I want to watch a funny movie but I feel like compared to TV shows, movies rarely make me really laugh. I've cried laughing watching shows like I Think You Should Leave but most movies I can honestly say I've only ever mustered a chortle or snort every now and then. What is the funniest movie(s), to you? For me, just off the cuff, I'd probably have to say Airplane!
for active filmmakers i don't think anyone is quite as good at making me cackle like Martin Mcdonagh or Yorgos Lanthimos
In Bruges, The Lobster, Banshees of Inisherin, Killing of a Sacred Deer... just goddamn losing it at this shit. these guys are masters of the absurdities of violence
Almodovar also made some fucking kneeslapping films but not all of them are comedies or do comedy in the same ways. like don't go into Bad Education to laugh, even though there's funny bits in it. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is a pretty conventional comedy ooth
as a bonus i'll assert that Godard's funniest film is Weekend--i would not say it really competes with anything else here in terms of comedy but if you want that film patrician cred with a funny film, accept no substitute
Banshees rocks, especially if you watch it with an old friend
I feel like a lot of people didn't get Killing of a Sacred Deer, that shit was hilarious