
• History of the World, Part I
• Home Alone (1 or 2)
• Home Fries
• Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
• Horse Feathers
• Hot Fuzz
• Hot Shots
• Hudson Hawk
• Hudsucker Proxy, The
• Idiocracy
• I Heart Huckabees
• I Love You to Death
• I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK
• In Bruges
• Incredibles, The
• In the Loop
• I Sell the Dead
• It’s Complicated
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
• Jerk, The
• Joe Dirt
• Joe’s Apartment
• Joe Versus the Volcano
• Juno
• Kid, The
• Kingpin
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
• Knocked Up
• Kuffs
• Kung Fu Hustle
• Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
• L.A. Story
• Legally
• Liar Liar
• Life Less Ordinary, A
• Life of Brian
• Life Stinks
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Little Rascals, The
• Local Hero
• Lost in America
• Love, Actually
• Madagascar
• Major League
• Man with Two Brains, The
• Mars Attacks!
• M*A*S*H
• Mask, The
• Mean Girls
• Meaning of Life
• Meet the Feebles
• Meet the Parents
• Me, Myself and Irene
• Men in Tights
• Modern Romance
• Modern Times
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Mr. Deeds
• Mr. Mom
• Mrs. Doubtfire
• Multiplicity
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding
• My Cousin Vinny
• Mystery Men
• Naked Gun, The
• Napolean Dynamite
• National Lampoon’s Vacation/Christmas Vacation
• National Lampoon’s Van Wilder
• New Guy, The
• Night at the Opera, A
• Night Shift
• Not Another Teen Movie
• Nutty Professor, The
• Odd Couple, The
• Office Space
• Old School
• Onion Movie, The
• Orange County
• OSS 117: Cairo – Nest of Spies
  Palm Beach Story, The
• Parenthood
• Philadelphia Story, The
• Pineapple Express
• Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
• Plan 9 From Outer Space
• Police Academy (1 or 2)
• Porky’s
• Princess Bride, The
• Problem Child
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Raising Arizona
• Ratatouille
• Reprise
• Road Trip
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights
• Role Models
• Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion
• Room, The
• Roxanne
• Royal Tenenbaums, The
• Rundown, The
• Rush Hour (1, 2, 3)
• Rushmore
• Ruthless People
• Sandlot, The
• Scary Movie
• School of Rock
• Scrooged
• Sex Drive
• Shakespeare in Love
• Shaun of the Dead
• Sherlock, Jr.
• Shrek (1, 2, 4)
• Sideways
• Silver Streak
• Simpsons Movie, The
• Singles
• Slap Shot
• Sleeper
• Small Time Crooks
• Snatch
• So I Married and Axe Murderer
• Some Like It Hot
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
• Spaceballs
• Steamboat Bill, Jr.
• Stranger Than Fiction
• Strictly Ballroom
• Stripes
• Stupids, The
• Superbad
• Super Mario Brothers
• Super Troopers
• Sure Thing, The
• Surf Ninjas
• Swingers
• Take the Money and Run
• Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
• Team America: World Police
• Tenacious D in the Pink of Destiny
• Thank You for Smoking
• There’s Something About Mary
• This is Spinal Tap
• Three Amigos
• Three Kings
• Time Bandits
• To Be or Not to Be
• Tommy Boy
• Tootsie
• Top Secret!
• Toy Story (1 or 2)
• Trading Places
• Tropic Thunder
• Truman Show, The
• UHF
• Uncle Buck
• Up in Smoke
• Wag the Dog
• Waiting…
• Waiting for Guffman
• Waterboy, The
• Wayne’s World
• Wedding Crashers
• Wedding Singer, The
• Whatever Works
• When Harry Met Sally…
• Whip It!
• White Man Can’t Jump
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Withnail and I
• Volunteers
• Woman of the Year
• Young Frankenstein
• You’ve Got Mail
• Zach and Miri Make a Porno
• Zombieland
• Zoolander

Have at it folks!