#68 (AFI):
The Awful Truth
Year: 1937
Directed by: Leo McCarey
Written by: Sidney Buchman, Viņa Delmar, Arthur Richman
Starring: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy
Seanbaby: I think movies in the 1930s are automatically funnier because the people spent the rest of the day eating chicken skeleton soup and handfuls of dirt, and then watched their parents die. Watching Cary Grant act clever is going to be hilarious compared to watching your family melt into a cholera puddle. Today, where people have food, medicine, and sex that doesn't make babies, we can watch Cary Grant act clever and not even put it in the top ten funniest anythings that happened that day. Unless you work with cancer patients.
Mark: Because Patch Adams proved that trying to do something funny with cancer patients is going to fail as miserably as their livers.
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#68 (IFLS):
Trading Places
Year: 1983
Directed by: John Landis
Written by: Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy
Seanbaby: When we replaced the ancient handbook for boredom, The Awful Truth with Trading Places, the Calculando Calrissian 2000 made sure Ralph Bellamy didn't lose his spot as the Star of the 68th Funniest Movie of All Time. So it's because of the brilliance of our uncontrollable robot calculator slave that a gravedigger isn't scraping that off Ralph's headstone right now.
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