While channel-surfing the other night, I caught a few minutes of a program claiming to present the “100 Funniest Movies of All Time,” and was a little baffled at the choices I saw represented. As with most list shows, it was way too heavy on recent stuff (The 40-Year-Old Virgin might be really funny, but it’s too recent to be on an all-time list), but they seemed to be particularly misguided, even by the standards of pop-culture list shows.
I didn’t watch much of it, but today Ed Brayton has the full list, and it’s clear that the producers are using “funny” in a different sense than I do. Ed has provided detailed commentary on a lot of the choices, but I’m too lazy to do the same, so go look at his post.